Rosco et al v. Equifax Information Services et al

Filing 238

ORDER granting 221 Motion for Protective Order. Signed by Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson. (SK, Case Administrator)

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 6 7 RUSSELL D. ROSCO and BONNIE R. ROSCO, NO: 2:15-CV-325-RMP 8 Plaintiffs, 9 10 11 12 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES; EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS; FIRST BANK MORTGAGE; and ADVANTAGE GROUP, Defendants. 13 14 15 BEFORE THE COURT is Defendant Equifax’s Motion for a Protective 16 Order, ECF No. 221. The Court has reviewed the motion, the record, and is fully 17 informed. 18 Equifax seeks a Protective Order in order to provide discovery while 19 protecting confidential and proprietary information. Plaintiffs object to the motion 20 and argue that it should be “dismissed as moot” because they allege that they sent a 21 version of the proposed protective order to Equifax with their changes. ECF No. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER ~ 1 1 229. The Court has reviewed Plaintiffs’ proposed protective order and finds that 2 Plaintiffs misrepresent the nature of their changes. Plaintiffs stated that “Plaintiffs 3 deleted the first paragraph and made minor changes to the last paragraph. The rest 4 of the protective order was not changed by the Plaintiffs.” Id. at 1. A comparison 5 of the two proposed protective orders demonstrates more significant changes that 6 the Court rejects. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Therefore, the Court finds good cause to grant Equifax’s request. The Court will enter a Protective Order as a separate docket entry. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: Defendant Equifax’s Motion for a Protective Order, ECF No. 221, is GRANTED. The District Court Clerk is directed to enter this Order and provide copies to counsel and to pro se Plaintiffs. DATED June 13, 2017. s/ Rosanna Malouf Peterson ROSANNA MALOUF PETERSON United States District Judge 17 18 19 20 21 ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER ~ 2 ATTACHMENT A 1 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 4 5 The undersigned hereby acknowledges that he/she has read the Protective Order in the above-captioned action, understands the terms thereof, and agrees to be 6 7 bound by its terms. The undersigned submits to the jurisdiction of the United States 8 District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in matters relating to the 9 Protective Order and understands that the terms of the Protective Order obligate 10 him/her to use materials designated as CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the 11 12 13 14 Order solely for the purposes of the above-captioned action, and not to disclose any such materials designated as CONFIDENTIAL to any other person, firm, or concern. The undersigned acknowledges that violation of the Protective Order may 15 result in penalties for contempt of court. 16 17 18 19 Name: Address: 20 21 22 Date: 23 Signature: 24 25 26 7 Page 18

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