Kimble v. State of Michigan Correction Department

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defendant had waived attorney-client privilege by asserting good-faith defense of which advice of counsel is an element
• finding defendants impliedly waived attorney-client privilege by asserting a good faith immunity defense to civil rights violations
• evaluating the need for discovery against the importance of the privilege.
• “material compiled by counsel in preparation for this lawsuit would be protected from discovery by the ‘work product’ doctrine, which exists independently of the attorney-client privilege.”
• \Federal courts have uniformly held that the attorney-client privilege can arise with respect to attorneys representing a state.\
• “[M]aterial compiled by counsel in preparation for this lawsuit would be protected from discovery by the ‘work product’ doctrine, which exists independently of the attorney-client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).