Schoonover v. Bonner County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The average wage earner depends greatly on the regular receipt of earned wages. If unpaid, serious economic injury may result to the wage earner. The legislature also has recognized that the wage earner would not be fully compensated if he were allowed merely to recover his withheld wages because of the costs of attorney’s fees and suit. Although attorney’s fees are authorized by statute, they can not be awarded unless the wage earner recovers all that he claims. Therefore, in many cases there is a need for additional compensation. Thus, although the award of treble damages does tend to penalize the employer, it also serves to fully compensate the wage earning employee for the injury caused him by the delay he experiences in recovering his withheld wages in a court of law and the expenses connected with recovery.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barth v. Canyon County

2. “essentially a last-gasp theory under which a defendant who can point to no specific detrimental reliance ... may still assert that [another party is] estopped from asserting allegedly contrary positions where it would be unconscionable for them to do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knop v. Knop