375 U.S. 405 (1964) Cited 213 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that the Act “prohibits not only intrusive threats and promises but also conduct immediately favorable to employees which is undertaken with the express purpose of impinging upon their freedom of choice for or against unionization and is reasonably calculated to have that effect.”
Holding that an individual could not assert individual privilege even though the law firm failed to clarify that it represented only his employer, in violation of state rules of professional responsibility
Holding that risk management documents generated to keep track of, control, and anticipate the costs of the defendant's products liability litigation and which contained aggregate reserve information but no individual case reserves calculated by the defendant's attorneys were not protected by the work product doctrine because the risk management department was not involved in giving legal advice or in mapping litigation strategy in any individual case, because the aggregate reserve information served numerous business planning functions but did not enhance the defense of any particular lawsuit, and, critically, because business planning includes planning for litigation
Finding that two litigations were closely related where they involved the same plaintiff and the same patent, such that “many of the issues were related to the one involved here”
70 F.R.D. 508 (D. Conn. 1976) Cited 130 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that legal interests must be "demonstrably common" or the clients must have a "substantial" risk of shared exposure to justify privileged information-sharing
In Bourne, we held that interrogation which does not contain express threats is not an unfair labor practice unless certain "fairly severe standards" are met showing that the very fact of interrogation was coercive.