SAN FRANCISCO — Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. lost out on a bid to exclude wide swaths of internal company communications from evidence in a whistleblower retaliation suit brought by the company’s former general counsel Sanford Wadler.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero on Tuesday denied Bio-Rad’s motion to exclude any testimony based on information Wadler learned in the course of his service as Bio-Rad’s general counsel. The company’s lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan had argued California professional ethics rules put extremely tight limits on when lawyers can divulge privileged information and had argued that the case could be tried without airing company secrets.
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