United States Seventh Circuit
Sandra T.E. v. S. Berwyn Sch. Dist. 100, 08-3344
In a law firm's appeal from the district court's order requiring it to produce documents it created in an internal investigation of a school district, the order is reversed where: 1) factual investigations performed by attorneys as attorneys fell comfortably within the protection of the attorney-client privilege; and 2) the work-product doctrine also protected the materials at issue from disclosure; and 3) to the extent some of the witnesses interviewed by the attorneys were not district employees, this was an independent rather than a duplicate source of protection.
Appellate Information
- Decided 03/30/2010
- Published 03/30/2010
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- United States Seventh Circuit