Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that material created to avoid litigation can constitute work product
• noting that the attorney had hired the environmental consultant who produced documents that were subject to the rule
• holding documents are entitled to work 4 product protections where “their litigation purpose so permeates any non-litigation purpose 5 that the two purposes cannot be discretely separated from the factual nexus as a whole”
• holding 24 that documents created by investigator were protected as work product
• holding 24 that documents created by investigator were protected as work product
• finding documents created by an investigator at the direction of counsel were protected work product

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).