CTC Real Estate Services v. Lepe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a woman whose identity was stolen and used to obtain later-foreclosed-upon property was entitled to surplus funds from the sale at auction because “she was entitled to the product of identity theft”
• holding that under California law a woman whose identity was stolen and used to obtain later-foreclosed-upon property “was entitled to the product of identity theft,” namely surplus funds from the sale
• noting that one's personal identifying information \is a valuable asset\ because its misuse \can have serious consequences to that person\ and it can be the object of theft
• “[D]octrine of unjust enrichment [is] a theory which can, in some instances, have validity without privity of relationship.” (quoting Kossian v. Am. Nat'l Ins. Co., 254 Cal. App. 2d 647, 650 (1967))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).