Rampton
Rampton v. Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Ins. Co.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 w 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EUREKA DIVISION 7 8 CHERYL RAMPTON, Case No. 23-cv-03499-RFL (RMI)
9 Plaintiff,
ORDER RE: DISCOVERY DISPUTE
10 v. Re: Dkt. No. 30 11 ANTHEM BLUE CROSS LIFE AND
HEALTH INS. CO.,
12 Defendant. 13 14 Now pending before the court is a discovery dispute letter brief through which Plaintiff 15 requests to compel certain information which Defendant has redacted based on the attorney-client 16 privilege and work-product doctrine given that those portions of the pertinent documents were 17 included in communications with Defendant’s in-house legal department and because the 18 communications were made in anticipation of litigation. See generally Ltr. Br. (dkt. 30) at 1, 3. 19 Plaintiff submits, inter alia, that the information should nevertheless be produced pursuant to the 20 fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine. Id. at 1-3. Pursuant 21 to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 78(b) and Civil Local Rule…