Town of New Hartford v. Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority

How courts have described this case

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• “A claimant seeking a constructive trust ‘must identify property in the hands of the [defendant] that represents or embodies . . . property obtained at the claimant’s expense or in violation of the claimant’s rights.’”
• plaintiffs asserted breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims
• “A right of recovery under the doctrine of unjust enrichment is essentially equitable, its basis being that in a given situation it is contrary to equity and good conscience for one to retain a benefit which has come to him at the expense of another.”
• “Whether to allow a party to amend its complaint is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court. This court will not disturb a trial court’s ruling on a proposed amendment unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion.” [Internal quotation marks omitted.]
• restitution is remedy for upjust enrichment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).