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Fifth Circuit Rebukes U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) Action for Breaching Grand Jury Secrecy and Holding onto Documents Identified as Privileged

In Harbor Healthcare System, L.P. v. United States, No. 19-20624 (5th Cir. July 26, 2021), a per curiam panel of the Fifth Circuit takes aim at the government’s “callous disregard” of the plaintiff’s attorney-client privilege, reversing the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s action for pre-indictment return of its privileged documents. Harbor was the subjectContinue reading “Fifth Circuit Rebukes U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) Action for Breaching Grand Jury Secrecy and Holding onto Documents Identified as Privileged”