{"id":182,"date":"2013-06-17T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=182"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:40:48","slug":"non-responsive-documents-need-not-be-listed-on-a-privilege-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/privilege-logs\/non-responsive-documents-need-not-be-listed-on-a-privilege-log\/","title":{"rendered":"(3) Non-Responsive Documents Need Not be Listed on a Privilege Log."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well settled that a party who withholds discovery materials must provide sufficient information, usually in the form of a privilege log, to enable the other party to evaluate the applicable protection.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/10-288.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., No. 2010-288-Appeal<\/a> at 20 (citing R.I. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(5)).\u00a0 It is equally well settled that a party is only required to disclose on its privilege log documents, communications, or things not produced that are \u201cotherwise discoverable.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>. at 21.\u00a0 Thus, a document that is irrelevant, immaterial, overbroad, or never requested in document requests need not be disclosed on a privilege log.\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 For that reason, the Supreme Court held that \u201cnonresponsive documents are not required to be reported in a privilege log.\u201d\u00a0 <i>Id<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well settled that a party who withholds discovery materials must provide sufficient information, usually in the form of a privilege log, to enable the other party to evaluate the applicable protection.\u00a0 State v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., No. 2010-288-Appeal at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32,34,35],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privilege-logs","tag-discovery","tag-privilege-logs","tag-rhode-island-superior-court-practice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}