Legal Opinion
In Re Metlife Demutualization Litigation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided June 18, 2007No. CV 00-2258(TCP)(AKT)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
PLATT, District Judge.
Plaintiffs 1 appeal from an Order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tomlin-son issued on March 30, 2007, denying plaintiffs’ motions challenging MetLife’s assertions of attorney-client privilege to communications between MetLife and its lawyers related to the preparation of Met-Life’s policyholder information materials sent to policyholders to seek their vote on MetLife’s proposed reorganization from a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance company. For the following reasons, the Court grants plaintiffs’ request to obtain the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Garner v. WolfinbargerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. LedererSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Rhine v. New York Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
- Fiala v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
- Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1963
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Murray v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2009
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Factory Mutual InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009
- In Re MetLife Demutualization LitigationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2009
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Factory Mutual InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009