Verinata Health, Inc. et al v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc et al

Filing 59

ORDER by Judge Susan lllston granting #55 Stipulation Re: Document Production (tfS, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/8/2013)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

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VERINATA HEALTH, INC. and THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR
UNIVERSITY,

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Plaintiffs and
Counterclaim
Defendants,

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v.
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ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS, INC. and
LABORATORY CORPORATION OF
AMERICA HOLDINGS,

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Defendants and
Counterclaim
Plaintiffs.

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Case No. 3:12-cv-05501-SI
DOCUMENT PRODUCTION ORDER
Judge:

Hon. Susan Illston

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Plaintiffs and Counterclaim Defendants Verinata Health, Inc. (“Verinata”), and The Board

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of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”), and Defendants and

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Counterclaim Plaintiffs Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. (“Ariosa”) and Laboratory Corporation of

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America Holdings (“LabCorp”) (collectively, the “Parties”) agree that this proposed Document

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Production Order (“Production Order”) shall govern the Parties in the above-captioned case (the

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“Litigation”).

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I.

GENERAL PROVISIONS
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The Parties will make reasonable efforts to prepare responsive and non-privileged

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data for production in accordance with the agreed-upon specifications set forth below. These

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specifications apply to hard copy documents or electronically stored information (“ESI”) which are

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to be produced in this Litigation.
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B.

SECURITY. The Parties will make reasonable efforts to ensure that any productions

made are free from viruses and may be provided on encrypted media.

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CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATION. Responsive documents in TIFF format

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will be stamped with the appropriate confidentiality designations in accordance with the Stipulated

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Protective Order in this matter. Each responsive document produced in native format will have its

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confidentiality designation identified in the filename of the native file.

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PRODUCTION MEDIA. Documents shall be produced on readily accessible

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external hard drives, DVD, or CD disks (“Production Media”). When reasonably feasible, each

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piece of Production Media shall be labeled with (1) the producing Party’s name; (2) the production

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date; and (3) the Bates Number range of the materials contained on the Production Media.
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DATA PROCESSING
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DEDUPLICATION. To the extent feasible, the Parties will de-duplicate responsive

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ESI across Custodians. For each de-duplicated document, to the extent feasible, the names of all

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custodians that possessed the document shall be produced. De-duplication may be done

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automatically via standard techniques such as those based on MD5 or SHA-1 hash values.

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III.

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GENERAL PRODUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
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FORMAT. To the extent feasible, documents (whether originating in electronic or

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hard copy format) shall be produced as single page TIFF files, preserving original color and font. To

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the extent feasible, documents originating in hard copy format shall be converted to TIFF images by

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scanning with at least 300 dots per inch (dpi). Each TIFF or PDF image shall be named according to

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the corresponding Bates number associated with the document. Each image shall be branded

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according to the Bates number and given a confidentiality designation, if applicable. TIFFs shall

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show all text and images that would be visible to a user of the hard copy documents.

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B.

TEXT TO BE PROVIDED WITH IMAGE FILES. For each document, extracted

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or optical character recognition (“OCR”) text shall be provided. To the extent possible, the text of

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native files should be extracted directly from the native file. If a document has been redacted, OCR

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of the redacted document will suffice in lieu of extracted text. Extracted or OCR text may be

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included in the database load files or in separate files, so long as it is provided in such a manner that
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it can be loaded into commercially acceptable production software (e.g., Concordance, Summation,

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Ipro).

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C.

DATABASE LOAD FILES/CROSS-REFERENCE FILES. Production shall

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include a data load file and an image load file in a reasonable format specified by the requesting

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party, or, if no request is made in a format that can be loaded into commercially acceptable

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production software (e.g., Concordance, Summation, Ipro).

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BATES NUMBERING. All images must be assigned a unique Bates number that is

sequential within a given document and across the production sets.

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E.

