Equalia, LLC v. Kushgo LLC et al

Filing 65

ORDER Granting 64 Stipulated Electronically Stored Information Production Order. Signed by Judge Richard F. Boulware, II on 02/13/2017. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - NEV)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 Attorneys for Plaintiffs EQUALIA, LLC and HOVERBOARD TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 10 A Professional Corporation San Francisco Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 8 STEPHEN J. ERIGERO (SBN 11562) TIMOTHY J. LEPORE (SBN 13908) LAEL D. ANDARA (California SBN 215416) MARIE E. SOBIESKI (California SBN 278008) ROPERS, MAJESKI, KOHN & BENTLEY 3753 Howard Hughes Pkwy., Suite 200 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Telephone: (702) 954-8300 Facsimile: (650) 780-1701 Email: stephen.erigero@rmkb.com timothy.lepore@rmkb.com lael.andara@rmkb.com marie.sobieski@rmkb.com UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 EQUALIA, LLC, a California limited liability company, and HOVERBOARD TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, a California corporation, Plaintiffs, v. CASE NO. 2:16-cv-02851-RFB-CWH [PROPOSED] STIPULATED ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION PRODUCTION ORDER KUSHGO LLC dba HALO BOARD, a California limited liability company; HALO BOARD LLC, an Oregon limited liability company; ARTHUR ANDREASYAN, an individual; and SHENZHEN WINDGOO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., a foreign company, 22 Defendants. 23 24 Plaintiffs EQUALIA, LLC and HOVERBOARD TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, 25 and Defendants KUSHGO LLC dba HALO BOARD and ARTHUR ANDREASYAN, through 26 their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and agree, subject to Court approval, to the following 27 terms governing discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in this case: 28 4837-3627-1426.1 -1- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - 16-CV-02851 1 1. 2 This Stipulated Order will govern discovery of ESI in this case as a supplement to the PURPOSE Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, this Court’s LR 1-1, and any other applicable orders and rules. 4 The parties desire to control and focus the production of ESI to the needs of the case to promote a 5 “just, speedy, and inexpensive determination” of this action, as required by Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 1. 6 Absent a showing of good cause, general ESI production requests under Federal Rules of 7 Civil Procedure 34 and 45, or compliance with a mandatory disclosure requirement of this Court, 8 shall not include all metadata. However, fields showing the date and time that the document was 9 sent and received, as well as the complete distribution list, shall generally be included in the 10 A Professional Corporation San Francisco Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 3 production if such fields exist. 11 2. 12 The parties are aware of the importance the Court places on cooperation and commit to COOPERATION 13 cooperate in good faith throughout the matter. A party’s meaningful compliance with this 14 stipulation and efforts to promote efficiency and reduce costs will be considered in cost-shifting 15 determinations. 16 3. 17 The parties have discussed their preservation obligations and needs, and agree that 18 preservation of potentially relevant ESI will be reasonable and proportionate. To reduce the costs 19 and burdens of preservation and to ensure proper ESI is preserved, the parties agree that: 20 a) PRESERVATION The parties have agreed to exchange a list of the types of ESI they believe should 21 be preserved and the custodians, or general job titles or descriptions of custodians, for whom they 22 believe ESI should be preserved, e.g., “HR head,” “expert,” and “marketing manager.” The 23 parties shall add or remove custodians as reasonably necessary; and 24 25 b) The parties have agreed that the number of custodians per party for whom ESI will be preserved will be five per party. 26 4. 27 The parties agree that in responding to an initial Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 request, or earlier if 28 appropriate, they will meet and confer about appropriate search terms to search ESI in order to 4837-3627-1426.1 SEARCH TERMS -2- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - 16-CV-02851 1 identify ESI that is subject to production in discovery and filter out ESI that is not subject to 2 discovery. 3 5. 4 The parties agree pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 (b)(2)(E)(i) that the presumption is that PRODUCTION FORMATS data will be produced in native format (i.e., the same form it is used or kept in the normal course 6 of business), and pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 1 to use commercially reasonable efforts to produce 7 the information electronically consistent with Fed. R. Civ. P. 1. The parties further agree that 8 emails, spreadsheets, videos, animations, audio files, and presentations that include video, 9 animation, or audio shall be produced where practical in native format. To the extent that 10 A Professional Corporation San Francisco Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 5 documents produced in native format cannot be rendered or viewed without the use of proprietary 11 software, the parties shall meet and confer to minimize any expense or burden associated with the 12 review of such documents, including issues as may arise with respect to obtaining access to any 13 such software or operating manuals. 