Boston & Maine Corp. v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that SEC “interview notes and memoranda reflect[ed], at least to some extent, opinion work product as well as fact work product, because they record the witnesses’ statements as filtered through an SEC employee”
• noting that “‘[a] ‘haircut’ is [t]he difference between prices at which a market maker can buy and sell a security’” (quoting Haircut, Investopedia, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/haircut.asp (last visited Aug. 23, 2014)
• finding notes and memoranda generated from witness interviews were protected where opposing party could depose the witnesses and obtain substantially the same information
• declining to prevent a party “from taking 30(b)(6) depositions of the SEC, even though it may be true that the 30(b)(6) representative in many cases will be an attorney”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).