Boule v. Egbert et al

Filing 16

MODEL STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER; re parties' 15 Stipulation, signed by Judge Ricardo S Martinez. (SWT)

Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE

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ROBERT BOULE,
No. 2:17-cv-00106-RSM

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Plaintiff,

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v.

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ERIK EGBERT and JANE DOE EGBERT
and their marital community,

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Defendants.

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ERIK EGBERT,

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Counterclaimant,

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v.

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MODEL STIPULATED PROTECTIVE
ORDER

ROBERT BOULE,
Counterdefendant.

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PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or

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private information for which special protection may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties

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hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order.

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The parties acknowledge that this agreement is consistent with LCR 26(c). It does not confer

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blanket protection on all disclosures or responses to discovery, the protection it affords from

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public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to

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confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles, and it does not presumptively

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entitle parties to file confidential information under seal.

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2.

“CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL

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“Confidential” material shall include the following documents and tangible things

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produced or otherwise exchanged: Plaintiff’s medical records; Plaintiff’s tax records; Agent

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Egbert’s employment records, including job applications, performance reviews, materials

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created during any internal-affairs investigation, and any disciplinary records; Agent Egbert’s

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insurance records, including insurance policies; communications between the parties and the

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federal government; and any other document a party designates as confidential.

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3.

SCOPE

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The protections conferred by this agreement cover not only confidential material (as

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defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from confidential material;

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(2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of confidential material; and (3) any

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testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or their counsel that might reveal

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confidential material.
However, the protections conferred by this agreement do not cover information that is

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in the public domain or becomes part of the public domain through trial or otherwise.

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4.

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ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL
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Basic Principles. A receiving party may use confidential material that is

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disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for

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prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Confidential material may be

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disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this

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agreement. Confidential material must be stored and maintained by a receiving party at a

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location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized

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under this agreement.

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4.2

Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise

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ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may

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disclose any confidential material only to:
(a)

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the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as

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employees of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

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litigation;
(b)

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the officers, directors, and employees (including in house counsel) of

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the receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, unless the

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parties agree that a particular document or material produced is for Attorney’s Eyes Only and

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is so designated;
(c)

experts and consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for

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(d)

the court, court personnel, and court reporters and their staff;

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(e)

copy or imaging services retained by counsel to assist in the duplication

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this litigation;

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of confidential material, provided that counsel for the party retaining the copy or imaging

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service instructs the service not to disclose any confidential material to third parties and to

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immediately return all originals and copies of any confidential material;

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(f)

during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

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reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

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Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the designating party or ordered by the court.

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Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal confidential

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material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone

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except as permitted under this agreement;
(g)

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the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.
4.3

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Filing Confidential Material. Before filing confidential material or discussing

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or referencing such material in court filings, the filing party shall confer with the designating

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party to determine whether the designating party will remove the confidential designation,

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whether the document can be redacted, or whether a motion to seal or stipulation and proposed

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order is warranted. Local Civil Rule 5(g) sets forth the procedures that must be followed and

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the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material

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under seal.

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5.

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DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
5.1

Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each

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party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this agreement

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must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the

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appropriate standards. The designating party must designate for protection only those parts of

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material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify, so that other

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portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not

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warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this agreement.

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are

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shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to

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unnecessarily encumber or delay the case development process or to impose unnecessary

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expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the designating party to sanctions.

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If it comes to a designating party’s attention that information or items that it designated

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for protection do not qualify for protection, the designating party must promptly notify all other

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parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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5.2

Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this

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agreement (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or

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ordered, disclosure or discovery material that qualifies for protection under this agreement

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must be clearly so designated before or when the material is disclosed or produced.

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(a)

Information in documentary form: (e.g., paper or electronic documents

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and deposition exhibits, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial

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proceedings), the designating party must affix the word “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that

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contains confidential material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies

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for protection, the producing party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by

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making appropriate markings in the margins).

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(b)

Testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial proceedings: the

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parties and any participating non-parties must identify on the record, during the deposition or

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other pretrial proceeding, all protected testimony, without prejudice to their right to so

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designate other testimony after reviewing the transcript. Any party or non-party may, within

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fifteen days after receiving the transcript of the deposition or other pretrial proceeding,

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designate portions of the transcript, or exhibits thereto, as confidential. If a party or non-party

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desires to protect confidential information at trial, the issue should be addressed during the pre-

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trial conference.

