Legal Opinion
Lynch, Inc. v. Samatamason Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 29, 2002No. 00-1491, 00-1915PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We are asked to decide a judge’s authority to rule that a case has been settled on the basis of settlement discussions that were conducted before him but not recorded or transcribed. The case, filed by Lynch in 1999, involved claims and counterclaims for copyright infringement and other wrongdoing. On September 21 the parties and their lawyers appeared before Magistrate Judge Denlow, whom the parties had consented to have preside over the case, to discuss settlement. No court reporter was present and no transcript was made. But according to the magistrate judge’s…
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