Legal Opinion
In Re Santa Fe International Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 13, 2001No. 01-40421PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
Santa Fe International Corporation (“Santa Fe”) petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its order requiring Santa Fe to produce a document for discovery and rejecting Santa Fe’s “common legal interest” attorney-client privilege claim.1 We deny the petition because the district court’s ruling was not clearly and indisputably wrong.
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Plaintiffs, who are present and former offshore drilling workers for Santa Fe and *707some twenty-one other offshore drilling corporations, filed this action on August 14, 2000, naming those companies as defendants.…
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