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(c)

Other tangible items: the producing party must affix in a prominent

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place on the exterior of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored

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the word “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant

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protection, the producing party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

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5.3

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Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to

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designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the designating party’s

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right to secure protection under this agreement for such material. Upon timely correction of a

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designation, the receiving party must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the material is

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treated in accordance with the provisions of this agreement.

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CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
6.1

Timing of Challenges. Any party or non-party may challenge a designation of

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confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a designating party’s confidentiality

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designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic

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burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a party does not waive its right to

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challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the

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original designation is disclosed.

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6.2

Meet and Confer. The parties must make every attempt to resolve any dispute

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regarding confidential designations without court involvement. Any motion regarding

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confidential designations or for a protective order must include a certification, in the motion

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or in a declaration or affidavit, that the movant has engaged in a good faith meet and confer

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conference with other affected parties in an effort to resolve the dispute without court action.

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The certification must list the date, manner, and participants to the conference. A good faith

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effort to confer requires a face-to-face meeting or a telephone conference.

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6.3

Judicial Intervention. If the parties cannot resolve a challenge without court

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intervention, the designating party may file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under

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Local Civil Rule 7 (and in compliance with Local Civil Rule 5(g), if applicable). The burden

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of persuasion in any such motion shall be on the designating party. Frivolous challenges, and

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those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and

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burdens on other parties) may expose the challenging party to sanctions. All parties shall

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continue to maintain the material in question as confidential until the court rules on the

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challenge.

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OTHER LITIGATION

PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN

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If a party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that

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compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as

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“CONFIDENTIAL,” that party must:
(a)

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promptly notify the designating party in writing and include a copy of

the subpoena or court order;
(b)

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promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order

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to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order

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is subject to this agreement. Such notification shall include a copy of this agreement; and
(c)

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cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued

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by the designating party whose confidential material may be affected.

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UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed

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confidential material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this agreement,

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the receiving party must immediately (a) notify in writing the designating party of the

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unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the

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protected material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were

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made of all the terms of this agreement, and (d) request that such person or persons execute

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the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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INADVERTENT

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PRODUCTION

OF

PRIVILEGED

OR

OTHERWISE

PROTECTED MATERIAL

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When a producing party gives notice to receiving parties that certain inadvertently

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produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the

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receiving parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This

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provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery

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order or agreement that provides for production without prior privilege review. The parties

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agree to the entry of a non-waiver order under Fed. R. Evid. 502(d) as set forth herein.

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NON TERMINATION AND RETURN OF DOCUMENTS

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Within 60 days after the termination of this action, including all appeals, each receiving

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party must delete or destroy all confidential material that was disclosed or produced by another

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party or by a non-party in connection with this case, including all copies, extracts and

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summaries thereof.

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Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain one archival copy of all

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documents filed with the court, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, correspondence,

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deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert

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work product, even if such materials contain confidential material.

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The confidentiality obligations imposed by this agreement shall remain in effect until
a designating party agrees otherwise in writing or a court orders otherwise.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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DATED: July 5, 2017

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PAUKERT & TROPPMANN, PLLC
Attorneys for Plaintiff
By:

MILLS MEYERS SWARTLING P.S.
Attorneys for Agent Erik Egbert

s/Breean L. Beggs per 6/30/17
By:
e-mail authority
Breean L. Beggs, WSBA No. 20795
Paukert & Troppmann, PLLC
522 W Riverside Ave, Ste 560
Spokane, WA 99201
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

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s/Nikki C. Carsley
Geoffrey Grindeland, WSBA No. 35798
Nikki C. Carsley, WSBA No. 46650
Mills Meyers Swartling P.S.
1000 2nd Avenue, 30th Floor
Seattle, WA 98104
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
[e-mail]

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the production of
any documents in this proceeding shall not, for the purposes of this proceeding or any other
proceeding in any other court, constitute a waiver by the producing party of any privilege
applicable to those documents, including the attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product
protection, or any other privilege or protection recognized by law.

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DATED: July 10, 2017

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RICARDO S. MARTINEZ
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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I, ____________________________________ [print or type full name], of

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____________________________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty

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of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that

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was issued by the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington on

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__________________ in the case of Robert Boule v. Erik Egbert, et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-

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00106-RSM. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated

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Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me

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to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not

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disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective

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Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.

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I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the

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Western District of Washington for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated

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Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

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Date:

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City and State where sworn and signed:

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Printed name:

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Signature:

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