United States v. Louis Kovel

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1961-12-05

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FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge. This appeal from a sentence for criminal contempt for refusing to answer a question asked in the course of an inquiry by a grand jury raises an important issue as to the application of the attorney-client privilege to a non-lawyer employed by a law firm. Our decision of that issue leaves us with the further problem of what disposition is appropriate on a…

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