[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Ralph Losey’s e-Discovery Team® blog 10/5/2022, reposted with permission and our thanks.]
NOTICE OF STATUS OF PRIVILEGE REVIEW TEAM’S FILTER PROCESS AND PRODUCTION OF ITEMIZED LIST OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN PRIVILEGE REVIEW TEAM’S CUSTODY
BREAKING NEWS. The confidential Privilege Review Team Report shown below was filed today in Trump v. U.S.. It was filed under seal. It should have been kept from public view in Pacer, but was not. Before the error was corrected a reporter saw it and published it. So it is public now. For that reason only, I am free to reproduce it in full below.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.40.0.pdf
These kind of errors with Pacer and sealed documents are way too common. It was likely caused by human error by a court clerk, but the circumstances here are unknown, and may never be known. It could also have been a deliberate error, an intentional leak, but I doubt it. These kind of mistakes are easy to make. I wrote a long blog article about this problem earlier this year when it happened in a California District Court against another high-profile defendant. Examining a Leaked Criminal Warrant for Apple iCloud Data in a High Profile Case – Part 3