Michigan State University is challenging a Michigan Attorney General's Office search warrant which seeks documents as part of its investigation following the Larry Nassar scandal.
MSU is claiming that those documents are protected by attorney-client privilege. General Counsel Robert Young says MSU is willing to let the judge look at them to determine if they should be turned over or not.
“We stand behind our previous position on this issue, that the Attorney General is not entitled to examine our lawyer’s communication and legal advice to the university,” said Robert Young. “We have been cooperating with the Attorney General’s investigation, and will continue to do so. We are willing to share the documents in question with the judge if he wishes to individually review our privileged communications and make an independent opinion on the issue. This continues our cooperation in the investigation and also does not waive our attorney-client privilege.”
The lead investigator has accused MSU lawyers of interfering with the case by withholding documents. The search warrant was served earlier this week.
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