McKinley v. Weidner

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the “‘clean hands’ doctrine” is an “equitable maxim” and that application of the doctrine to a legal claim is “technically incorrect”
• stating that the unclean hands doctrine’s “companion principle” known as in pari delicto “may—but not need—be applied to prevent recovery in a law action, when the party against whom it is to be applied is as culpable as, or more culpable than, his opponent”
• limiting doctrine of unclean hands to actions seeking equitable relief
• applying in pari delicto doctrine to legal malpractice claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).