C.R. Bard Inc. v. Guidant Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a subsidiary company was not an agent for a holding company because the subsidiary was responsible for making its own day-today decisions
• “[U]nder the agency theory ‘only the precise conduct shown to be instigated by the parent is attributed to the parent.’” (quoting Applied Biosystems, Inc. v. Cruachem, Ltd., 772 F. Supp. 1458, 1464 (D. Del. 1991))
• accepting this as a legitimate and rational reason

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).