California Court of Appeal

A nonfiduciary defendant, neither an agent nor an employee of the fiduciary, cannot be liable for conspiring with the fiduciary to breach a fiduciary duty, because a nonfiduciary is incapable of committing the tort (breach of fiduciary duty) underlying the conspiracy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2002
• Published 08/02/2002

Judges

•  MIRIAM A. VOGEL, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Kendig & Ross, Fainsbert Mase & Snyder and Dennis A. Kendig, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sullivan & Cromwell, Steven W. Thomas and Mark H. Forrester, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.