The Permian Corporation and Occidental Petroleum Corporation v. United States

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• remarking that a client may not “invoke the privilege as to communications whose confidentiality he has already compromised for his own benefit”
• corporate disclosure of privileged documents to SEC under apparent assurances of confidentiality waived the attorney-client privilege
• when confidential communications are voluntarily disclosed to one person, the privilege is waived as to all others
• the SEC is not entitled to more cooperation from the courts than other agencies
• the SEC is not entitled to more cooperation from the courts than other agencies
• “.We believe that the attorney-client privilege should be available only at the traditional price: a liti gant who wishes to assert confidentiality must maintain genuine confidentiality.”

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