United States v. Albert A. Goldfarb

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, an attorney, refused to answer certain questions before •a grand jury on the grounds that they involved confidential communications between him and his client and come within the attorney-client privileged communications rule. Thereupon he was tak•en before the Honorable Fred W. Kaess, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, for a ruling as to whether or not the testimony which would be elicited by the questions so propounded was privileged.

The District Judge ruled that certain…