Federal Trade Commission v. AMG Services, Inc. et al, No. 2:2012cv00536 - Document 283 (D. Nev. 2012)
Court Description: ORDER Granting 257 Joint Motion to Unseal and File Redacted Memoranda and Exhibits in Connection with 4 Preliminary Injunction Motion. Signed by Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach on 12/14/2012. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - AC)
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Federal Trade Commission v. AMG Services, Inc. et al 1 2 3 4 5 6 Doc. 283 DANIEL G. BOGDEN United States Attorney District of Nevada BLAINE T. WELSH Assistant United States Attorney Nevada Bar. No. 4790 333 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Suite 5000 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Phone: (702) 388-6336 Facsimile: (702) 388-6787 Email: Blaine.Welsh@usdoj.gov 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WILLARD K. TOM General Counsel NIKHIL SINGHVI JASON D. SCHALL JULIE G. BUSH HELEN P. WONG IOANA RUSU Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mailstop NJ-3158 Washington, D.C. 20580 Phone: (202) 326-3480 (Singhvi) Facsimile: (202) 326-3629 Email: nsinghvi@ftc.gov; jbush@ftc.gov; jschall@ftc.gov; hwong@ftc.gov; irusu@ftc.gov UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 17 18 19 20 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Case No. 2:12-cv-536 Plaintiff, v. JOINT MOTION TO UNSEAL AND FILE REDACTED MEMORANDA AND EXHIBITS IN CONNECTION WITH PRELIMINARY INJUNCITON MOTION 21 22 AMG Services, Inc., et al., Defendants, and 23 24 25 Park 269 LLC, et al., Relief Defendants. 26 1 Dockets.Justia.com 1 Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Defendants AMG Services, 2 Inc., Red Cedar Services, SFS, Inc., and Tribal Financial Services (“Defendants”) hereby 3 submit this joint motion to modify previous orders of the Court sealing certain 4 previously-filed memoranda and exhibits filed in connection with the FTC’s motion for 5 preliminary injunction (Docket No. 4). The purpose of this motion is to allow 6 Defendants and the FTC to file redacted memoranda and exhibits in place of the under 7 seal memoranda and exhibits, as follows: 8 1. Defendants previously filed their entire opposition memorandum and all 9 opposition exhibits (Docket No. 70) under seal. The Court entered an 10 11 order granting Defendants’ motion to seal. (Docket No. 78.) a. Defendants and the FTC agree that Defendants may file their 12 opposition memorandum publicly with the following redactions: 13 i. Page 2, line 2: the approximation of Defendants’ number of customers. 14 15 ii. Page 3, footnote 3: the clause following “In 2011,” and the following sentence. 16 iii. Page 11, lines 6-7: the first sentence under heading “a” 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 iv. Pages 18, line 8 through Page 20, line 4, and footnotes 9096 v. Page 30, line 10: the full sentence beginning with the word “And” vi. Page 30, lines 25-25: the approximation of the percentage of Defendants’ customers who paid their loan in full or paid down their principal before the first date on which a principal payment was due vii. Page 31, line 6: the full sentence beginning with the word “After” 25 26 2 1 2 3 viii. Page 39, lines 16-17: Defendants’ approximation of their number of customers and their calculation of their percentage of complaints ix. Page 44, lines 4-5: the remainder of the sentence after the word “originated” 4 5 b. Defendants and the FTC agree that Defendants may file the 6 Declaration of Natalie Dempsey, TLDX 4, with redactions as 7 follows: 8 i. Paragraph 11: the second sentence 9 ii. Paragraph 12: the percentage figure 10 11 iii. Paragraph 15: the balance of the paragraph after the third sentence 12 iv. Paragraph 16: the final sentence 13 v. Paragraph 18 14 vi. Paragraph 52: the second sentence 15 vii. Paragraph 55: the third sentence 16 viii. Paragraphs 61-65 17 18 19 ix. Page 17, footnote 1 x. Paragraphs 68-70 c. Defendants and the FTC agree that Defendants may file 20 attachments to the Dempsey Declaration, with redactions as 21 follows: 22 23 i. Dempsey Declaration Attachment C: redactions to borrower’s application identification number and dates of loans 24 25 ii. Dempsey Declaration Attachment N: redactions to borrower’s first and last name and application number 26 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 iii. Dempsey Declaration Attachment O: redactions to borrower’s first and last name, application number, username, and password iv. Dempsey Declaration Attachment AA: redactions necessary to comply with Special Order No. 108, and redactions to application identification number and personal email address v. Dempsey Declaration Attachment BB: redactions necessary to comply with Special Order No. 108, and redactions to application identification number vi. Dempsey Declaration Attachment CC: redactions necessary to comply with Special Order No. 108, and redactions to application identification number and salary information vii. Dempsey Declaration Attachment DD: redactions necessary to comply with Special Order No. 108, and redactions to application identification number and salary information 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 d. Defendants and the FTC agree that Attachments B, Y, and Z to the Dempsey Declaration should remain under seal. e. Any of Defendants’ opposition exhibits and attachments not listed above shall be filed publicly. 