Hylton v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that acquiring corporation’s “initial 12 review of [target corporation’s] operations was solely for the business purpose of a potential 13 merger” and therefore not protected by the attorney-client privilege
• documents prepared during due diligence review as the prior to acquisition did not “fall within the ambit of the attorney-client privilege” . . . as they were created “solely for the business purpose of a potential merger.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).