Primo Broodstock, Inc. v. American Mariculture, Inc. et al

Filing 414

OPINION and ORDER granting in part and denying without prejudice in part 358 Defendants' Renewed Motion to De-Designate Items Marked as Confidential and/or Attorneys-Eyes-Only. Signed by Judge John E. Steele on 10/26/2021. (TLP)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
FORT MYERS DIVISION
TB FOOD USA, LLC, a
Delaware Limited Liability
Company,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No:

2:17-cv-9-JES-NPM

AMERICAN MARICULTURE, INC.,
a Florida Corporation,
AMERICAN PENAEID, INC., a
Florida Corporation, and
ROBIN PEARL, an individual,
Defendants.
__________________________
AMERICAN MARICULTURE,
INC., a Florida
Corporation,
Third-Party Plaintiff,
v.
PB LEGACY, INC. a Texas
Corporation,
Third-Party Defendant.
__________________________

OPINION AND ORDER
This matter comes before the Court on Defendants’ Renewed
Motion

to

De-Designate

Items

Attorneys-Eyes-Only (Doc. #358).

Marked

as

Confidential

and/or

A Joint Response in Opposition

(Doc. #361) was filed, as well as a Reply (Doc. #377).

For the

reasons set forth below, the motion is granted in part and denied
in part.
Defendants seek to de-designate a substantial number of the
approximately 38,000 documents produced by the opposing parties
and designated as confidential or attorneys-eyes-only.

It appears

that the parties may be in agreement as to certain categories of
documents, but its hard to tell for sure.

It also appears that

the parties did not engage in meaningful discussions in an attempt
to resolve the matter prior to filing the motion.

For present

purposes, the Court resolves the motion as follows:

Any document

which has been admitted as an exhibit at the October 26, 2021 final
pretrial conference, or which is received or offered as an exhibit
at trial, shall be de-designated.

The motion will otherwise be

denied without prejudice.
Accordingly, it is now
ORDERED:
Defendants’ Renewed Motion to De-Designate Items Marked as
Confidential and/or Attorneys-Eyes-Only (Doc. #358) is GRANTED IN
PART AND DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE IN PART.

Any document which has

been admitted as an exhibit at the October 26, 2021 final pretrial
conference, or which is received or offered as an exhibit at trial,
shall be de-designated.

The motion is otherwise denied without

prejudice.

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DONE and ORDERED at Fort Myers, Florida, this _ 26th__ day of
October, 2021.

Copies:
Counsel of Record

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