United States v. Stepney

How courts have described this case

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

• noting harm to joint defense group presented by one attorney’s disqualification
• “Courts have consistently viewed the obligations created by joint defense agreements as distinct from those created by actual attorney-client relationships.”
• “[Per a joint defense agreement,] no conflict of interest arises unless the attorney actually obtained relevant confidential information.”
• “Courts have consistently viewed the obligations created by joint defense agreements as distinct from those created by actual attorney-client relationships”
• “Joint defense agreements are not contracts which create whatever rights the signatories chose, but are written notice of defendants’ invocation of privileges set forth in common law.” (emphasis added)
• “To the extent that joint defense agreements simply set forth the existence of attorney-client relationships—implied or otherwise—between various attorneys and defendants, the contents of such agreements do not fall within the attorney-client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Ninth Circuit· 2012-01-25· cited 34×
• United States v. Almeida
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-08-18· cited 18×
• Roosevelt Irrigation District v. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District
  D. Arizona· 2011-08-26· cited 10×
• United States v. LeCroy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2005-01-10· cited 7×
• Avocent Redmond Corp. v. Rose Electronics, Inc.
  W.D. Washington· 2007-10-09· cited 6×
• Gold Cross EMS, Inc. v. Children's Hospital of Alabama
  S.D. Georgia· 2015-01-08· cited 1×
• United States v. 1. Executive Recycling, Inc.
  D. Colorado· 2012-12-11· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-08-18

Cites

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

• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Upjohn Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-13· cited 3,227×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• Wheat v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-30· cited 1,962×
• Mickens v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2002-03-27· cited 1,451×
• United States v. Robert McPartlin
  Seventh Circuit· 1979-04-23· cited 271×
• United States v. William Aramony, United States of America v. Stephen J. Paulachak, United States of America v. Thomas J. Merlo
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-07-17· cited 257×
• United States v. Martin Schwimmer
  Second Circuit· 1989-12-27· cited 221×
• In Re Yarn Processing Patent Validity Litigation. Celanese Corporation and Fiber Industries, Inc. v. Leesona Corporation, Lex Tex Ltd., Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-04· cited 169×
• United States v. Jesse J. Evans
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-05-23· cited 161×
• Trone v. Smith
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-06-23· cited 161×
• Renz v. Beeman
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 148×
• United States v. Robert Aulicino, Jr., David Cleary, and Louis Ruggiero, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-05· cited 145×
• Ramirez-Talavera v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-10· cited 139×
• United States v. John P. Moscony
  Third Circuit· 1991-03-08· cited 124×
• United States of America, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Terry Louis Gann
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-05-03· cited 120×
• Wilson P. Abraham Construction Corporation v. Armco Steel Corporation, the Ceco Corporation, and Laclede Steel Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-09-14· cited 117×
• Fred Weber, Inc. v. Shell Oil Company, Shell Pipe Line Corporation, Amoco Oil Company and Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-12-28· cited 106×
• United States v. Bauer
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-12-22· cited 94×
• Weil v. Investment/Indicators, Research & Management, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-06-01· cited 89×