Global Technology & Trading, Inc. v. Tech Mahindra Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• defining \prejudice\ as \a reduction in the plaintiff's ability to meet the defense on the merits\
• no waiver of affirmative defense raised for first time in opening summary judgment brief where defendants had opportunity to respond
• “Several [Seventh Circuit] decisions hold that a district court may (though it need not) permit an untimely affirmative defense, provided the plaintiff does not suffer prejudice from the delay.”
• prejudice in the context of an amended pleading means the ability to meet the claim on the merits due to the passage of time, not the fact that the merits will have to be litigated
• it takes chutzpah to blame others for one’s own failings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).