Shatsky v. Palestine Liberation Org.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that where the legislature has enacted a privilege, the court’s “own conclusions about what would be better policy are simply of no consequence”
• stating that where the legislature has enacted a privilege, the court’s “own conclusions about what would be better policy are simply of no consequence”
• stating that where the legislature has enacted a privilege, the court’s “own conclusions about what would be better policy are simply of no consequence”
• stating that to pierce the privilege a defendant must show that \a constitutional right is at stake[] or . . . a party has explicitly or implicitly waived the privilege\
• highlighting that the first prong of the Kozlov test is narrow and can only be established by explicit or implicit waiver or when a constitutional right is at stake
• holding Kozlov did not create a \broad equitable balancing test pursuant to which any privilege is subject to piercing if the adversary 'needs' relevant evidence that cannot be obtained from another source.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).