Slurzberg v. City of Bayonne

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• noting that this “principle is so fundamental in the statutory scheme as to be incontestable”
• noting that the public contracting laws cannot be circumvented by “the equitable principles of estoppel or unjust enrichment”
• public contracting laws further the “interest of efficient and economical local administration of government” through avoidance of “waste, extravagance and ill-considered spending”
• work done for a municipal office not created, or properly filled, by ordinance or statute is void regardless of whether the City accepts that office's work product

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).