A trial court improperly denied a defendant’s motion to exclude evidence of statements she made to a counselor admitting that she had smothered her grandmother with a pillow, an Oregon appeals court ruled, finding that the state’s elder abuse reporting statutes “only abrogate privileged communications to the extent that a report be submitted.”
Read moreWhat began with a youth football league’s fundraiser gone bad led to the Tennessee Supreme Court deciding on Thursday the fair report privilege – the privilege protecting journalists reporting on what is said during official government proceedings from defamation claims – doesn’t extend to journalists reporting on what officials tell them in one-on-one interviews.
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The lawyer for John Bolton denied Tuesday that a federal judge’s stinging rebuke of immunity for top White House aides has any bearing on his client’s refusal to comply with impeachment investigators.
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In a ruling that could unlock further testimony from senior Trump administration officials, a federal judge on Monday ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Read moreFighting for a seat at the table in a state investigation of the gun group’s practices, lawyers for the National Rifle Association argued in court Thursday over the right to review documents that a subpoena could unearth.
Read moreA Dutch journalist was released from jail Friday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about a source.
Read moreThe arraignment of Rudy Giuliani’s associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had been shaping up to be a routine plea of not guilty — until a defense attorney remarked Wednesday that the case could invoke evidence falling under the realms of executive privilege.
Read moreA hard-boiled detective story it wasn’t. The facts underlying a case argued Thursday before the Tennessee Supreme Court started out more as a bake-until-golden-brown tale.
Read moreUnder fire about his role in keeping secret a whistleblower complaint that has fueled an impeachment probe against President Donald Trump, the acting director of U.S. intelligence told House lawmakers Wednesday that executive privilege concerns pushed him to seek the administration’s guidance.
Read moreCalling on the parties to “sober up” and compromise, a federal judge issued a 24-hour hold Wednesday in the subpoena fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Read moreA Fourth Circuit judge didn’t mince words Tuesday as he appeared unlikely to support allowing the government to continue to sift through thousands of emails confiscated in a raid on an unnamed Maryland law firm.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association asked a judge Friday to let its lawyers sit in next week when New York deposes the group’s former president Oliver North.
Read moreA California judge ordered Los Angeles on Monday to produce attorney communications regarding a multimillion-dollar class action settlement over utility overcharges, to help determine whether the lawyer who represented the lead plaintiff also coordinated with the city and may have engaged in fraud.
Read moreA film production company sued the attorney of the deceased co-conspirator in a “pizza bomber” case that inspired a Netflix series Friday, claiming he is depriving the company of the exclusive rights to the woman’s life story.
Read moreSince George Washington’s time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ruled that the federal government can use its state secrets privilege to block litigation over its warrantless mass surveillance programs.
Read moreWhether it’s a city council meeting that devolves into a shouting match or dramatic testimony at a criminal trial, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that journalists in the Volunteer State can report on public proceedings that could damage someone’s reputation without being held liable for defamation.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreA 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.
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