Family members of former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno dropped a defamation suit against the NCAA in June, but that didn’t stop a Pennsylvania appeals court from resolving an outstanding privilege dispute that involved ex-FBI director Louis J. Freeh and raised issues “of significance to the entire bench and bar” (Estate of Paterno v. Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 2017 BL 256817, Pa. Super. Ct., 878 MDA 2015, 7/25/17).
The July 25 decision affirmed a ruling that ordered Freeh’s law firm to produce communications and documents generated during an internal probe that Freeh’s firm conducted into PSU’s ...
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