Weston v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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• balancing defendant’s need for the information against plaintiff s need for maintaining secrecy
• “Once established, [the attorney-client privilege is] inviolate except by waiver of the possessor. Thus only the client can unseal his attorney’s lips.”
• a \naked assertion\ of privilege by the executive is insufficient to assure nondisclosure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).