United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit by the company that owns intellectual property rights to the Superman character against a movie producer-attorney, claiming that he interfered with its contractual relationships with the heirs of the creators of Superman, a petition for mandmaus challenging an order to produce documents is denied, where the petitioner waived attorney-client privilege by delivering the documents to the government pursuant to subpoena as part of a criminal investigation into the taking of the documents by a former employee of the attorney, and none of the petitioner's arguments for exception to the general rule of waiver by voluntary disclosure applied, including the theory that the petitioner made a "selective waiver."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2012
• Published 04/17/2012

Judges

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard B. Kendall, Matthew T. Kline