Phillips v. C.R. Bard, Inc. et al
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INTERIM CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER. Signed by Magistrate Judge William G. Cobb on 3/1/13. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - JC)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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DISTRICT OF NEVADA
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KEVIN PHILLIPS, an individual,
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Plaintiff,
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vs.
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C.R. BARD, INC., a foreign corporation, )
BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR,
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INC.,
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Defendants.
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3:12-cv-00344-RCJ-WGC
INTERIM CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER
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This Interim Case Management Order addresses multiple discovery issues, including the
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format(s) to be utilized by Defendants C.R. Bard, Inc., and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.,1 in their
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production of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), additional fields of metadata for certain ESI
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documents produced by Bard, the format for production of ESI documents created as Power Point
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presentations and Excel spread sheets, Bard’s databases, identification of custodians and keyword
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searches. These issues arose following the court’s status conference of January 17, 2013 (see Minutes
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at Doc. # 46) conducted on the parties’ Joint Case Management Report (Doc. ## 43, 48); and briefing
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thereon, including, Plaintiff’s motions to compel (Doc. ## 50, 56), Defendants’ responsive memoranda
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(Doc. ## 49, 53) and other filings by the parties (Doc. ## 57, 59, 65, and 72.) The decisions by the
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court as set forth herein follow a hearing on February 22, 2013 (see Minutes at Doc. # 68), where the
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court received arguments of counsel on the aforementioned issues and also received comments,
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suggestions and recommendations of the parties’ ESI consultants, and a hearing on March 1, 2013,
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Defendants C.R. Bard, Inc., and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., shall hereinafter be referred to as Bard.
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where the court received comments and suggestions regarding the contents of this order.
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Now, with good cause appearing, the court enters its Interim Case Management Order, as
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follows:
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I.
Format of Production
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Except for the production of certain documents as set forth herein, Bard’s electronically
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searchable TIFF format will be an acceptable format of production. Power Point presentations and
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Excel spreadsheets shall be produced in “native” format. The court reserves ruling on the required
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format for production of databases, if any. With regard to possible production of Bard databases, the
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parties are to jointly discuss and explore the feasibility of producing databases, including the possible
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production of “IMS Sales database.”
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II.
Additional Fields of Metadata
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Based upon comment and representation of the parties’ ESI consultants, Bard shall produce
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the following additional metadata for all documents produced in TIFF format: Original File Name, File
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Path, Create Date, Internal Create Date, and E-mail Receive Date. In respect to reduplicated ESI, Bard
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shall provide the file path location for all custodians who had the document.
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Custodians
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Bard will provide Plaintiff a comprehensive list of all custodians from whom ESI has already
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been collected by Bard. Bard will further search and produce the custodial files of the twenty (20)
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“priority” Bard custodians who were identified by Plaintiff, using the search terms previously utilized.
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Unless Bard files a timely motion for protective order arguing that these productions would
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impose an undue burden on Bard, these productions will be accomplished within thirty (30) days of
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the date of this order. Bard may seek leave of court to request additional time to accomplish this task.
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In addition, Plaintiff may seek leave of court to include additional custodians on a showing of good
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cause.
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IV.
Additional Search Terms/Keyword Searches
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Plaintiff sought to have Bard utilize certain additional search terms not previously employed
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by Bard. At the February 22, 2013 status conference, the parties’ ESI consultants agreed to meet to
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discuss the reasonable ability of Bard to employ these additional search terms.
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The court, however, did not specify any deadlines for the ESI consultants to complete their
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collaboration, nor did the court enter any deadlines as to when any such additional searches must be
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completed. Bard, in its proposed interim case management report (Doc. # 69), stated that after the
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parties’ consultants meet and confer, and after Bard has applied these new keyword search terms to
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the “priority” custodians, it would advise the court of its ability to comply with the new search
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requests.
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While the court appreciates and accepts Bard’s representations, the court also adopts more
specific deadlines and protocol as proposed by Plaintiff, as follows:
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(1) Plaintiff will provide Bard with a list of further search terms within ten days of the date
of this order;
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(2) Bard will then have ten days to either agree to run the searches, or to explain in writing their
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basis for objecting to the individual keyword searches; for those keyword searches not objected to,
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Bard will have thirty days from the date of receipt of the search terms to provide responsive
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documents, except for documents which contain redactions, in which case Bard will have an additional
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fifteen days to provide those redacted documents. For any search that Bard runs, if Bard intends to
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withhold any document or portion of a document as privileged or subject to the work product doctrine,
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it must provide a corresponding privilege log entry for such document(s) within the thirty day time
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frame it has to provide responsive documents.
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(3) If Bard objects to any designated search terms, the parties will then meet and confer in
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good faith to resolve any disputes. If a satisfactory resolution cannot be reached, Plaintiff will move
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to compel within 12 days of receipt of the written statement explaining Bard’s reasons for refusing to
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employ the designated search terms;
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(4) If supplemental document productions disclose further relevant keywords, Plaintiff may
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designate further keyword searches following the above-described protocol.
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Discovery Deadline and Trial Date
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The parties are reminded that pursuant to their agreement, the new deadline for completion of
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fact discovery is November15, 2013. Expert discovery is to be completed on or before January 14,
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2014. (See Doc. # 73.) The parties are further reminded that in granting the parties’ requested
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extensions, the court stated that there shall be no further extensions and the parties should guide
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themselves accordingly.
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Unless any dispositive motions are still outstanding, the trial of this matter is set for June 3,
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2014, before the Honorable Robert C. Jones, Chief Judge.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
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DATED: March 1, 2013.
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WILLIAM G. COBB
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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