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Chancery Rules Alleged Settlement Agreement Not Enforceable

By Francis G. X. Pileggi, Esq.

In Delaware Dept. of Educ. v. Doe, (Del. Ch., Nov. 21, 2008), read opinion here, the Chancery Court was presented with the issue of whether a purported settlement agreement was binding in light of an issue about whether the negotiating attorneys had the authority of their clients to bind them to the terms of the alleged settlement agreement. Utimately, the court reasoned that the attorneys did not bind their clients to the terms of the agreement. Based on Rule 56(h), the court treated read more

Full post as published by Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).