United States Seventh Circuit

In a discrimination and retaliation suit by employees of defendant police department, dismissal with prejudice based on a settlement agreement is affirmed over objections that not all plaintiffs had agreed to the settlement, where the written record, including the agreement itself and the transcript of the open-court affirmation of the settlement by plaintiffs, evidenced an objective meeting of the minds and validated the agreement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2008
• Decided 08/06/2008
• Published 08/06/2008

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert W. Fioretti, Paul E. Peldyak, John B. Lower, Fioretti Lower & Carbonara, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher N. Mammel, Childress Duffy Goldblatt, Chicago, IL, Dana L. Kurtz, Lockport, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Richard J. Jacobson, Flaherty & Jacobson, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.