United States Ninth Circuit

In a case deciding whether the Court can review a district court's order addressing whether an inadvertently disclosed e-mail was attorney-client privileged, interlocutory appeal by defendant is dismissed where the Court lacks jurisdiction under the collateral order doctrine because the allegedly privileged information has already been disclosed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2008
• Decided 10/28/2008
• Published 10/28/2008

Judges

• CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MELVIN BRUNETTI, JAY S. BYBEE, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen R. Thomas, Esq. (Argued), C. Clayton Gill, Esq., Moffatt, Thomas, Barrett, Rock & Fields, Chartered, for defendant-appellant Sprint Corporation and defendant-counter-claimant-appellant Sprint Communications Company L.P., Timothy P. Getzoff, Esq. (Argued), Steven B. Andersen, Esq., Amanda K. Brailsford, Esq., Holland & Hart LLP, for plaintiff-appellee Truckstop.net L.L.C.