Translogic Corporation v. Leavelle Carriers et al

Filing 51

PROTECTIVE ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Craig B. Shaffer on 7/7/09. (cbssec)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 08-cv-02789-REB-CBS TRANSLOGIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. LEAVELLE CARRIERS, JANICE BOGIKES, JOHN BOGIKES, SR., JOHN BOGIKES, JR., WASHINGTON SECURITY PRODUCTS, INC., and PNEUMATICCARRIERS.COM, Defendants. PROTECTIVE ORDER

Upon the motion of the parties pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), and being fully advised in the premises, the court hereby ORDERS as follows. 1. The term "Confidential" or "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only,"

shall mean and include any documents, portions of documents, oral communications, information or other things furnished by any party, including third parties, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests to produce documents and other things, responses to requests for admissions, depositions, transcripts of depositions, all copies, extracts, summaries, compilations, designations and portions thereof, and technical or commercial information derived therefrom deemed by any party in good faith to be confidential information. 2. All of the documents produced and the information furnished by any of the

parties pursuant to an agreement by the parties, the process of pre-trial discovery, or an order of

the Court which has been designated by any party as "Confidential" or "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" shall be treated and maintained by the parties as confidential. 3. All documents which are produced in response to a document production request

which a party intends to keep confidential shall be so designated by affixing the word "Confidential" or "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" by stamp, sticker or other marking device to each confidential document. 4. Any document or other information designated as "Confidential," "Confidential

Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" pursuant to this order shall be first reviewed by a lawyer, who, by permitting or affixing such designation, shall be deemed to have certified that the designation of the material is based on the lawyer's good faith belief that the information is confidential or otherwise entitled to protection. 5. All answers to written interrogatories which a party intends to keep confidential

shall be so designated by affixing the word "Confidential" or "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" to each page of the answers which contains confidential information. 6. All answers to oral interrogatories at depositions which a party intends to keep

confidential shall be so designated either by a statement to this effect by the deponent's party's counsel at the deposition or by correspondence setting forth the confidential portions of the deposition. In either case, it shall be the responsibility of all parties to designate the requested portions of the deposition as confidential by affixing the word "Confidential" by stamp to each page of the deposition transcript which contains confidential information. 7. Any other confidential information shall be so designated by any means agreed

upon between the parties.

8.

Such confidential information, and all of the copies, summaries, compilations,

notes and abstracts of confidential information, shall be used exclusively in this action and for no other purpose. Confidential information shall not be disclosed except as provided in this order. 9. Within forty five (45) days after final termination of this action, including all

appeals, each party shall, as its option, either return to the producing party or destroy all physical objects and documents which embody information designated as "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" which were received from the producing party, and shall destroy in whatever form stored or reproduced, all other physical objects and documents, but not limited to, correspondence, memoranda, notes and other work product materials, which contain or refer to "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only," not embodied in physical objects and documents, shall remain subject to this order. Notwithstanding the foregoing, counsel shall be entitled to maintain one copy of the transcript, pleadings and any exhibits introduced at trial of this action. 10. Any document, written interrogatory answer, or portion of deposition transcript

designated as "Confidential" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" under this order shall, when filed with the Court, in addition to any other requirements for filing under seal, and to the extent not inconsistent with such requirements, be sealed in an envelope bearing the title of this action with an indication of the general nature of its contents and a statement substantially in the following form: This envelope contains confidential documents filed in this case by (name of party) and, except by order of the Court or pursuant to stipulation by the parties, shall not be opened, nor the contents thereof displayed or revealed, to anyone other than to the Court or counsel of record. 11. Information designated "Confidential" may be disclosed only to Counsel of

Record, the Parties to this action and their officers, directors, partners, and employees who have

a bona fide interest in the action, and expert consultants and witnesses (including counsel of the Parties who have been identified to the Parties) not presently employed by either Party who are retained or sought to be retained by or on behalf of a Party to advise and/or assist in the preparation, presentation, and/or settlement of the Party's case (including trial consultants and the like) ("Expert"), and their clerical assistants retained on behalf of any party, the Court and its employees, trial counsel and their employees, professional assistants, persons performing copying services and others who have a bona fide need to review the contents of a party's case. 12. Information designated "Attorneys Eyes Only" may be disclosed only to outside

counsel and their employees, professional assistants, persons performing copying services, Experts, and others working under the direction of outside counsel who have a bona fide need to review the contents of the party's case. Information designated "Attorneys Eyes Only" may not be disclosed to the parties or their in-house counsel. 13. At least five business days before disclosing Confidential Information to an

