- In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation (N.D.IL.)(Kendall, CJ) - Issued three Reports and Recommendation, which dealt predominantly with claims of attorney-client privilege and work product protection. At issue were more than 20,000 entries on privilege logs presented by multiple defendants.
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U.S. v. Philip Morris et al., (Kessler, J., D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery and privilege in the largest civil RICO action ever brought by the United States. In this case, where the United States sought $280 billion in disgorgement and other equitable relief against the major tobacco manufacturers and two related trade groups, Judge Levie was the Special Master for almost four years during which time he supervised a full time staff of three attorneys; reviewed tens of thousands of pages of documents; evaluated exhaustive numbers of claims of work product and privilege by both the government and the private parties; issued extensive case management orders for discovery and proposed trial procedures; conducted at least monthly in-person status conferences with counsel to keep discovery focused and moving expeditiously; issued nearly 200 Reports and Recommendations dealing with discovery, procedural matters, and claims of work product and privilege. Judge Levie served as Adjudicator to resolve appeal of retail businesses charged with violating provisions of the Consent Order in the case.
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U.S. v. Anthem/Cigna (Amy Berman Jackson, J. D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery, ediscovery, privilege, protective order, expert discovery in an anti-trust action to bar the $54 billion acquisition and merger of Anthem, Inc. and Cigna
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U.S. v. Aetna/Humana (Bates, J. D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery, e-discovery, privilege, protective order, expert discovery in an anti-trust action to bar the $37 billion acquisition and merger of Aetna and Humana
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In Re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation (MDL - Kollar–Kotelly, J., D.D.C.) -Special Master for discovery, e-discovery, privilege, protective order and expert discovery in an antitrust action against four major airlines alleging Defendants fixed prices for domestic airline tickets by keeping capacity artificially low
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U.S. v. AT&T/T-Mobile (Huvelle, J., D.D.C.) – Special Master for discovery and privilege in an anti-trust action to bar the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile
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U.S. v. US Airways/American Airlines (Kollar-Kotelly, J. D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery and privilege in an anti-trust action to bar the merger of US Airways and American Airlines
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U.S. v. Education Management Corp. (McVerry, J. W.D.Pa.) – Special Master for discovery, e-discovery, privilege, and development of a case management order in a $33 billion dollar qui tam case brought by the United States for alleged violations of the False Claims Act
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UPMC v. Highmark, Royal Mile v. UPMC & Highmark, (Conti, CJ. W.D. Pa.) – Special Master for discovery, e-discovery, and privilege in related anti-trust cases involving health care providers
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Executive Life of New York – Oversaw a team of neutrals charged with developing criteria for distribution and making allocations of a $100 million dollar fund to severely injured annuitants whose funding source for their structured settlements went into receivership
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FFWPUI v. Moon, (Mott, J., D.C. Super. Ct.) – Special Master for discovery and privilege in case involving governance of the Unification Church
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Kubicki v. Medtronic, et al. (Jackson, J. D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery, privilege and eDiscovery in a product liability case involving an insulin pump and infusion devices
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APCC Services, Inc. et al. v. AT&T Corporation, Sprint, and Qwest, (Huvelle, J., D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery and privilege in a series of telecommunication cases between telephone companies and owners of pay phones over the proper amount of compensation due
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United States v. McDonnell Douglas, (Friedman, J., D.D.C.) - Special Master for discovery and privilege in a criminal case with Reports and Recommendations issued on a bill of particulars, grand jury material, Brady information, procedures on handling classified information under CIPA, and other discovery issues
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General Electric Co. v. United States - Special Master for review of privilege and work product claims. (Meyer, J., D.Ct.)
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United States v. Duke Energy (UARG), (Kay, M.J.-D.D.C.) – Special Master for ruling on claims of privilege in connection with documents responsive to a subpoena issued to a third party in an environmental third-party subpoena action
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Jnah Development S.A.L. v. Marriott International Hotels, Inc., (Facciola, M.J.-D.D.C.) - Special Master to rule on numerous documents in a pending ICC arbitration matter to which work product and attorney client privilege were interposed
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