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· 1/18/1991

Petersen v. Securities Settlement Corp.

Citations

  • 226 Cal. App. 3d 1445
  • 277 Cal. Rptr. 468
  • 91 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 636
  • 91 Daily Journal DAR 931
  • 1991 Cal. App. LEXIS 54

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a broker without direct access to customers and who did not provide recommendations that were “invariably followed” had no duty to warn about the risky nature of investments
  • “Where, as here, [the] relationship is confined to the simple performance of transactions ordered by a customer or his investment advisor, the duties described in Twomey and Duffy do not arise.”

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Judges: Benke

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