Magistrate Will Not Reconsider Redacted Document Ruling, Says Privilege Inapplicable

( May 24, 2024, 1:47 PM EDT) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A federal magistrate judge on May 23 refused to reconsider a ruling in which she determined that an engineering firm that is a defendant in litigation stemming from the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint, Mich., must provide 40 documents in response to a motion to compel compliance with a discovery order, saying that the firm did not show that the documents were protected by the attorney-client privilege....