Sentence examples for litigation privilege from inspiring English sources
And with no downside to filing frivolous lawsuits, combined with the protection of litigation privilege with virtually no self-regulation, litigators are spreading like uncontrolled parasites.
The decision has been hailed as a landmark ruling in favour of litigation privilege.
A sigh of relief was almost audible over the City of London yesterday as lawyers welcomed the Court of Appeal's ruling backing litigation privilege.
Levying on property as part of a scheme to defeat a creditor's rights in violation of the UVTA is not communicative conduct; therefore, extending the litigation privilege to such conduct advances none of the privilege's purposes.
In his defense, Sharmad filed a demurrer to the effect that his lawsuit against Shazad was immune from attack under the litigation privilege of California Civil Code § 47 which prevents somebody from suing another for the latter's exercise of their rights in a judicial proceeding (here, what Chen alleged was the sham lawsuit).
In all states, lying is "protected activity" under litigation privilege, and is without consequence for lawyers.
The legislature cannot give to one party in litigation such privileges as will arm him with special and important pecuniary advantages over his antagonist.
Since then, however, the Obama administration has aggressively asserted the privilege in litigation involving such issues as the C.I.A.'s use of extraordinary rendition and the National Security Agency's practice of wiretapping American citizens.
In various ways, some subtle and others more overt, we privilege government litigation over equivalent suits by private parties.
Curiously, H.P. itself initially agreed to file the Allred letter under seal and has refused to produce the Covington report in litigation, invoking the attorney-client privilege.
But the court in Reynolds said the case might have turned out differently if the government had been using the privilege as a litigation shield rather than as a sword.
