Wm. T. Thompson Co. v. General Nutrition Corp., Inc. General Nutrition Corporation and General Nutrition Center, Inc.

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• holding that the federal rule favoring admissibility of relevant evidence applies to state law claims in federal cases to which state law privileges might otherwise apply
• applying federal law to a claim of accountant/client privilege where state and federal overlap
• party claiming accountant-client privilege may appeal from order compelling its accountant to disclose allegedly confidential information
• when there are both federal and state law claims in a case, the federal rule favoring admissibility, rather than state’s accountant-client privilege, controls
• “[I]n federal question cases the federal common law of privileges applies.”
• F.R.E. 501 governs privilege issues in federal question cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).