Frontier Refining Inc. v. Gorman-Rupp Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an erroneous discovery ruling requires reversal only if it affected the substantial rights of the parties
• holding that a litigant cannot “selectively [use] the privileged documents to prove a point but then [invoke] the privilege to prevent an opponent from challenging the assertion”
• concluding that, at a minimum, the work product doctrine extends to closely-related subsequent litigation
• noting that in the “context” of the abuse-of-discretion standard, we still “review de novo purely legal questions”
• finding that Wyoming law governed the attorney-client privilege issues in a federal diversity case involving (apparently) only Wyoming state law claims
• stating that the automatic-waiver rule “does not adequately account for the importance of the attorney-client privilege”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).