RC/PB, INC. v. RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL CO.

No. 4D13-2116.

132 So.3d 325 (2014)

RC/PB, INC., Petitioner, v. The RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL COMPANY, L.L.C., Marriott International, Inc., and Avendra, L.L.C., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew S. Sackel , Hank Jackson and Stephen T. Maher of Shutts & Bowen, LLP, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Jack Scarola of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach for respondents The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., and Marriott International, Inc.

Christopher N. Bellows of Holland & Knight, LLP, Miami, Richard C. Hutchison and Matthew Z. Zimmerman , West Palm Beach, for respondent, Avendra, LLC.


MAY, J.

The petitioner seeks a writ of certiorari. At issue is a claim of attorney-client privilege to a request for production of documents. The petitioner argues the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law resulting in irreparable injury by ordering production of documents, which it claims are attorney-client privileged, without conducting an in camera inspection. We agree and grant the petition.

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