· 12/7/1970
Stimpel v. State Personnel Board of California
Citations
- 400 U.S. 952
- 91 S. Ct. 245
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that even an inadvertent disclosure automatically waives the attorney work product privilege, because to do otherwise \would do no more than seal the bag from which the cat has already escaped.\
- holding that even an inadvertent disclosure automatically waives the attorney work product privilege, because to do otherwise \would do no more than seal the bag from which the cat has already escaped.\
- inadvertent provision to opponent of an internal Justice Department memo constituted a waiver of the work product privilege
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Judges: Douglas, Granted, Should
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