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· 5/2/1997

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jack Lavin and Robin Lavin

Citations

  • 111 F.3d 921
  • 324 U.S. App. D.C. 162
  • 37 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 806
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 9601

How courts have described this case

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

  • describing as involuntary those “disclosures by third parties over whom the holder of the privilege has virtually no control”
  • detailing privilege holders’ efforts to intervene in each proceeding in which the issue of their privilege arose
  • “[W]e know of no case ... that requires a privilege holder to engage in a preemptive strike to prevent further disclosure of involuntarily disclosed, privileged materials ....”
  • for privilege to apply, “communication must have been made in confidence”
  • applying the marital communications privilege

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Judges: Wald, Ginsburg, Rogers

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