Supreme Court Rebuffs Petition Over Filter Team Review Of Privileged Documents

Mealey's (October 4, 2022, 10:01 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A question about the propriety of employing filter teams to review purportedly privileged seized documents will go unaddressed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which, on Oct. 3 denied a petition for certiorari filed by parties involved in a money-laundering investigation who asserted that nonjudicial review of documents in which the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine is asserted will negatively impact free communication between attorneys and their clients....