In Re Investigative Grand Jury Proceedings on April 10, 1979 & Continuing

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that waiver approach does not apply to grand jury proceedings because individual not entitled to waive public’s right to effective grand jury process and to pursue stonewalling technique
• evaluating feasibility of less drastic remedies prior to ordering disqualification of attorney representing target and non-target clients before grand jury
• outlining ethical challenges facing lawyers representing target and non-target witnesses before grand jury
• finding actual conflict in representation of target and non-target clients because law firm’s “duty to represent the targets zealously may, and in all likelihood does, compel them to seek to prevent the disclosure to the grand jury of information injurious to the targets”
• joint representation of targets and non-targets before grand jury constitutes conflict of interest warranting remedial judicial action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).