Although parties often argue in favor of literal readings of statutes, and courts often accept such readings, courts may decline to read a statute literally where a literal reading would conflict with other accepted legal principles or policies. In Astraea NYC v. Rivada Networks, 592 F. Supp. 3d 181 (S.D.N.Y. 2022), U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton for the Southern District of New York recently declined to read two discovery statutes literally on the ground that such a reading would have conflicted with the policy underlying the attorney-client privilege: encouraging full and frank communications between attorneys and clients.