Drummond Company, Inc. v. Collingsworth et al
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MEMORANDUM OPINION and ORDER - This matter is before the court on the Special Master's Report and Recommendation Regarding Claims of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review 695 ; without objection, the Report and Recommenda tion of Special Master Regarding Claims of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review (Doc. # 695) is ADOPTED and APPROVED; Defendants SHALL produce (in full or with redactions) or withhold, as appropriate, the sampling Documents within thirty (30) days; The remaining unreviewed documents (approximately 2,800) SHALL be produced in a manner consistent with this Report & Recommendation, prior Reports and Recommendations, and the courts Orders (including the January 7, 2022 Memorandum Opinion and Order). Signed by Judge R David Proctor on 3/25/2022. (KAM)
FILED
2022 Mar-25 PM 02:04
U.S. DISTRICT COURT
N.D. OF ALABAMA
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA
SOUTHERN DIVISION
DRUMMOND COMPANY, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
TERRENCE P. COLLINGSWORTH,
et al.,
Defendants.
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Case No.: 2:11-cv-3695-RDP
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
This matter is before the court on the Special Master’s Report and Recommendation
Regarding Claims of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review. (Doc. # 695).
No objections to the Report and Recommendation have been filed.
As a part of the recertification process, the court directed the Parties and the Special
Master to employ a sampling process with regard to the remaining documents on the Defendants’
recertified privilege logs. (Doc. 628). The court instructed Drummond to select a sample of no
more than ten percent (10%) of the remaining documents on the Defendants’ recertified privilege
logs for the Special Master’s document-by-document review.
The Special Master performed a document-by-document in camera review of the
Sampling Documents, taking into account the Orders from this court and the Eleventh Circuit,
the relevant pleadings and correspondence from the Parties, and various meetings and
discussions with the court and the Parties. Based upon that review, the Special Master concluded
that “Defendants have appropriately and consistently implemented the Special Master’s prior
Recommendations and the Court’s orders pertaining to the application of the crime-fraud
exception. As such, there is no further need to review the remaining unreviewed documents on
the Defendants’ recertified privilege log.” (Doc. # 695).
Without objection, the Report and Recommendation of Special Master Regarding Claims
of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review (Doc. # 695) is ADOPTED and
APPROVED. It is ORDERED as follows:
1.
Defendants SHALL produce (in full or with redactions) or
withhold, as appropriate, the sampling Documents within thirty (30) days. Such
production SHALL be made consistent with this Report and Recommendation,
prior Reports and Recommendations, and the court’s Orders (including the
January 7, 2022 Memorandum Opinion and Order). The remaining unreviewed
documents (approximately 2,800) SHALL be produced in a manner consistent
with this Report & Recommendation, prior Reports and Recommendations, and
the court’s Orders (including the January 7, 2022 Memorandum Opinion and
Order).
2.
If Drummond has a good faith basis to disagree with the
Defendants’ nonproduction or partial production of specific unreviewed
documents pursuant to this Report & Recommendation, Drummond may submit
to the Special Master and Defendants a list of such documents to which it has
such an objection (up to a maximum of 85 documents, or approximately 3% of
the documents unreviewed by the Special Master). Upon submission, the Special
Master may review the documents identified by Drummond to ensure that they
have been treated consistently with his Recommendations and with this court’s
application of the crime-fraud exception. In the event material inconsistencies are
found, and based on the number of such inconsistencies, the Special Master may
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elect to review additional unreviewed documents.
DONE and ORDERED this March 25, 2022.
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R. DAVID PROCTOR
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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