Mississippi Public Employees' Retirement System v. Boston Scientific Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “general counsel did not manufacture privilege but rather protected it when [certain] communications were made for the purpose of providing requested legal advice”
• answering an analyst’s question during a webcast which was later posted to ARIAD’s website
• distinguishing between facts suggesting commercial failure and those going to lesser risks
• for purposes of work product protection, documents at issue “fairly [could be] said to have been prepared or obtained because of the prospect of litigation”
• “Rule 15(a) is designed to facilitate decision on the merits, 16 rather than on the pleadings or technicalities.”
• “Rule 15(a) is designed to facilitate decision on the merits, 11 rather than on the pleadings or technicalities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).