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Attorney-client privilege applies online, Ninth Circuit holds.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A drug company is not entitled to see the personal and medical histories of a plaintiff law firm's clients, even though those records were collected over the Internet, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The decision vacated the lower court's order compelling the disclosure, and it granted a writ of mandamus to the petitioner law firm. (Barton v. United States Dist. Court, No. 0571086, 2005 WL 1355481 (9th Cir. June 9, 2005).)

San Francisco firm Baum Hedlund represents plaintiffs who are suing GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the antidepressant drug Paxil....

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