Today, Judge Tennille issued a very short order in Azalea Garden Board & Care, Inc. v. Vanhoy, granting a defendant’s Motion to Compel production of a settlement agreement entered into between the plaintiff and another defendant.
I’m mentioning the case only because this is an issue that recurs with some frequency. There’s often a non-party which might have been a defendant but for a pre-litigation settlement, or a co-defendant, like in Azalea Garden, who settles during the course of the litigation. It seems pretty clear that the terms of such a settlement