DC Comics v. Pacific Pictures Corporation et al

Filing 133

ORDER GRANTING STIPULATION 132 RE DEFENDANTS' PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND PRIVILEGE LOGS by Magistrate Judge Ralph Zarefsky. Plaintiffs Motion to Compel Production of Documents and Privilege Logs 125 is withdrawn without prejudice, and the hearing set for 12/27/10 is vacated. (ib)

DC Comics v. Pacific Pictures Corporation et al

Doc. 133

1 DANIEL M. PETROCELLI (S.B. #97802) 2 MATTHEW T. KLINE (S.B. #211640) 3 CASSANDRA L. SETO (S.B. #246608) 4 O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP 5 Los Angeles, CA 90067-6035 6 Facsimile:

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7 PATRICK T. PERKINS (admitted pro hac vice) 8 PERKINS LAW OFFICE, P.C. 9 Cold Spring, NY 10516 10 Facsimile:

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11 Attorneys for Plaintiff DC Comics 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ­ WESTERN DIVISION DC COMICS, Case No: CV 10-03633 ODW (RZx) Plaintiff, vs. Hon. Otis D. Wright II, U.S.D.J. PACIFIC PICTURES CORPORATION; Hon. Ralph Zarefsky, U.S.M.J. IP WORLDWIDE, LLC; IPW, LLC; DISCOVERY MATTER MARC TOBEROFF, an individual; MARK WARREN PEARY, as personal [PROPOSED] ORDER representative of the ESTATE OF GRANTING STIPULATION RE: JOSEPH SHUSTER; JEAN ADELE DEFENDANTS' PRODUCTION PEAVY, an individual; JOANNE OF DOCUMENTS AND SIEGEL, an individual; LAURA PRIVILEGE LOGS SIEGEL LARSON, an individual, and DOES 1-10, inclusive, Defendants. Complaint filed: May 14, 2010 Trial Date: None Set

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Marc Toberoff (State Bar No. 188547) [e-mail] Nicholas C. Williamson (State Bar No. 231124) [e-mail] Keith G. Adams (State Bar No. 240497) [e-mail] TOBEROFF & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2720 Los Angeles, California, 90067 Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Attorneys for Defendants Mark Warren Estate of Joseph Shuster, Jean Adele Larson

7 Peary, as personal representative of the 8 Peavy, Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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Based on the stipulation of plaintiff DC Comics together with those corporate affiliates named as defendants in Siegel v. Warner Bros. Ent. Inc., C.D. Cal. Case No. 04-8400 ODW (RZx) and Siegel v. Time Warner Inc., C.D. Cal. Case No. 048776 ODW (RZx) ("DC") and the relevant Defendants Mark Warren Peary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Shuster, Jean Adele Peavy, Joanne Siegel, and Laura Siegel Larson ("Defendants") (collectively, "the Parties"), and for good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: (1) By 6:00 p.m. PST on December 7, 2010, Defendants will produce, by personal service on DC's counsel at its Century City offices, all documents and other materials responsive to each and every one of DC's Requests, except for documents that are subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege, the attorney workproduct doctrine or any other privilege available under law, or to a claim that such responsive documents and other materials are protected under the parties' May 1, 2008 JAMS Confidentiality Agreement (collectively, "Privilege" or "Privileged"). Aside from documents and materials subject to such a claim of Privilege or falling under the exception set forth in sections (4) and (5) below, Defendants will not refuse to produce or refuse to log any documents or materials based on the objections Defendants previously asserted in their responses to DC's Requests. (2) By 6:00 p.m. PST on December 15, 2010, Defendants will furnish, by personal service on DC's counsel at its Century City offices, complete Privilege logs identifying any and all Privileged documents and other materials for which Defendants assert a claim of Privilege in response to DC's Requests. (3) In making their document production on December 7, and in any further document production in this case, Defendants will reference by their Bates numbers documents already produced to DC in the cases Siegel v. Warner Bros. Ent. Inc., C.D. Cal. Case No. 04-8400 ODW (RZx), and Siegel v. Time Warner Inc., C.D. Cal. Case No. 04-8776 ODW (RZx) (the "Siegel Cases"), rather than re-copy and re-produce such documents. With respect to any request for production of
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documents served on DC in this case, DC in making their document production will likewise reference documents already produced in the Siegel Cases by their Bates numbers, rather than re-copy and re-produce such documents. However, the Parties will not be required to produce or designate by Bates numbers documents they obtained solely as a result of a document production by the other side in the Siegel Cases. The Parties reserve the right to request an inspection of the original documents or any metadata and any other information associated with documents produced in this manner. (4) Defendants need not produce in this case, nor will DC be required to produce in this case, pleadings filed in the Siegel Cases or this case. (5) The Parties are not required to list on their respective privilege logs in this case any Privileged documents created on or after May 14, 2010. As to Privileged documents created prior to May 14, 2010: (a) Defendants and their counsel need not log internal communications solely between or among Defendants' counsel or between or among Defendants' counsel and anyone at the law firm of Kendall, Brill and Klieger, in either this case or the Siegel Cases; (b) DC and its outside counsel need not log internal communications solely between or among DC's outside counsel, in either this case or the Siegel Cases; however, and for the avoidance of doubt, (c) if a non-lawyer or in-house counsel is an author or recipient of any of the communications in subsections (a) and/or (b), such communications must be logged. This Stipulation is also without prejudice or waiver to any party's right in the future to request or compel the identification or logging of Privileged documents otherwise covered by subsections (a) and (b) above, and is without prejudice or waiver to any party's right in the future to seek a protective order in response to any such a request or motion to compel. (6) By 6:00 p.m. PST on December 20, 2010, DC will inform Defendants in writing of any issues DC has regarding Defendants' Privilege logs.

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(7) The Parties will thereafter meet and confer on December 21, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. PST regarding any such issues. DC reserves all rights after this conference to bring a motion challenging Defendants' privilege logs and document production, and DC and Defendants reserve all their respective rights and arguments with respect to any such motion. However, DC shall not serve any such motion prior to January 3, 2011, due to the intervening holidays. Notwithstanding this reservation of rights, DC hereby agrees that Defendants have not waived any Privilege by virtue of not serving their privilege logs until December 15, 2010 in response to DC's Requests. (8) DC's Motion to Compel the Production of Documents and Privilege Logs is hereby withdrawn without prejudice, and the hearing set for December 27, 2010 is vacated. IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: December 07, 2010 ____________________________________ Honorable Ralph Zarefsky Magistrate Judge, United States District Court

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