Schofield, Lorna G., United States District Judge
v.
Coach Services, Inc., et al
ORDER
WHEREAS, on April 19, 2024, Plaintiff Vinci Brands LLC (“Vinci”) and Defendant
Case-Mate, Inc. (“Case-Mate”) filed a letter in which each party sought an order compelling the
other party to produce unredacted text messages;
WHEREAS, on April 23, 2024, pursuant to this Court’s order at Dkt. 330, Vinci and
Case-Mate each selected fourteen redacted text messages -- seven Vinci-redacted text messages
and seven Case-Mate-redacted text messages -- for the Court’s in camera review. Based on the
Court’s review of those text messages, it is hereby
ORDERED that by May 3, 2024, Vinci shall produce an unredacted version of a single
email, consisting of two lines of text, from Bianca Smith at Benesch Friedlander Coplan &
Aronoff LLP to Kristen Trappett at Onward Brands dated March 20, 2024, at 11:14 P.M., which
is at Dkt. 339-1 at the top of page 5 of 6 of the PDF. This email is not protected by the attorneyclient privilege because it is not a communication for the purpose of giving or receiving legal
advice. It is further
ORDERED that by May 8, 2024, Case-Mate shall review its entire document production
thus far and remove all redactions except for those protected by the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine. See Al Thani v. Hanke, No. 20 Civ. 4765, 2022 WL 1684271, at *1
(S.D.N.Y. May 26, 2022) (“The weight of authority in this Circuit goes against allowing a party
to redact information from admittedly responsive and relevant documents based on that party’s
unilateral determinations of relevancy.” (citing Christine Asia Co., Ltd. v. Alibaba Grp. Holding
Ltd., 327 F.R.D. 52, 54 (S.D.N.Y. 2018) (collecting cases)). Any such redactions shall be
reflected on a privilege log to the extent they are not already logged.