Donovan v. Fitzsimmons

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, where the attorney’s communications to the client were at issue, the work product doctrine did not protect the attorney’s file from discovery
• holding that the interests in attorney privacy yielded to the needs of the Secretary of Labor, as the representative of fund participants and beneficiaries, to discover material
• finding that “at this point, both DOL and the plan’s participants have exactly the same interest, securing complete disclosure in order to ferret out and discover any past wrongdoing affecting the Fund”
• requiring disclosure of attorney work product relating to ERISA trustees’ investment decisions, subject to good cause showing, “lest the work-product immunity swallow up the [fiduciary] exception in its entirety”
• to the extent that the advice of counsel is a critical area of inquiry in the case, the interests in attorney privacy must yield
• to the extent that the advice of counsel is a critical area of inquiry in the case, the interests in attorney privacy must yield

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Means v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-12-29· cited 312×
• Secretary of Labor v. Fitzsimmons
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-10-30· cited 113×
• Remington Arms Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
  D. Delaware· 1992-04-24· cited 76×
• Wachtel v. Health Net, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2007-04-02· cited 74×
• Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Local 35 v. Washington Star Co.
  District of Columbia· 1982-07-16· cited 69×
• Henry v. Champlain Enterprises, Inc.
  N.D. New York· 2003-01-10· cited 46×
• Solis v. Food Employers Labor Relations Ass'n
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-05-04· cited 45×
• Donovan v. Estate of Fitzsimmons
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-11-15· cited 44×
• Whitehead v. Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-04-22· cited 37×
• Quintel Corp., N v. v. Citibank, N.A.
  S.D. New York· 1983-07-18· cited 36×
• Lugosch v. Congel
  N.D. New York· 2003-12-16· cited 33×
• Charlotte Motor Speedway, Inc. v. International Insurance
  M.D. North Carolina· 1989-04-03· cited 25×
• Jicarilla Apache Nation v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2009-07-21· cited 24×
• Aguinaga v. John Morrell & Co.
  D. Kansas· 1986-10-21· cited 23×
• Everett v. USAir Group, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1995-12-29· cited 23×
• Petz v. Ethan Allen, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 1985-01-15· cited 21×
• Aull v. Cavalcade Pension Plan
  D. Colorado· 1998-04-23· cited 19×
• Helt v. Metropolitan District Commission
  D. Connecticut· 1986-05-15· cited 19×
• American Metrocomm Corp. v. Duane Morris & Heckscher LLP (In Re American Metrocomm Corp.)
  D. Delaware· 2002-01-07· cited 17×
• Lewis v. UNUM Corp. Severance Plan
  D. Kansas· 2001-04-04· cited 17×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hickman v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1947-01-13· cited 4,981×
• Upjohn Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-13· cited 3,227×
• United States v. Nobles
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,718×
• Garner v. Wolfinbarger
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-08-31· cited 278×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings. Appeal of Fmc Corporation, Douglas E. Kliever and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
  Third Circuit· 1979-07-18· cited 271×
• Hercules Inc. v. Exxon Corp.
  D. Delaware· 1977-05-26· cited 176×
• Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C. v. Zimmer
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1976-04-09· cited 95×
• The Duplan Corporation v. Moulinage Et Retorderie De Chavanoz, Deering Milliken, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-10-23· cited 88×
• In Re Grand Jury Investigation of Ocean Transportation
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-10-15· cited 78×
• Bird v. Penn Central Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1973-11-08· cited 57×
• Panter v. Marshall Field & Co.
  N.D. Illinois· 1978-12-19· cited 45×
• GAF Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co.
  S.D. New York· 1979-12-11· cited 37×
• Truck Insurance Exchange v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-02-05· cited 35×
• Bailey v. Meister Brau, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 1972-05-16· cited 33×
• Bourget v. Government Employees Insurance
  D. Connecticut· 1969-07-11· cited 30×
• Cohen v. Uniroyal, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1978-11-28· cited 30×
• In Re Colocotronis Tanker Securities Litigation
  S.D. New York· 1978-03-27· cited 26×
• Indian Law Resource Center v. Department of Interior
  District of Columbia· 1979-09-25· cited 19×
• George v. LeBlanc
  N.D. Texas· 1977-03-15· cited 10×
• In re Transocean Tender Offer Securities Litigation
  N.D. Illinois· 1978-05-22· cited 10×