Attorney General v. Ankersen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the unclean-hands doctrine was not applicable where there was no evidence that the defendant “acted in bad faith or with fraud” or “sought to mislead or deceive any other party[,]” and no evidence of “a lack of morality on the part of the [defendant]”
• the defendants attempted to base their inverse condemnation claim on the state’s alleged misfeasance in licensing and supervising regulatory activities at the property
• “inaction and omissions by the state cannot be found to constitute a ‘taking’ ”
• “inaction and omissions by the state cannot be found to constitute a ‘taking’ ”
• “it is beyond question” that a corporate employee is personally liable for all the tortious acts in which he participates, regardless of whether he was acting on his own behalf or on behalf of the corporation
• “[The clean hands maxim] is a self-imposed ordinance that closes the doors of a court of equity to one tainted with inequitableness or bad faith relative to the matter in which he seeks relief, however improper may have been the behavior of the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).