Sprague Electric Co. v. United States

NEWMAN, Judge:

Defendant has again filed a motion for a protective order in this case respecting certain documents in the files of the International Trade Commission (ITC) sought by plaintiff, and in this connection defendant has now interposed a claim of executive privilege. That evidentiary privilege, which has been frequently encountered by the federal courts in various disputes arising out of discovery, has taken on a paramount significance in this Court in light of the expansion of our jurisdiction to review determinations of the Secretary of the Treasury and the ITC by the Trade Act of…