UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tei Fu CHEN; The Sunrider Corporation, Defendants-Appellants

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• holding that the government’s error in submitting potentially privileged material with an ex parte application for Zolin crime-fraud determination was harmless because the district judge explicitly disregarded the allegedly privileged materials
• adding the attorney-client privilege “ought to be strictly confined within the narrowest possible limits consistent with the logic of its principle”
• finding courts may not consider the potentially 5 privileged documents in deciding whether the threshold inquiry for in camera review has 6 been met
• analyzing the difference (and overlap) between 17 business and legal advice
• rebuttable presumption 3 17 || that lawyer is hired to give legal advice
• rebuttable presumption that lawyer is hired to give legal advice

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