United States of America and William C. McCormick Special Agent, Irs v. J. Martin Lawless

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• holding privilege claim must be “made and sustained on a question-by-question . . . basis” (citation omitted)
• “The claim of privilege must be made and sustained on a question-by-question or; document-by-document basis; a blanket claim of privilege is unacceptable.”
• “As Ensign’s declaration and Reuveni’s account confirm, neither participated in formulating th[e] legal advice or in the subsequent decisionmaking.”
• both district and appellate courts examined documents in camera
• privileged information is permanently protected unless waived

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).