Treasury Department Again Ordered To Produce Documents In Terminated Pension Spat

Mealey's (October 17, 2018, 1:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ten months after a prior order compelling it to produce discovery was vacated by an appeals court, the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Oct. 15 was again ordered on remand to produce purportedly privileged documents in a dispute over a terminated pension plan, with a District of Columbia federal judge finding that the underlying plaintiffs sufficiently established that their need for the documents overcame the asserted presidential communications privilege (U.S. Department of the Treasury v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. Dennis Black, et al., No. 1:12-mc-00100, D. D.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 173769)....