Louis Schwartz v. Florida Board of Regents

How courts have described this case

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• holding that settlement agreement stipulation that Plaintiff “no longer suffered from any disparity in pay” did not waive his future Equal Pay Act or Title VII claims
• holding “[a] settlement agreement is a contract and, as such, its construction and enforcement are governed by” state law
• noting that a court’s role in determining whether an enforceable settlement exists is to interpret the parties’ intentions and the objects to be accomplished in light of the circumstances prevailing at the time
• “A settlement agreement is a contract and, as such, its construction and enforcement are governed by principles of . . . general contract law.”
• “A litigation release of claims is a contract, and therefore it is construed according to the normal rules of contract interpretation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).