City of Hope National Medical Center v. Genentech, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “enter[ing] into a contract for the very purpose of obtaining the . . . expertise of the other party . . . would not necessarily create fiduciary obligations”
• “Deciding which of these two witnesses to believe was a credibility determination for the jury.”
• noting it “is not at all unusual for a party to enter into a contract for 10 the very purpose of obtaining the superior knowledge or expertise of the other party”
• the existence of a fiduciary duty depends on the facts and circumstances of each case
• the existence of a fiduciary duty depends on the facts and circumstances of each case
• “[O]ne party’s right to contingent compensation, standing alone, does not give rise to a fiduciary duty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).