Dickman v. F.D.R. VA Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding reserve information not relevant to bad faith counterclaim, though conceding it was a close question
• reserve information not discoverable despite bad faith allegation when the central issue is interpretation of policy
• “[W]here no author is listed, [a party] must describe the content of the documents such that [the opposing party] and th[e][e]ourt may better assess the applicability of the privilege.”
• “while the attorney-client privilege belongs to the client, the attorney, acting as the client's agent, may be sufficiently negligent in protecting the privilege that it may be waived”
• “[W]hile the attorney-client privilege belongs to the client, the attorney, acting as the client’s agent, may be sufficiently negligent in protecting the privilege that it may be waived”
• using balancing test to determine whether waiver occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).