Vinci Brands LLC v. Coach Servs., Inc.
Vinci Brands LLC v. Coach Servs., Inc.
Case No. 1:23-cv-05138 (S.D.N.Y. 2024)
April 30, 2024

Schofield, Lorna G.,  United States District Judge

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Privilege Log
Text Messages
Attorney-Client Privilege
Attorney Work-Product
Failure to Produce
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Summary
The court ordered both parties to select and submit redacted text messages for the court's review. After reviewing the selected messages, the court determined that one email was not protected by attorney-client privilege and ordered it to be produced in an unredacted form. The court also ordered the other party to remove all redactions, except for those protected by privilege or work-product doctrine, and to provide a privilege log. Deadlines were set for both parties to comply with these orders.
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Vinci Brands LLC
v.
Coach Services, Inc., et al
Case No. 1:23-cv-05138-LGS
United States District Court, S.D. New York
Filed April 30, 2024
Schofield, Lorna G., United States District Judge

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.