Legal Opinion
Dresser-Rand Co. v. Schutte & Koerting Acquisition Co.
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided March 15, 2017No. Civil Action No. H-12-184Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON IN CAMERA INSPECTION
Nancy K. Johnson, U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Pending before the court is a dispute concerning whether Plaintiffs voluntary production of certain documents to the United States in an effort to instigate a criminal investigation waived its work product privilege for those documents. The court concludes that it does.
On January 7, 2012, Plaintiff Dresser-Rand Company (“Dresser-Rand”) filed this lawsuit against a competitor, Schutte & Koerting, Inc., (“S & K”) and two of Dresser-Rand’s former employees alleging that the employees had misappropriated trade secrets and other…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- Mollie Ann Dunn v. State Farm Fire & Casualty CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- The Permian Corporation and Occidental Petroleum Corporation v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- United States v. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1997
- Fred W. Shields and Joyce Shields v. Sturm, Ruger & CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
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