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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure

§ 434. Exemption of attorney-client communications

Statutory text

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to require an attorney who is a member in good standing of the bar of any State, to include in any report required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter any information which was lawfully communicated to such attorney by any of his clients in the course of a legitimate attorney-client relationship.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

    Pub. L. 86–257 title II § 204 · 73 Stat. 519

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 434

    (Pub. L. 86–257, title II, § 204, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 528.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–257, title II, § 204, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 528.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 204. attorney-client communications exempted Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require an attorney who is a member in good standing of the bar of any State, to include in any report required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of this Act any information which was lawfully communicated to such attorney by any of his clients in the course of a legitimate attorney-client relationship.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–257, title II, § 204, , 73 Stat. 528.)

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