CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Bank Records
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Definition of financial records.
  • Definitions of records that may be privileged.
  • No constitutional expectation of privacy by depositor in his own bank records.
  • Bank's draft suspicious activity reports, and other internal memos connected to process of filing SARs, were subject to unqualified privilege preventing disclosure of SARs or contents.
  • Admission of bank records obtained in violation of Cal. statutes proper based upon Prop. 8 and federal standards.
  • Admission of bank records proper based upon Prop. 8 and federal standards although statutory requirements violated when copy of subpoena was not served on D.