Doe
Doe v. Washoe County
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Plaintiffs-Appellants John Doe, et al. appeal the district court’s enforcement of a settlement agreement which was reached at a settlement conference with the magistrate judge and was put on the record. We affirm.
Plaintiffs first argue that the settlement agreement was not binding because *748 it contained a provision requiring that the County’s Board of Commissioners approve the settlement. The Board did approve the agreement when it met as scheduled subsequent to the settlement conference, but by that time Plaintiffs had repudiated the agreement, and they argue that they were at liberty to change their minds because the agreement had not yet been approved by the County Board. We disagree.
In determining whether a conditional settlement agreement is binding, courts look to whether the parties demonstrated an intent to be bound by the circumstances and the terms of the agreement. See, e.g., James Hardie Gypsum (Nevada), Inc. v. Inquipco, 112 Nev.1397, 929 P.2d 903, 906 (1996) (“The fact finder should look to objective manifestations of intent to enter into a contract.”), overruled on other grounds by Sandy Valley Assocs. v. Sky Ranch Estates Owners Ass’n, 117…