Town of Cameron v. Stephenson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that reliance upon representation must be reasonable and that reliance is unreasonable when party knew or should have known that the conduct was either improper, materially incorrect, or misleading
• noting that other jurisdictions employ an equity balancing test to decide whether to estop the government, yet holding that the facts presented did not necessitate such an analysis
• finding it unnecessary to depart, in that case, from existing New Hampshire case law
• A party’s reliance is unreasonable “when the party asserting estoppel, at the time of his or her reliance or at the time of the representation or concealment, knew or should have known that the conduct or representation was either improper, materially incorrect or misleading.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).