In Re Richard Roe, Inc., and John Doe, Inc. United States of America v. Richard Roe, Inc. Richard Roe John Doe, Inc. And John Doe

WINTER, Chief Judge:

This appeal from a civil contempt order concerns whether certain documents relating to a major piece of civil litigation fall within the “crime-fraud” exception to attorney-client privilege and attorney work product immunity. This ease is before us for a second time, following Chief Judge Siftoris order that 175 otherwise privileged documents be produced by appellants and by ruling that one document was not privileged. He also held that the government could compel the authors and recipients of these documents to testify as witnesses before the grand jury. ' Because the…