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Nature of Suit Code: 320
Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander
Cause of Action: 28:1391 Personal Injury

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA

SOUTHERN DIVISION

DRUMMOND COMPANY, INC.,

Plaintiff,

v.

TERRENCE P. COLLINGSWORTH, 

et al.,

Defendants.

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Case No.: 2:11-cv-3695-RDP

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

This matter is before the court on the Special Master’s Report and Recommendation 

Regarding Claims of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review. (Doc. # 695). 

No objections to the Report and Recommendation have been filed. 

As a part of the recertification process, the court directed the Parties and the Special 

Master to employ a sampling process with regard to the remaining documents on the Defendants’ 

recertified privilege logs. (Doc. 628). The court instructed Drummond to select a sample of no 

more than ten percent (10%) of the remaining documents on the Defendants’ recertified privilege 

logs for the Special Master’s document-by-document review.

The Special Master performed a document-by-document in camera review of the 

Sampling Documents, taking into account the Orders from this court and the Eleventh Circuit, 

the relevant pleadings and correspondence from the Parties, and various meetings and 

discussions with the court and the Parties. Based upon that review, the Special Master concluded 

that “Defendants have appropriately and consistently implemented the Special Master’s prior 

Recommendations and the Court’s orders pertaining to the application of the crime-fraud 

exception. As such, there is no further need to review the remaining unreviewed documents on 

FILED

 2022 Mar-25 PM 02:04

U.S. DISTRICT COURT

N.D. OF ALABAMA

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the Defendants’ recertified privilege log.” (Doc. # 695). 

Without objection, the Report and Recommendation of Special Master Regarding Claims 

of Privilege Over Documents Subject to 10% Sampling Review (Doc. # 695) is ADOPTED and 

APPROVED. It is ORDERED as follows:

1. Defendants SHALL produce (in full or with redactions) or 

withhold, as appropriate, the sampling Documents within thirty (30) days. Such 

production SHALL be made consistent with this Report and Recommendation, 

prior Reports and Recommendations, and the court’s Orders (including the 

January 7, 2022 Memorandum Opinion and Order). The remaining unreviewed 

documents (approximately 2,800) SHALL be produced in a manner consistent 

with this Report & Recommendation, prior Reports and Recommendations, and 

the court’s Orders (including the January 7, 2022 Memorandum Opinion and 

Order).

2. If Drummond has a good faith basis to disagree with the 

Defendants’ nonproduction or partial production of specific unreviewed 

documents pursuant to this Report & Recommendation, Drummond may submit 

to the Special Master and Defendants a list of such documents to which it has 

such an objection (up to a maximum of 85 documents, or approximately 3% of 

the documents unreviewed by the Special Master). Upon submission, the Special 

Master may review the documents identified by Drummond to ensure that they 

have been treated consistently with his Recommendations and with this court’s 

application of the crime-fraud exception. In the event material inconsistencies are 

found, and based on the number of such inconsistencies, the Special Master may 

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elect to review additional unreviewed documents.

DONE and ORDERED this March 25, 2022.

_________________________________

R. DAVID PROCTOR

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

 

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