David R. Hawkins v. Andrea L. Stables

How courts have described this case

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• observing that client holds attorney-client privilege and “can waive it either expressly, or through conduct” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding waiver of privilege when the relevant question was objectionable on its face on the ground of attorney-client privilege but no one objected
• instructing that where the case is based upon a federal cause of action, the court must apply “the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience”
• “By answering the question as [the defendant] did, [the defendant] both waived her [attorney-client] privilege and provided probative evidence [on the subject matter].”
• If a party voluntarily discloses a single communication protected by the attorney-client privilege, it waives the privilege for that communication and any other communications covering the same subject matter.
• burden of proof is on the proponent of the privilege

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).