Legal Opinion
Burton v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided February 3, 1997No. 94-2202-JWLPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
NEWMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.
Before the court is the plaintiff's motion to compel the defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (“RJR”) to produce thirty-three Council for Tobacco Research (“CTR”) special project documents. (Doc. 214) RJR claims that all of the documents are protected by either the attorney-client privilege or work product immunity. Plaintiff claims that the crime-fraud exception applies making the documents subject to disclosure, notwithstanding the claim of privilege. United States District Judge John W. Lungstrum originally found, based upon the…
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