Village of Wheeling v. Stavros

How courts have described this case

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• noting public officials are trustees with a fiduciary duty to the people and owe to their principals the “duties of absolute loyalty and fidelity, and occup[y] a position of the highest public trust”
• court held that third party induced certain public officials to breach their fiduciary duty to the public
• court held that third party induced certain public officials to breach their fiduciary duty to the public
• the assumption that a constructive trust may only be imposed where there is fraud or the breach of a fiduciary relationship is incorrect; a constructive trust is by no means restrict, ed to those grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).