Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the privilege is narrowly construed and “applies] only where necessary to achieve its purpose”
• considering “whether the communications were made for the purpose of obtaining or providing legal advice, as opposed to advice on policy”
• declining to decide whether the documents were actually privileged and remanding for a determination of whether any privilege was waived by disclosure
• finding e-mails between county attorney and sheriffs office, sent with the predominant purpose of legal advice, were privileged so long as they were not shared with others
• stating “[a]t least in civil litigation between a government agency and private litigants, the government’s claim to the protections of the attorney-client privilege is on par with the claim of an individual corporate entity”
• legal advice element in government agency context satisfied if such advice was the communication’s predominant purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).