Opinion No. 49-0502 Ag

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• holding that there is no per se fiduciary relationship between an independent auditor and its audit client
• holding that there is no per se fiduciary relationship between an independent auditor and its audit client
• affirming district court’s dismissal of a fiduciary duty claim under Rule 12(b)(6) where “plaintiff’s allegations, treated as true, [did] not establish that defendant owed it a fiduciary duty in fact.”
• “The list of relationships that we have held to be fiduciary in their very nature is a limited one, and we do not add to it lightly.” (citation omitted)
• “The list of relationships that we have held to be fiduciary in their very nature is a limited one, . . . and we do not add to it lightly.”

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