Alexander v. Hyundai Motor Finance Co., et al, No. 2:2017cv02299 - Document 33 (D. Nev. 2018)

Court Description: ORDER Granting 31 Stipulation for Protective Order. Signed by Magistrate Judge Carl W. Hoffman on 1/4/2018. (Copies have been distributed pursuant to the NEF - SLD)

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Alexander v. Hyundai Motor Finance Co., et al 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Doc. 33 Matthew I. Knepper, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12796 Miles N. Clark, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 13848 KNEPPER & CLARK LLC 10040 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 170-109 Las Vegas, NV 89129 Phone: (702) 825-6060 Fax: (702) 447-8048 Email: matthew.knepper@knepperclark.com Email: miles.clark@knepperclark.com David H. Krieger, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 9086 HAINES & KRIEGER, LLC 8985 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 350 Henderson, NV 89123 Phone: (702) 880-5554 Fax: (702) 385-5518 Email: dkrieger@hainesandkrieger.com 13 14 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 17 SHEILA ALEXANDER, 18 19 Plaintiff, [PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER vs. 20 21 22 23 24 25 Case No.: 2:17-cv-02299-RFB-CWH HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE CO. D/B/A HYUNDAI CAPITAL AMERICA/ KIA MOTORS FINANCE; WELLS FARGO DEALER SERVICES; EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC; EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC; and TRANS UNION, LLC, Defendants. 26 27 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff SHEILA ALEXANDER 28 (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants WELLS FARGO DEALER SERVICES and EXPERIAN [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 1 Dockets.Justia.com 1 INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC; (collectively, the “Parties”), by and through their counsel 2 of record, as follows: 3 WHEREAS, documents and information have been and may be sought, produced or 4 exhibited by and among the parties to this action relating to trade secrets, confidential research, 5 6 7 8 9 10 development, technology or other proprietary information belonging to the defendants and/or personal income, credit and other confidential information of Plaintiff. THEREFORE, an Order of this Court protecting such confidential information shall be and hereby is made by this Court on the following terms: 1. This Order shall govern the use, handling and disclosure of all documents, 11 testimony or information produced or given in this action which are designated to be subject to 12 this Order in accordance with the terms hereof. 13 2. Any party or non-party producing or filing documents or other materials in this 14 action may designate such materials and the information contained therein subject to this Order by 15 typing or stamping on the front of the document, or on the portion(s) of the document for which 16 confidential treatment is designated, “Confidential.” 17 3. To the extent any motions, briefs, pleadings, deposition transcripts, or other papers 18 to be filed with the Court incorporate documents or information subject to this Order, the party 19 filing such papers shall designate such materials, or portions thereof, as “Confidential,” and shall 20 file them with the clerk under seal; provided, however, that a copy of such filing having the 21 confidential information deleted therefrom may be made part of the public record. Any party filing 22 23 24 25 any document under seal must comply with the requirements of Local Rules. 4. All documents, transcripts, or other materials subject to this Order, and all information derived therefrom (including, but not limited to, all testimony, deposition, or otherwise, that refers, reflects or otherwise discusses any information designated Confidential 26 hereunder), shall not be used, directly or indirectly, by any person, including Plaintiff and Wells 27 Fargo Dealer Services and Experian Information Solutions, Inc., commercial or competitive 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 2 1 purposes or for any purpose whatsoever other than solely for the preparation and trial of this action 2 in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 3 5. All depositions or portions of depositions taken in this action that contain 4 confidential information may be designated as “Confidential” and thereby obtain the protections 5 6 7 8 9 accorded other confidential information. The parties shall have twenty-one (21) days from the date a deposition is taken, or fourteen (14) days from the date a deposition transcript is received, whichever date is greater, to serve a notice to all parties designating portions as “Confidential.” Until such time, all deposition testimony shall be treated as confidential information. To the extent 10 any designations are made on the record during the deposition, the designating party need not serve 11 a notice re-designating those portions of the transcript as confidential information. Any party may 12 challenge any such designation in accordance with Paragraph 14 of this Order. 13 6. Except with the prior written consent of the individual or entity designating a 14 document or portions of a document as “Confidential,” or pursuant to prior Order after notice, any 15 document, transcript or pleading given “Confidential” treatment under this Order, and any 16 information contained in, or derived from any such materials (including but not limited to, all 17 deposition testimony that refers, reflects or otherwise discusses any information designated 18 confidential hereunder) may not be disclosed other than in accordance with this Order and may 19 not be disclosed to any person other than: (a) the Court and its officers; (b) parties to this litigation; 20 (c) counsel for the parties, whether retained counsel or in-house counsel and employees of counsel 21 assigned to assist such counsel in the preparation of this litigation; (d) fact witnesses subject to a 22 23 24 25 proffer to the Court or a stipulation of the parties that such witnesses need to know such information; (e) present or former employees of the producing party in connection with their depositions in this action (provided that no former employees shall be shown documents prepared after the date of his or her departure); and (f) experts specifically retained as consultants or expert 26 witnesses in connection with this litigation. 27 7. Documents produced pursuant to this Order shall not be made available to any 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 3 1 person designated in Subparagraph 6 (f) unless he or she shall have first read this Order, agreed to 2 be bound by its terms, and signed the attached Declaration of Compliance. 3 8. Third parties who are the subject of discovery requests, subpoenas or depositions 4 in this case may take advantage of the provisions of this Protective Order by providing the parties 5 6 7 8 9 with written notice that they intend to comply with and be bound by the terms of this Protective Order. 9. All persons receiving any or all documents produced pursuant to this Order shall be advised of their confidential nature. All persons to whom confidential information and/or 10 documents are disclosed are hereby enjoined from disclosing same to any person except as 11 provided herein, and are further enjoined from using same except in the preparation for and trial 12 of the above-captioned action between the named parties thereto. No person receiving or 13 reviewing such confidential documents, information or transcript shall disseminate or disclose 14 them to any person other than those described above in Paragraph 6 and for the purposes specified, 15 and in no event, shall such person make any other use of such document or transcript. 