Woodrum v. Thomas Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating the federal common law of privileges applies where the principal claim arises under federal law and there is pendent jurisdiction over a state claim
• discussing the possibility that some communications during a meeting may be privileged while others are discoverable
• finding “conversations among the board members discussing their attorney’s legal advice, and conversations among the board members and their attorney about potential litigation risk and legal strategy” attorney-client privileged
• the “burden rests upon the objecting party to show why a particular discovery request is improper”
• “The federal discovery rules are liberal in order to assist in trial preparation and settlement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).