Legal Opinion
In Re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation. Petition of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 29, 1988No. 88-1436PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This matter arises on an infrastructure of important concerns involving the prophylaxis to be accorded to attorneys’ work product and the scope of trial judges’ authority to confront case management exigencies in complex multi-district litigation. The critical question is somewhat novel. We delve rather deeply into the doctrinal underpinnings of the work product rule and the emergent need for increased judicial intervention in the early stages of the adjudicative process in explaining our affirmance of the challenged district court order.
I. BACKGROUND
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