ACI Worldwide Corp. v. Churchill Lane Associates, LLC
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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER. Ordered by Magistrate Judge F.A. Gossett. (TCL )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA
ACI WORLDWIDE CORP.,
Case No. CI 14-0249
Plaintiff,
v.
STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER
CHURCHILL LANE ASSOCIATES, LLC,
Defendant.
Upon the agreement of the parties (filing 7), a Stipulated Protective Order
(“Order”) is entered as follows:
1.
This Order shall apply to and govern all depositions, documents,
information or things disclosed or produced in response to a party’s informal request,
requests for production of documents, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests
for admissions and all other discovery taken under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
and other information which the disclosing party designates as “CONFIDENTIAL,”
furnished, directly or indirectly, by or on behalf of any party or any non-party in
connection with the above-captioned litigation.
2.
When used in this Order, the phrase “disclosing party” shall refer to the
parties to the above-captioned litigation or to non-parties who give testimony or produce
documents or other material.
3.
When used in this Order, the word “document” encompasses, but is not
limited to, any type of document or testimony, including all documents or things
described in Federal Rule of Evidence 1001(a)—(e) and/or Rule 34(a)(1)(A) or (B).
4.
The disclosing party who designates any material “CONFIDENTIAL”
(sometimes referred to herein as a “designating party”) bears the burden of establishing
the “CONFIDENTIAL” status of such material in any situation in which the designation is
at issue, and nothing in this Order shall be construed to alter such burden. The parties
enter into and stipulate to this Order without prejudice to the rights of any party to assert
or contest the “CONFIDENTIAL” status of any material as set forth below.
5.
A disclosing party may designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” any trade secret or
other confidential research, development, or commercial information, as such terms are
used in Rule 26(c)(1)(G) and any applicable case law interpreting Rule 26(c)(1)(G). In
addition, a disclosing party may designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” non-public personal
information or other information for which applicable federal or state law requires or
allows confidential treatment.
6.
In designating material as “CONFIDENTIAL,” a disclosing party shall
make such a designation only as to material which it in good faith believes is
confidential.
7.
Any party or non-party receiving any non-public material from a disclosing
party, regardless of whether such material is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” shall use
that material solely for the purpose of conducting this litigation, pending in the United
States District Court for the District of Nebraska, captioned ACI Worldwide Corp. v.
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Churchill Lane Associates, LLC, Case No. CI 14-0249, and not for any other purpose
whatsoever.
8.
In the absence of written permission from the disclosing party, or an order
of the Court, material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed only to the
following persons:
(a)
The named parties, including designated company representatives
Alan Wiener, Dr. Robert Carroll and Alvin Siteman for Defendant and Dennis
Byrnes for Plaintiff, all of which shall sign the “ACKNOWLEDGMENT” attached
hereto as Exhibit “A,” and the attorneys working on the above-captioned litigation
on behalf of any party, including attorneys consulting with or advising any party to
the above-captioned litigation, in-house attorneys, paralegals, and staff,
stenographic and clerical employees and contractors working under the direct
supervision of such counsel;
(b)
Any expert or consultant who is expressly retained by any attorney
described in Paragraph 8(a) to assist in the above-captioned litigation, with
disclosure only to the extent reasonably necessary to perform such work, which
expert or consultant shall sign the “ACKNOWLEDGMENT” attached hereto as
Exhibit “A”;
(c)
Any fact witness, including named parties, provided, however, that
the witness (i) shall be permitted to use any documents marked as
“CONFIDENTIAL” only in preparation for and during depositions, hearings and
trial, (ii) shall be informed, prior to being shown materials marked as
“CONFIDENTIAL” that he/she is being shown such materials solely for use in this
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litigation and (iii) shall sign the “ACKNOWLEDGMENT” attached hereto as
Exhibit “A”;
(d)
Any individual who either prepared the document or is identified on
the face of the document as an addressee or copy addressee;
(e)
Any other person upon order of the Court or upon prior written
consent of the disclosing party; and
(f)
The Court, jury, court personnel, court reporters, and other persons
connected with the Court.
9.
