A 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.
Read moreThe 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 moreA 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 moreProsecutors want to review emails that Paul Manafort exchanged with one his attorneys, a motion unsealed Wednesday with heavy redactions shows.
Read moreCriminal 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 morePresident 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 moreThe 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 morePresident 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 moreA 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 moreA 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 moreThe 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 moreProsecutors 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 moreRejecting 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 moreIndicted 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.
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