Whetstone v. Olson

Reed, A.C.J.

The plaintiff, lone Susan Whetstone, seeks reversal of a trial court order dismissing with prejudice her sexual harassment suit against her former employer and a fellow employee. We are asked to decide whether the trial court was correct when it concluded that the plaintiff could not rely on the attorney/client privilege in order to prevent an in camera inspection of a taped communication made by her to her former attorney. The trial court ruled that a sufficient inference had been created that this communication related to the furtherance of a contemplated fraud so as to defeat…