2. The FTC previously filed its entire reply memorandum and all reply exhibits (Docket No. 84) under seal. The Court entered an order granting the FTC’s motion to seal (Docket No. 115), preserving the FTC’s right to revisit the two seal orders. (Id.) a. The FTC and Defendants agree that the FTC may file its reply memorandum publicly, with the following redactions: i. Page 4, footnote 7: The two percentages of Defendants’ consumers who originate at third party websites and at Defendants’ own websites, as well as the two numbers of loans Defendants made in 2011 26 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ii. Page 11, footnote 30: Defendants’ calculation of the percentage of Defendants’ consumers who filed complaints, and Defendants’ total number of loans iii. Page 11, footnote 32: Defendants’ calculation of the percentage of customers who paid off their loans and the percentage of Defendants’ consumers who did not default iv. Page 13, line 13: Defendants’ calculation of the number of Defendants’ who repeat as customers v. Page 14, line 7: Defendants’ calculation of the percentage of consumers who originate from third parties vi. Page 19, lines 8-9: The block quotation from Defendants’ compliance document vii. Page 28, line 18: The dollar amount of deposits into AMG’s identified bank account b. The FTC and Defendants agree that the FTC may file all its reply exhibits publicly. 3. The FTC and Defendants shall file the materials listed above within two weeks of an Order granting this motion. 4. The relief requested herein is without prejudice to any party’s right to 17 challenge confidential treatment of the redacted material in connection 18 with future proceedings. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 5 1 WHEREFORE, the FTC and Defendants jointly request that the Court modify its seal 2 orders (Docket Nos. 78, 115), to permit Defendants to file a redacted opposition 3 memorandum and redacted exhibits, and to permit the FTC to file a redacted reply 4 memorandum and unredacted exhibits, as set forth above. 5 6 Dated: November 26, 2012 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ____/s/ Shilee Mullin__________ SHILEE MULLIN FREDERICKS PEEBLES & MORGAN LLP 3610 North 163rd Plz. Omaha, NE 68116 Telephone: (402) 333-4053 Facsimile: (402) 333-4761 Email: smullin@ndnlaw.com Attorneys for Defendants AMG Services, Inc.; Red Cedar Services, Inc. dba 500FastCash; SFS, Inc. dba OneClickCash; Tribal Financial Services, dba Ameriloan, UnitedCashLoans, USFastCash, and Miami Nation Enterprises ____/s/Nikhil Singhvi________ NIKHIL SINGHVI JASON D. SCHALL JULIE G. BUSH HELEN P. WONG IOANA RUSU Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Mailstop NJ-3158 Washington, DC 20580 Telephone: (202) 326-3480 Facsimile: (202) 326-3629 Email: nsinghvi@ftc.gov jbush@ftc.gov jschall@ftc.gov hwong@ftc.gov irusu@ftc.gov Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission 19 20 IT IS SO ORDERED: 21 22 ________________________________ 23 CAM FERENBACH UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 24 25 December 14, 2012 DATED: ________________________ 26 6 Case 2:12-cv-00536-GMN-VCF Document 257 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 1 2 Filed 11/26/12 Page 7 of 8 I, Nikhil Singhvi, certify that, as indicated below, all parties were served with the JOINT MOTION TO UNSEAL filed with the Court. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 /s/ Nikhil Singhvi Nikhil Singhvi Dated this 26th day of November 2012. Electronic case filing: David J. Merrill (david@djmerrillpc.com) Conly J. Schulte (cschulte@ndnlaw.com) Francis J. Nyhan (jnyhan@ndnlaw.com) Shilee T. Mullin (smullin@ndnlaw.com) Attorneys for Defendants AMG Services, Inc.; Red Cedar Services, Inc. dba 500FastCash; SFS, Inc. dba OneClickCash; Tribal Financial Services, dba Ameriloan, UnitedCashLoans, USFastCash, and Miami Nation Enterprises Debra K. Lefler (debra.lefler@kirkland.com) Bradley Weidenhammer (bweidenhammer@kirkland.com) Charles Kalil (ckalil@kirkland.com) Richard Howell (rhowell@kirkland.com) Attorneys for Defendants AMG Services, Inc. and Miami Nation Enterprises 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Von S. Heinz (vheinz@lrlaw.com) Darren J. Lemieux (dlemieux@lrlaw.com) E. Leif Reid (lreid@lrlaw.com) Jeffrey D. Morris (jmorris@berkowitzoliver.com) Ryan C. Hudson (rhudson@berkowitzoliver.com) Nick J. Kurt (nkurt@berkowitzoliver.com) Attorneys for Defendants AMG Capital Management, LLC; Level 5 Motorsports, LLC; LeadFlash Consulting, LLC; Black Creek Capital Corporation; Broadmoor Capital Partners, LLC; Scott A. Tucker; Blaine A. Tucker L. Christopher Rose (lcr@juww.com) Michael R. Ernst (mre@juww.com) Attorneys for Defendants The Muir Law Firm, LLC and Timothy J. Muir 22 23 24 25 Jay Young (jay@maclaw.com) Attorney Defendant for Robert D. Campbell Paul C. Ray (paulcraylaw@aol.com) Attorney for Defendant Troy L. LittleAxe 26 1 Case 2:12-cv-00536-GMN-VCF Document 257 1 2 3 4 5 Patrick J. Reilly (preilly@hollandhart.com) Linda C. McFee (lmcfee@mcdowellrice.com) Attorneys for Defendants Kim C. Tucker and Park 269 LLC Brian R. Reeve (breeve@swlaw.com) Nathan F. Garrett (ngarrett@gbmglaw.com) Whitney P. Strack (pstrack@gbmglaw.com) Attorneys for Defendant Don E. Brady 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2 Filed 11/26/12 Page 8 of 8
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