Cart v. Coal Creek Mining & Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The burden is on the party who seeks work product protection to show that the materials at issue were prepared by its representative in anticipation of litigation or for trial.”
• “The burden is on the party who seeks work product protection to show that the materials at issue were prepared by its representative in anticipation of litigation or for trial.”
• “Like all privileges, the work product doctrine must be strictly construed.”
• “Like all privileges, the work product doctrine must be strictly construed.”
• “A document need not be generated in the course of an ongoing lawsuit in order to qualify for work product protection. However, ‘the primary motivating purpose’ behind the creation of the document must be to aid in possible future litigation.”
• “A document need not be generated in the course of an ongoing lawsuit in order to qualify for work product protection. However, ‘the primary motivating purpose’ behind the creation of the document must be to aid in possible future litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).