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More Leavitt documents ordered from USF
The judge presiding over former Bulls football coach Jim Leavitt's wrongful termination suit against USF has ordered the university to release 148 pages of documents that the university's attorneys had tried to have exempted from public records.
Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Bernard Silver ruled last week that USF must produce 148 pages of attorneys' notes, finding that while they do count as reflecting "a mental impression, conclusion, legal strategy or theory of an attorney," such exemptions are only valid when prepared "in anticipation of imminent civil litigation," and the judge found that exemption does not apply. USF was given 10 days to produce the documents from the order on Oct. 21. ... Read more
Video: Leavitt, attorney talk about USF suit
Here's some video from after Tuesday's hearing in downtown Tampa, where a judge is addressing discovery issues relating to former coach Jim Leavitt's suit against USF. Here's Leavitt talking about his desire to return to coaching:
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Judge orders USF to release Leavitt notes
TAMPA -- Former USF coach Jim Leavitt was back in court Tuesday for a hearing in his suit against his former employer, and a judge ordered USF to release unredacted notes from interviews in the investigation that led to Leavitt's firing in January.
USF's attorneys had released a redacted version of the notes in June, but attorney Wil Florin successfully argued that the notes should be provided to him with minimal redaction, with exceptions for references to students' medical condition. Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Bernard Silver also ordered that those notes could not be released to any third party outside the case.
USF's attorneys are still protecting 800 documents that they argue are exempted from release, either by attorney-client privilege or other measures, and the judge gave USF attorney Richard McCrea two weeks to submit a new privilege log that details why the documents -- which have been read in chambers by the judge -- shouldn't be entered in discovery. ... Read more
USF releases 285 pages of notes on Leavitt
Attorneys representing USF have released 285 pages of hand-written notes from the school's investigation into former football coach Jim Leavitt, but due to redactions throughout the notes, Leavitt's attorney has submitted a motion asking for access to the unredacted notes, as well as extensive documents USF has excluded from its release.
Attorney Wil Florin, who is representing Leavitt in his lawsuit against USF, wrote in the motion filed Friday that the school's "extensive albeit improper redaction" has rendered the investigators' notes "virtually incomprehensible" and "useless in their present form." ... Read more
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