Amazon privilege log ‘cannot be trusted,’ US antitrust class plaintiffs say
( September 11, 2025, 19:23 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Amazon’s “continuing and systemic over-designation of privilege” concerning evidence in US class action antitrust litigation creates a risk that “thousands of documents will inevitably remain wrongfully withheld” and means a log identifying documents withheld from the US Federal Trade Commission in related litigation “cannot be trusted,” class plaintiffs said in a joint status report filed in US Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs’ “statistical shenanigans grossly inflate the percentage of entries Amazon has Revisited,” the company responded in the same filing, defending what it described as a “reasonable privilege review process.”See attached document....
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