Louisiana Pacific Corporation v. Money Market 1 Institutional Investment Dealer et al

Filing 185

ORDER GRANTING 181 STIPULATION Regarding Document Production. Signed by Judge Jeffrey S. White on 4/3/12. (jjoS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/3/2012)

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Mark C. Hansen
[e-mail]
David L. Schwarz (206257)
[e-mail]
Kevin J. Miller (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Andrew C. Shen (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
KELLOGG, HUBER, HANSEN, TODD,
EVANS & FIGEL, P.L.L.C.
1615 M Street, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20036
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]

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R. Alexander Saveri (173102)
[e-mail]
Geoffrey C. Rushing (126910)
[e-mail]
SAVERI & SAVERI, INC.
706 Sansome Street
San Francisco, CA 94111-5619
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]

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Attorneys for Plaintiff Louisiana Pacific Corporation
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
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Plaintiff,
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MONEY MARKET 1 INSTITUTIONAL
INVESTMENT DEALER, MERRILL LYNCH )
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& CO., INC., MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE,
FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED, AND )
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DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
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Defendants,
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LOUISIANA PACIFIC CORPORATION,

Case No. C 09 03529 JSW
Stipulation and [Proposed] Order
Regarding Document Production
JUDGE: Hon. Jeffrey White

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Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White
DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

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It is hereby stipulated and agreed, by and among plaintiff Louisiana Pacific Corporation
(“LP”), and defendant Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“DBSI”) that the Court should, for good
cause shown, enter the following Order regarding the form of document production in this matter.
Defendant Money Market 1 Institutional Investment Dealer (“MM1”) has filed for Chapter 7
bankruptcy protection. Accordingly, LP and DBSI understand that all proceedings against MM1
have been stayed. Together, LP and DBSI, as well as their officers, directors, employees and
agents (including, without limitation, their legal counsel), are hereinafter referred to as the
“Parties.” The agreements set forth herein are without prejudice to the rights of the parties to
request additional information or documents, in any form, or to raise any objections as to the
production of any documents or information that may be described herein. Nothing in this
protocol shall be construed to imply that any such documents or information are relevant and
responsive, nor shall it be interpreted as an agreement to produce such documents or information,
should they exist.
A.

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Search Terms and Custodians
The Parties agree to meet and confer in good faith regarding (1) the search terms, if any,

that each Party will use to identify potentially responsive information or documents for
production; (2) the individual custodians that each Party will search for potentially responsive
information or documents; and (3) each Party’s databases or shared drives that may contain
responsive information or documents.

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B.

Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”).

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ESI shall be provided in the following format:

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1.

TIFFs. Single-page 300 dpi CCITT Group IV black and white TIFFs shall be
provided. If required for legibility, color documents should be produced if
possible. The Parties will accommodate reasonable requests for production of
specific images in color. The parties reserve the right to discuss allocation of costs
in the event that the production of color documents becomes unduly costly and/or
burdensome.

2.

Database Load Files/Cross-Reference Files. Documents shall be provided with
(1) a Concordance delimited load file(s) and (2) an Opticon delimited crossreference file(s) showing document breaks.

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Example of Concordance Delimited File:

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þPRODBEGþþPRODENDþþPRODBEGATTþþPRODENDATTþ

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Example of Opticon Delimited File:

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BATES000001,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000001.TIF,Y,,,3
BATES000002,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000002.TIF,,,,,
BATES000003,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000003.TIF,,,,,
BATES000004,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000004.TIF,Y,,,2
BATES000005,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000005.TIF,,,,,

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3.

Unique IDs. Each TIFF image shall have a unique file name which will be the
Bates number of that page (e.g., BATES000001.TIF). The Bates number must
appear on the face of the image (e.g., BATES000001).

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Text Files. For each document, a document-level text file shall be provided. The
text of ESI shall be extracted directly from the native file and each text file will be
named for the beginning Bates number of its corresponding document (e.g.,
BATES000001.TXT). A party will not be required to produce an extracted text
file for a redacted document, but for each such document for which the producing
Party possesses OCR, a document-level text file shall be provided.

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Unique Documents. A Party is only required to produce a single copy of a
responsive document. A Party may deduplicate responsive ESI (based on MD5 or
SHA-1 hash values). E-mail will be deduplicated by family, not on a document
level. In addition, to the extent reasonably accessible, all custodians of
deduplicated items will be listed in the “All Custodian” field. Where available,
custodians will be identified using first and last names. Entity/departmental
custodians will be identified with an identifier of the entity or department. A
producing Party will reasonably attempt to use a uniform description of a
particular custodian across productions. The Parties may deduplicate stand-alone
electronic documents against e-mail attachments using the calculated MD5 or
SHA-1 Hash Code of each document. For deduplication of this type, the
attachment to the e-mail must be the document that is produced.

