Ernest W. Kent v. James Baker, Iii, Secretary of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, an Agency of the United States Government
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
This appeal raises two jurisdictional questions: (1) whether plaintiff timely filed an appeal, and (2) whether the district court erred by holding that it lacked jurisdiction to enforce a settlement agreement. We decide that the appeal was timely. Furthermore, we hold that a district court has jurisdiction to enforce a settlement when, as in the present case, a party claims a breach of the settlement agreement before the court has dismissed the action. Therefore, we vacate the district court’s judgment dismissing the lawsuit.
Plaintiff-appellant Ernest Kent filed an age discrimination lawsuit…
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