The persons described in Paragraphs 8(a)—(e) shall have access to
“CONFIDENTIAL” material only after they have been made aware of the provisions of
this Order (including, without limitation, Paragraph 7). Counsel shall retain copies of the
signed “ACKNOWLEDGMENT” forms until the completion of the above-captioned
litigation. Any person receiving “CONFIDENTIAL” material is enjoined from disclosing
that material to any other person, except in conformance with this Order. The parties
shall act in good faith to eliminate, whenever possible, the expenditure of “on the
record” time to effectuate or confirm compliance with this Paragraph at any deposition.
10.
A list shall be maintained by counsel for the parties hereto of the names of
all persons, except for counsel and their support personnel, to whom any
“CONFIDENTIAL” material is disclosed, or to whom the information contained therein is
disclosed. Upon a good faith showing by a party that this Order has been violated, the
Court may review such lists if necessary and appropriate to address or resolve the
purported violation.
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11.
This Court shall retain jurisdiction over this Order, including any
proceedings relating to performance under or compliance with the Order. Individuals
who receive “CONFIDENTIAL” material shall be subject to this Order and to the
jurisdiction of this Court concerning this Order.
12.
The recipient of any “CONFIDENTIAL” material that is provided under this
Order shall maintain such material in a secure and safe area and shall exercise the
same standard of due and proper care with respect to the storage, custody, use and/or
dissemination of such material as is exercised by the recipient with respect to its own
proprietary material. “CONFIDENTIAL” material shall not be copied, reproduced,
summarized, extracted or abstracted, except to the extent that such copying,
reproduction, summarization, extraction or abstraction is reasonably necessary for the
conduct of this lawsuit. All such copies, reproductions, summarizations, extractions, and
abstractions shall be subject to the terms of the Order and labeled in the same manner
as the designated material on which they are based.
13.
Disclosing parties shall designate “CONFIDENTIAL” material as follows:
(a)
In the case of documents, interrogatory answers, responses to
requests for admissions, and the information contained therein, designation shall
be made, as appropriate under the terms of this Stipulation and Order, by placing
the following legend on each page of any such document: “CONFIDENTIAL.” In
the event that a disclosing party inadvertently fails to stamp or otherwise
designate a document or other material as “CONFIDENTIAL” at the time of its
production, that disclosing party may stamp or otherwise designate the document
or other material as “CONFIDENTIAL” at any reasonable time thereafter. The
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delay in designating a document as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall not, in and of itself,
be deemed to have effected a waiver of any of the protections of this Order, but
such document or other material shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” only
beginning at the time such designation occurs, provided, however, that the
foregoing provision shall not apply to any documents or material that had already
been made publicly available prior to the designation.
(b)
“CONFIDENTIAL”
material
may
be
used
in
depositions.
Designation of the portion of the deposition transcript (including exhibits) that
contains “CONFIDENTIAL” material shall be made by a statement to such effect
on the record in the course of the deposition or, upon review of such transcript,
by the disclosing party or counsel for the disclosing party to whose
“CONFIDENTIAL” material the deponent has had access, which shall be so
designated within twenty one (21) days after the deposition. During those twenty
one days, the entire deposition transcript, including exhibits, shall be deemed
“CONFIDENTIAL.”
(c)
Any “CONFIDENTIAL” material produced in a non-paper media
(e.g., videotape, audiotape, computer disc, etc.) may be designated as such by
labeling the outside of such non-paper media as “CONFIDENTIAL” and
producing this material in a sealed envelope. In the event a receiving party
generates any electronic copy, “hard copy,” transcription, or printout from any
such designated non-paper media, such party must treat each copy,
transcription, or printout as “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to the terms of this Order.
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14.
