Best of the Fray

On 1/11/07, we posted about an article in Neurology where some medical professors, having had an unpleasant brush with third-party discovery into their research, argued in favor of a "research scholar privilege." We've learned (via TortsProf Blog) that an exchange of correspondence on the article is now available at the Neurology site -- a letter response from one of the attorneys who took the offending discovery, and the authors' reply.

It's a little funny to see the attorney's letter in a forum like Neurology. It reads just like a cleverly argumentative legal brief.

The thing of it is, so does the doctors' response.

Fine lawyering, all around. We agree, by the way, with Professor Childs: The discovery doesn't sound all that oppressive to us.