Koch Foods of Ala. LLC v. Gen. Elec. Capital Corp., 531 F.Supp.2d 1318 (M.D. Ala. 2008)

Key Insight: Concluding that, if the Alabama Supreme Court were to confront the issue of inadvertent waiver, it would likely adopt more comprehensive and sensitive totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, district court upheld magistrate judge?s ruling that plaintiff?s inadvertent production of privileged email among 3,758 pages of documents did not effect waiver

Nature of Case: Dispute over ownership of certain poultry processing equipment

Electronic Data Involved: Privileged email