Hughes Tool Co. v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.

How courts have described this case

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• quashing 30(b)(6) deposition topic because, “[u]nder the guise of requesting ‘facts’ that defendants contend changed their view of the transactions, plaintiff is really requesting defendants' mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, and legal theory”
• denying discovery request seeking “defendants’ mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, and legal theory”
• improper to seek “precisely which” facts support defendants’ claims because it is really seeking protected work product ‘[u]nder the guise of requesting ‘facts’”
• “Under the guise of requesting ‘facts’ . . . , plaintiff is really requesting defendants’ mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, and legal theory. Such classic work product is properly shielded from discovery, Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(3

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