Kl Group v. Case

829 F.2d 909 9 Fed.R.Serv.3d 645 , 23 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 1257 KL GROUP, a California general partnership formerly known as Keoni Loa, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CASE, KAY & LYNCH, a Hawaii general partnership, Paul A. Lynch, a Hawaii law corporation, Paul A. Lynch, an individual and Steven D. Whittaker, an individual, Defendants-Appellees. No. 86-2021. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 8, 1987. Decided Oct. 9, 1987. Robert B. Ericson, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Ronald E. Mallen and Michael L. Boli, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before GOODWIN, BEEZER and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge: 1 * OVERVIEW 2 KL Group ("KL"), a California partnership, appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants-appellees, and the district court's protective order barring KL's use of a letter, for which the attorney-client privilege was claimed and which was inadvertently turned over to KL during discovery. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 . We affirm the grant of the protective…