In the context of a claim brought under a federal statute, the common-law doctrine may be applied to bar recovery only where (1) the plaintiff bears at least substantially equal responsibility for the violations he or she seeks to redress; and (2) preclusion of the suit would not substantially interfere with the statute’s policy goals, according to the Supreme Court’s discussion of the doctrine in a 1985 securities law case, Bateman Eichler, Hill… [read post]

Colo. 1983)(same);andnbsp; Bateman Eichler Hill andamp; Richards v. [read post]