In Re Subpoena Served Upon the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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• explaining that in 1991, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued only 83 public cease and desist orders in the process of supervising approximately 3,800 national banks
• noting that the Fleet balancing test should be applied to the deliberative process privilege
• discussing the applicability of the bank examiner’s privilege to withhold documents in response to a subpoena
• “the privilege may be overridden where necessary ... to ‘shed light on alleged government malfeasance’ ”
• “the privilege may be overridden where necessary ... to ‘shed light on alleged government malfeasance’ ”
• Privilege not waived or weakened “merely because” report provided to bank.

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