Marsch v. Rensselaer County

How courts have described this case

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• noting the actual malice inquiry applies at the time the statement at issue is published, and denying disclosure of post-statement work product
• deposition of defense investigator to learn what she disclosed to non-party author regarding allegedly slanderous statements by defendant was allowed because of possible waiver as to subject
• party waives work-product privilege by making protected information relevant to dispute and assertion of privilege would deprive opposing party of access to that highly probative information
• “The purpose of the work product doctrine is to protect information against opposing parties, rather than against all others outside a particular confidential relationship, in order to encourage effective trial preparation[.]”
• “The purpose of the work product doctrine is to protect information against opposing parties, rather than against all others outside a particular confidential relationship, in order to encourage effective trial preparation[.]”
• “Only if [the p]laintiff can satisfy a showing of relevance under Rule 26(b) must the Court consider [the d]efendants’ claims of privilege and protection, as well as [the d]efendants’ objections to the discovery [the p]laintiff seeks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).