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Multiple custodians in the “All Custodian” field will be separated by a semicolon.
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BegBates
EndBates
Parent-Child Relationships (attachment information)
File Extension
Filename
Native Path (path to native file on production media)
Text Path (path to the text file on production media)
Custodian
All Custodian

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Additionally, for e-mails, the following metadata shall be provided:

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To
From
CC
BCC
Date Sent
Time Sent, by minute
Subject

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Additionally, for email attachments and loose files, the following metadata shall be
provided:

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Create Date
Last Modified Date
Author

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Additional Metadata. Should additional metadata (such as the original file path of
documents) exist that if provided would significantly aid a receiving Party in
understanding or using the documents, upon reasonable request, the producing
Party shall not unreasonably withhold such metadata.

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Native Form. Microsoft Excel and Audio and Video files (whether attached to
emails or loose files) will be produced in native form, although redacted Microsoft
Excel files need not be produced in native form in the first instance. The parties
shall meet and confer in good faith regarding the format of production for any
redacted Microsoft Excel files. The Parties further agree that Microsoft
Powerpoint documents need not be produced in native form in the first instance,
however, all embedded notes shall be produced. The Parties shall not
unreasonably refuse a request for the production of any document in native form to
the extent a document is provided in a form other than native. For documents
produced in native format, the document will be named with the Bates number as
the file name, and any Confidentiality designation will be indicated in the TIFF
placeholder image.

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Metadata Fields. The following metadata shall be provided within the
Concordance delimited file described above for each document to the extent
reasonably accessible:

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Native Files will be produced with a placeholder slip sheet stating “File Produced
in Native Format.” The path to the native file on the production media will be
provided in the DAT file.

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C.

Database. Certain types of databases kept in the normal course of business contain
information that allows for analysis and computation. Should there be relevant,
responsive and non-privileged information in such databases, the parties will
discuss appropriate procedures and methods of production including possible
allocation of costs.

Hard-Copy Documents.

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Hard-copy documents shall be provided in the following format:

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1.

TIFFs. Single page 300dpi CCITT Group IV black and white TIFFs shall be
provided. The Parties will accommodate reasonable requests for production of
specific images in color. If required for legibility, color documents should be
produced if possible. The parties reserve the right to discuss allocation of costs in
the event that the production of color documents becomes costly and/or unduly
burdensome.

2.

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Database Load Files/Cross-Reference Files. Documents shall be provided with
(1) a Concordance delimited load file(s) and (2) an Opticon delimited crossreference file(s) showing document breaks.

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Example of Concordance Delimited File:

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þPRODBEGþþPRODENDþþPRODBEGATTþþPRODENDATTþ

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Example of Opticon Delimited File:

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BATES000001,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000001.TIF,Y,,,3
BATES000002,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000002.TIF,,,,,
BATES000003,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000003.TIF,,,,,
BATES000004,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000004.TIF,Y,,,2
BATES000005,BATES001,D:\IMAGES\001\BATES000005.TIF,,,,,

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3.

Unique IDs. Each image shall have a unique file name which will be the Bates
number of that page (e.g., BATES000001.TIFF). The Bates number must appear
on the face of the image (e.g., BATES000001) With the exception of paragraph F,
the prefix of the Bates number must be consistent for every custodian throughout
the production.

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OCR. For each document for which the producing Party possesses OCR, a
document-level text file with page breaks shall be provided. Each file will be
named for the beginning Bates number of its corresponding document (e.g.,
BATES000001.TXT). With respect to documents containing redacted text, OCR
files will be provided for the redacted version of the document.

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5.

Unitizing of Documents. When scanning paper documents, the Parties shall
undertake best efforts to ensure that distinct documents are not merged into a
single record, and single documents are not split into multiple records (i.e., the
Parties shall attempt to logically unitize scanned hard copy documents).

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The parties shall identify, to the extent possible, the custodian of each document.

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D.

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Documents will be produced on CD-ROM or DVD discs or on external hard drives.
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Production Media.

Metadata Format.
Electronic file metadata, to the extent reasonably available, shall be provided in the

following format:

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1.

Standard Concordance delimiters should be used for load files: field delimiter
(Code 20), text qualifier (Code 254), and newline (Code 174);

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The first line shall contain electronic file metadata headers and below the first line
there shall be exactly one line for each document;

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Multi-values shall be separated by a semicolon (;); and\

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All files containing non-Western characters shall be provided in Unicodecompliant form.

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F.

Parties to Confer in Good Faith.
The Parties agree to confer in good faith about disputes regarding the form of document

production, including resolution of issues not addressed by this stipulation.

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STIPULATED BY:

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Dated: March 12, 2012

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/s/ Andrew C. Shen
ANDREW C. SHEN

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Attorneys for Plaintiff
Louisiana Pacific Corporation

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KELLOGG, HUBER, HANSEN, TODD, EVANS &
FIGEL, P.L.L.C.
MARK C. HANSEN
DAVID L. SCHWARZ
KEVIN J. MILLER
ANDREW C. SHEN
1615 M. Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036-3209
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Dated: March 12, 2012

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS
CHRISTIAN J. MIXTER
1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-2541
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
/s/ Christian J. Mixter
CHRISTIAN J. MIXTER
Attorneys for Defendant
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

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ORDER
Good cause appearing therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Stipulation
Regarding Document Production is entered in this case.

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_________________________
Honorable Jeffrey White
United States District Court Judge

Dated: April 3, 2012

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