Equitable Defenses Flashcards
1
Q
Unclean Hands
A
Available if the PL is guilty of improper conduct proximately related to the same transaction for which the PL seeks equitable relief.
2
Q
Impossibility and Hardship
A
Equity will not relieve what isn’t feasible.
3
Q
Freedom of Speech
A
may be used to prevent injunction in defamation or invasion of privacy cases.
4
Q
Laches
A
The fixed and arbitrary time (SOL) has run. Laches applies when the delay was unreasonable from the time the PL learned of the wrong; and it would be prejudicial to allow the claim.
