United States v. Carroll G. Bernard

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party who has waived the attorney-client privilege cannot later claim the protections of that privilege
• holding banker waived privilege when he told victim he had cheeked legality of proposed loan with attorney
• voluntary disclosure by the client is “inconsistent with the attorney-client relationship” and acts as waiver to privilege
• voluntary disclosure of a confidential communication to a third party waives any privilege
• “Courts need not allow the claim of attorney-client privilege when the party claiming the privilege is attempting to utilize the privilege in a manner that is not consistent with the privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).