Schneider said his ruling addresses what the judge called "an incessant dispute" in many cases before him: whether it's necessary or warranted to designate discovery as confidential. His ruling is the first to comprehensively address the issue and could be applied in other such disputes in the District of New Jersey and elsewhere.
January 11, 2021 at 03:29 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
A federal judge in New Jersey has issued a dressing down to lawyers for Torrent Pharmaceuticals for wrongly designating discovery materials as confidential in the Valsartan multidistrict litigation.
Torrent’s lawyers sought confidential status for “routine business communications” produced in discovery, but it is not entitled to such protection “merely because a document may be harmful, uncomfortable or embarrassing,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider ruled Friday in the Valsartan MDL.
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