In Re: A Witness Before the Special Grand Jury 2000-2

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that attorney-client privilege cannot be asserted by a state-government attorney in the context of a federal criminal investigation
• invoking Perlman for the court’s jurisdiction though refusing to extend the attorney- 4 client privilege to communications between government attorneys and their state clients
• holding state agency could not do so
• holding state agency could not do so
• “[B]oth parties here concede that, at least in the civil and regulatory context, the government is entitled to the same attorney-client privilege as any other client.”
• State of Illinois entitled to the same attorney-client privilege as any other client in the civil and regulatory context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).