Purple Mountain Trust v. Wells Fargo & Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PURPLE MOUNTAIN TRUST, Case No. 18-cv-03948-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE PRIVILEGE AND

v. DISCOVERY ISSUES

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 180 Defendants.

12 At the Court’s request, the parties consolidated several discovery disputes into a single letter brief. Dkt. No. 180. The backdrop for the letter is the Court’s motion to dismiss order, which sustained plaintiffs’ Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 securities claims for Statements 1 and 13 in the consolidated amended complaint with respect to whether defendants made misleading statements about known problems with the bank’s collateral protection insurance (CPI) and guaranteed auto protection (GAP) practices. See Dkt. No. 46 (amended complaint); Dkt. No. 71-1 (claims chart); Dkt. No. 74 (dismissal order). The questions for resolution are whether: (1) defendants preserved attorney-client and work product privileges for documents relating to the drafting and submission of a QFR…