In Re Bruce R. Lindsey (Grand Jury Testimony)

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that, although the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA
• stating that the attorney-client privilege shall be “strictly confined within the narrowest possible limits consistent with the logic of its principle” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that the D.C. Circuit has long recognized that “Exemption 5 protects, as a general rule, materials which would be protected under the attorney-client privilege.” (citing Coastal States, 617 F.2d at 862)
• discussing the “unavoidable, virtually full-time demands” of the office of the President and the federal courts’ tradition of deference to Presidential responsibilities
• “It is settled law that the party claiming the privilege bears the burden of proving that the communications are protected”
• “Congress intended that agencies should not lose the protection traditionally afforded through the evidentiary privileges simply because of the passage of the FOIA.”

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