United States Third Circuit

Where the District Court relied on neither Fed. R. Crim. P. 17 nor an analysis of the crime-fraud exception to decline to compel an attorney's testimony, the Court abused its discretion by failing to rule on whether the testimony was protected under the attorney-client privilege.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2000
• Decided 02/23/2001
• Published 02/23/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCIRICA, NYGAARD and BARRY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Allan Tananbaum (argued), George S. Leone, Office of United States Attorney, Newark, NJ, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cathy Fleming, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, New York City, for appellee, John Doe 1., Paul J. Fishman (argued), Friedman, Kaplan & Seiler, Newark, New Jersey, for appellee, John Doe 2.