Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the fiduciary exception based upon both the defendant’s status as a fiduciary and the plaintiff’s status as an ERISA plan beneficiary
• “To the extent defendants failed to expressly assert the claim of attorney work product protection for these documents until two years after defendants initially withheld this information, defendants have waived this claim.”
• “[B]ecause in-house counsel has an increased level of participation in the day-to-day operations of the corporation, it is more difficult to define the scope of the privilege when a communication is made to in-house counsel.”

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Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. BDO USA, L.L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-11-16· cited 186×
• Securities & Exchange Commission v. Goldstone
  D. New Mexico· 2014-08-23· cited 22×
• Murphy v. Gorman
  D. New Mexico· 2010-06-09· cited 11×
• Chen-Oster v. Goldman, Sachs & Co.
  S.D. New York· 2013-06-18· cited 10×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. BDO USA, L.L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-05-04· cited 6×
• Baptist Health v. BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc.
  N.D. Mississippi· 2010-05-28· cited 6×
• Window World of Baton Rouge, LLC v. Window World, Inc.; Window World of St. Louis, Inc. v. Window World, Inc.
  North Carolina Business Court· 2019-08-16· cited 4×
• EEOC v. BDO USA, L.L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-05-08

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Upjohn Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-13· cited 3,227×
• United States v. Nobles
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,718×
• Trammel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 1,217×
• Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Jacobson
  Supreme Court· 1999-01-25· cited 798×
• LOCKHEED CORP. Et Al. v. SPINK
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 525×
• Kenneth E. Wildbur, Sr. v. Arco Chemical Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-12-07· cited 300×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-07-30· cited 142×
• Martinez v. Schlumberger, Ltd.
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-07-10· cited 127×
• United States v. Harry Neil Kelly
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-03-20· cited 96×
• Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Local 35 v. Washington Star Co.
  District of Columbia· 1982-07-16· cited 69×
• Neuder v. Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  District of Columbia· 2000-03-09· cited 64×
• In re Universal Service Fund Telephone Billing Practices Litigation
  D. Kansas· 2005-07-26· cited 62×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings Jean Auclair. Victor Feazell
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-05-01· cited 48×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-12-22· cited 47×
• Navigant Consulting, Inc. v. Wilkinson
  N.D. Texas· 2004-03-29· cited 47×
• Enron Corp. Savings Plan v. Hewitt Associates, L.L.C.
  S.D. Texas· 2009-03-19· cited 30×
• Boca Investerings Partnership v. United States
  District of Columbia· 1998-12-29· cited 29×
• First Wisconsin Mortgage Trust v. First Wisconsin Corp.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1980-03-12· cited 23×
• In Re Grand Jury Subpoenas
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-02-25· cited 16×
• RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
  D. Kansas· 2001-09-06· cited 16×

Other cases named Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.
  W.D. Texas· 2006-10-03· cited 8×
• Stoffels v. SBC Communications, Inc.
  W.D. Texas· 2007-11-26· cited 2×