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Originally Posted by Midtowner
The point of all of this is the "clean hands" doctrine. The clean hands doctrine requires a plaintiff in equity to approach the court with clean hands. In other words, if the plaintiff is in a hole and he wants the court to dig him out of it, the hole cannot be of the plaintiff's own making.
This is significant because the remedies sought in both cases are equitable, so the plaintiffs, if they have acted in a bad manner could very well have torpedoed themselves.
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Looks like Midtowner called this one. This is from a story in this mornings Oklahoman.....
"In preparation for the trial, attorneys for the team's owners have been questioning Seattle city officials about their discussions with a group of local investors who want to buy the team and keep it in Seattle.
Owners are "expected to argue this evidence supports an ‘unclean hands' defense” to the city's claim that the team should be required to play two more years in Seattle, the city attorneys said."
Seattle wants results of survey excluded from trial | NewsOK.com