Anglo-Dutch Petroleum International, Inc. v. Smith

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• trust and confidence must exist prior to, and apart, from agreement as basis of suit to impose special relationship
• “To the extent Smith’s position equates a confidentiality agreement to a relationship of trust and confidence giving rise to a fiduciary duty, he has cited, and we have found, no authority supporting the notion that confidentiality agreements can create fiduciary relationships.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).