The following excerpt is from Doi v. Halekulani Corp., 276 F.3d 1131 (9th Cir. 2002):
We first examine whether the district court correctly enforced the settlement agreement. We review a district court's enforcement of a settlement agreement for abuse of discretion. See Callie v. Near, 829 F.2d 888, 890 (9th Cir. 1987). Doi argues that the court erred in enforcing the agreement because, in fact, she did not enter into any binding settlement agreement. Alternatively, she contends that if she did enter into a binding agreement, the district court erred by enforcing various terms of the written settlement
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agreement that were not among those terms agreed to in open court. We address each argument in turn.
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