Ortiz v. Contreras

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that one cannot convert another’s ideas, and thus a claim for conversion does not lie for the withholding of purely intangible property
• “an action in tort, such as conversion, may not he for simple ‘non-performance under an alleged agreement’.”
• “There is no protected interest in an idea, but only in the tangible expression or implementation of that idea.”
• “There is no protected interest in an idea, but only in the tangible expression or implementation of that idea. It thus cannot be the subject of conversion.”
• breach of contract, without more, does not give rise to tort liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).