{"id":4566,"date":"2017-08-10T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4566"},"modified":"2017-08-10T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:36:00","slug":"rule-501-privilege-in-general","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4566","title":{"rendered":"Rule 501 \u2013 Privilege in General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The common law \u2014 as interpreted by United States courts in the light of reason and experience \u2014 governs a claim of privilege unless any of the following provides otherwise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the United States Constitution;<\/li>\n<li>a federal statute; or<\/li>\n<li>rules prescribed by the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But in a civil case, state law governs privilege regarding a claim or defense for which state law supplies the rule of decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The common law \u2014 as interpreted by United States courts in the light of reason and experience \u2014 governs a claim of privilege unless any of the following provides otherwise: the United States Constitution; a federal statute; or rules prescribed by the Supreme Court. But in a civil case, state law governs privilege regarding a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 501 \u2013 Privilege in General<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4481,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4566","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4566\/revisions\/4567"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}