Expert (the "Objection Period"), a party shall first identify to the originating party the name and curriculum vitae of the Expert. The Confidential Information may not be disclosed to the Expert until the originating party advises in writing that it has no objection to the disclosure, or the Objection Period has expired without the originating party objecting to the disclosure, whichever is earlier. If the originating party objects to the disclosure within the Objection Period, the Confidential Information may not be disclosed to the Expert without written agreement of the originating party or further order. 14. Any Expert to whom Confidential Information is disclosed shall agree in writing,

before disclosure to the Expert, to be bound by the terms of this order in substantially the following form:

I have reviewed the Protective Order in Translogic Corporation v. Leavelle Carriers, et al., Civil Action No. 08-cv-02789-REB-CBS, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and to abide by its terms and to be bound by its requirements under penalty of contempt of court. 15. Disclosure of Confidential Information to any individual not contemplated by the

terms of this order, absent a Court order, subpoena, or the written consent of the originating party, is prohibited. If a party receives a subpoena or legally enforceable order requiring disclosure of any Confidential Information, the receiving party shall object to the disclosure of such information, citing this Order, and shall, as soon as practical, provide notice thereof to the originating party and its counsel, and the originating party and its counsel will then raise the objection with the issuing court as they see fit. 16. Nothing contained in this order shall affect or restrict in any way the rights of any

party with respect to its own documents. 17. Acceptance by a party of any information, document or thing as "Confidential" or

"Attorneys Eyes Only" shall not constitute a concession that the information, document or thing is confidential. Any receiving party may, at any time, request the producing party to cancel the "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" designation with respect to any document, object and/or information, and to agree that thereafter such document, and/or information is to be no longer subject to the provisions of this order, or, alternatively, request that the producing party change the designation mode. Such request shall be written and shall be served on counsel for the producing party, and shall particularly identify the "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" information that the receiving party contends is not confidential and the reasons supporting its contentions. If the receiving party disagrees with the designation and marking by the producing party of any material as "Confidential" or "Attorneys Eyes Only," then the parties shall first try to resolve such disputes on an informal basis. If agreement cannot

be reached, the receiving party shall file a motion with the court to have the designation removed. The producing party shall have the burden of establishing the confidentiality of the particular "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only information." A failure of a receiving party to challenge a designation as "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" shall not constitute a waiver of the right to assert at any subsequent time that the same is not in fact confidential for any reason included in this order, and does not prevent the party from later requesting that the party be permitted to disclose the information without regard to the terms of this Order. 18. Inadvertent production of any information which does not contain a designation

of "Confidential" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" will not waive a party's claim that this information is confidential or estop a party from designating this information as "Confidential" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" at a later date. Upon notice from the originating party that information was inadvertently produced without a designation of "Confidential" or "Attorneys Eyes Only," the receiving party shall treat the information as if it had been so designated. 19. Nothing in this order shall be deemed to be a limit or waiver of the attorney-client

privilege, the work product privilege, or any other relevant privilege. Further, inadvertent production of privileged information shall not waive the privilege. If privileged information is inadvertently produced, the receiving party agrees that, upon request from the originating party, it shall promptly return all copies of documents containing the privileged information, delete any versions of the documents containing the privileged information on any database or computer filing systems it maintains, and make no use of the privileged information. 20. Where a volume of documents (including physical objects) are requested, all

documents may be made available by counsel for the producing party for initial inspection by

counsel for the receiving party, prior to producing copies of selected items. At the request of the producing party, these documents made available for initial inspection shall initially be considered, as a whole, to constitute "Confidential Information" and shall be subject to this order. Thereafter, the producing party shall have a reasonable time to review and designate the appropriate documents as "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" prior to furnishing copies to the receiving party. 21. If, at a hearing in connection with any motion or other proceeding in this action, a

party seeks to offer into evidence any information designated as "Confidential Information" or "Attorneys Eyes Only" produced by the other party, that party shall so inform the other party and the Court at the time it wishes to introduce such materials, and the party may request the Court to place such materials under seal, conduct in camera proceedings, and take such other steps as it deems reasonably necessary to preserve the confidentiality of such materials. 22. This order shall govern all of the pre-trial proceedings in the case, but shall be

subject to modification either before, during or after trial upon the merits and upon the application of any of the parties to this lawsuit for good cause shown. 23. The provisions of this order shall not affect the admissibility of evidence at trial

or any preliminary evidentiary proceeding in open court except as directed by a separate order entered for good cause shown. DATED at Denver, Colorado, this 7th day of July, 2009. BY THE COURT:

s/Craig B. Shaffer Craig B. Shaffer United States Magistrate Judge