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Does a Subject-Matter Waiver “Snowball” Into a Wholesale Waiver of Privilege Under a “Newfangled Theory”? by Michael Berman, E-Discovery Today.

Does a Subject-Matter Waiver “Snowball” Into a Wholesale Waiver of Privilege Under a “Newfangled Theory”?

In U.S. v. Jones, the court rejected both overly broad and narrow interpretations of privilege waiver and explicitly denied the government's "cumulative waiver" theory as contrary to Federal Rule of Evidence 502.

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