In Re Grand Jury Witness. Richard J. Salas v. United States of America, in Re Grand Jury Witness. Shelly Waxman v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “As a general proposition, the client’s ultimate motive for litigation or for retention of an attorney is privileged.”
• proper procedure for asserting attorney-client privilege as to particular documents is to submit them for court’s in camera inspection, providing explanation of how information fits within privilege
• “[B]ills, ledgers, statements, time records and the like which reveal the nature of the services provided, such as researching particular areas of law, also should fall within the privilege”
• “The proper procedure for asserting the attorney- 13 client privilege as to particular documents . . . [is] to submit them in camera for the court’s 14 inspection, providing an explanation of how the information fits within the privilege”
• “The proper procedure for asserting the attorney-client privilege as to particular documents, or portions thereof, would have been for appellants to submit them in camera for the court’s inspection, providing an explanation of how the information fits within the privilege.”
• \blanket assertions of privilege . . . are extremely disfavored\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).