Boule v. Egbert et al

Filing 53

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER ROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT signed by Judge Ricardo S Martinez. (PM)

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1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 ROBERT BOULE, v. 10 11 No. C-17-106-RSM Plaintiff, 9 ERIK EGBERT, et. al., Defendants. 12 13 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT 14 15 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or 16 private information for which special protection may be warranted. Specifically, Plaintiff and 17 Defendant seek discovery of records pertaining to individuals in a “system of records,” as 18 defined by the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(a)(5) (the “Act”), disclosure of which would 19 20 21 22 potentially constitute a violation of criminal and civil law under section 552a(b) of the Act, absent an Order from this Court pursuant to section 552(b)(11) of the Act. Furthermore, since disclosure of such records for purposes other than this litigation could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy, the parties and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) hereby stipulate 23 to and respectfully request that this Court enter the following Stipulated Protective Order 24 restricting the use of such information for purposes of this litigation only. 25 1. 26 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or 27 28 PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS private information for which special protection may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties and CBP and ICE hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 1 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 Protective Order. The parties and CBP and ICE acknowledge that this agreement is consistent 2 with LCR 26(c). It does not confer blanket protection on all disclosures or responses to 3 discovery, the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 4 5 6 7 8 9 information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles, and it does not presumptively entitle parties to file confidential information under seal. 2. “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL “Confidential” material shall include the following documents and tangible things produced or otherwise exchanged: (a) internal CBP and ICE records including, but not limited to, personnel records, 10 medical records, law enforcement records, investigative records, legal records, disciplinary 11 records, and pay/benefits/leave records; 12 13 14 (b) records provided to CBP and ICE, or obtained by CBP and ICE, from other federal, state, or local agencies or organizations; (c) any information that the producing party is obligated by contract or state or federal law to keep confidential; 15 (d) Plaintiff’s medical records; Plaintiff’s tax records; 16 (e) Agent Egbert’s employment records, including job applications, performance 17 reviews, materials created during any internal-affairs investigation, and any disciplinary 18 records; 19 20 21 (f) Agent Egbert’s insurance records, including insurance policies; communications between the parties and the federal government; and any other document a party designates as confidential. Other than protection of Privacy Act protected information, nothing in this Order limits 22 in any way any other restrictions on the release of information, including restrictions on release 23 of classified or privileged information, required or permitted by law. 24 3. 25 The protections conferred by this agreement cover not only confidential material (as 26 27 SCOPE defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from confidential material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of confidential material; and (3) any testimony, 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 2 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 conversations, or presentations by parties or their counsel that might reveal confidential 2 material. However, the protections conferred by this agreement do not cover information that is 3 4 in the public domain or becomes part of the public domain through trial or otherwise. 4. 6 ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL 4.1 5 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use confidential material that is disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for 7 prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Confidential material may be 8 disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this 9 agreement. Confidential material must be stored and maintained by a receiving party at a 10 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 11 under this agreement. 12 13 4.2 ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may disclose any confidential material only to: 14 15 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise (a) the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as employees of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 16 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including in house counsel) of the 17 receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, unless the parties 18 agree that a particular document or material produced is for Attorney’s Eyes Only and is so 19 designated; (c) 21 22 the other party in the litigation; (d) 20 experts and consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 23 (e) the court, court personnel, and court reporters and their staff; 24 (f) copy or imaging services retained by counsel to assist in the duplication of 25 confidential material, provided that counsel for the party retaining the copy or imaging service 26 instructs the service not to disclose any confidential material to third parties and to immediately 27 return all originals and copies of any confidential material; 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 3 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 (g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 2 reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 3 Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the designating party or ordered by the court. 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal confidential material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this agreement; (h) 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 Filing Confidential Material. Before filing confidential material or discussing or referencing such material in court filings, the filing party shall confer with the designating party 10 to determine whether the designating party will remove the confidential designation, whether 11 the document can be redacted, or whether a motion to seal or stipulation and proposed order is 12 13 14 15 warranted. Local Civil Rule 5(g) sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 16 party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this agreement 17 must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 18 appropriate standards. The designating party must designate for protection only those parts of 19 20 21 material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify, so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this agreement. Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 22 shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 23 unnecessarily encumber or delay the case development process or to impose unnecessary 24 expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the designating party to sanctions. 25 26 27 If it comes to a designating party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection, the designating party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 4 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 2 agreement (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or 3 ordered, disclosure or discovery material that qualifies for protection under this agreement must 4 5 6 be clearly so designated before or when the material is disclosed or produced. (a) Information in documentary form: (e.g., paper or electronic documents and deposition exhibits, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), the designating party must affix the word “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that 7 contains confidential material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies 8 for protection, the producing party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by 9 making appropriate markings in the margins). 