Terra Gold Farms Inc v. Unigard Insurance Company

Filing 13

ORDER DENYING 12 Stipulated Motion for Protective Order. Signed by Judge Stanley A Bastian. (SK, Case Administrator)

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FILED IN THE
U.S. DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON

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Mar 19, 2018

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SEAN F. MCAVOY, CLERK

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON

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8 TERRA GOLD FARMS, INC.,
Plaintiff,

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No. 2:17-cv-00326-SAB

v.

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11 UNIGARD INSURANCE COMPANY,
Defendant.

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ORDER DENYING
STIPULATED MOTION FOR
PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Before the Court is the parties’ Stipulated Protective Order Re: Confidential

15 Documents, ECF No. 12. The motion was heard without oral argument.
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The parties ask the Court to sign a Protective Order that was drafted and
17 agreed to by the parties. It is this Court’s practice to not enter general Protective
18 Orders that simply set forth the parties’ agreement for handling “confidential”
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The parties are free to contract between themselves regarding disclosure of
21 information produced in discovery, and pursue appropriate remedies in the event of
22 breach; however, the Court will not be party to such an agreement. If, in the future,
23 the parties wish to file specific items of discovery in the court record and protect
24 such items from public access, the Court will entertain an application for a
25 narrowly tailored protective order.
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ORDER DENYING STIPULATED MOTION FOR
PROTECTIVE ORDER + 1

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Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

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1. The parties’ Stipulated Protective Order Re: Confidential Documents,

3 ECF No. 12, is DENIED.
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IT IS SO ORDERED. The District Court Executive is hereby directed to

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DATED this 19th day of March 2018.

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Stanley A. Bastian

United States District Judge

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