United States v. Ruehle

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the party asserting an attorney-client privilege has the burden of proving “each essential element” of that privilege
• noting that busi- ness advice does not fall within the purview of attorney-client privilege even if the advisor is a lawyer
• noting that business advice does not fall within the purview of attorney–client privilege even if the advisor is a lawyer
• noting that busi- ness advice does not fall within the purview of attorney-client privilege even if the advisor is a lawyer
• noting that the privilege “‘ought 4 to be strictly confined within the narrowest possible limits consistent with the logic of its 5 principle’”
• finding that by applying California law regarding attorney client privilege, “[t]he district court applied a liberal view of the privilege that conflicts with the strict view applied under 27 federal common law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Graf
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-07-07· cited 249×
• United States v. Richey
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-01-21· cited 201×
• Perry v. Schwarzenegger
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-01-04· cited 119×
• Pacific Pictures Corp. v. United States District Court
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-05-10· cited 92×
• Louis Branch v. D. Umphenour
  Ninth Circuit· 2019-09-05· cited 86×
• Koumoulis v. Independent Financial Marketing Group, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2013-11-01· cited 54×
• Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.
  N.D. California· 2015-04-03· cited 28×
• Perry v. Schwarzenegger
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-12-11· cited 22×
• Youngs v. PeaceHealth
  Washington Supreme Court· 2014-01-23· cited 13×
• Frankie Greer v. County of San Diego
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-02-10· cited 10×
• A.F. v. Providence Health Plan
  D. Oregon· 2016-03-24· cited 9×
• In Re Hotels Nevada, LLC
  D. Nevada· 2011-09-14· cited 8×
• Schaeffer v. Gregory Village Partners, L.P.
  N.D. California· 2015-01-26· cited 8×
• Skyline Wesleyan Church v. California Department of Managed Health Care
  S.D. California· 2017-09-22· cited 7×
• United States v. Norris
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2010-07-12· cited 5×
• Riverkeeper v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  D. Oregon· 2014-08-14· cited 4×
• Arizona ex rel. Goddard v. Frito-Lay, Inc.
  D. Arizona· 2011-03-07· cited 3×
• New York City Employees' Retirement System v. Jobs
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-01-28· cited 2×
• American Civil Liberties Union v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  N.D. California· 2015-11-17· cited 2×
• Jones v. Hernandez
  S.D. California· 2017-08-16· cited 2×

Cites

27 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×
• Herring v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-14· cited 1,549×
• In Re Grand Jury Subpoena Served Upon Simon Horowitz
  Second Circuit· 1973-10-09· cited 303×
• In Re Grand Jury Investigation. United States of America v. The Corporation 1
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-08-31· cited 224×
• United States v. Craighead
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-08-21· cited 190×
• United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Curtis R. Martin, Jr., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-03-13· cited 183×
• United States v. Raymond M. Gray
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-06-05· cited 181×
• Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency v. American Commerce National Bank, Anaheim, California
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-09-08· cited 146×
• United States v. Nelson
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-02-26· cited 143×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tei Fu CHEN; The Sunrider Corporation, Defendants-Appellants
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-11-04· cited 140×
• United States v. David Phillip Munoz Bennie E. McGregor Donald L. Thomson
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-12-06· cited 128×
• In the Matter of Elaine B. Fischel, Contemner-Appellant. United States of America v. Harry Margolis
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-07-13· cited 126×
• United States v. Overton
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-07-14· cited 110×
• United States v. Richard Plache James Attarian
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-09-07· cited 105×
• United States v. Bauer
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-12-22· cited 94×
• In Re Grand Jury Subpoena
  First Circuit· 2001-11-08· cited 93×
• Herlancer Ross v. City of Memphis, Walter Crews and Alfred Gray, Individually
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-09-14· cited 90×
• In Re: Grand Jury Subpoenas, Jane Roe and John Doe. Intervenor v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-05-15· cited 79×
• United States v. Gerald L. Rogers
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-01-15· cited 75×
• United States v. Lowery
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-02-03· cited 74×