United States Tenth Circuit

A petition for writ of mandamus in a federal securities action challenging an order compelling production of certain documents is denied where the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to apply a rule of "selective waiver," which would allow production of attorney-client privileged and work-product documents to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) without waiver of further protection for those materials.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, MURPHY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David R. Boyd, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Washington, D.C., (Jonathan D. Schiller, Alfred P. Levitt, Kenneth F. Rossman IV, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Washington, D.C.;  Terrence C. Gill, Sherman & Howard LLC, Denver, CO, with him on the brief), for Petitioner., Joseph D. Daley, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, LLP, San Diego, CA, (Eric Alan Isaacson, Michael J. Dowd, Spencer A. Burkholz, Thomas E. Egler, X. Jay Alvarez, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, LLP, San Diego, CA;  Robert J. Dyer, III, Kip B. Shuman, Jeffrey A. Berens, Dyer & Shuman, LLP, Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for Real-Parties-in-Interest., William J. Leone, United States Attorney, Denver, CO;  Catherine Y. Hancock, Michael S. Rabb, Appellate Staff, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief for the United States Department of Justice., Susan Hackett, Association of Corporate Counsel;  Robin S. Conrad, Amar D. Sarwal, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc.;  W. Stephen Cannon, Todd Anderson, Jean Kim, Constantine Cannon, P.C., Washington, D.C., on the brief for Amici Curiae.