Legal Opinion
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Successor in Interest to New England Merchants Leasing Corporation, Etc. v. Ogden Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 2000No. 99-1788PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The district court ordered a law firm, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP (“Dickstein”), not itself a party to the underlying action, to produce documents that the appellants, Ogden Corporation and Ogden Martin Systems of Haverhill, Inc. (collectively, “Ogden”), claim are within the attorney-client privilege. The ap-pellee, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), asserts that the so-called “joint client exception” trumps the privilege and, thus, legitimates the order. After providing necessary context, surmounting a jurisdictional obstacle, and charting the…
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