Suit to Bar Listing of Rose Law Firm Clients Dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former law firm that would have prevented federal regulators from obtaining a list of all of the firm’s clients since 1985.
U.S. District Judge Henry Woods signed the order Wednesday in the Rose Law Firm’s suit against the Resolution Trust Corp. and the RTC Office of Inspector General. The order was released Thursday.
The RTC and its inspector general are investigating a conflict-of-interest question surrounding work the law firm did for the RTC, and is trying to learn whether Rose overcharged the government for work in that same S&L; cleanup case.
In a suit filed April 26, Rose contended that a subpoena it received was “grossly overbroad” and would violate clients’ privacy.
Woods dismissed the suit on technical grounds, saying that although the law firm “was understandably disturbed by the scope of the subpoena,” he accepted the government’s argument that the suit was premature.
The firm has said complying with the subpoena could involve millions of pages of documents, in addition to the more than 60,000 pages the firm already has supplied to investigators.
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