Thursday, May 13th, 2010
9th Cir: Mandamus on Attorney-Client Privilege
The 9th Circuit has granted mandamus to review and reverse an order holding that a discrimination plaintiff had waived the attorney-client privilege by revealing information learned when his previous attorney had interviewed a witness who later balked at testifying. In Mohawk Industries, inc. v. Carpenter, 130 S.Ct. 599 (2009), the Supreme Court had held that […]