MasterObjects, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO
MASTEROBJECTS, INC.
Plaintiff, No. C 20-08103 WHA
v.
AMAZON.COM, INC., ORDER ON REFERRAL Defendant.
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Amazon filed a motion seeking terminating sanctions for alleged unclean hands. To better defend itself against the allegation, MasterObjects voluntarily waived the attorney client and work product privileges to produce certain documents previously withheld from discovery. At the hearing on the motion before the District Court, Amazon complained that MasterObjects had not produced all of the privileged documents within the scope of its intentional waiver. After the hearing, the Court issued an order referring the waiver dispute to me for resolution and requiring the parties to report on the status of the dispute no later than April 21, 2022. (Dkt. No. 333). In a number of communications, I ordered senior counsel for each party to meet and confer, I ordered Amazon to specify the nature of any remaining dispute and I ordered MasterObjects to produce any privileged document at…