A.F.A.B., Inc. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the court should consider the cost of improvements when determining the value of the benefit conferred
• noting that unjust enrichment is based in equity
• “Such a blanket exclusion of a plaintiff’s overhead, costs, and profits is improper unless the court determines that they have no meaningful relationship to the value of the benefit conferred and the extent to which a defendant has been enriched.”
• “Unjust enrichment describes recovery for the value of the benefit retained . . . when, on the grounds of fairness and justice, the law compels performance of a legal and moral duty to pay.”
• “Unjust enrichment describes recovery for the value of the benefit retained when there is no contractual relationship, but when, on the grounds of fairness and justice, the law compels performance of a legal and moral duty to pay”
• noting ili~~ust enrichment is -~ --:~iti:::d.-:;~- based in equity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).