FirstEnergy Corp. will be able to keep documents related to two internal corruption investigations from investors who are suing the utility, after the full Sixth Circuit declined to hear the dispute Friday.
No judge asked for a full-court rehearing, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a one-paragraph order. The result leaves standing a three-judge panel’s ruling that attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine “clearly covered” the reports by Jones Day and Squire Patton Boggs, which were hired after the arrest of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R).
The dispute over the scope of the ...