Backyard Works Inc. v. Parisi

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• holding that parties seeking to bring breach of fiduciary duty 12 claims must “identify a specific, applicable, trust-creating statute or regulation that the 13 government violated”
• explaining that courts should be “hesitant to adopt an interpretation of a 5 congressional enactment which renders superfluous another portion of that same 6 law” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that Fed. R.Civ.P. 26(b)(2)(C) “authoriz[es] courts to set limits on discovery based on equitable concerns”
• finding that the federal government's trust obligations to Indian tribes are governed by federal statute, not common law
• emphasizing that “ ‘[t]he general relationship between the United States and the Indian tribes is not comparable to a private trust relationship’ ”
• explaining that “the Government may invoke the attorney-client privilege in civil litigation to protect confidential communications between Government officials and Government attorneys”

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