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IN RE RICHARD ROE, INC.

Docket No. 95-6142

168 F.3d 69 (1999)

In re RICHARD ROE, INC., and John Doe, Inc. United States of America, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Richard Roe, Inc.; Richard Roe; John Doe, Inc.; and John Doe, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Vickery, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York (Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney; Peter A. Norling and Lee G. Dunst, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), for Petitioner-Appellee.

Laura A. Brevetti, New York, New York (Robert A. Culp, of counsel), for Respondents-Appellants Richard Roe, Inc. and Richard Roe.

Andrew L. Frey, Mayer, Brown & Platt, New York, New York (Charles Rothfeld, of counsel; David M. Zornow and Lawrence S. Spiegel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, of counsel), for Respondents-Appellants John Doe, Inc. and John Doe.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, JACOBS, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Chief Judge:

This appeal from a civil contempt order concerns whether certain documents relating to a major piece of civil litigation fall within the "crime-fraud" exception to attorney-client privilege and attorney work product immunity. This case is before us for a second time, following Chief Judge Sifton's order that 175 otherwise privileged documents be produced by appellants and by ruling that one document was not privileged. He also held that the government...

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