Nothing in this Order shall be taken as indicating that any information is in
fact “CONFIDENTIAL” or entitled to confidential treatment. No party shall be obligated
to challenge the propriety of a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation at the time made, and a
failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto, nor shall a party that
has designated materials or information as “CONFIDENTIAL” contend that any delay by
another party in objecting to the designating party’s “CONFIDENTIAL” designation in
any way (a) lends support to the designating party’s “CONFIDENTIAL” designation or
(b) invalidates or diminishes in any way the objecting party’s challenge of the
“CONFIDENTIAL” designation for any such materials or information. In the event that
any party disagrees at any stage of these proceedings with such designation, counsel
for such party shall notify counsel for the disclosing party in writing (the “Notice”). The
objecting party shall identify each particular document bearing a designation to which it
objects and shall specify the reason(s) for the objection, provided that the party
challenging the “CONFIDENTIAL” designation may identify multiple documents by
Bates number (whether in a range of consecutive numbers or otherwise) in its Notice
when the reason or reasons for challenging the “CONFIDENTIAL” designation apply in
the same manner to the documents identified in the Notice. Within seven (7) calendar
days of the receipt of the Notice, counsel for the parties (and any non-party involved)
shall promptly schedule a date and time to meet and confer to attempt to resolve such
dispute in good faith on an informal basis consistent with the requirement to confer in
good faith under Rule 26(c)(1) and Rule 37(a)(1). If the dispute cannot be resolved, the
party that designated the materials in question as “CONFIDENTIAL” may request
appropriate relief from the Court, and the objecting party may also request any relief
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from the Court that it deems appropriate (which shall have first been raised no later than
during the parties’ meet and confer session(s)) in its opposition to the designating
party’s motion or other proposed method of seeking relief from the Court. The materials
in question shall retain their “CONFIDENTIAL” status until the Court rules on any such
motion so long as the party that designated the materials in question as
“CONFIDENTIAL” seeks relief from the Court within: (i) thirty (30) days of the date the
parties initially met and conferred, if the disagreement pertains to fewer than ten
documents; or (ii) forty five (45) days of the date the parties initially met and conferred, if
the disagreement pertains to ten or more documents. The parties (and any non-party
involved) may agree to extend the time for the disclosing party to apply to the Court for
relief. If the designating party does not apply to the Court for a ruling on the designation
of discovery material as “CONFIDENTIAL” within the time period prescribed herein or
agreed to by the parties, the discovery material will no longer be deemed
“CONFIDENTIAL.” The designating party may request a telephonic hearing with respect
to the “CONFIDENTIAL” status of materials.
Nothing in this Order shall alter the burden on the disclosing party to establish
the “CONFIDENTIAL” status of information it has so designated.
15.
Documents containing “CONFIDENTIAL” material shall not be filed with
the Court unless the filing party reasonably believes it is necessary to do so for
purposes of trial, motions (including without limitation, motions for preliminary injunction
or summary judgment) or other Court matters. A party seeking to file “CONFIDENTIAL”
material must follow the procedures set forth in NECivR 7.5 or NECivR 5.3(c) so that
they are filed under seal or with restricted access.
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17.
In the event that any “CONFIDENTIAL” material is used in any Court
proceeding in connection with this litigation, it shall not lose its “CONFIDENTIAL” status
through such use, and the parties shall take all steps reasonably required to protect its
confidentiality during such use. In particular, while a motion to seal is pending and
before the Court has ruled, no party shall make use in open court of any documents that
are subject to that motion to seal without the consent of the designating party or the
permission of the Court.
18.
If “CONFIDENTIAL” material is disclosed to any person other than in the
manner authorized by this Order, the person or party responsible for the disclosure
must seasonably bring all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure to the attention of all
attorneys of record in the above-captioned action and, without prejudice to any other
rights and remedies of the parties or non-parties, make every effort to prevent further
disclosure by it or by the person who was the recipient of such material.
19.
Nothing in this Order shall preclude any parties or non-parties to the
lawsuit or their attorneys (a) from showing a document or part of a document
designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” to an individual who either prepared the document or
is identified on the face of the document as an addressee or copy addressee, or
(b) from disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any material or
documents from the disclosing party’s own files which the disclosing party itself has
designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
20.
In the event any receiving party having possession, custody or control of
any “CONFIDENTIAL” material receives a subpoena, request for production of
documents, or other process or order to produce such material in another, unrelated
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legal proceeding, from a non-party to the above-captioned litigation, such receiving
party shall:
(a)
give prompt written notice of the subpoena, request for production
of documents, or other process or order to counsel for the disclosing party that
designated the material as “CONFIDENTIAL”;
(b)
furnish counsel for that disclosing party with a copy of said
subpoena, request for production of documents, or other process or order; and
(c)
cooperate with respect to all reasonable and legitimate procedures
sought to be pursued by the disclosing party whose interests may be affected.
