Goodyear Shoe Mach. Co. v. Spaulding

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the assertion of a good-faith advice of counsel defense in an FLSA suit waived the attorney-client privilege for communications regarding the classification issue
• applying Lott’s precepts and finding implied waiver where defendant took the affirmative step of “cho[osing] to inject the advice of its counsel into th[e] litigation” by averring, “as factual support for [its good faith] defense,” that it consulted with counsel
• “Once the defendant has relied (even in small part) on privileged communications to make its case, fairness requires that the privilege be put aside in order for the plaintiff to test the defendant’s contentions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).