Wright v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to consider whether presenting the settlement enforcement issue to the district court through a motion was the correct procedure when neither party challenged addressing the issue by motion
• requiring mutual mistake and finding the plaintiffs’ “confusion after the settlement was made about how it might affect their claims against other parties was insufficient as a matter of law to vitiate the settlement agreement”
• “Voluntary settlements will not be disturbed for ordinary mistakes of law.” (citations omitted)
• “The law favors settlement of controversies.”
• “The law favors settlement of controversies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).