Jacobs v. Halloran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two-year presumption proved to be unworkable
• abandoning rule that prejudice may be presumed in entering non pros judgment
• “A party who seeks the equitable relief provided by the entry of a judgment of non pros must do so with clean hands.”
• “Laches arises when a defendant’s position or rights are so prejudiced by length of time and inexcusable delay, plus attendant facts and circumstances, that it would be an injustice to permit presently the assertion of a claim against him.”
• commonly known as the James-Jacob test
• abrogating in part Penn Piping

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).