The Limits of Withholding Expert-Generated Materials

June 16, 2020  |  New York Law Journal

In this article, we discuss Southern District Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein’s recent decision in Hernandez v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, in which he rejected plaintiff’s claim that a memorandum that his expert had prepared in advance of the expert’s deposition—on his own accord and absent any instruction from counsel—qualified for protection as a draft report or an expert-attorney communication. Although the 2010 amendments to Rule 26 have given counsel the ability to withhold many expert-generated materials, Judge Gorenstein’s decision demonstrates that courts will insist that the withheld materials in fact qualify as draft reports or expert-attorney communications.

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