Quirk v. Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles

How courts have described this case

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

• “In the eases in which this court has, as a matter of law, refused to recognize a fiduciary relationship, the parties were [] dealing at arm’s length[.]”
• “The Rules [of Professional Conduct] are designed to provide guidance to lawyers and to provide a structure for regulating conduct through disciplinary agencies. They are not designed to be a basis for civil liability ” [Internal quotation marks omitted.]
• “A fiduciary or confidential relationship is characterized by a unique degree of trust and confidence between the parties, one of whom has superior knowledge, skill or expertise and is under a duty to represent the interests of the other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).