Vieyra v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.
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JOINT STIPULATED FED. R. EVID. 502(d) ORDER GOVERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEDGED INFORMATION- The parties' Joint Motion for Stipulated 502(d) Order Governing the Disclosure of Privileged Information 14 is granted. Ordered by Magistrate Judge Susan M. Bazis. (MKR)
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA
Justin Vieyra,
Plaintiff,
v.
Union Pacific Railroad Company,
CASE NO. 8:20-cv-00328
JOINT STIPULATED FED. R. EVID.
502(d) ORDER GOVERNING THE
DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED
INFORMATION
Defendant.
THIS MATTER is before the Court on the parties’ Joint Motion for Stipulated 502(d) Order
Governing the Disclosure of Privileged Information. (Filing No. 14.) The motion is granted.
Accordingly,
The Court enters the following Stipulated Order Governing the Disclosure of Privileged
Information governing the disclosure of confidential Discovery Material by a Producing Party to
a Receiving Party in this Action.
I.
APPLICABILITY
1.
This Order shall be applicable to and govern all deposition transcripts and/or
videotapes, and documents produced in response to requests for production of documents, answers
to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, affidavits, declarations and all other
information or material produced, made available for inspection, or otherwise submitted by any of
the parties in this litigation as well as testimony adduced at trial or during any hearing (collectively
“Information”).
II.
PRODUCTION OF DISCOVERY MATERIALS CONTAINING POTENTIALLY
PRIVILEGED INFORMATION
2.
The production of any privileged or otherwise protected or exempted Information,
as well as the production of Information without an appropriate designation of confidentiality,
shall not be deemed a waiver or impairment of any claim of privilege or protection, including, but
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not limited to, the attorney-client privilege, the protection afforded to work product materials, or
the subject matter thereof, or the confidential nature of any such Information, as to the produced
Information, or any other Information.
3.
The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, electronically
stored information ("ESI") or information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of the
privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. This
Order shall be interpreted to provide the protection allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d).
4.
The producing party must notify the receiving party promptly, in writing, upon
discovery that a document has been produced. Upon receiving written notice from the producing
party that privileged and/or work product material has been produced, all such information, and
all copies thereof, shall be returned to the producing party within ten (10) business days of receipt
of such notice and the receiving party shall not use such information for any purpose, except as
provided in paragraph 5, until further Order of the Court. The receiving party shall also attempt,
in good faith, to retrieve and return or destroy all copies of the documents in electronic format.
5.
The receiving party may contest the privilege or work product designation by the
producing party, shall give the producing party written notice of the reason for said disagreement.
In that event, the receiving party shall return the allegedly privileged document and the producing
party shall provide a log entry for the document. The receiving party may not challenge the
privilege or immunity claim by arguing that the disclosure itself is a waiver of any applicable
privilege. In that instance, the receiving party shall, within fifteen (15) business days from the
initial notice by the producing party, seek an Order from the Court compelling the production of
the material. If no such Order is sought, upon expiration of the fifteen (15) day period, then all
copies of the disputed document shall be returned in accordance with this paragraph.
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6.
Any analyses, memoranda or notes which were internally generated based upon
such produced information shall be destroyed in the event that (a) the receiving party does not
contest that the information is privileged, or (b) the Court rules that the information is privileged.
7.
Nothing contained herein is intended to or shall serve to limit a party's right to
conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including metadata) for relevance,
responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information before production.
III.
PRIVILEGE LOGGING
8.
The following documents presumptively need not be included on a privilege log:
a. Written or oral communications between a party and its counsel after
commencement of this litigation and work product material created after
commencement of this litigation.
b. Work product created by outside counsel, or by an agent of outside counsel
other than a party after commencement any litigation.
c. Written or oral communications, made after commencement of this litigation,
between a party and its in-house counsel whose primary role it to manage
litigation.
9.
An email thread for which a party claims a privilege may be logged in a single
entry.
DATED this 13th day of October, 2020.
BY THE COURT:
s/ Susan M. Bazis
United States Magistrate Judge
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