Children's Hospital v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that in pari delicto is “an affirmative defense which ‘mandates that the courts will not intercede to resolve a dispute between two wrongdoers.’” (citation omitted)
• “Because a trustee stands in the shoes of a bankrupt corporation, in pari delicto prevents the trustee from recovering in tort if the corporation, acting through authorized employees in their official capacities, participated in the tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).