New England Educational Training Service, Inc. v. Silver Street Partnership

How courts have described this case

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• defining implied authority as actual authority circumstantially proven from facts and circumstances surrounding transaction in question
• under doctrine of apparent authority, agent binds principal when third-party reasonably relies on representations by agent that agent acting within scope of authority
• apparent authority exists where principal, through words or conduct, creates reasonable impression that agent has been granted authority to perform certain acts
• under doctrine of apparent authority, agent binds principal when third party reasonably relies on representations that agent acting within scope of authority
• “[Cjompromises of disputed liability are favored by the courts as a matter of public policy.”
• attorney is without authority to dismiss a case with prejudice or settle a case without his or her client’s permission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).