Unclean hands, sometimes called the clean hands doctrine or the dirty hands doctrine, is an equitable defense in which the defendant argues that the plaintiff is not entitled to obtain an equitable remedy on account of the fact that the plaintiff is acting unethically or has acted in bad faith with respect to the subject of the complaint — that is, with " unclean hands ".

In its complaint, Alabama Appleseed argues that the law would unjustly prevent the organization from transporting illegal aliens throughout the state.

In these cases, the government argues, there is no plausible way to respond to a complaint without revealing state secrets.

But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at

The growth of the Cabinet met with widespread complaint and opposition because its meetings were often held in secret and it excluded the ancient Privy Council from the Sovereign's circle of advisers, reducing it to an honorary body.

Code pleading was criticized because many lawyers felt that it was too difficult to fully research all the facts needed to bring a complaint before one had even initiated the action, and thus meritorious plaintiffs could not bring their complaints in time before the statute of limitations expired.

* Doe sues Jane, and during the proceedings, Jane claims that Doe's complaint should be dismissed because he has never proved, or for that matter even offered, a theory as to why the elevator functioned incorrectly.

Citizens should then be able to make a complaint to the appropriate authority if they believe they have been discriminated against because of their genotype.

Some are dismissive, like: Cerimonia (" Ceremony ", all proper manners and rigid, slavish devotion to pointless details ), Coccodrillo ( Italian: " Crocodile ", because he preys on others ), Fanfarone (" Trumpeter " or " Loudmouth "), Giangurgulo (" John the Glutton "), Grillo (" Grasshopper ", because he is small and ' hops ' sides ), Malagamba (" Lame Leg "), Squaquara (" Little Shit "), Papirotonda (" Round Letter ", a complaint signed by mutinous soldiers or sailors in a circle around the main text so the ringleaders or originators cannot be discerned ), Tagliacantoni (" Small-Sized "), and Zerbino ( Italian: " Doormat ").

The child made no complaint to Barras of his treatment, possibly because he feared to do so.

" The Shiprock Chapter is under the spot light by the Navajo Department of Justice because of a complaint filed on Jan. 23, alleges chapter President William Lee, Vice President Donald Benally and Secretary Lula Jackson wrote checks to each other and offered pay outs to employees and relatives.

On the eve of this new indictment, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand filed a complaint against judge Courroye accusing him of having made a " false " document in July 2000 ( because Courroye had put the date of 3 July for an ordinance drafted on 5 July ) — but this manoeuver did not stop the procedure.

As recently as 2002, the book was pulled from the shelves of the La Mirada High School Library in California by the Norwalk-La Mirada High School District because of a parent's complaint about its sexual content.

According to William Hutchinson a commission, had been issued in 1576 or 1577 to examine matters of complaint against him, but had proved ineffectual because the Earl of Huntingdon and Matthew Hutton sided with the dean against the third commissioner, Sandys.

The complaint claimed that Maryland had not truly been unsettled, as stated in its charter, because William Claiborne had run a trading station on Kent Island.

" officers had decided not to stop the rave because they had only received one complaint about noise and the amount of resources needed to stop it would not be justified.

The appellate court declared both women to be innocent, because the city staff were unable to prove that anyone at the beach was indignant or scandalized by their toplessness, and no complaint was ever reported.

Oncale filed a complaint against Sundowner in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging that he was discriminated against in his employment because of his sex.

Although a plaintiff may demur to a defendant's answer to a complaint or the defendant's affirmative defenses, a demurrer to an answer is less common because it may be a poor strategic move.

Similarly, a complaint for breach of a promise to marry could be met by a demurrer because the law in most jurisdictions expressly prohibits such claims on public policy grounds ( while there may be claims for damages on a breach of promise to marry, e. g., U. S. courts are not going to force someone to marry another ).

Once the answer is filed, then the case is, in some jurisdictions, said to be " at issue " ( because there are now a complaint and answer on file opposing each other ), and the case proceeds to the discovery stage.

