Mealey's (February 5, 2020, 4:45 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A week after a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied the U.S. government’s motion to rehear a dispute over whether it was appropriate for a court-appointed filter team, rather than a magistrate, to search seized files for documents responsive to a search warrant, the panel on Feb. 5 issued a mandate memorializing an Oct. 31 ruling in which it found that the filter team review violated constitutional protections and the attorney-client privilege (In re: Search Warrant Issued June 13, 2019, No. 19-1730, 4th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 2899)....