In Re Echostar Communications Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that Echostar waived attorney client privilege over communications when it asserted the defense of reliance on advice of counsel
• explaining that work product that is never communicated to the client is not discoverable
• distinguishing between “factual” and “opinion” work product in analyzing advice-of-counsel defense to a charge of patent infringement
• finding waiver “for any document or opinion that embodies or discusses a communication to or from it concerning whether that patent is valid, enforceable, and infringed by the accused”
• \[W]ork-product immunity . . . promotes a fair and efficient adversarial system. . . .\
• “[W]ork product waiver is not a broad waiver of all work product related to the same subject matter like the attorney-client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hickman v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1947-01-13· cited 4,981×
• Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-01· cited 4,814×
• Upjohn Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-13· cited 3,227×
• United States v. Nobles
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,718×
• Allied Chemical Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-17· cited 1,679×
• Coastal States Gas Corporation v. Department of Energy
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-02-15· cited 1,241×
• United States v. Zolin
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 923×
• In Re Sealed Case
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-04-23· cited 426×
• United States v. Monroe Adlman, as Officer and Representative of Sequa Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1998-02-13· cited 379×
• Underwater Devices Incorporated v. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. v. Lester A. Haug, Don W. Schmid and Herman Gunther
  Federal Circuit· 1983-09-23· cited 229×
• In Re Calmar, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 1988-08-09· cited 196×
• Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Department of Justice
  D.C. Circuit· 2005-12-27· cited 163×
• In Re Martin Marietta Corporation, United States of America v. William C. Pollard
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-10-14· cited 151×
• In Re Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2000-02-15· cited 150×
• United States v. Monroe Adlman, as Officer and Representative of Sequa Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1995-10-26· cited 124×
• Fort James Corporation v. Solo Cup Company
  Federal Circuit· 2005-06-22· cited 123×
• In Re the Regents of the University of California
  Federal Circuit· 1996-11-14· cited 119×
• Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge Gmbh, Plaintiff-Cross v. Dana Corporation, and Haldex Brake Products Corporation, and Haldex Brake Products Ab
  Federal Circuit· 2004-09-13· cited 115×
• Handgards, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson
  N.D. California· 1976-01-07· cited 115×
• Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2001-09-10· cited 104×