McLeod v. Sills

How courts have described this case

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• stating that laches analysis requires equitable balancing of plaintiffs delay with resulting prejudice to defendant
• stating that lack of diligence for a laches defense is shown by an inexcusable or unreasonable delay in filing suit
• noting that laches is “properly relevant only where the claims presented may be characterized as equitable, rather than legal”
• stating that an inexcusable delay occurs when a party “discovers or with reasonable diligence could have discovered the facts giving rise to his cause of action”
• finding that the plaintiffs delayed by challenging the 1981 plan-which was just a continuation of the 1971 plan with no changes-when plaintiffs never challenged the 1971 plan and waited until after the last election under the 1981 plan to file suit
• stating “[l]aches is one of the affirmative defenses generally allowable under Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(c)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).