Ontiveros Insulation Co., Inc. v. Sanchez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where homeowners had not paid a very “substantial amount” of funds due to a general contractor, the subcontractors could pursue quasi-contractual relief against the homeowners
• stating that, to prevail on an unjust enrichment claim, “one must show that: (1) another has been knowingly benefitted at one’s expense (2) in a manner such that allowance of the other to retain the benefit would be unjust.”
• permitting suit by subcontractor against homeowner with whom subcontract did not have a contract
• “As a general matter, the limitations are premised on the bedrock principle that it makes little sense to remedy one wrong by inflicting another.”
• “As a general matter, the limitations are premised on the bedrock principle that it makes little sense to remedy one wrong by inflicting another.”
• subcontractors with unenforceable liens entitled to quasi contractual recovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).