CITY OF HOPE NAT. MED. CENTER v. GENENTECH

No. S129463.

75 Cal.Rptr.3d 333 (2008)

43 Cal.4th 375

181 P.3d 142

CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GENENTECH, INC., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

April 24, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Steven L. Mayer, Amy L. Bomse, San Francisco; Keker & Van Nest, Robert A. Van Nest, Susan J. Harriman, Kara M. Andersen, Steven A. Hirsch, San Francisco; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Raoul D. Kennedy, Jeff G. Randall, Palo Alto; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Kathleen M. Sullivan, Daniel H. Bromberg and Victoria Maroulis, Redwood Shores, for Defendant and Appellant.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Kevin C, McCann, San Francisco, for Biotechnology Industry Organization as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Susan Liebeler; Daniel J. Popeo, Paul D. Kamenar; Zacks Utrecht & Leadbetter and Paul F. Utrecht, San Francisco, for Washington Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Hugh F. Young, Jr.; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, William E. Thomson and J. Christopher Jennings, Los Angeles, for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Leopold, Petrich & Smith and Louis P. Petrich, Los Angeles, for Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Nader Mousavi, Los Angeles, Mark C. Fleming, Seth P. Waxman and Edward C. DuMont for Biogen Idee Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas W. Burt, Timothy G. Fielden; Munger, Tolles & Olson, Gregory P. Stone and Rohit K. Singla, San Francsico, for Microsoft Corporation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Fred J. Hiestand, Sacramento, for The Civil Justice Association of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Bruce A. Ericson and Robert J. Nolan, San Francisco, for California Healthcare Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Martin D. Katz, Lisa N. Stutz, Los Angeles, Jean-Paul Jassy and Jeremiah Reynolds, Santa Monica, for Intel Corporation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

D. Bruce Sewell, Janet Craycroft; Thomas R. Lavelle, San Jose; Fred Main, Sacramento; Erika Frank; Jim Hawley; National Chamber Litigation Center and Robin S. Conrad, for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, California Chamber of Commerce and

Technet as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Jeff G. Randall, Palo Alto, for eBay, Inc., Xilinx, Inc., The Charles Schwab Corporation, Electronic Arts, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc, Applied Materials, Inc, and NVIDIA Corporation as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Michael S. Kwun and Thomas R. Lavelle, San Jose, for Google Inc., and Xilinx, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, Encino; Eisenberg and Hancock, San Francisco, Jon B. Eisenberg, William N. Hancock; Irell & Manella, Morgan Chu, Gregory R. Smith, David I. Gindler, Joseph M. Lipner, Los Angeles; Reed Smith Crosby Heafy, Reed Smith, Peter W. Davis, Los Angeles, James C. Martin; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Edward P. Lazarus and William A. Norris, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Lascher & Lascher and Wendy Cole Lascher, Ventura, for The Academy of Applied Science as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Law Offices of Roman Melnik and Roman Melnik, for United Inventors Association and Inventions, Patents and Trademarks Company as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Raisin & Kavcioglu, Armenak Kavcioglu, Aren Kavcioglu, Encino, for Ian Ayres as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Rodriguez, Horii & Choi, Los Angeles, and Reynolds T. Cafferata for Tamar Frankel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, Stanton L. Stein, Michael J. Plonsker, David S. Gubman, Santa Monica, and Carla A. Veltman, Los Angeles, for Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., Directors Guild of America, Inc., and Screen Actors Guild, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge and Peter R. Afrasiabi, Costa Mesa, for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center and California Association of Nonprofits as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


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.1 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.

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