Legal Opinion
City of Hope National Medical Center v. Genentech, Inc.
California Supreme Court
Decided April 24, 2008No. S129463PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KENNARD, J.
In June 2002, after a jury trial, plaintiff City of Hope National Medical Center (City of Hope) obtained a judgment against defendant Genentech, Inc. (Genentech), for breach of fiduciary duty and for breach of contract. The judgment awarded City of Hope $300,164,030 in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages. The Court of Appeal affirmed. Genentech challenges that affirmance.
In this complex case, which has 25,567 pages of reporter’s transcript plus 12,267 pages of clerk’s transcript and has generated 18 friend of the court briefs, the primary issue is…
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