This is because judges do not want demurrers taking up the court's time when in all likelihood the offending party by law will be given the opportunity to " repair " the offending complaint.

" Although the demurrer technically also framed the issues in a case, treating the demurrer as a pleading came to be seen as irrational because it was the only pleading that required an immediate hearing and ruling on its content ( which consisted of an attack upon the complaint ), while the complaint and the answer merely stated the respective positions of each side but did not require hearings in and of themselves.

On 29 July 2007, following a complaint by Kramnik's manager Carsten Hensel, the FIDE Ethics Commission sanctioned Topalov with " a severe reprimand " because of the accusations made in the interview of 14 December.

For example, in November 2002, the city of Columbus, Georgia forced all people wishing to protest at the School of the Americas to first submit to a metal detector search .< ref > The advocacy group School of the Americas Watch asked a federal trial court to enjoin the mass searches, but the court refused and simply dismissed the complaint .< ref > When the protestors appealed, the city justified the metal detector searches in part because of the " yellow " threat level .< ref >.

In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.

A defendant or defender ( Δ in legal shorthand ) is any party required to answer a plaintiff's complaint in a civil lawsuit, or any party that has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.

Within some criminal justice systems, a preliminary hearing ( evidentiary hearing ) is a proceeding, after a criminal complaint has been filed by the prosecutor, to determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial.

Consent may be implied, however, if the other parties fail to explicitly disavow that initially unilateral interpretation, particularly if that state has acted upon its view of the treaty without complaint.

The German Federal Act on the Public Service provides that any inferior has to consult and support any superiors, that he or she – only – has to follow “ general guidelines " of the superiors, and that he or she would have to be fully responsible for any own act in office, and would have to follow a specific, formal complaint procedure if in doubt of the legality of an order.

Anyone who suspects that their neighborhood has been redlined is able to file a housing discrimination complaint.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

Also, the OQLF does not have the power to send an agent unless it has received a complaint.

The British House of Commons on 3 March passed a resolution by 263 to 249 against the Government saying: That this House has heard with concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the British and Chinese authorities on the Canton River ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid on the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow, and that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of our commercial relations with China.

In May 2008, both Shueisha and Studio APPP halted manga / OVA shipments of JoJo after a complaint had been launched against them from Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that has the villain, Dio Brando, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur ' an.

The lack of numerous intercontinental connections has been a constant cause of complaint and pressure by the authorities and Catalan groups in recent years, who want the airport to become a centre of world air traffic distribution and not just European.

After an anti-SLAPP motion has been filed, a plaintiff cannot escape this mandatory fee award by amending its complaint.

If the victim is unable to issue the complaint him or herself then a representative may do so on his or her behalf provided that the third party has the written consent of the victim to represent them, or, if the victim is unable to give their own consent, the third party has provided justification for their representing the victim ..

Following the submission of a complaint the author will be advised if it has been registered and the complaint will also be sent to the State concerned for comment.

In " Convicted Criminals ", published in The Nation on 2 March 1844, Mitchel, responding to a complaint by an English Member of Parliament, Busfield Ferrand, that a " convicted conspirator " ( Daniel O ' Connell ) had been cheered in the House of Commons, wrote: " History has some examples of convicted ' conspirators ' who were not altogether disreputable characters.

Additionally, the use of real animals in living nativity scenes has provoked complaint.

A summary of cases heard since 1996 indicates that the commission has never upheld an administrative law judge's decision to dismiss a complaint.

** statute of limitations ( too much time has elapsed between the tort and the complaint )

That night at the club Cassell tells Toddy and Victoria that Labisse has lodged a complaint against him and " Victor " for perpetrating a fraud.

The conservative, to be sure, speaks for a special type of victim: one who has lost something of value, as opposed to the wretched of the Earth, whose chief complaint is that they never had anything to lose.