Renovate America, Inc. v. Lloyd's Syndicate 1458

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RENOVATE AMERICA, INC., CASE NO. 19-CV-1456-GPC(WVG)

11 Plaintiff, ORDER ON DISCOVERY DISPUTE

REGARDING DEFENDANT’S

v. PRIVILEGE LOG

LLOYD’S SYNDICATE 1458;

15 Defendant.

17 The Court previously resolved a discovery dispute by ordering Defendant to 18 produce non-privileged documents involving attorney Margolies. (See generally 19 Doc. No. 46.) Defendant proceeded to do so, but withheld certain documents based 20 on privilege and memoralized these documents on a privilege log. Plaintiff originally 21 disputed three of these entries, but later withdrew two of the objections. Plaintiff 22 now requests that the Court view the withheld document in camera to verify it is 23 being properly withheld. However, the Court finds the privilege log is facially 24 sufficient and declines to view the disputed document in camera. 25

I. LEGAL STANDARD

In United States v. Zolin, the Supreme Court held that a court may conduct an 27 in camera review of privileged materials to determine whether the crime-fraud 28 1 …