A Georgia district court judge’s order regarding federal search warrants could have sweeping implications nationwide on all future cases involving probes into attorneys and law firms.

In his Dec. 15 order regarding a search warrant executed against a Georgia lawyer being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice and the firm where they previously worked, Judge Steven Grimberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction requiring the government to be “restrained and enjoined from reviewing the seized communications pursuant to its proposed filter protocol.”