STATE OF MINNESOTA
COUNTY OF RAMSEY
DISTRICT COURT
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
The State of Minnesota By Hubert H. Humphrey,
III, Its Attorney General, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota,
Plaintiffs,
v.
Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, B.A.T. Industries, p.l.c.,
British-American Tobacco Company Limited, BAT (U.K. & Export) Limited,
Lorillard Tobacco Company, The American Tobacco Company, Liggett Group,
Inc., The Council For Tobacco Research - U.S.A., Inc., and The Tobacco
Institute, Inc.,
Defendants
ORDER
The above matter came on for hearing on May 6, 1997, before
the Honorable Kenneth J. Fitzpatrick. Counsel represented to this Court
that some, if not all, of the parties have failed to complete and produce
their privilege logs as set forth in the Orders of this Court. The deadline
for document discovery is more than four months past. The Court finds it
disturbing that some if not all of the parties have failed to complete
and produce their privilege logs, especially in light of the fact that
depositions have begun and the trial date is less than nine months away.
BE ON NOTICE, therefore, that all parties are ordered
to complete and produce their remaining privilege logs within thirty (30)
days of this Order. All claims of privilege shall be deemed waived with
respect to any documents not listed on such logs by this date.
SO ORDERED,
Kenneth J. Fitzpatrick
Judge of District Court
May 8, 1997