WELLS DAIRY v. AMERICAN INDUS. REF.

No. 03-1199.

690 N.W.2d 38 (2004)

WELLS DAIRY, INC., Appellant, v. AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION, INC., Refrigeration Valves and Systems Corporation, and O.H. Livermore Construction, Inc., Appellees. The Pillsbury Company, Appellee, v. Wells Dairy, Inc., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 10, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul T. Falk, Steven R. Johnson and David C. Lechner of Falk Johnson LLC, Chicago, Illinois, and Daniel B. Shuck, Jeff W. Wright and Jeana L. Goosman of Heidman, Redmond, Fredregill, Patterson, Plaza, Dykstra & Prahl, L.L.P., Sioux City, and Juli Wilson Marshall, Julie D. Bailey, Mary Rose Alexander and Leslie N. Rosen, of Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for appellant.

John D. Mayne and Missy J. Denton of Mayne, Marks & Madsen, L.L.P., Sioux City, and Lindsay G. Arthur, Jr., of Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellee Refrigeration Valves and Systems Corporation.

Matthew T.E. Early of Rawlings, Nieland, Probasco, Killinger, Ellwanger, Jacobs & Mohrhauser, Sioux City, and Michael D. Hutchens of Meagher & Geer, PLLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellee American Industrial Refrigeration, Inc.

Marci I. Iseminger of Crary, Huff, Inkster, Sheehan, Ringgenberg, Hartnett, Storm & Jensen, P.C., Sioux City, and William J. Cremer, Edmund J. Siegert and Bradley M. Burd of Cremer, Kopon, Shaughnessy & Spina, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for appellee Pillsbury Co.


CADY, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a district court order granting appellees' (American Industrial Refrigeration, Inc. (AIR) and Refrigeration Valves and Systems Corp. (RVS)) motion to compel production by appellant (Wells Dairy) of a report by two investigators from the University of Wisconsin. Wells Dairy had refused to produce the report, claiming it was privileged under the work-product doctrine and self-critical-analysis privilege. After the...

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