Appleton Papers, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the government did not “expose the enchanted nature of the information” sought
• observing that Rule 26(b)(4)(D) “shows that facts and opinions alike are protected and therefore not separable”
• observing that Rule 26(b)(4)(D) “shows that facts and opinions alike are protected and therefore not separable”
• holding “there is no doubt that the government waived work product immunity for the portions of the documents it did use in the two consent decrees”
• rejecting the plaintiff’s argument that “the district court erred by allowing the government to use the portions of the consultant’s opinions that it believes are helpful, while hiding the analysis and the complete opinions from the public view”
• “‘Fact’ work product is discoverable in the rare case where [a] party makes the ‘substantial need’ showing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kelly Fuery v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-14· cited 140×
• Miller UK Ltd. v. Caterpillar, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2014-01-06· cited 69×
• Rubman v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-08-31· cited 54×
• Towne Place Condo. Ass'n v. Phila. Indem. Ins. Co.
  E.D. Illinois· 2018-01-11· cited 36×
• Meyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2018-07-05· cited 34×
• Stalcup v. Central Intelligence Agency
  First Circuit· 2014-10-06· cited 29×
• Henson v. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-15· cited 26×
• Patrick v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-10-28· cited 20×
• Higgs v. U.S. Park Police
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-08-13· cited 19×
• Patrick v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-07-01· cited 17×
• Monco v. Zoltek Corp.
  E.D. Illinois· 2018-07-16· cited 15×
• Evans v. U.S. Department of the Interior
  N.D. Indiana· 2015-09-28· cited 10×
• Menasha Corp. v. United States Department of Justice
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-02-20· cited 8×
• Medicines Co. v. Mylan Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2013-03-19· cited 8×
• Dameron v. Mercy Hospital & Medical Center
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2020-11-19· cited 4×
• Baxter International, Inc. v. AXA Versicherung
  N.D. Illinois· 2016-12-13· cited 2×
• Ott v. City of Milwaukee
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2013-04-17· cited 1×
• J. Donald Henson, Sr. v. HHS
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-15
• The New York Times Company and Charlie Savage v. United States Department
  Second Circuit· 2019-09-27

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hickman v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1947-01-13· cited 4,981×
• National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-28· cited 2,115×
• United States v. Nobles
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,718×
• United States Department of Defense v. Federal Labor Relations Authority
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-23· cited 736×
• In Re Sealed Case
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-04-23· cited 426×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Grolier Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-06· cited 387×
• In Re Sealed Case
  D.C. Circuit· 1989-06-27· cited 176×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-08-29· cited 137×
• The Duplan Corporation v. Deering Milliken, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-07-13· cited 117×
• Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. v. Village of Arlington Heights, and Village of Mount Prospect and Forest View Civic Association, Intervening
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-03-04· cited 106×
• Enviro Tech International, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-06-10· cited 73×
• Williams & Connolly v. Securities & Exchange Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-12-09· cited 69×
• Stephanie A. Patterson v. Internal Revenue Service
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-06-08· cited 53×
• Trustees of the Electrical Workers Local No. 26 Pension Trust Fund v. Trust Fund Advisors, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2010-02-12· cited 31×
• Goodrich Corp. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  District of Columbia· 2009-01-16· cited 24×
• Eagle Compressors, Inc. v. HEC Liquidating Corp.
  N.D. Illinois· 2002-04-18· cited 23×
• United States v. Fort James Operating Co.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2004-03-19· cited 12×
• Delores Brown v. Clarence Trigg and Indiana Attorney General
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-05-28· cited 10×