M.A. ex rel. G.A. v. Voorhees Township Board of Education

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• holding that a complaint may not “plead an unjust enrichment claim in the alternative to a claim for breach of contract when it is undisputed (or when the court has found) that a valid nontract exists”
• permitting plaintiff's claims for both unjust enrichment and breach of contract to proceed where the defendant disputed the validity of the contracts at issue
• “[W]hile a party, indeed, cannot recover under both a breach of contract and unjust enrichment theory, a plaintiff may plead these claims in the alternative.”
• “[C]ourts have held that a plaintiff may not plead an unjust enrichment claim in the alternative to a claim for breach of contract when it is undisputed (or when the court has found
• under Georgia law, “the causes of action for breach of the implied covenant and breach of contract are [not] duplicative; on the contrary, the causes of action are separate and distinct and may be plead[ed] simultaneously.”
• plaintiff not entitled to injunctive relief where compensatory damages are adequate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).