Mediated Settlement Agreements and Setting them Aside

This report concerns mediated settlement agreements and the Dallas Court of Appeals memorandum decision in In re Lauriette, issued on August 20, 2015. Some big takeaways from this one: (1) A party can mandamus a trial court’s setting aside of a mediated settlement agreement; (2) Ambiguity is not grounds for setting aside a mediated settlement agreement. This was an excellent opinion by the Dallas Court, and was certainly worthy of publishing.