Legal Opinion
Shelton v. American Motors Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1986No. 85-2442PublishedCited by 375 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
The defendants, American Motors Corporation, American Motors Sales Corporation, and Jeep Corporation, appeal from the district court’s order granting the plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment. The district court entered default judgment against the defendants as a sanction for their in-house counsel’s repeated refusal to answer deposition questions concerning the existence of certain documents. The district court held that the information sought by the plaintiffs is not protected by the work-product doctrine or the attorney-client privilege, and that…
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