“The complaint clearly implies, and plaintiffs counsel conceded in oral argument, that what plaintiff seeks is the intervention of the court for the protection of a criminal business. Nothing is better settled than that it is within the discretion of a court of equity to deny its aid to one who does not come into court with clean hands.”
How later courts described this case
- “The complaint clearly implies, and plaintiffs counsel conceded in oral argument, that what plaintiff seeks is the intervention of the court for the protection of a criminal business. Nothing is better settled than that it is within the discretion of a court of equity to deny its aid to one who does not come into court with clean hands.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Per Curiam:
The appeal is dismissed for the want of a substantial federal question.