In Re Columbia/Hca Healthcare Corporation Billing Practices Litigation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a healthcare provider’s disclosure of documents to a government agency investigating it waived work product protection for those documents in subsequent civil litigation
• concluding that a party cannot selectively waive the work-product doctrine to prejudice his opponent
• noting that the decision on whether to “ ‘show your hand’ ” by disclosing work product is a “quintessential litigation strategy”
• discussing that strategic decisions, like disclosing communications to the government, may have consequences, like a waiver of privilege
• affirming finding that party had waived work-product protections of documents by producing those documents to non-party government entities
• rejecting selective waiver for work product, despite existence of confidentiality agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).