Sentence examples for claimed privilege from inspiring English sources

623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957), denied the Government's claimed privilege to withhold the identity of its informer, "John Doe," from the petitioner.

And yet, as John Yoo noted in The Wall Street Journal, in his five years in office Clinton has claimed privilege to withhold information from courts and Congress six times -- as often as Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush combined.

Religious minorities are free to disagree, and some still do, but their claimed privilege to discriminate will not be one shared — or even understood — by a growing majority of their fellow Americans.

We agree with the conclusion of the Court of Appeals that since Mr. McSwain was not questioned on his willingness to submit the material 'to the court for determination as to its materiality to the case' and whether it should be disclosed, the issue of how far the Attorney General could or did waive any claimed privilege against disclosure is not material in this case.

The scope of the claimed privilege includes the character, causes, and consequences of the social inequalities that define the groups in question.

In addition there was a direct refusal by Mr. Emspak to claim privilege.

This approach is colliding with Bush's preference, long predating this Supreme Court fight, to enhance presidential power -- often by claiming privilege for sensitive documents and conversations.

The Court finds support for its theory of 'intention' to claim privilege from a statement in the Government's brief in the Quinn case set out below.

On Wednesday morning, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a letter to Mr. Issa that the president was claiming privilege over the documents because their disclosure would chill the candor of future internal deliberations.

1000, 93 L.Ed. 1264, where the Court characterized a witness' statement "I want to claim privilege as to anything that I say", 337 U.S. at page 142, 69 S.Ct. at page 1003, as a 'definite claim of general privilege against self-incrimination.' 337 U.S. at page 151, 69 S.Ct. at page 1007.

From 1547, if a peer or peeress was convicted of a crime, except treason or murder, he or she could claim "privilege of peerage" to escape punishment if it was their first offence.