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34 Rev. Litig. 1 (2015)
Five Years after Mohawk: Interlocutory Review of Key Pretrial Rulings

handle is hein.journals/rol34 and id is 9 raw text is: Five Years After Mohawk: Interlocutory Review of Key Pretrial Rulings David S. Coale* I. IN TRO D UCTION ............................................................................ 1 1I. THE M OHAWK CASE ................................................................ 3 I. PRACTICE SINCE MOHA WK ...................................................... 5 A. Second Circuit ............................................................... 6 B. Third Circuit .................................................................... 9 C. F ourth C ircuit ................................................................10 D . Fifth Circuit .................................................................. 11 E. Sixth Circuit .................................................................. 12 F. Seventh Circuit ............................................................. 13 G . N inth Circuit .................................................................. 16 H . Tenth Circuit ................................................................. 19 I. D .C . C ircuit .................................................................. 21 J. Federal Circuit ............................................................. 22 IV . CONCLUSION ......................................................................... 23 I. INTRODUCTION In a bet-the-company trade secret case, Plaintiff seeks Defendant's internal memoranda about its business strategy. Defendant asserts the attorney-client privilege over a key handful of them. Plaintiff moves to compel. The district court wrongly grants the motion. Privileged material in hand, Plaintiff plans to add claims for punitive damages, re-depose Defendant's C-level officers, and post the memoranda on popular industry blogs. What can Defendant do? Since the 2009 Supreme Court case Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter,1 one part of the answer is clear: Defendant cannot immediately appeal the district court's ruling. In Mohawk, the defendant tried to take an interlocutory appeal after the district court * Partner, Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP, Dallas, Texas. The author acknowledges the helpful research assistance of Travis Jones and skillful editorial assistance of Sherri Byrd. 1. 558 U.S. 100 (2009).

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