Legal Opinion
In Re: A Witness Before the Special Grand Jury 2000-2
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 23, 2002No. 01-3386PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
The central question on this appeal is whether a state government lawyer may refuse, on the basis of the attorney-client privilege, to disclose communications with a state officeholder when faced with a grand jury subpoena. The district court found that in the context of a federal criminal investigation, no such government attorney-client privilege existed. We agree with this determination, and therefore affirm.
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2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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