Schaeffer
Schaeffer v. Gregory Village Partners, L.P.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Tigar, J.
ORDER RE DISCOVERY DISPUTE
Now before the Court is the parties’ discovery dispute regarding the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work-product protection to the documents listed in Gregory Village Partners, LP and VPI, Inc.’s (collectively, “Gregory Village”) privilege log. See ECF No. 104. Having carefully reviewed the documents in camera and considered the arguments and evidence presented by the parties, the Court finds that certain documents identified by Gregory Village as privileged are not and orders Gregory Village to produce those documents to Plaintiffs.
*1200 I. BACKGROUND
A. Factual History
In June 2011, Plaintiffs brought this action against multiple defendants, seeking to remediate contamination at the site of their home. ECF No. 1-1. Gregory Village is the current owner of a property from which some of that contamination allegedly flowed. Id. at 2-4.
VPI, Inc.’s Vice President, Mary Haber, also serves as Gregory Village’s in-house general counsel. Deck of Mary Haber in Supp. of Gregory Village Br. that Communications with Tracy Craig Are Privileged, ¶¶ 1, 2 (“Haber Declaration”); ECF No. 118 at 4. According to Haber, VPI, Inc. and Gregory…