Pest Control Firm Must Provide Some Documents In Equipment Damage Suit

Mealey's (January 6, 2020, 4:03 PM EST) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — Determining that some documents requested by a food services company against its pest control vendor were produced before there was a reasonable anticipation of litigation, a Minnesota federal magistrate judge on Jan. 2 deemed them not privileged in a negligence suit over post-fumigation damage to electrical equipment, granting in part the plaintiff’s motion to compel compliance with discovery subpoenas (S.T. Specialty Foods Inc. v. Copesan Services Inc., et al., No. 0:19-cv-00339, D. Minn., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 255)....