City and County of San Francisco v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN Case No. 18-cv-07591-CRB (JSC) FRANCISCO, et al., 8 Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE PRIVILEGE LOG
DISPUTE v. Re: Dkt. No. 766 PURDUE PHARMA L.P., et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Plaintiff has withheld numerous documents based on § 1157, and Walgreens has filed a dispute letter challenging the adequacy of these privilege log entries. See Dkt. 766. In relevant part, § 1157 states: Neither the proceedings nor the records of organized committees of medical … staffs in hospitals … having the responsibility of evaluation and improvement of the quality of care rendered in the hospital … shall be subject to discovery. Cal. Evid. Code § 1157(a); see also Mt. Diablo Hosp. Dist. v. Superior Ct., 183 Cal. App. 3d 30, 34 (1986). Walgreens contends that Plaintiff’s privilege log descriptions for these documents are deficient because they do not contain enough information to establish that the withheld …