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d recognizing a mediation privilege where litigants can "rely on the confidential treatment of everything that transpires during mediation . . . ." Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928 (2d Cir.1979); Folb v. Motion Picture Ind. Pension & Health Plans, 16 1.SIFtip.2d 1164, 1173 1998); She

counsel to discuss matters in an uninhibited fashion often leading to settlement ...." Id. at 930. Ten years later, in Folb v. Motion Picture hid. Pension & Health Plans, 16 F.Supp.2d 1164, 1998), the district court in California became the first federal court to adopt the mediation privilege as federal common law

d recognizing a mediation privilege where litigants can "rely on the confidential treatment of everything that transpires during mediation . . . ." Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928 (2d Cir.1979); Folb v. Motion Picture Ind. Pension & Health Plans, 16 1.SIFtip.2d 1164, 1173 1998); She

counsel to discuss matters in an uninhibited fashion often leading to settlement ...." Id. at 930. Ten years later, in Folb v. Motion Picture hid. Pension & Health Plans, 16 F.Supp.2d 1164, 1998), the district court in California became the first federal court to adopt the mediation privilege as federal common law

t 2, do not diminish the force of the serious issues raised in this case. 14 EFTA00583752 in an uninhibited fashion" is even more important. See Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928, 930 (2d Cir. 1979). When a defendant is facing loss of liberty, he has an even greater "need for confid

of liberty, he has an even greater "need for confidentiality and trust between participants in a [plea negotiation]." Folb v. Motion Picture Indus. Pension & Health Plans, 161 F.Supp.2d 1164, 1175 (M. Cal. 1998).Discovery and use of plea negotiations will cause "a meaningful and irreparable chill" to the "frank and c