State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[w]hether to grant a stay is within the 28 3 1 discretion of the Court…”
• holding that plaintiffs waived privilege by putting at issue the date they knew or should have known their injury or damages were caused by toxic waste
• explaining that “even if Defendants demonstrate a substantial need for the items that are protected by the attorney-client privilege, such items will remain protected from disclosure until and unless that privilege is waived”
• “Additionally, a document is not privileged merely because it was prepared by an attorney for a client. The document must contain confidential communication relating to legal advice.”
• “oral communications are not tangible documents for purposes of the work-product doctrine”
• survey of the various types of implicit and explicit waivers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).