An exception to the attorney-client privilege providing shareholders and trust-fund beneficiaries access to communications that would otherwise be protected does not apply to the trust relationship between Native American tribes and the government, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Although it denied the Jicarilla Apache Nation the benefits of the so-called fiduciary exception, the case represents the first time the court addressed that exception. It affirmed ...
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