Ford Motor Co. v. Leggat

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the law of Michigan rather than the forum applied to manufacturer's claim of attorney-client privilege in a products liability suit because the communication took place in Michigan and therefore Michigan had most significant relationship to communication
• recognizing that affidavits must be in writing, signed and sworn to
• holding that discovery of settlement amounts between Ford and other claimants “to determine a settlement strategy for their own case” was “not a proper purpose of discovery,” and “specifically disapproved of the request for the information under these circumstances”
• noting that Restatement directs courts to identify state with most significant relationship to communication when determining whose law of privilege should apply
• noting that Restatement directs courts to identify state with most significant relationship to communication when determining whose law of privilege should apply
• holding that defective jurat, as opposed to absence of jurat, is defect of form and noting that affidavit was proper even without jurat because it contained acknowledgment and recited that affiant was “first duly sworn,” and “on his oath” stated what followed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).