After giving a scare to defense lawyers for Pixar, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the company will not be required to disclose communications involving its former general counsel to plaintiffs lawyers under the crime-fraud exception.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal wrote that plaintiffs lawyers who accuse The Walt Disney Co.-owned animation studio of engaging in anti-competitive recruiting pacts failed to prove that the communications were part of an illegal conspiracy and should therefore be stripped of attorney-client privilege.
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