Leirer v. Caputo’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[C]ommon-law recoupment is essentially a defensive mechanism available to a payer, interjected to offset continuing expenditures to or damage claims against a payee. It has not been traditionally allowed as a self-help recovery plan.... [It is not a] substitution for an independent adjudicative modality of establishing a debt (e.g., by concession, agreement, litigation, or the like) before recoupment can be interposed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lipson v. Univ. of Louisville

2. “that ... common-law recoupment powers ... do not extend to the unilateral design and execution of a wage withholding regime to recoup purported salary overpayments ... when the basis for and amounts of the overpayments were never reduced to an established debt[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Lipson v. Univ. of Louisville