Thomas P. Gibson v. L.D. \Poke\ Arnold, Deborah A. Arnold

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• holding that, under Oklahoma law, oral settlement agreement reached at settlement conference before a United States magistrate judge was enforceable under the judicial admission excep- tion to the statute of frauds
• “[T]he purpose of the statute of frauds is to shield persons with interests [covered by the statute] from being deprived of those interests by perjury, not to arm contracting parties with a sword they may use to escape bargains they rue.”

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