14 ESI not produced in native format and amenable to being imaged will be produced as 15 images on optical disks (i.e., CDs or DVDs) or external hard drives accompanied by load files. 16 Each image will bear a unique production number and any applicable confidentiality language 17 pursuant to the Protective Order used in this litigation. ESI produced in this manner will be 18 accompanied by load files with searchable text (including electronically extracted text or, if 19 electronically extracted text is unavailable, OCR text) and shall include: 20 • Unitization (including the production number of the first and last page of each file); 21 • Attachments (including information sufficient to identify the parent and child 22 relationships of all documents and ESI that are or have attachments); 23 • Confidentiality (including any designation pursuant to the Protective Order); 24 • Source information (the identity of the custodian, or, if none, a generalized location); 25 26 and • System metadata will be maintained and provided with the native files. The following 27 information will not be removed or scrubbed from the produced files: including 28 author, file size, file type, date created, date modified, title, sender (“from”), primary 4837-3627-1426.1 -3- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - 16-CV-02851 1 recipient (“to”), courtesy copy (“cc”), blind courtesy copy (“bcc”), subject, sent 2 time/date, received time/date, last modification time, and read status. Paper documents amenable to being imaged will be produced as images on optical disks 4 (i.e., CDs or DVDs) or external hard drives accompanied by load files. Paper documents may be 5 produced in black-and-white or color, but if a producing party intends to rely in any brief or 6 hearing on an aspect of a document that requires review in color, the party shall produce that 7 document in color. Each image will bear a unique production number and any applicable 8 confidentiality language pursuant to the Protective Order used in this litigation. Paper documents 9 produced in this manner will be accompanied by load files with searchable text. If a party desires 10 A Professional Corporation San Francisco Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 3 additional information about a particular paper document produced in this form the parties will 11 meet and confer regarding the appropriate means to supply the additional information. 12 If a party identifies responsive documents or information in a form that cannot reasonably 13 be produced in its native format or imaged, that party shall inform the requesting party of the 14 existence of such records. The parties shall then meet and confer regarding the appropriate means 15 for producing or permitting inspection of such records. 16 If a party learns of responsive documents or information that are not reasonably 17 accessible, or if a party learns facts that cause the party to suspect that responsive documents or 18 information are present in a location or form that is not reasonably accessible, that party shall 19 inform the requesting party of the existence of such records or of the reasons for its suspicions 20 that such records may exist. The parties shall then meet and confer regarding the appropriateness 21 of producing or permitting inspection of such records, and of any appropriate cost sharing. The 22 parties agree not to degrade the searchability of documents as part of the document production 23 process. 24 6. 25 Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the production of a privileged or work-product-protected DOCUMENTS PROTECTED FROM DISCOVERY 26 document, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of privilege or protection from 27 discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. For example, the mere 28 production of privileged or work-product-protected documents in this case as part of a mass 4837-3627-1426.1 -4- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - 16-CV-02851 1 production is not itself a waiver in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. The 2 parties agree that privileged and/or work-product-protected communication to or from trial 3 counsel post-dating the filing of the Complaint need not be placed on a privilege log. 4 7. 5 This Stipulated Order may be modified by a Stipulated Request of the parties, subject to 6 7 MODIFICATION Court approval, or by the Court for good cause shown. IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 9 10 A Professional Corporation San Francisco Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 8 Dated: February 9, 2017 ROPERS, MAJESKI, KOHN & BENTLEY 11 By: /s/ Lael D. Andara STEPHEN J. ERIGERO TIMOTHY J. LEPORE LAEL D. ANDARA MARIE E. SOBIESKI Attorneys for Plaintiffs EQUALIA, LLC and HOVERBOARD TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 12 13 14 15 16 17 Dated: February 9, 2017 18 By: /s/ Steven Rinehart STEVEN RINEHART PHILLIP RINEHART Attorneys for Defendants KUSHGO LLC, ARTHUR ANDREASYAN, and HALO BOARD LLC 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4837-3627-1426.1 -5- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - 16-CV-02851 1 2 3 4 [PROPOSED] ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: The Parties’ Stipulated Request for an Order Governing Discovery of Electronically Stored Information is adopted. 5 6 ________________________________ ______________________ Dated: ____________, 2017 7 9 10 A Professional Corporation Redwood City Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4837-3627-1426.1 -1- STIPULATED REQUEST FOR ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION

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