American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court must review all of the documents claimed as privileged and cannot rely on a “random sampling” of documents to determine privilege
• holding that decision was final where district judge “washed his hands of the case” and nothing further would happen in district court
• holding that magistrate judge abused his discretion by finding that defects in privilege log merited a sanction of blanket waiver, absent a finding of bad faith
• holding that magistrate judge abused his discretion by finding that defects in privilege log merited a sanction of blanket waiver, absent a finding of bad faith
• reasoning that a dismissal is final where the district court washed its hands of the case and amending is futile
• noting that district court’s final order need not be adverse to appellant in order to permit appeal; rather, final order is means by which appellant is able to challenge prior interlocutory orders that were adverse to it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).