Some Deposition Prep Documents Deemed Privileged In DOL FLSA Dispute

(April 11, 2023, 3:16 PM EDT) -- CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — The defendant in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) did not establish that most of the documents reviewed by witnesses prior to their depositions were not protected by privilege, a New York federal magistrate judge said, while concluding that a few documents were used to refresh a deponent’s memory and needed to have some of the redactions removed....