General Car & Truck Leasing System, Inc. v. Lane & Waterman

How courts have described this case

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• affirming summary judgment in favor of a law firm because “General Car’s fraud in obtaining the registration of its service mark and the renewal of its registration [was] misconduct triggering the in pari delicto doctrine”
• doctrine of in pari delicto applies to bar suit when plaintiff has committed illegal or fraudulent conduct of equal or greater fault than fault of defendant
• plaintiffs’ malpractice claim dismissed because they acted in pari delicto with defendant law firm in knowingly making false statements in affidavits, submitted to Patent and Trademark Office

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).