Republic of Ecuador v. Douglas MacKay

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the advisory committee’s notes are a particularly reliable indicator of legislative intent and are entitled to weight
• explaining that work product 19 protections “do[] not extend to the expert’s own development of the opinions to be presented 20 outside of draft reports”
• explaining that as with interpretation of statutes, “[a]n interpretation [of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] that gives effect to every clause is generally preferable to one that does not”
• explaining the “cardinal rule of statutory interpretation that no provision should be construed to be entirely redundant”
• \An interpretation that gives effect to every clause is generally preferable to one that does not.\
• “[T]he driving purpose of the 2010 amendments was to protect opinion work product — i.e., attorney mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, or legal theories — from discovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).