Sheldone v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

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• noting that disclosing confidential mediation communications would “threaten[] the well established public needs of encouraging settlement and reducing court dockets”
• finding that the federal mediation privilege applied, thereby precluding discovery of the corporate deposition noticed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6
• noting that Rule 501 allows courts to create evidentiary privileges under federal common law, and concluding that the factors outlined in Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1 (1996), “counsel in favor of recognizing a federal mediation privilege”
• “In asking this Court to recognize a federal mediation privilege, the Defendant correctly identifies Federal Rule of Evidence 501 as authority for the creation of evidentiary privileges!
• “The states’ ‘promise[s] of confidentiality’ regarding mediation ‘would have little value if the [participants] were aware that the privilege would not be honored in ... federal court.’ ”
• “This Court sees no reasoned basis for allowing the Plaintiffs to enjoy the benefit of an alleged admission arising through the mediation process when it seems doubtful that such an admission would have otherwise come into existence.”

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