The disclosing party asserting the “CONFIDENTIAL” treatment shall have the burden of
defending against such subpoena, process or order. The party receiving the subpoena,
request for production of documents, or other process or order shall be entitled to
comply with it except to the extent the disclosing party asserting the “CONFIDENTIAL”
treatment is successful in obtaining an order modifying or quashing the subpoena,
request for production of documents, or other process or order, provided, however, that
the party receiving the subpoena, request for production of documents, or other process
shall await the disposition of any motion to quash or motion for a protective order timely
filed by the disclosing party before producing any “CONFIDENTIAL” information in
response to the subpoena, request for production of documents, or other process or
order unless a court orders compliance with the subpoena, request for production or
other process, or unless awaiting the disposition of any motion to quash or motion for
protective order may subject the party receiving the discovery request to sanctions or
being held in contempt of court.
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21.
captioned
The inadvertent production in the course of discovery in the abovelitigation
of
any
documents
or
material
(whether
designated
as
“CONFIDENTIAL” or not) shall not be deemed to waive whatever attorney client
privilege, work product protection or other privilege or immunity that would otherwise
attach to those documents or material produced or to other documents or material, so
long as the disclosing party notifies the other party or parties of the claim of privilege or
other protection or immunity. Upon receipt of such notice, all other parties shall
(regardless of whether they agree with the disclosing party’s claim of privilege or
protection) promptly:
(a)
destroy or segregate all copies of the inadvertently produced
documents or material in such party’s possession, custody, or control, and notify
the disclosing party that it has done so; and
(b)
notify the disclosing party that reasonable steps have been taken to
retrieve and/or destroy the inadvertently produced documents or material from
other persons to whom such documents or material have been provided, if any,
consistent with Rule 26(b)(5)(B). Compliance with this Paragraph 21 does not,
and shall not be deemed to, constitute agreement that the claimed document or
material is in fact privileged or entitled to protection or immunity.
22.
The parties shall comply with their ethical and legal obligations concerning
the actual or apparent inadvertent production of privileged or protected information,
including by notifying promptly a disclosing party when appropriate.
23.
Within sixty (60) days of the termination of litigation between the parties,
including final appellate action or the expiration of time to appeal or seek further review,
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all “CONFIDENTIAL” material produced by a disclosing party, and all copies thereof,
shall (at the request of the disclosing party) be returned to the disclosing party or
destroyed. If destroyed, counsel shall certify the destruction and provide a copy of the
certification to the disclosing party. Counsel for each disclosing party shall be entitled to
retain all pleadings, motion papers, other court filings (excluding materials designated
as “CONFIDENTIAL”), legal memoranda, correspondence and work product.
24.
Except as specifically provided herein, the terms, conditions, and
limitations of this Order shall survive the termination of the above-captioned litigation.
25.
This Order is without prejudice to the right of any party or non-party to
seek relief from the Court from any of the provisions contained herein.
26.
This Order shall not be construed as waiving any right to assert a claim of
privilege, relevance, overbreadth, burdensomeness or other grounds for not producing
material called for, and access to all material (whether designated as “CONFIDENTIAL”
or not) shall be only as provided by the discovery rules and other applicable law.
27.
The parties will abide by all Court orders and statutory provisions
(including applicable law and/or court orders concerning such provisions) concerning
the eligibility of each party to receive documents or other material through discovery.
Any party that is eligible to receive such documents or material shall not provide any
documents or material, or information that is contained in or derived from such
documents or material, to any other party unless the other party also is eligible to
receive such documents or material. Nothing in this Paragraph, however, shall be read
to prevent the parties from filing documents in support of or in opposition to motions in
this Court.
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DATED October 9, 2014.
BY THE COURT:
S/ F.A. Gossett
United States Magistrate Judge
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EXHIBIT “A”
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA
ACI WORLDWIDE CORP.,
Case No. CI 14-0249
Plaintiff,
v.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CHURCHILL LANE ASSOCIATES, LLC,
Defendant.
I, _________________________, do hereby acknowledge that I have received
and read a copy of the attached Stipulated Protective Order, and I agree to be bound by
the terms of the Order, and to be subject to the jurisdiction of this Court for enforcement
of all terms of the Order and for judicial action for any violation of the Order.
DATED this ______ day of __________ 2014.
_________________________________________
Relationship to this lawsuit: ________________
STATE OF ____________ )
) ss.
COUNTY OF __________ )
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______ day of __________ 2014.
_________________________________________
Notary Public
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