Legal Opinion
Potamkin Cadillac Corp. v. Karmgard
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided August 8, 1979PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Rena K. Uviller, J.
May a lawyer refuse to divulge his client’s address to the client’s judgment creditor on grounds of the attorney-client privilege? Some courts have held that because an address is not evidentiary information it is never privileged. Others have held to the contrary. (Cf. Richards v Richards, 64 Misc 285, affd 143 App Div 906; Matter of Shawmut Min. Co., 94 App Div 156.)
The applicability of the privilege to the whereabouts of an elusive litigant was recently the subject of a long and thoughtful opinion by the New York Court of Appeals. In Matter of…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Clark v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- May v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Hurlburt v. . HurlburtNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
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3Cited by6 opinions
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