IN THE MATTER OF NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIG.

40000/88, 9535.

109 A.D.3d 7 (2013)

966 N.Y.S.2d 420

2013 NY Slip Op 4127

In the Matter of NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION. WEITZ & LUXENBERG P.C. et al., Respondents, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC LLC, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 6, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York City ( Kathleen M. Sullivan of counsel), and Lynch Daskal Emery LLP, New York City ( Scott Emery of counsel), for appellant.

Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., New York City ( Jerry Kristal and Alani Golanski of counsel), for respondents.

SWEENY, FREEDMAN, FEINMAN and GISCHE, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ANDRIAS, J.P.

This discovery dispute pertains to all of the Weitz & Luxenberg New York City Asbestos Litigation (NYCAL) cases in which Georgia-Pacific (GP) is a defendant. For the following reasons, we find that the motion court providently exercised its discretion when it denied GP's motions to vacate the Special Master's recommendations and directed an in camera review of certain internal communications identified in GP's privilege...

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