Brann v. State Road Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that MIT waived its privilege with respect to a government audit agency
• holding prior disclosure to defense audit agency of same information sought by IRS subpoena forfeited work-produet protection
• finding that disclosure of billing statements and corporate minutes containing privileged communications to audit agency constituted disclosure to potential adversary
• noting that “agencies usually have means to secure the information they need and, if not, can seek legislation from Congress”
• stating that “courts have been unwilling to start down this path— which has no logical terminus—and we join in this reluctance”
• highlighting that preventing disclosure to third parties who may disclose such materials to an adversary preserves the work product privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).