Vazquez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TONETTE L. VAZQUEZ, Case No. 18-cv-07012-JCS

Plaintiff, ORDER REGARDING WAIVER OF

PRIVILEGE, PREPARATION OF

v. TRANSCRIPT, AND FURTHER

DISCOVERY

ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS,

Defendant.

Defendant Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, has filed a motion to enforce a settlement agreement that was purportedly reached at a judicial settlement conference and placed on the record by defense counsel and Plaintiff Tonette Vazquez’s former attorneys. The Court held an initial evidentiary hearing with testimony by Ms. Vazquez, now pro se, on May 28, 2021. As discussed at the hearing, Ms. Vazquez has waived attorney-client privilege as to communications regarding the purported settlement by asserting that her attorneys acted without authorization and “railroaded” her. See AT & T Mobility LLC v. Yeager, No. 2:13-cv-0007-KJM- DAD, 2014 WL 6633374, at *5 (E.D. Cal. Nov. 21, 2014) (holding that where “a client alleges an …