Orange County Social Services Agency v. Renea Y.

How courts have described this case

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• allowing a claim for unjust enrichment to proceed because it did “not depend on the existence of valid and enforceable written contracts between the parties, but rather arises from facts wholly independent of any contract upon which plaintiff sues”
• unjust enrichment claim is proper when it “does not depend on the existence of valid and enforceable contracts between the parties, but rather arises from facts wholly independent of any contract”
• “Plaintiffs alleged reliance on defendant’s superior knowledge and expertise ... ignores the reality that the parties engaged in arm’s-length transactions pursuant to contracts between sophisticated business entities that do not give rise to fiduciary duties.”
• “Plaintiffs alleged reliance on defendant’s superior knowledge and expertise in connection with its foreign exchange trading account ignores the reality that the parties engaged in arm’s-length transactions pursuant to contracts between sophisticated business entities .... ”

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