Standard Chartered PLC v. Price Waterhouse

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a reviewing court’s obligation to search for a reasonable way to view the jury’s verdict “as expressing a coherent view of the case”
• warning that conflating separate legal duties 21 “would debase the concept of fiduciary duty and confuse it with the duty to exercise 22 ordinary care and skill”
• describing inducement as overcoming “indifference, hesitation, or opposition” by explaining the “persuasive advantages or gains” of stock ownership
• finding third-party bank that relied on report of borrower’s solvency had presented prima facie case for negligent misrepresentation against auditor
• finding no fiduciary relationship imposing duty of 4 care where defendant “pitched hard” and attempted to persuade plaintiff to pursue business 5 opportunity
• finding no fiduciary relationship imposing duty of care where 12 defendant “pitched hard” and attempted to persuade plaintiff to pursue business 13 opportunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).