What does it really mean to come with "clean hands"? In Episode 5 of Learning Out Loud, we crack open one of equity's most powerful maxims — He who comes into equity must come with clean hands — and trace it from its roots in conscience-based courts all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Using primary sources from Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Murray F. Tully's 1903 address to the Illinois State Bar, and two landmark SCOTUS decisions (Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. and Precision Instrument Mfg. v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery), we break down how courts have refused relief to those who acted with fraud, perjury, or bad faith — and why that principle still matters today. We also uncover alarming discrepancies between editions of Story's Commentaries, explore the 1873 Judicature Acts, the 1938 Erie decision, and connect the legal doctrine of clean hands to the biblical concept of iniquity. This is evidence-based research, not opinion — come see the receipts.

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