Legal Opinion
The Permian Corporation and Occidental Petroleum Corporation v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 9, 1981No. 80-1817PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MIKVA, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a permanent injunction barring the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) from providing the United States Department of Energy with access to certain documents obtained from Occidental Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiary The Permian Corporation (denominated collectively as “Occidental”). The district court found that these documents were subject to the attorney-client and work product privileges, and that Occidental’s arrangements for delivery of these documents to the SEC did not constitute a waiver of the privileges.
We conclude that the…
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