REDACTION OF INFORMATION. If documents are produced containing

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redacted information, the producing Party shall supply a list of the documents for any such claim(s)

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of redaction, indicating the grounds for the redaction and the nature of the redacted material. During

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the course of the Litigation, an electronic copy of the original, unredacted data shall be securely

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preserved in such a manner so as to preserve without modification, alteration, or addition the content

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of such data including any metadata therewith. This Document Production Order, the Stipulated

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Protective Order, and rules of the Court in this case set forth the basis for the redaction of

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information.

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UNITIZING OF DOCUMENTS. Distinct documents should not be merged into a

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single record, and single documents should not be split into multiple records (i.e., documents should

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be unitized as kept in the ordinary course of business). The Parties will use reasonable efforts to

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unitize documents correctly.

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IV.

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PRODUCTION OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION
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METADATA FIELDS AND PROCESSING. E-discovery production requests

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under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 34 and 45 shall not require metadata, other than as specified

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on Exhibit A attached, absent a showing of good cause. Any Metadata that is produced shall be

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formatted into a basic .txt, .dat or .csv file with delimiters appropriate for use with commercially

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acceptable review software (i.e., a load file). Parties may request other native files be produced as

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described in Section IV.D. below.

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SPREADSHEETS. Spreadsheets must be produced in native format.
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C.

PROPRIETARY FILES. To the extent a response to discovery requires production

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of ESI accessible only through proprietary software, the Parties should continue to preserve each

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version of such information. The Parties shall meet and confer to finalize the appropriate production

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format.

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REQUEST(S) FOR ADDITIONAL NATIVE FILES. If good cause exists to

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request production of specified files, other than those specifically set forth above, in native format,

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the Party shall request such production and provide an explanation of the need for native file review.

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The Parties shall work together to provide documents in reasonable useful format.

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V.

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PROCESSING OF THIRD-PARTY DOCUMENTS
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A Party that issues a subpoena requesting the production of documents (“Issuing

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Party”) shall include a copy of this Document Production Order with the subpoena and state that the

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Parties to the Litigation have requested that third-parties produce documents in accordance with the

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specifications set forth herein.

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The Issuing Party shall ensure that any documents it obtains pursuant to a subpoena

are produced to all Parties.

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If the non-party production is not Bates-stamped, the Issuing Party will endorse the

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non-party production with unique prefixes and Bates numbers prior to producing them to other

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Parties.

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D.

Nothing in this stipulation is intended to or should be interpreted as narrowing,

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expanding, or otherwise affecting the rights of the Parties or third parties to object to a subpoena.

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VI.

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SEARCHING AND SCOPE OF PRODUCTION
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SOURCES. In responding to general requests under Federal Rules of Civil

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Procedure 34 and 45 that call for the production of ESI, the Parties will search central repositories,

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such as shared network drives, document databases, and shared documents and files held by

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individuals who are designated as being responsible for the maintenance and safekeeping of such

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documents on behalf of the company. In general, the Parties shall not be required to search email or

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other forms of electronic correspondence or custodial ESI in responding to such requests.1

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SOURCES THAT NEED NOT BE SEARCHED. The following locations will not

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be searched under any circumstances, and as such need not be preserved, absent a Court order upon

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showing of good cause: personal digital assistants, mobile phones, voicemail systems, instant

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messaging logs, and automated disaster recovery backup systems and/or disaster recovery backup

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tapes. In addition, the parties agree that with respect to documents that automatically “autosave,”

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only the most recent version of such documents need be searched.

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EMAIL AND CUSTODIAL ESI REQUESTS.

To obtain email or custodial ESI beyond that stated in section VI(A) above, a Party must

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propound specific requests for the production of email or custodial ESI pursuant to Federal Rules of

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Civil Procedure 34 and 45. Such requests shall be propounded for specific issues (rather than

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general discovery of a product or business) and shall identify the requested custodian, search

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terms/phrases, and time frame. The Parties shall cooperate to identify the proper custodians subject

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to these requests and proper search terms/phrases.

