SMITH v. FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO.

No. 93-2103.

632 So.2d 696 (1994)

Patrian SMITH, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, etc., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Russo, Russo Talisman & Moylan and Patrice Talisman, Coconut Grove, for petitioners.

Aimee Stein, Hicks Anderson & Blum and Gary A. Magnarini and Mark Hicks, Miami, for respondent.

Before NESBITT, JORGENSON and LEVY, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

This case presents a question of first impression in Florida — whether an attorney's selection of documents which by themselves would not be cloaked with the work product privilege renders that group of documents, as a discrete unit, immune from discovery. We hold that it does, and for the following reasons we grant the Petition for Certiorari and quash the order under review.1

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