Oct. 19, 2026
Delaney's opinions draw lines on privilege, debt collection and civility
Justice Thomas A. Delaney has written appellate opinions on privileged emails, debt collection and lawyer civility. A former Orange County trial judge, he seeks a four-year retention term Nov. 3.
A lawyer given an opponent's privileged emails by a client must stop reading and notify the other side, Justice Thomas A. Delaney wrote this year, extending an ethics rule to documents taken by departing employees.
In Guardian Storage Centers LLC v. Simpson (2026), former executives forwarded company counsel's emails to personal accounts and gave them to their lawyers. An Orange County judge refused to disqualify the firm partly because the executives were intended...
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