A legal ruling on government’s right to privileged documents in criminal and investigative situations………small business need-to-know.
Excerpt……….The Eight Circuit and several district courts have responded to this apparent no-win dilemma by adopting a theory of selective waiver – holding that documents may be selectively disclosed to the government, but still retain their privileged nature as to third party civil litigants
Read full artcle…………via Court Rejects Selective Waiver Doctrine for Privileged Materials — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.
