United States Ninth Circuit

The district court was entirely justified in entering a protective order which limited the scope of the habeas petitioner's waiver of the attorney-client privilege to communications pertaining to his habeas appeal for ineffective assistance of counsel, as opposed to extending the waiver of privilege to all time and all purposes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/27/2003
• Decided 06/06/2003
• Published 06/06/2003

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, KOZINSKI, O'SCANNLAIN, T.G. NELSON, HAWKINS, TASHIMA, FISHER, PAEZ, BERZON and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• A. Scott Hayward, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, argued for the respondent-appellant.  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. De Nicola, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Keith H. Borjon, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, joined him on the briefs., C. Renée Manes, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, argued for the petitioner-appellee.  Maria E. Stratton, Federal Public Defender, and Margo Rocconi, Deputy Federal Public Defender, joined her on the brief.