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (b) Testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial proceedings: the parties and any participating non-parties must identify on the record, during the deposition or other pretrial proceeding, all protected testimony, without prejudice to their right to so designate other testimony after reviewing the transcript. Any party or non-party may, within fifteen days after receiving the transcript of the deposition or other pretrial proceeding, designate portions of the transcript, or exhibits thereto, as confidential. If a party or non-party desires to protect confidential information at trial, the issue should be addressed during the pre-trial conference. (c) Other tangible items: the producing party must affix in a prominent place on the 17 exterior of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the word 18 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, 19 20 21 the producing party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s). 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the designating party’s right to secure protection under this agreement for such material. Upon timely correction of a 22 designation, the receiving party must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the material is 23 treated in accordance with the provisions of this agreement. 24 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 25 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any party or non-party may challenge a designation of 26 27 28 confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a designating party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a party does not waive its right to STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 5 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 2 original designation is disclosed. 3 4 5 6 6.2 Meet and Confer. The parties must make every attempt to resolve any dispute regarding confidential designations without court involvement. Any motion regarding confidential designations or for a protective order must include a certification, in the motion or in a declaration or affidavit, that the movant has engaged in a good faith meet and confer conference with other affected parties in an effort to resolve the dispute without court action. 7 The certification must list the date, manner, and participants to the conference. A good faith 8 effort to confer requires a face-to-face meeting or a telephone conference. 9 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 10 intervention, the designating party may file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 11 Local Civil Rule 7 (and in compliance with Local Civil Rule 5(g), if applicable). The burden of 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 persuasion in any such motion shall be on the designating party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the challenging party to sanctions. All parties shall continue to maintain the material in question as confidential until the court rules on the challenge. 7. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION If a party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that party must: (a) promptly notify the designating party in writing and include a copy of the subpoena or court order; (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue 23 in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is 24 subject to this agreement. Such notification shall include a copy of this agreement; and 25 26 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the designating party whose confidential material may be affected. 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 6 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 8. 2 If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL confidential material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this agreement, the receiving party must immediately (a) notify in writing the designating party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the protected material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this agreement, and (d) request that such person or persons execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 9. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED MATERIAL When a producing party gives notice to receiving parties that certain inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the receiving parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order or agreement that provides for production without prior privilege review. The parties agree to the entry of a non-waiver order under Fed. R. Evid. 502(d) as set forth herein. 15 10. 16 Within 60 days after the termination of this action, including all appeals, each receiving NON TERMINATION AND RETURN OF DOCUMENTS 17 party must return all confidential material to the producing party, including all copies, extracts 18 and summaries thereof. Alternatively, the parties may agree upon appropriate methods of 19 20 21 22 23 24 destruction. Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain one archival copy of all documents filed with the court, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain confidential material. The confidentiality obligations imposed by this agreement shall remain in effect until a designating party agrees otherwise in writing or a court orders otherwise. 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 7 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 2 3 SO STIPULATED. DATED this 5th day of March, 2018. ANNETTE L. HAYES United States Attorney 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 /s Kristin B. Johnson KRISTIN B. JOHNSON WSBA #28189 Assistant United States Attorney 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, WA 98101-1271 Telephone No. (206) 553-7970 Fax No. (206) 553-4073 E-mail kristin.b.johnson@usdoj.gov Attorney for U.S. Customs and Border Protection 11 12 SO STIPULATED. DATED this 5th day of March, 2018. 13 14 15 16 17 18 /s Breean Beggs BREEAN L. BEGGS, WSBA #20795 Paukert & Troppmann, PLLC 522 W. Riverside Avenue, Suite 560 Spokane, WA 99201 (509) 232-7760 www.paukertlawgroup.com Attorney for Plaintiff Robert Boule 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 SO STIPULATED. DATED this 5th day of March, 2018. MILLS MEYERS SWARTLING P.S. /s Geoffrey M. Grindeland GEOFFREY M. GRINDELAND, WSBA # 35798 NIKKI C. CARSLEY, WSBA # 46650 1000 Second Avenue, 30th Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Telephone: (206) 382-1000, Fax: (206) 386-7343 E-mail: ggrindeland@millsmeyers.com, ncarsley@millsmeyers.com Attorneys for Agent Egbert STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 8 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ORDER 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. 8 9 10 DATED this 6 day of March 2018. 11 12 13 A 14 15 RICARDO S. MARTINEZ CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 9 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970 1 EXHIBIT A 2 3 4 5 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of ____________________________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in the 7 case of Boule v. Egbert, Case No. 17-106-RSM. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all 8 the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to 9 so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly 10 promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 11 Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the 12 13 14 provisions of this Order. I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 15 16 17 Date: __________________________________ 18 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 19 20 Printed name: ____________________________ Signature: _______________________________ 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN PARTIES, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION AND U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT - 10 (C17-106-RSM) UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 700 Stewart Street, Suite 5220 Seattle, Washington 98101-1271 (206) 553-7970

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