Swidler & Berlin v. United States
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| Swidler & Berlin v. United States | |||||||||||
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| Argued June 8, 1998 Decided June 25, 1998 |
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| Communications between a client and a lawyer are protected by attorney-client privilege even after the client's death. | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer |
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| Majority by: Rehnquist Joined by: Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer Dissent by: O'Connor Joined by: Scalia, Thomas |
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| Attorney-client privilege | |||||||||||
Swidler & Berlin v. United States, 524 U.S. 399 (1998)[1], was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the death of an attorney's client does not terminate the attorney-client privilege with respect to records of confidential communications between the attorney and the client that have been subpoenaed in a grand jury proceeding.
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- ^ 524 U.S. 399 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
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