No. 21-1364

Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2022-04-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (2) Experienced Counsel
Tags: attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED The court of appeals allowed a Department of Justice “filter team” consisting of government attorneys not conducting the investigation to review assertedly privileged materials of petitioners’ lawyers, seized during a search, before any court ruled on petitioners’ assertions of attorney-client privilege and work-product protection—and without requiring any showing that an exception to privilege may apply. The question presented is: Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client privilege and work-product protection.

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-08-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-08-08
Reply of petitioners Mordechai Korf, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2022-07-21
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2022-06-15
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including July 21, 2022.
2022-06-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 21, 2022 to July 21, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-05-20
Brief amici curiae of Retired Federal Judges filed.
2022-05-20
Brief amici curiae of Professors of Criminal Law and Legal Ethics filed.
2022-05-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 21, 2022. See Rule 30.1.
2022-05-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 20, 2022 to June 20, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-04-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 20, 2022)

Attorneys

Mordechai Korf, et al.
Michael R. DreebenO’Melveny & Myers LLP, Petitioner
Michael R. DreebenO’Melveny & Myers LLP, Petitioner
Professors of Criminal Law and Legal Ethics
Jonathan Ian KravisMunger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Amicus
Jonathan Ian KravisMunger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Amicus
Retired Federal Judges
Celeste Lidwina Maria KoeleveldClifford Chance US LLP, Amicus
Celeste Lidwina Maria KoeleveldClifford Chance US LLP, Amicus
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent