{"id":2265,"date":"2024-08-16T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cvss-attorney-client-privilege-claims-rejected-by-judge-in-qui-tam-action\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:45:24","slug":"cvss-attorney-client-privilege-claims-rejected-by-judge-in-qui-tam-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cvss-attorney-client-privilege-claims-rejected-by-judge-in-qui-tam-action\/","title":{"rendered":"CVS&#8217;s Attorney-Client Privilege Claims Rejected by Judge in Qui Tam Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania rejected CVS Health\u2019s \u201cploy\u201d of claiming\u00a0privilege and work-product protection over communications with a third party\u00a0about flash freezing shipping processes in a qui tam action against the retail pharmacy chain.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding a majority of the communications did not pertain to any legal advice or questions that required the information to be privileged,\u00a0U.S. District Judge Gerald Austin McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1CqiQOEmh57sIoUAaQwS2yux7Iq3NQ3kT\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aug. 15 opinion<\/a>, in part granted a motion to compel\u00a0by the plaintiff, Stan Ellis. The documents at issue involved communications over\u00a0CVS\u2019 flash shipping process with a \u201ccold chain\u201d shipping expert,\u00a0The Illuminate Group.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Pennsylvania rejected CVS Health\u2019s \u201cploy\u201d of claiming\u00a0privilege and work-product protection over communications with a third party\u00a0about flash freezing shipping processes in a qui tam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,2991,300,2990,423,2992,2994,2993,2995],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-action","tag-attorneyclient","tag-claims","tag-cvss","tag-judge","tag-privilege","tag-qui","tag-rejected","tag-tam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}