Marathon Oil Co. v. Moye

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

BAKER, Justice.

We withdraw our opinion of August 16, 1994, and the conditional grant of Relator’s petition for writ of mandamus issued on August 16, 1994. The following is now the Court’s opinion.

Marathon Oil Co. challenges a discovery order entered by respondent requiring the production of documents. Marathon claims privilege under the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product exemption from discovery. We agree with Marathon. The trial court abused its discretion in rejecting Marathon’s claim of privilege. We conditionally grant the writ.

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