Legal Opinion
Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Republic of the Philippines
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 19, 1991No. 90-5920PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This petition for a writ of mandamus requires us to resolve an important issue that has divided the circuits: whether a party that discloses information protected by the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine1 in order to cooperate with a government agency that is investigating it waives the privilege and the doctrine only as against the government, or waives them completely, thereby exposing the documents to civil discovery in litigation between the discloser and a third party. The issue arises in an action brought by the Republic of…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- United States v. NoblesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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