United States Seventh Circuit

Sanction of waiver of attorney work-product privilege with regards to a discovery dispute in an underlying civil rights claim against defendant-municipality is vacated where the district court erred in subjecting a law firm to the discovery obligations of a party and by transferring blame for defendant's errors to its former counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2006
• Published 01/10/2006

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul W. Schroeder (argued), Jones Day, Chicago, IL, for Jones Day.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jon Loevy (argued), Kurt Feuer, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., James G. Sotos, Hervas, Sotos, Condon & Bersani, Itasca, IL, Mara S. Georges, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.