Legal Opinion

Pemberton v. Republic Services, Inc.

District Court, E.D. Missouri

Decided June 23, 2015No. Case No. 4:14-cv-01421 AGFPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

AUDREY G. FLEISSIG, District Judge.

Defendants bring a motion (Doe. No. 53) to quash a subpoena issued by Plaintiffs to Pel-opidas, LLC, a non-party public relations company hired by Defendants’ attorney, or in the alternative, to grant a protective order against disclosure of the materials in question. Defendants argue that all the materials requested by Plaintiffs are protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. For the reasons stated below, the Court finds that the attorney-client privilege does not extend to a public relations consultant on…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Hickman v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  2. United States v. NoblesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  3. University of Pennsylvania v. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  4. United States v. Monroe Adlman, as Officer and Representative of Sequa CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1998
  5. Kenneth Lee Baker Steven Robert Baker, Melissa Thomas v. General Motors Corporation, in Re: General Motors CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2000

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re Lake Lotawana Community Improvement DistrictUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Missouri · 2016
  2. Breuder v. Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 502, DuPage County, IllinoisDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2021
  3. Cave v. ThurstonDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 2022
  4. Jackson v. Senior Care Solutions, IncDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 2021

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