Legal Opinion
In Re Franklin National Bank Securities Litigation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided August 3, 1979No. MDL 196PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WEINSTEIN, District Judge.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seeks to compel the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to produce Examination Reports resulting from OCC’s periodic examinations of Franklin National Bank and various OCC summaries and analyses of these reports. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 34 and 37(a). A claim of official information privilege is upheld with respect to the summaries and analyses of the reports, but denied with respect to the reports themselves.
I. Background
A. Posture of the Litigation
This complex litigation followed…
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