The first — and really only — rule about confidential settlements is that litigants aren’t supposed to talk about them. And when an opposing party did talk about a $60,000 settlement, Griffin Collie recently convinced Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals that his client should be excused from paying it.
The background to his win in GDL Masonry Supply v. Lopez is as follows. In 2013, GDL Masonry Supply and Jose Lopez and his company Rapid Masonry Supply settled a business dispute lawsuit in which Lopez agreed to pay GDL $60,000 in $10,000 installments.
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