laches-defense

2 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-942 Laurel Zuckerman, as Ancillary Administratrix of the Estate of Alice Leffmann v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Second Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (7)Response Waived art-restitution civil-rights holocaust-expropriated-art-recovery-act holocaust-expropriation laches laches-defense nazi-persecution property-recovery statute-of-limitations unclean-hands Whether the nonstatutory defense of laches may bar an action to recover artwork lost because of Nazi persecution, where that action has been brought w…
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c…