Wilbourn v. Browning Arms Company
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PROTECTIVE ORDER. Signed by Magistrate Judge Jane M. Virden on 3/14/18. (bfg)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
STEPHEN BITTNERS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
BROWNING ARMS COMPANY,
Defendant.
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Civil Action No.:
3:17-cv-143-MPM-JMV
AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER
The Court, being advised that Stephen Bittners and Browning Arms Company consent to
maintaining the confidentiality of certain documents and information, orders as follows:
1.
Any files or documents containing information regarding personnel, customers,
financial data, or other private, confidential or proprietary information shall be considered
“Confidential Information.” This Order shall govern all Confidential Information which is
produced by the parties or a testifying witness during the course of this litigation.
2.
This Order shall apply both to the parties to this action and to any third party who
provides or is provided access to discovery materials under the terms of this Order.
3.
Except with prior written consent of the party who or which has designated
documents or information as “Confidential Information,” (hereafter “designating party”) or upon
prior order of this Court, a receiving party shall not disclose or use Confidential Information
obtained during discovery for any purpose (including without limitation, any business, commercial
or personal purpose) other than for the purposes of preparing for and conducting the litigation of
this action and any appellate proceedings in this action.
4.
All Confidential Information shall be clearly and prominently marked by placing
on every single-page document, on the initial page or cover of a multi-page document (including
deposition transcripts), and in prominent location on the exterior of any tangible object, one of the
following designations (or a designation containing the same information but in a different format):
i.
“CONFIDENTIAL”; or
ii.
“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT
TO A PROTECTIVE ORDER”; or
iii.
By affixing a “C” prior to the document number.
In lieu of marking the original of documents, the designating party may mark the copies that are
produced or exchanged.
5.
If a party intends to use Confidential Information in any Court filing or at trial, then
that party must give no less than seven days’ written notice to the party who designated the
information as Confidential prior to filing it so that the designating party has an opportunity to ask
the Court to either seal the documents or allow them to be filed in redacted form. The party
designating the information as Confidential shall be responsible for asking the Court to either seal
the documents or allow them to be filed in redacted form. If a ruling is not obtained within the
seven day period, the party designating the material as confidential shall cooperate in requesting
extensions to filing deadlines which the party seeking to use the information wishes to meet.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a party wishes to file a document that has Confidential
Information embodied in it, the Confidential Information shall be redacted by the filing party prior
to filing the document with the Clerk, to the extent the filing party does not wish that the Court
consider the redacted information. If the Court declines to seal a document or allow it to be filed
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in redacted form, then the Party who wishes to use the Confidential Information may do so
unsealed and unredacted, according to the Court Order.
6.
Except with the prior written consent of the designating party or as otherwise
expressly permitted by this Order, the receiving party may disclose Confidential Information of
the designating party only to the following persons:
A.
The Court and Court personnel;
B.
The parties and attorneys for each party; and
C.
Experts retained by the receiving party for consultation or for testimony
after the procedures set forth in Paragraph 7 have been completed.
Confidential information shall not be disclosed to any other persons without the prior, written
consent of the designating party.
7.
Prior to disclosure of any Confidential Information to any expert witness or other
person approved by the designating party, other than persons listed in Sections 6A and 6B, counsel
for the receiving party shall first provide the person with a copy of this Order, and shall require
the person to execute the appropriate acknowledgment attached to this Order as Exhibit A.
8.
This Order shall bind both parties to this action and all persons signing Exhibit A.
9.
Sixty days after final termination of this action, including all appeals, any
Confidential Information produced shall be destroyed, to the extent commercially reasonable to
do so, by the receiving party, unless opposing counsel has requested the return of the Confidential
Information. This provision does not apply to the Court and Court personnel.
10.
This Order may be modified in whole or in part at any time upon motion by any
party.
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11.
The Court may sua sponte, or upon motion of either party, suspend and/or amend
this Order.
ORDERED this the 14th day of March, 2018.
/s/ Jane M. Virden
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
AGREED AND APPROVED AS TO FORM:
s/ Robert A. Miller
Robert A. Miller (MSB #3305)
Counsel for Browning Arms Company
s/ Erik S. Heninger
Erik S. Heninger (MSB #100951)
Counsel for Plaintiff(s) and putative class
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EXHIBIT A
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI
STEPHEN BITTNERS, et al.,
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Plaintiffs,
vs.
BROWNING ARMS COMPANY,
Defendant.
Civil Action No.:
3:17-cv-143-MPM-JMV
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT
OF AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER
I, the undersigned, do hereby verify that I am in receipt of the Agreed Protective Order;
that I have read and understand the Agreed Protective Order; and that I agree to comply fully with
all of the provisions set forth in the Agreed Protective Order.
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Signature
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Printed Name
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Title
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Date
41114458.v1
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