                       In the
           United States Court of Appeals
              For the Seventh Circuit
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No. 16-2475
TERENCE S. CHANCELLOR,
                                                  Plaintiff-Appellant,
                                  v.

SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING and JPMORGAN CHASE
 BANK, N.A.,
                                    Defendants-Appellees.
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         Appeal from the United States District Court for the
           Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
         No. 14 C 7712 — Sharon Johnson Coleman, Judge.
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      SUBMITTED JULY 5, 2017 — DECIDED JULY 19, 2017
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   Before POSNER, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

    POSNER, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff reached an oral agree-
ment to settle a litigation arising out of a home mortgage
loan to him, but the defendants insisted that as part of the
settlement he would have to release any claims he had
against another bank, and also a trust company, neither of
which had been a party to the litigation. Although the dis-
trict judge agreed with the defendants’ position, it hasn’t
been proved that anyone had told the plaintiff during the
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settlement conference that by agreeing to the settlement he
would also be releasing any claim he might have against the
two nonparties to the litigation. Because there was no evi-
dentiary proceeding, there was no basis for the judge’s de-
ciding that the plaintiff had agreed to release the claims
against the nonparties. The judgment must therefore be va-
cated and the case remanded for a factual inquiry into the
parties’ disagreement.
