Versaterm Inc. v. City of Seattle et al

Filing 42

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE directing Versaterm and Defendants to show cause as to what issues, if any, remain for trial on February 26, 2018. Responses due within 10 days of this order. Signed by Judge James L. Robart. (PM)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE

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VERSATERM INC.,
Plaintiff,

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CASE NO. C16-1217JLR
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.
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CITY OF SEATTLE, et al.,
Defendants.

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This case arises from nonparty Nolan Hicks’s Washington Public Records Act,

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RCW ch. 42.56, request for Plaintiff Versaterm Inc.’s allegedly proprietary information

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and trade secrets from Defendants City of Seattle and Seattle Police Department

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(collectively, “Defendants”). (See generally Compl. (Dkt. # 1); Am. PI Mot. (Dkt.

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# 15).). On September 13, 2016, the court entered a preliminary injunction preventing

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Defendants from producing, disclosing, or releasing Versaterm’s documents in response

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to Mr. Hicks’s request during the pendency of this action and pending further order of the

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court. (PI (Dkt. # 32) at 2.) At the end of 2016 and through the first quarter of 2017, the

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parties agreed that Versaterm would file a motion for a permanent injunction no later than

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March 31, 2017. (See 12/21/16 Order (Dkt. # 36); 2/21/17 Order (Dkt. # 39); 3/21/17

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Order (Dkt. # 41).) Despite the parties’ agreement on a briefing schedule, Versaterm

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never filed such a motion (see Dkt.), and the dispositive motions deadline passed on

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November 28, 2017 (Sched. Order (Dkt. # 37) at 1).

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Because Versaterm never filed the agreed-upon motion for a permanent injunction

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or any other dispositive motion, the court ORDERS Versaterm and Defendants to show

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cause as to what issues, if any, remain for trial on February 26, 2018. (Id.) The parties

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must each file a response of no more than two (2) pages within ten (10) days of the entry

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of this order. Defendants must file their response jointly.
Dated this 29th day of November, 2017.

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JAMES L. ROBART
United States District Judge

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