Friedman v. Merck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• construing negligence claims as claims for negligent misrepresentation because the language in the complaint focused on defendants’ representations and plaintiffs’ reliance on them
• “... the lawyer’s obligation to the client, at least absent knowledge of any unusual susceptibility, is economic; the lawyer does not assume an obligation to protect the client’s emotional state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).