Legal Opinion
XYZ Corp. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 22, 2003No. Nos. 03-1726, 03-1784PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Although the attorney-client privilege may be the most venerable of the privileges for confidential communications, its accoutrements are not the most clearly delineated. These appeals, which require us to answer delicate questions concerning implied waivers of the privilege, bear witness to that point.
The appeals have their genesis in an investigatory subpoena duces tecum issued by a federal grand jury (we use the adjective “investigatory” because no indictments have yet eventuated from the grand jury probe). The subpoenaed party, a corporation, refused to produce…
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