The privilege for communications between attorney and client

United States v. Jimenez Lopez, 873 F.2d 769, 772 (5th Cir. 1989) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of the document which appears on its face and by its contents to be a record of conviction of illegal entry....Federal Rule of Evidence 901(b)(7) and comparable State rules provide that a writing may be authenticated by evidence that the writing is authorized by law to be recorded or filed and is in fact recorded or filed in a public office; and a purported public record, report, statement, or data compilation, in any form, may be authenticated by evidence that it is from the public office where items of this nature are kept.

Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Southwest Bell Telephone Co., 140 F.2d 724, 727 (8th Cir. 1944) (holding, in plaintiff insured's action against defendant insurer on a public liability policy, that evidence of the amount of settlement was admissible "not a....Although settlement negotiations and offers are inadmissible (i) to show the validity or invalidity of a claim when validity is in dispute, (ii) to show the amount of damages when the amount is in dispute, or (iii) to impeach by showing a prior inconsistent statement or a specific contradiction, settlement evidence is commonly admitted in vicarious liability cases if (i) a settlement agreement between a defendant and a third person arises out of the same transaction that is the basis of the current claim against the defendant and (ii) the settlement agreement or evidence is offered to show agency, ownership or control.

Fed. R. Evid. 807 ("A statement not specifically covered by Rule 803 or 804 but having equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness, is not excluded by the hearsay rule, if the court determines that (A) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact; (B) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is...A statement not specifically covered by Federal Rule of Evidence 803 or 804 or by comparable State rules, but having equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness, is not excluded by the hearsay rule, if the court determines that (A) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact; (B) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts; and (C) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence.