San Francisco Aesthetics & Laser Medicine Inc. v. Presidio Trust

MEMORANDUM

San Francisco Aesthetics and Laser Medicine, Inc. and Dr. Jeannie Tsai appeal the district court’s judgment enforcing a settlement agreement. We affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the history of the cases, we need not recount it here. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and consider the issues presented in both cases. See Litchfield v. Spielberg, 736 F.2d 1352, 1355 (9th Cir.1984) (“An appeal from a final judgment draws in question all earlier, non-final orders and rulings which produced the judgment.”).

I

We review a district court’s decision to enforce a settlement agreement for abuse of discretion. Doi v. Halekulani Corp., 276 F.3d 1131, 1136 (9th Cir.2002). The district court did not abuse its discretion in enforcing the settlement by entering judgment in accordance with the terms of the Amended Stipulated Judgment. When parties orally settle a dispute in open court, the terms of their written agreement need not be “fully spelled out at the settlement hearing” so long as they are “in full accord with the terms of agreement stated in open court.” Id. at 1139 .

Here, where the parties could not distill their oral settlement into a written…