Inadvertent Disclosure Waived Some Privileges, Judge Rules In Equal Pay Lawsuit

Mealey's (October 31, 2018, 12:47 PM EDT) -- BIG STONE GAP, Va.   — Granting in part a former employee’s motion to compel subpoenaed attorney-client communications in her Equal Pay Act (EPA) lawsuit against a school board, a Virginia federal judge on Oct. 29 held that the earlier inadvertent disclosure of some such privileged communications constituted waiver of related documents from before the lawsuit was filed but that the waiver did not cover post-suit documents (Debra Colley v. Dickenson County School Board, et al., No. 2:17-cv-00003, W.D. Va., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 184461)....