16 17 18 10. Nothing in this Order shall prevent a party from using at trial any information or materials designated “Confidential.” 11. This Order has been agreed to by the parties to facilitate discovery and the 19 production of relevant evidence in this action. Neither the entry of this Order, nor the designation 20 of any information, document, or the like as “Confidential,” nor the failure to make such 21 designation, shall constitute evidence with respect to any issue in this action. 22 23 24 25 12. Inadvertent failure to designate any document, transcript, or other materials “Confidential” will not constitute a waiver of an otherwise valid claim of confidentiality pursuant to this Order, so long as a claim of confidentiality is promptly asserted after discovery of the inadvertent failure. If a party designates a document as “Confidential” after it was initially 26 produced, the receiving party, on notification of the designation, must make a reasonable effort to 27 assure that the document is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order, and upon 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 4 1 request from the producing party certify that the designated documents have been maintained as 2 confidential information. 3 13. If any party objects to any designation of any materials as Confidential, the parties 4 shall attempt in good faith to resolve such objection by agreement. If the parties cannot resolve 5 6 7 8 9 their objections by agreement, any party shall be free to seek the assistance of the Court. A party shall not be obligated to challenge the propriety of a Confidential designation at the time made, and a failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto. Until an objection has been resolved by agreement of counsel or by order of the Court, the materials shall be treated as 10 Confidential and subject to this Order. The Court may find material to be improperly designated 11 if it: (a) is already public knowledge or otherwise in the public domain; (b) has become public 12 knowledge or enters the public domain other than as a result of a disclosure in violation of this 13 Order; (c) is acquired by the non-producing party from a non-party lawfully possessing such 14 documents or information; or (d) was lawfully possessed by the non-producing party before 15 discovery in this action. 16 14. Within sixty (60) days after the final termination of this litigation, all documents, 17 transcripts, or other materials afforded confidential treatment pursuant to this Order, including any 18 extracts, summaries or compilations taken therefrom, but excluding any materials which in the 19 good faith judgment of counsel are work product materials, shall be returned to the Producing 20 Party. In lieu of return, the parties may agree to destroy the documents, to the extent practicable. 21 22 23 24 25 15. In the event that any party to this litigation disagrees at any point in these proceedings with any designation made under this Protective Order, the parties shall first try to resolve such dispute in good faith on an informal basis. If the dispute cannot be resolved, the party objecting to the designation may seek appropriate relief from this Court. During the pendency of any challenge to the designation of a document or information, the designated document or 26 information shall continue to be treated as “Confidential” subject to the provisions of this 27 Protective Order. 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 5 1 16. Nothing herein shall affect or restrict the rights of any party with respect to its own 2 documents or to the information obtained or developed independently of documents, transcripts 3 and materials afforded confidential treatment pursuant to this Order. 4 17. The Court retains the right to allow disclosure of any subject covered by this 5 6 7 stipulation or to modify this stipulation at any time in the interest of justice. IT IS SO STIPULATED. Dated December 29, 2017 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 /s/ Miles N. Clark Matthew I. Knepper, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12796 Miles N. Clark, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 13848 KNEPPER & CLARK LLC Email: matthew.knepper@knepperclark.com Email: miles.clark@knepperclark.com David H. Krieger, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 9086 HAINES & KRIEGER, LLC Email: dkrieger@hainesandkrieger.com Counsel for Plaintiff /s/ Jennifer Braster Jennifer L. Braster, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 9982 Andrew J. Sharples, Esq. Nevada Bar No. 12866 NAYLOR & BRASTER Email: jbraster@naylorandbrasterlaw.com Email: asharples@naylorandbrasterlaw.com Counsel for Defendant Experian Information Solutions, Inc. 18 19 20 21 22 23 /s/ Daniel S. Ivie Daniel S. Ivie, Esq. Nevada Bar No. SNELL & WILMER L.L.P. 3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1100 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Email: divie@swlaw.com Counsel for Defendant Wells Fargo Dealer Services 24 25 26 ORDER IT IS SO ORDERED. January 4, _____ Dated: __________, 2018 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 27 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 6 1 EXHIBIT A 2 DECLARATION OF COMPLIANCE 3 (Alexander v. Hyundai Motor Finance Co., et al; 2:17-cv-02299-RFB-CWH) 4 I, _____________________________________, declare as follows: 5 1. 9 10 My present occupation or job description is _________________________. 4 8 My present employer is ________________________________________. 3. 7 My address is ________________________________________________. 2. 6 I have received a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order entered in this action on _______________, 20___. 5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of this Stipulated Protective 13 6. I will comply with all provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 14 7. I will hold in confidence, and will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the 11 12 Order. 15 Stipulated Protective Order, any information, documents or other materials produced subject to 16 this Stipulated Protective Order. 17 18 8. I will use such information, documents or other materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order only for purposes of this present action. 19 9. Upon termination of this action, or upon request, I will return and deliver all 20 information, documents or other materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order, 21 and all documents or things which I have prepared relating to the information, documents or other 22 23 materials that are subject to the Stipulated Protective Order, to my counsel in this action, or to counsel for the party by whom I am employed or retained or from whom I received the documents. 24 25 26 /// 27 10. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of enforcing the 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 7 1 Stipulated Protective Order in this action. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the 2 United States that the following is true and correct. 3 Executed this ____ day of _____________, 201__ at __________________. 4 5 _______________________________ QUALIFIED PERSON 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order - 8

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