Legal Opinion
Coastal Corp. v. Duncan
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided May 5, 1980No. Civ. A. Nos. 78-549, 78-550PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.
This Court is once again faced with determining whether a department of the Federal Government has properly invoked its claims of privilege. In this case, the Secretary of the Department of Energy (“DOE”) has purported to properly assert the executive privileges pertaining to “pre-decisional” and “investigatory” information, and the attorney-client and work product privileges, with respect to approximately 600 documents requested by plaintiffs The Coastal Corporation and Cities Service Company (“plaintiffs”) in interrogatories and requests for…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Hickman v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of the Air ForceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- Coastal States Gas Corporation v. Department of EnergyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by36 opinions
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- Scott Paper Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1996
- Leonen v. Johns-ManvilleDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1990
- North Carolina Electric Membership Corp. v. Carolina Power & Light Co.District Court, M.D. North Carolina · 1986
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