Drinker Biddle & Reath has lost a nearly five-year-long battle to obtain deposition transcripts from an environmental suit against ExxonMobil for use in defending its own clients in other litigation.
A Mercer County judge held, in a decision released for publication on Tuesday, that "the general societal interest and the pecuniary private interest of itself and its clients asserted by [Drinker Biddle] in support of its application do not outweigh the State’s substantial interest in favor of confidentiality of unfiled discovery materials."
