· 5/4/1970
Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Honorable Bernard M. Decker, United States District Judge
Citations
- 423 F.2d 487
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “Where an attorney personally prepares a memorandum of an interview of a witness with an eye toward litigation[,] such memorandum qualifies as work product even though the lawyer functioned primarily as an investigator.”
- communication privileged “where the subject matter upon which the attorney’s advice is sought by the corporation and dealt within the communication is the performance by the employee of the duties of his employment”
- affirmed in part and reversed in part
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Judges: Kiley, Fairchild, Cummings
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