IN RE APPLE INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CITY OF ROSEVILLE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Case No. 19-cv-02033-YGR (JCS)

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE DOCKET NOS. 372 AND

v. 374

APPLE INC., et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 372, 374 Defendants.

12 I. INTRODUCTION This Order addresses the parties’ ongoing dispute relating to Defendants’ withholding of documents on the basis of attorney-client privilege. There are two parts to the dispute. First, the district judge has instructed the undersigned to reconsider the question of whether Defendants should be compelled to re-review for privilege all of the documents they have withheld as attorney-client privileged because of the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the writ of certiorari in In re Grand Jury, 143 S. Ct. 543 (2023), despite the fact that the parties had already narrowed the scope of their discovery dispute to a subset of withheld documents. Dkt. no. 372. Second, Plaintiff continues to challenge the withholding…