Central Construction Co. v. Home Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that services in aid of “bad faith breach of a duty are not protected”
• finding bad faith to be fraud only because “[a]cts constituting fraud are as broad and as varied as the human mind can invent” and “[p]ublic policy demands that the 'fraud' exception to the attorney-client privilege ... be given the broadest interpretation”
• declining to accept the “argument that ‘crime or fraud’ should be narrowly defined,” and holding “that services sought by a client from an attorney in aid of any crime or a bad faith breach of a duty are not protected by the attorney- client privilege”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).