Lettie D. Evans v. Syracuse City School District

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• “[T]he failure to raise the defense of res judicata is deemed to be a waiver.”
• “[T]he party wishing to raise [preclusion as a] defense is obliged to plead it at the earliest possible moment.” (quotation omitted)
• significant delay in raising affirmative defenses “invariably” causes prejudice
• “[T]he party wishing to raise the defense is obliged to plead it at the earliest possible moment.” (citation modified) (quoting Strauss v. Douglas Aircraft Co., 404 F.2d 1152, 1155 (2d Cir. 1968)); cf. Bey v. City of New York, 454 F. App’x 1, 4 (2d Cir. 2011
• 2 years and 9 months

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).