Judge Bolsters Orders on Fast and Furious Investigation
A federal judge tore into the government Monday for trying to vacate court orders that denied privilege over records on the botched gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious.
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Grad School Travel Ban
A Silicon Valley-based nonprofit graduate school accused the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday of somehow getting hold of privileged communications between the school and its attorney and using the information to keep foreign-exchange students out of the United States.
Read moreTennessee Justices Weigh Malice Standard for Defamation
The Tennessee Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in the case of a Nashville TV station and reporter hoping to overturn a precedent that could punish journalists in the Volunteer State for reporting truthful information.
Read moreNYC Teacher Union Slams Attorney-Client Privilege ‘Trap’
A policy that the New York City Board of Education instituted earlier this year forces teachers to effectively abandon their right to attorney-client privilege in order to obtain legal representation, their union claims in court.
Read moreMueller Pushes to Uncover Manafort Talks With Lawyer
Prosecutors want to review emails that Paul Manafort exchanged with one his attorneys, a motion unsealed Wednesday with heavy redactions shows.
Read moreJail Phone Contractor Recorded Calls to Attorneys
Criminal defense lawyers in Orange County, California, have been stunned to learn in recent weeks that many of their supposedly privileged phone calls with jailed clients were improperly recorded.
Read moreTrump Rages on Mueller Following Times Report
President Donald Trump on Monday railed against special counsel Robert Mueller in a second day of angry tweets that drew comparisons to Watergate, insisted his general counsel isn’t a “RAT” like President Richard Nixon’s and accused Mueller’s team of “looking for trouble.”
Read moreSpecial Master Finishes Cohen Privilege Review
The former judge appointed to make attorney-client privilege determinations on items seized from President Donald Trump’s embattled former fixer Michael Cohen said Thursday her job is done.
Read moreSpecial Master Rejects More Trump and Cohen Privilege Claims
President Donald Trump and his embattled former fixer Michael Cohen’s assertions of attorney-client privilege over files seized by the FBI dipped below coin-toss odds Tuesday, with more than half of their latest claims being rejected.
Read moreAttorney-Client Privilege Violated, Canadian Class Action Claims
A prison inmate claims in a proposed class action that the Canadian government systematically records privileged communications between prisoners and their lawyers in federal institutions.
Read moreJudge Stops Clock in Cohen Case for Trump Org
A federal judge gave the Trump Organization an extra week Tuesday to review files that the FBI seized from the president’s embattled attorney, Michael Cohen.
Read moreProsecutors Slam Trump Bid to Delay Cohen Case
The Trump Organization drew federal fire Monday for its request to spend two weeks reviewing material seized by the FBI from Michael Cohen, the president’s embattled attorney.
Read moreFiles From Cohen Shredder, Encrypted Apps Restored by Feds
Prosecutors reconstructed more than a dozen pages of shredded documents and obtained hundreds of encrypted messages from President Donald Trump’s embattled personal attorney Michael Cohen, they announced Friday.
Read moreJudge Shines Light Over Trump Privilege Fight
Rejecting a secrecy request by President Donald Trump’s legal team, a federal judge demanded on Friday that any privileges disputes over attorney Michael Cohen’s seized files should be filed publicly.
Read moreJudge Reads Charges to Senate Staffer Indicted in Leak Probe
Indicted the night before on charges of lying to the FBI about his contacts with journalists, longtime former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer James Wolfe heard the charges against him Friday afternoon from a federal judge.
Read moreMedia Outlets Urge Tennessee Justices to Overturn Malice Standard
A lawyer representing a Nashville TV station filed court papers agreeing with a coalition of national news outlets urging the Tennessee Supreme Court to overturn a precedent that could punish journalists in the Volunteer State for reporting truthful information.
Read morePress Demands Sunlight on Trump Privilege Requests
MANHATTAN (CN) – Objecting to President Donald Trump’s “extraordinary” demands for secrecy, eight news outlets and one press watchdog asked
Read more‘Baby Hope’ Cold Case Could Freeze New York Press Shield
In their zeal to solve a 22-year-old cold case, Manhattan prosecutors could wind up chilling the state’s expansive press-shield laws, a First Amendment attorney told New York’s highest court on Tuesday.
Read moreTiny Fraction of Files Deemed Privileged in Latest Michael Cohen Review
Only a small fraction of the files the FBI seized from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen’s properties last month have been found privileged in a retired federal judge’s initial review on Monday.
Read moreJudge Reads Riot Act to Lawyer for Stormy Daniels
A week after claiming that privileged communications about Stormy Daniels had been leaked to the press, an attorney for the porn actress told a federal judge Wednesday that the president’s embattled attorney is the likely culprit.
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