Raquinio v. County of Hawai'i

How courts have described this case

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

• assuming that Illinois’ ten-year statute of limitations applied to suit against employer to recover contributions owed to a multiemployer plan under section 1145
• noting that equitable estoppel may be available based on “words or conduct by a 20 responsible official of the plan itself”
• explaining that § 1145 does not contain a limitations period
• laches available in suits under ERISA for benefits, but not warranted in that case
• “[A]s with many equitable defenses, the defense of laches is equally available in suits at law”
• “It’s the fact that the conduct claimed to create an estoppel consists mainly of delay that gives the defense a laches flavor, since laches means delay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).