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022168P.pdf   09/19/2002  Pepsico  v.  Baird, Kurtz
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-2168
   Eastern District of Missouri   
Civil case - Discovery. Court had jurisdiction to hear the appeal under the collateral order doctrine because this ancillary proceeding involves a non-party to the underlying action and the underlying action is pending in a district court outside this circuit; accounting firm must produce quality control assessments prepared before underlying suit was filed, as the district court erred in finding the assessments were protected accounting services and therefore within the scope of the Illinois accountant-client privilege; accounting firm and bottler were not required to disclose assessments prepared after the filing of the underlying suit as those reports were work product and Pepsico had not shown a substantial need for them.