The following excerpt is from Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG, 943 F.3d 627 (2nd Cir. 2019):
Holland v. Florida , 560 U.S. 631, 64950, 130 S.Ct. 2549, 177 L.Ed.2d 130 (2010) ("In emphasizing the need for flexibility ... we have followed a tradition in which courts of equity have sought to relieve hardships which, from time to time, arise from a hard and fast adherence to more absolute legal rules, which, if strictly applied, threaten the evils of archaic rigidity." (internal quotation marks, alterations, and citations omitted)).
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