Nichols v. Elkins

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he foundation of disqualification [from representing an 5 interest adverse to that of a former client] is the existence of a former confidential 6 relationship.”
• “[T]he foundation of 21 disqualification [from representing an interest adverse to that of a former client] is the 22 existence of a former confidential relationship.”
• a party desiring to question the propriety of a reference should move for revocation of the reference and the failure to make such a motion constitutes acquiescence and consent to the reference
• an attorney who represented a partnership did not violate a privileged communication by representing one of the partners against the other because the communications within that relationship were not privileged as between the partners

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).