Kenneth Lee Baker Steven Robert Baker, Melissa Thomas v. General Motors Corporation, in Re: General Motors Corporation

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

General Motors Corporation (GM) petitions for a writ of mandamus, seeking relief from a magistrate judge’s order directing GM to produce six documents for which GM asserts privilege.1 We grant GM’s petition and remand.

I. BACKGROUND

Beverly Garner was a passenger in a Chevrolet Blazer that was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle. After the collision, a fire broke out in the engine compartment of the Blazer. Garner died in the accident. Garner’s sons, Kenneth and Steven Baker (the Bakers), then brought a products liability action contending their mother was…