The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued an opinion a few days ago that addresses whether the state's public records law applies to communications that would otherwise be protected by the attorney-client privilege.
The problem is that the Massachusetts public records law is quite broad and does not explicitly preclude access to privileged government documents. The issue was whether the statute should be interpreted to include an unwritten exception for privileged communications.
The SJC concluded that, given the importance of the privilege, the legislature would not have preempted it without explicitly saying so. Given that the statute was silent, the SJC concluded that the privilege remains intact.
You can find the opinion, which should make for a good classroom discussion on either statutory interpretation or the attorney-client privilege (or both), here. And you can watch the oral argument here.