State ex rel. Lause v. Adolf’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Diversified Industries, Inc. v. Meredith · Terre Du Lac Ass'n v. Terre Du Lac, Inc. · Knight v. M.H. Siegfried Real Estate, Inc. · State ex rel. Syntex Agri-Business, Inc. v. Adolf
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he power to waive the corporate attorney/client privilege rests with the corporation’s management and is normally exercised by its officers and directors. The managers, of course, must exercise the privilege in a manner consistent with their fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the corporation and not themselves as individuals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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