Margaret Farris Charles Farris, H/w v. Jc Penney Company, Inc

OPINION OF THE COURT

MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.

Margaret and Charles Farris appeal from an order of the District Court denying their motion, made pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 60(b), to set aside a settlement reached in and the resulting dismissal of a diversity action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

This appeal requires us to predict whether, in the particular circumstances presented here, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would invoke the doctrine of apparent authority to enforce a settlement entered into by an attorney lacking actual authority to settle the…