News World Communications, Inc. v. Thompsen

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that defendant “obviously would not be unjustly enriched if it refused to pay for the unsolicited material” that it never used
• describing the issue of when the statute of limitations begins to run in a quantum meruit or unjust enrichment claim as “a novel and difficult one” and an issue of first impression
• “[T]he statute of limitations begins to run when the plaintiffs last service has been rendered and compensation has been wrongfully withheld.”
• “[T]he defendant was unjustly enriched when the services were, rendered and when payment was refused.”
• unjust enrichment requires as an element that “the defendant’s retention of the benefit [be] unjust.”
• “[A] cause of action accrues when its elements are present, so that the plaintiff could maintain a successful suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).