Gutter v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours

How courts have described this case

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

• “The application of this exception is primarily controlled by the client's intent – it is unnecessary to show that the attorney had actual or constructive knowledge of the crime.”
• “The knowledge necessary to form the requisite fraudulent intent must be possessed by at least one agent and cannot be inferred and imputed to a corporation based on disconnected facts known by different agents.”
• “The knowledge necessary to form the requisite fraudulent intent must be possessed by at least one agent and cannot be inferred and imputed to a corporation based on disconnected facts known by different agents.”
• “Haines simply contemplates a hearing in which both parties are given the opportunity to present evidence and argument on whether the evidence, if believed by trier of fact, would be sufficient to support a finding that the elements of the crime/fraud exception were met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).