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· 1/25/1982

Greathouse v. United States

Citations

  • 455 U.S. 926
  • 102 S. Ct. 1289
  • 71 L. Ed. 2d 469
  • 50 U.S.L.W. 3591
  • 1982 U.S. LEXIS 748

How courts have described this case

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  • finding no waiver of work product privilege as to three-volume report where one volume inadvertently left among documents to be inspected by opposing counsel but other two volumes removed as part of pre­ inspection screening for privileged materials
  • even if inadvertent disclosure of one group of documents constituted waiver with respect to those documents, no basis for subject matter waiver
  • litigants cannot use work product doctrine to shield relevant facts from discovery
  • examining precautions taken to avoid inadvertent disclosure

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