Brunswick Leasing Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation v. Wisconsin Central, Limited, an Illinois Corporation, Cross-Appellee

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• “the purpose of Rule 8(c) ‘is to avoid surprise and undue prejudice to the plaintiff ”
• if neither party argues that the forum state’s choice of law rules require the application of another state’s substantive law, then the substantive law of the forum state governs
• generally, an undisclosed principal may “step into the shoes” of his agent and assume all rights and obligations of a contract that the agent entered on the undisclosed principal’s behalf
• the purposes of Rule 8(c) include avoiding surprise and undue prejudice to the plaintiff
• “As a general matter, an affirmative defense that is not timely pleaded is waived.”
• “As a general matter, an affirmative defense that is not timely pleaded is waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).