Quick Tip: Lionel "Messy"?
Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi (pronounced like “messy”), recently joined Inter Major League Soccer’s Miami CF.
The MLS is hoping that the Argentine’s arrival will boost the sport’s television audience and market share behind the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner and 2022 World Cup winner is under contract with the club until the end of the 2025 MLS season.
Let’s talk about messy, not Messi.
The unclean hands doctrine is an equitable defense that arises when the party seeking specific performance is guilty of some wrongdoing in the transaction being sued upon (e.g., the defendant entered into the contract because of the plaintiff’s lies). Note that the wrongdoing must be related to the transaction being sued upon; it isn’t sufficient that the plaintiff has defrauded other persons in similar transactions.
Unclean hands on the part of the plaintiff is often pleaded as an affirmative defense by the defendant. Whenever a plaintiff has an equitable remedy (like specific performance), the defendant can generally raise an equitable defense. The most frequently claimed equitable defenses are unclean hands, laches, and sale to a bona fide purchaser.
