Legal Opinion
Exotica Botanicals, Inc. v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 6, 2000No. 98-559PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.
This case involves a question concerning alleged waiver of the attorney work product privilege that was raised in a motion to compel discovery. See Iowa R. Civ. P. 122,134. Iowa attorney Mark Kalafut was served with a subpoena duces tecum, issued by an Iowa district court, ordering him to produce at a deposition certain documents owned by his employer that were in his possession. Kalafut resisted the subpoena in part, arguing that the requested documents constituted attorney work product and were therefore not discoverable. The district court disagreed, finding that…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- The Duplan Corporation v. Deering Milliken, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1976
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