Terraciano v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a seven-year lapse in the proceeding attributable to the Bureau, during which licensee obtained a commercial driver’s license that she depended upon for employment, satisfied the criteria for sustaining licensee’s appeal and reinstating her operating privileges
• explaining that under the doctrine of unclean hands, “a court may deprive a party of equitable relief where, to the detriment of the other party, if the party applying for such relief is guilty of bad conduct relating to the matter at issue”
• noting Commonwealth Court had earlier held in that case that the trial court had erred in finding PennDOT was required to produce independent verification of a licensee’s certified driving record
• “The doctrine of unclean hands requires that one seeking equity act fairly and without fraud or deceit as to the controversy in issue.”
• the party seeking equity “must do so with clean hands”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).