crime-fraud-exception

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A1107 Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-06-12 Presumed Complete attorney-client-privilege crime-fraud-exception mandamus patent-litigation sham-litigation work-product-privilege Whether the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege can be applied to sham litigation or other non-criminal conduct beyond traditional frau…
23-5220 Amy Jacquelyn Harkins v. Citizens Bank Second Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied IFP administrative-law attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law crime-fraud-exception evidence judicial-review legal-procedure professional-responsibility statutory-interpretation whether-a-court-can-compel-a-party-to-disclose-privileged-communications-under-the-crime-fraud-exception
22-1138 John C. Eastman v. Bennie G. Thompson, in His Official Capacity as Chairman of the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure crime-fraud-exception district-court emergency-stay mootness production-order vacatur work-product-doctrine Whether complying with a court order disqualifies a petitioner from the equitable remedy of vacatur