A federal judge recently sided with a former Gilead Sciences employee’s request to obtain information from the pharmaceutical company’s internal investigation after he disclosed alleged misconduct of his supervisors, concluding that the disputed documents weren’t protected by attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine.

In a May 22 memorandum order, U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan of the Western District of Pennsylvania granted Blase Tucci’s discovery requests for files related to an internal misconduct investigation conducted by Gilead Sciences Inc., determining attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine didn’t apply to the materials.

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