Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. Keen

How courts have described this case

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• finding that client waived attorney-client privilege where he argued that his attorney lacked actual settlement authority
• explaining that “the fact of the communication, the identity of the attorney, the subject discussed, and details of the meetings . . . are not protected by the [attorney-client] privilege”
• “The fallacy of ‘begging the question’ or ‘circular argument,’ more formally known as the fallacy of (literally, assuming the initial point), results from assuming in the premises that which is sought to be proven in the conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).