Elliott Industries Ltd. Partnership v. BP America Production Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that court may consider “any unusual circumstances” in assessing timeli ness of motion to intervene
• stating that the theory of unjust enrichment has evolved to provide a right to relief where the plaintiff has no alternative right on an enforceable contract
• affirming summary judgment on plaintiffs unjust enrichment claim because the parties were in privity of contract
• rejecting an antitrust claim because the challenged underpayment of royalties “has no adverse effect on competition or consumers”
• affirming summary judgment on unjust enrichment claim based on underpayment of royalties where that claim was “grounded in the parties’ contractual relationship”
• finding the alleged injury of underpayment of royalties to be insufficient to confer antitrust standing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).