Jayla Sherley v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the “pernicious potential of [a governmental attorney-client privilege] in a government top-heavy with lawyers”
• finding that the common interest may be legal, factual, or strategic in character
• acknowledging, in dicta, that a party’s reasonable belief about the nature of his relationship with an attorney may be relevant to the determination of whether the privilege applies
• noting in dicta that assertion by a state attorney “implicates potentially serious federalism concerns”
• rejecting the President and First Lady’s claim to the work product privilege based on the prospect of Congressional hearings, and noting that the Restatement appeared to take a contrary view
• noting in dicta that assertion by a state attorney \implicates potentially serious federalism concerns\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).