Best Buy Co. v. Barrera

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that defenses of actual knowledge and unclean hands are not matters of avoidance but instead relate to equities necessary to determine liability in the first instance
• stating that a money had and received claimant must have clean hands to prevail on a claim
• reversing order certifying a class claim for money had and received
• in class action suit involving determination of money had and received issue based on “equity and good conscience,” evidence of individual class members’ knowledge and understanding about disputed charges was relevant
• “In certain contexts, some equitable claims or defenses may be supplanted if an adequate legal remedy exists.”
• “In certain contexts, some equitable claims or defenses may be supplanted if an adequate legal remedy exists.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).