The Third Circuit’s application of the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege announced earlier this year will stand for now, since the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to review the case.

In upholding the district court’s decision to apply the exception, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in In re Grand Jury Subpoena extended the standard governing a court’s review of documents to interviews of attorneys conducted in chambers.

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