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· 10/4/1982

Wrenn v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co.

Citations

  • 459 U.S. 852
  • 103 S. Ct. 115
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 3256
  • 74 L. Ed. 2d 101
  • 1982 U.S. LEXIS 3408

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that “[d]isclosure of the substance of a privileged communication is as effective a waiver as a direct quotation since it reveals the substance of the statement”
  • finding that publication of report communications disclosed” in that report, and declining to compel production of other documents that “may have been considered by the authors of the report”
  • limiting privilege waiver to “factual summaries of witness statements” to “avoid any danger that waiver might encompass core attorney mental processes”

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