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Smithfield Foods, Inc.

288 N.L.R.B. 968 (N.L.R.B. 1988)
Smithfield Foods, Inc.

24 Cited authorities

  1. Upjohn Co. v. United States

    449 U.S. 383 (1981)   Cited 4,304 times   133 Legal Analyses
    Holding that communications between corporate counsel and a corporation's employees made for the purpose of rendering legal advice are protected by the attorney-client privilege

  2. McNally v. United States

    483 U.S. 350 (1987)   Cited 1,114 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the mail fraud statute is "limited in scope to the protection of property rights"

  3. In re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum

    731 F.2d 1032 (2d Cir. 1984)   Cited 375 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that consultation as to the tax consequences of a reorganization and whether those consequences should affect the structure of a corporate realignment is privileged legal advice

  4. Diversified Indus., Inc., v. Meredith

    572 F.2d 596 (8th Cir. 1977)   Cited 458 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that employee interviews conducted by outside firm relating to claim that corporation had a "slush" fund used to bribe purchasing agents were confidential communications and were protected by attorney-client privilege: while interviews could have been conducted by lay investigators, and accountants could have done audit, "neither would have had the training, skills and background necessary to make the independent analysis and recommendations which the Board felt essential to the future welfare of the corporation."

  5. Republic Steel Corp. v. Labor Board

    311 U.S. 7 (1940)   Cited 231 times   3 Legal Analyses
    In Republic Steel, supra, the Court refused to enforce an order requiring the employer to pay the full amount of back pay to an employee who had been paid to work for the Work Projects Administration in the meantime.

  6. United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation

    89 F. Supp. 357 (D. Mass. 1950)   Cited 508 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding the attorney-client privilege does not apply to patent agents

  7. United States v. Boffa

    688 F.2d 919 (3d Cir. 1982)   Cited 105 times
    Holding that a reasonable jury could find that each monthly lease payment made to secure use of an automobile for a union official for four months constituted a separate predicate act under RICO

  8. N.L.R.B. v. Harvey

    349 F.2d 900 (4th Cir. 1965)   Cited 85 times
    Holding that the district court was required to conduct "a full evidentiary hearing" before enforcing a Board subpoena challenged on privilege grounds

  9. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Remington Rand, Inc.

    94 F.2d 862 (2d Cir. 1938)   Cited 178 times
    In National Labor Relations Board v. Remington Rand, 2 Cir., 94 F.2d 862, 869, the Board had ordered the employer to deal exclusively with a joint board which had brought the unfair labor practice charges involved in that case.

  10. Coleman v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.

    106 F.R.D. 201 (D.D.C. 1985)   Cited 40 times   1 Legal Analyses

    Separate Memorandum Opinion May 17, 1985. On plaintiff's motion to compel discovery in a sex discrimination suit, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., Magistrate, held that: (1) " crime-fraud" exception to attorney-client privilege does not extend to communications allegedly in furtherance of attempt to conceal or " cover up" sex discrimination, sexual harassment or other violations of federal civil rights laws, and (2) even if exception did extend

  11. Section 1341 - Frauds and swindles

    18 U.S.C. § 1341   Cited 13,668 times   104 Legal Analyses
    Relating to mail fraud

  12. Section 158 - Unfair labor practices

    29 U.S.C. § 158   Cited 10,317 times   84 Legal Analyses
    Granting employees a wage increase without bargaining with Local 355