Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Illinois Department of Employment Security

How courts have described this case

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

• “State privileges are honored in federal litigation only when state law supplies the rule of decision.”
• “Herman Brothers predates ... the adoption of Fed.R.Evid. 501. The sixth circuit assumed that state privileges apply in federal litigation. That assumption is no longer warranted.”
• Supremacy Clause gives federal statutes’ controlling force in the face of conflicts with state law and “Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence reinforces this message in the domain of evidentiary privileges”
• rejecting Rule 501 privilege for records of unemployment hearings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).