City of Sterling Heights Police & Fire Retirement System v. Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc

District Court, S.D. New York·Decided June 29, 2022·No. 1:20-cv-10041·Unknown

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK x CITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS POLICE & : Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-10041-PKC FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Individually : and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, : CLASS ACTION : Plaintiff, : STIPULATION AND x[PxxRxOxPxxOxSxExxDx] : PROTECTIVE ORDER RESTRICTING vs. : DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL : INFORMATION RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC, : RAKESH KAPOOR, and SHAUN : THAXTER, : : Defendants. : x Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), Plaintiffs and Defendants (collectively, the “Parties”)1 in the above-captioned action (the “Action”), respectfully request that the Court issue a protective order to protect certain confidential, proprietary, or private information that may be produced or re-produced in the course of discovery in this Action, and to guard against the waiver of

attorney-client privilege, work-product protection pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), and other applicable privileges. The Parties, by and through their respective undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to the following terms governing the pre-trial phase of this Action, subject to the Court’s approval. I. DEFINITIONS 1. “Confidential Discovery Material” means any Discovery Material designated as “Confidential” pursuant to the terms of this Order. 2. “Designating Party” means a Party or Non-Party who designates any Discovery Material as Confidential in connection with this Action. 3. “Discovery Material” means any information provided by a Party or Non-Party in the course of discovery in this Action, including, but not limited to, information contained in documents,

testimony taken at depositions and transcripts thereof, deposition exhibits, interrogatory responses, responses to requests for admission, and any other information or material produced, given or exchanged in this Action, regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored or maintained. 4. “Non-Party” means a person or entity that is not a Party to this Action. 5. “Objecting Party” means a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of Discovery Material as “Confidential,” or challenges a failure to so designate.

1 “Plaintiffs” refers to Lead Plaintiff City of Birmingham Retirement and Relief System and Plaintiff City of Sterling Heights Police & Fire Retirement System. “Defendants” refers to Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, Rakesh Kapoor, and Shaun Thaxter. 6. “Party” means any Party to this Action. 7. “Producing Party” means a Party or Non-Party that produces any Discovery Material in this Action. 8. “Protected Information” means information subject to a claim of attorney-client

privilege, attorney work-product protection, or other applicable privilege, that a Producing Party inadvertently discloses to a Receiving Party in this Action. 9. “Receiving Party” means a Party that receives any Discovery Material from a Producing Party in this Action. II. DESIGNATING DISCOVERY MATERIAL 10. Any Producing or Receiving Party may designate as Confidential any Discovery Material, or any portion thereof, that the Producing or Receiving Party reasonably and in good faith believes consists of or contains non-public information related to: (a) financial information not otherwise disclosed to the public; (b) proprietary business information, including trade secrets not otherwise disclosed to the public;

(c) any information of a personal or intimate nature regarding any individual; (d) any information entitled to confidential treatment under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or other applicable laws or regulations, foreign or domestic, including information that is subject to secrecy laws, data protection laws, or data privacy laws such as the U.K. General Data Protection Regulation; or (e) any other category of information hereinafter given confidential status by the Court. 11. Nothing in this Order prejudices in any way any objection to, or position concerning, production of the foregoing. 12. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to provide less protection to Confidential Discovery Material designated by the Parties than the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Civil Rules of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (“Local Civil Rules”). 13. The designation of any Discovery Material as Confidential shall be made in the

following manner: (a) In the case of physical or electronic documents or data (apart from depositions or other pretrial testimony, but including discovery responses such as interrogatories, compulsory disclosures and other written information), the designation shall be made at the time of production by affixing the legend “Confidential” to each page containing any Confidential Discovery Material in a manner that will not interfere with legibility, audibility or functionality. In the event that any documents are produced in native format, the Designating Party shall include the legend “Confidential” in the file name of the document or on a placeholder document produced in conjunction with the native file that states the Bates number of the document and that the document is being produced in native format;

(b) In the case of depositions or other pretrial testimony, any Party or Non-Party may designate the deposition, in whole or in part (including exhibits), as Confidential by: (i) making a statement to such effect on the record during the proceeding during in which the testimony is received; or (ii) notifying all counsel of record, in writing, within fifteen (15) days after receipt of the final transcript of such proceeding. Until the expiration of the 15-day period, the Parties shall treat the entirety of deposition, including any transcript or video thereof, as Confidential Discovery Material. Thereafter, only those portions of the deposition designated as “Confidential” shall be deemed Confidential Discovery Material. The Parties may modify this procedure for any particular deposition through agreement on the record at such deposition or in writing, without further order of the Court; and (c) In such cases where the marking of each piece of Discovery Material as “Confidential” is impractical or impossible, the Designating Party shall designate in writing the Discovery Materials that it regards as containing Confidential Discovery Material at the time the

Designating Party produces those Discovery Materials. 14. The inadvertent or unintentional failure to designate Discovery Material as “Confidential” does not constitute a waiver of a Producing Party’s claim of confidentiality, and may be corrected by supplemental written notice at any time, with the effect that such Discovery Material shall be subject to the protections of this Order from the time it is designated as “Confidential.” III. ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIAL 15. Any person subject to this Order who receives from any Producing Party Discovery Material that is designated as “Confidential” shall not disclose such Confidential Discovery Material, except as expressly permitted herein. Any violation of the terms of this Order shall be punishable by relief the Court deems appropriate. 16. Unless otherwise directed by the Court, Confidential Discovery Material shall not be disclosed, summarized, described, characterized, or otherwise communicated or made available, in whole or in part, to any person other than the individuals described in the subparagraphs below.

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