Gorman v. Alcorn

How courts have described this case

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

• “Generally speaking, the work-product privilege should not be deemed waived unless disclosure is inconsistent with maintaining secrecy from possible adversaries.”
• disclosure of investigatory report to independent auditor did not waive work product protection where auditor was not an adversary or conduit to potential adversary
• “Generally speaking, the work product privilege should not be deemed waived unless disclosure is inconsistent with maintaining secrecy from possible adversaries.”
• “Generally speaking, the work product privilege should not be deemed waived unless disclosure is inconsistent with maintaining secrecy from possible adversaries.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• “Courts . . . have ruled that it [is] not necessary that the party to whom disclosure [was] made share a ‘litigation’ interest with the party that asserts the privilege.”
• denying compulsion of independent auditor’s reports

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).