Herlancer Ross v. City of Memphis, Walter Crews and Alfred Gray, Individually

OPINION

BOGGS, Chief Judge.

Regardless of the way this case is captioned, the real dispute is between the City of Memphis (the “City”) and its former police director, Walter Crews, who has also been sued in his individual capacity. The City asserts the attorney-client privilege as to the content of conversations between Crews, while he was police director, and various attorneys employed by the City. However, in the present lawsuit, Crews has raised the advice of counsel as the basis of his qualified immunity defense. Thus, we are asked to determine whether Crews’s invocation of the advice of…