Richards v. California Adult Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• \The attorney-client privilege does not apply to communications that are intended to be disclosed to third parties or that in fact are so disclosed.\
• “The attorney-client privilege does not apply to communications that are intended to be disclosed to third parties or that in fact are so disclosed”
• “an ‘appropriate ground’ for challenging the summons exists when the taxpayer disproves one of the four elements of the government’s Powell showing, or otherwise demonstrates an abuse of the court’s process”
• “Indeed, the cases discuss not what the actual purpose is, but whether the summons was issued in good faith pursuant to a legitimate investigation — that is, an investigation authorized by section 7602.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).