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Email and custodial ESI production shall be limited to a total of no more than eight

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custodians per side. For custodians Stephen Quake and Christina Fan, from whom email and

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custodial ESI were collected and produced in Related Case No. 12-00865, and which email and

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custodian productions in Related Case No. 12-00865 have been re-produced in their entirety in the

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instant case, the email and custodial ESI production shall be limited to a total of no more than five

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search terms/phrases per custodian (in addition to the terms/phrases in Related Case No. 12-00865).

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For custodians Quake and Fan, Verinata and Stanford have provided Ariosa and LabCorp with the

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search terms that were used in Related Case No. 12-00865 to process the email and custodial ESI of

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each custodian. For all other custodians, the email and custodial ESI production from such

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custodians shall be limited to a total of no more than ten search terms/phrases per custodian. The

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Parties may jointly agree to modify these limits without the Court’s leave. The search terms/phrases

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As used herein, “custodial ESI” refers to ESI that is in the possession of an individual
custodian, rather than in central repositories.
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shall be narrowly tailored to the particular issues addressed by the Rule 34 or 45 requests for

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production of email or custodial ESI. Indiscriminate terms/phrases, such as the producing

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company’s name or its product name, are inappropriate unless combined with narrowing search

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criteria that sufficiently reduce the risk of overproduction. Search terms/phrases unrelated to a

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propounded Rule 34 or 45 request for production are prohibited. A conjunctive combination of

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multiple words or phrases narrows the search and shall count as a single search term/phrase. A

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disjunctive combination of multiple words or phrases broadens the search, and thus each word or

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phrase shall count as a separate search term unless they are variants of the same word. Use of

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narrowing search criteria (e.g., “and,” “but not,” “w/x”) is encouraged to limit the production and

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shall be considered when determining whether to shift costs for disproportionate discovery.

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COLLECTION METHODS. The producing party need not employ forensic data

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collection or tracking methods and technologies, but instead may make electronic copies for

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collection and processing purposes using widely-accepted methods or methods described in

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manufacturers’ and/or programmers’ instructions, help menus, websites, and the like (e.g., .pst’s,

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.zip’s, etc.), except when and to the extent there is good cause to believe specific, material concerns

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about authenticity exist with respect to specific documents and materials. If the receiving party

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believes that there is such good cause, then the producing party and the receiving party shall meet

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and confer in good faith to determine the extent to which forensic and other data associated with the

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specific documents and materials should be produced.

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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

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Objections Preserved. Nothing in this Document Production Order shall be

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interpreted to require disclosure information protected by the attorney-client privilege, work-product

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doctrine, or any other applicable privilege or immunity. The Parties do not waive any objections as

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to the production, discoverability, admissibility, or confidentiality of documents and ESI.

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B.

Except as expressly stated, nothing in this order affects the Parties’ discovery

obligations under the Federal or local rules.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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Dated: May 1, 2013

WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP

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By:
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/s/ Edward R. Reines
Edward R. Reines
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Verinata Health, Inc., and The Board
of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Junior University

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Dated: May 1, 2013

IRELL & MANELLA LLP

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By:

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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/s/ David I. Gindler
David I. Gindler
Attorneys for Defendants Ariosa
Diagnostics, Inc., and Laboratory
Corporation of America Holdings

Dated:

5/7/13
United States District Judge
Susan Illston

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Exhibit A

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Field

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BEGBATES
ENDBATES
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CUSTODIAN
SENT DATE
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TITLE
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RECIPIENT
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FULLTEXT

Applicable Record
Notes
Types
All
All
All
Describes range of related documents from
email/attachment family or reflects logical document
boundaries from scanned docs.
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To the extent feasible, multiple values to account for
deduplication.
Email
Email
EǦDocs
Email
Email and, to the
extent available, EǦ
Docs
Email
Email
Email
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Printed or extracted text for eǦmail and eǦdocs, OCR
for scanned docs.

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