Patitucci v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party can waive attorney- client privileges and work product protections by failing to serve a log “with the objection or within a reasonable time thereafter’
• holding attorney-client and work-product privileges waived given four-month delay in 27 producing privilege log
• “An essential step in meeting the burden of establishing the existence of a privilege or an immunity from discovery is the production of an adequately detailed privilege log sufficient to enable the demanding party to contest the claim.”
• “An essential step in meeting the burden of establishing the existence of a privilege or an immunity from discovery is the production of an adequately detailed privilege log sufficient to enable the demanding party to contest the claim.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• the burden of proving privilege cannot be met by mere conclusory or ipse dixit assertions in unsworn motion papers authored by attorneys but depends on “the production of an adequately detailed privilege log sufficient to enable the demanding party to contest the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).