Supreme Court Urged To Decide If Government Filter Teams Violate Privileges

Mealey's (May 3, 2022, 7:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of petitioners who had their documents and files seized in an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation filed a petition for certiorari on April 18 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to provide guidance on whether the practice of using government filter teams to decide the privilege status of seized documents violates the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine....