Contract Claim Compulsion

Originally published by David Coale.

Counterclaims that “revolve around the parties’ compliance with the same settlement agreement” are compulsory under Fed. R. Civ. P. 13(a) / “[B]oth regard the same instruments and transactions, and a jury would hear substantially the same facts in regard to both.” RPV, Ltd. v. Netsphere, Inc., No. 18-10462 (April 23, 2019) (unpublished) (citation omitted).

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