RICO Claims Against Illegal Loft Conversion's Landlord Are Time-Barred, Dismissed

Attorney's Disqualification Under Witness-Advocate Rule Is Denied as Premature

In 2008, Caterpillar Financial Services Asia Pte Ltd. and Eksportsfinans ASA provided a loan to Marfield Limited Incorporated for the construction of an offshore vessel.

Appellee, Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, employed Adrianna Cook in 2008.

Appellee was the general contractor for construction of a YMCA and appellant was an employee of a subcontractor on the same project.

Court granted motion to compel on the grounds that defendant corporation could not invoke the attorney-client privilege as a means to withhold materials within a certain time frame spanning over two years. The court did however hold that the corporation could assert the privilege regarding communications that were related to books and records that the director had intentionally released, thus removing it from the circle of confidentiality.