RC/PB, Inc. v. Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.

The petitioner seeks a writ of certiorari. At issue is a claim of attorney-client privilege to a request for production of documents. The petitioner argues the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law resulting in irreparable injury by ordering production of documents, which it claims are attorney-client privileged, without conducting an in camera inspection. We agree and grant the petition.

The discovery dispute arose in complex commercial litigation over a franchise agreement. The petitioner asserted an attorney-client privilege to certain documents and prepared a…