Epstein Secrets

dence 501 is a mixed question of 7 EFTA00209391 Case: 13-12923 Date Wit H4118/2014 Page: 8 of 23 law and fact that we review de novo. Adkins'. Christie, 488 F.3d 1324, 1327 (11th Cir. 2007). But we review for clear error factual findings made by a district court. Morrissette-Brown'. Mobile Infirmar

F.2d at 1004. Although Congress empowered the federal courts through Rule 501 to "continue the evolutionary development of testimonial privileges," Trammell. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47, 100 S. Ct. 906, 910 (1980), we disfavor newly minted privileges, which "contravene the fundamental principle that

dence 501 is a mixed question of 7 EFTA00209432 Case: 13-12923 Date Wit H4118/2014 Page: 8 of 23 law and fact that we review de novo. Adkins'. Christie, 488 F.3d 1324, 1327 (11th Cir. 2007). But we review for clear error factual findings made by a district court. Morrissette-Brown'. Mobile Infirmar

F.2d at 1004. Although Congress empowered the federal courts through Rule 501 to "continue the evolutionary development of testimonial privileges," Trammell. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47, 100 S. Ct. 906, 910 (1980), we disfavor newly minted privileges, which "contravene the fundamental principle that

0), we disfavor newly minted privileges, which "contravene the fundamental principle that the public has a right to every man's evidence," Adkins'. Christie, 488 F.3d 1324, 1328 (11th Cir. 2007) (quoting Univ. of Pa.'. EEOC, 493 U.S. 182, 189, 110 S. Ct. 577, 582 (1990)). "Accordingly, there is a presum

F.2d at 1004. Although Congress empowered the federal courts through Rule 501 to "continue the evolutionary development of testimonial privileges," Trammell. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47, 100 S. Ct. 906, 910 (1980), we disfavor newly minted privileges, which "contravene the fundamental principle that