Comments on: Journalist Privilege and Law Enforcement Leaks http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/11/journalist_priv_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:33:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/11/journalist_priv_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62091 Mike Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:31:16 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/11/journalist-privilege-and-law-enforcement-leaks.html#comment-62091 Great post! The government's use of the media to harass citizens has received little attention. Apropos this post is something I covered a while back. Brief summary: A prominent L.A. civil rights lawyer was under investigation for tax evasion. Someone conducting the investigation leaked this information. Soon thereafter, the local DOJ branch (coincidentally - or was this a litigation strategy?) sought to disqualify the attorney from representing clients under the theory that this lawyer might stiff his clients in order to curry favor with the federal government. <a href="http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/2005/03/yagman_vs_every.html" rel="nofollow">More details here</a>. Great post! The government’s use of the media to harass citizens has received little attention.

Apropos this post is something I covered a while back. Brief summary: A prominent L.A. civil rights lawyer was under investigation for tax evasion. Someone conducting the investigation leaked this information. Soon thereafter, the local DOJ branch (coincidentally – or was this a litigation strategy?) sought to disqualify the attorney from representing clients under the theory that this lawyer might stiff his clients in order to curry favor with the federal government. More details here.

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