Legal Opinion
Haines v. Liggett Group Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 4, 1992No. 92-5144PublishedCited by 328 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
Several important questions are presented in this original petition in mandamus filed by leading tobacco companies. They request us to direct the district court to vacate its order that the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client, work product and joint defense privileges applies to various documents here, 140 F.R.D. 681, but the primary issue that we must decide is whether the district court properly exercised its reconsideration function under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) of the Federal Magistrate Act, as amended.
The Act provides that “[a] judge…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Upjohn Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1992
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