SCOTUS· 1/10/1983
Northwest Excavating, Inc. v. Waggoner
Citations
- 459 U.S. 1109
- 103 S. Ct. 737
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- noting that “unretained experts, who formed opinions from pre-litigation observation, invariably have files from which any competent trial attorney can effectively cross-examine” them
- “[C]irculating truly confidential information among concerned officials does not defeat the privilege since all the recipients shared the attorney-client privilege with each other.”
- “[T]he information is to be protected if one can say that the person who communicated the information never intended it to be disclosed and, but for its disclosure now, it would never have been known.”
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