The Aro Corporation v. Allied Witan Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that federal courts have inherent powers to enforce agreements executed in settlement
• holding that summary enforcement of a settlement agreement was determinable solely as a matter of law, and therefore an evidentiary hearing was unnecessary, because the agreement’s terms were “clear and unambiguous”
• affirming summary enforcement of settlement agreement when “no fact issue was present,” the terms of the agreement were clear and unambiguous, and enforcement “was determinable solely as a matter of law”
• affirming summary enforcement of settlement agreement when “no fact issue was present,” the terms of the agreement were clear and unambiguous, and enforcement “was determinable solely as a matter of law”
• “It is well established that courts retain the inherent power to enforce agreements entered into in settlement of litigation pending before them.”
• “The court below had not only the inherent power but, when required in the interests of justice, the duty to enforce the agreement which had settled the dispute pending before it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).