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

District Court, S.D. New York·Decided September 16, 2022·No. 1:20-cv-10041·Unknown

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

ee OK 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, . [PROPOSED] SUPPLEMENTAL THIRD- . PARTY STIPULATED PROTECTIVE v8. - ORDER RESTRICTING DISCLOSURE OF . INDIVIOR CONFIDENTIAL RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC, . INFORMATION RAKESH KAPOOR, and SHAUN THAXTER, Defendants. A Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), Plaintiffs and Defendants (collectively, the Parties”)! in the above-captioned action (the “Action”), respectfully request that the Court issue a Supplemental Third-Party Stipulated Protective Order Restricting Disclosure of Indivior Confidential Information to protect certain confidential, proprietary, or private information of third party subpoena-recipient, Indivior Inc., 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 protections afforded in this Supplemental Third Party Stipulated Protective Order are in addition to the Stipulated Protective Order entered June 29, 2022 in this proceeding and in no way diminish the protections of that June 29, 2022 Protective Order. The Parties, by and through their respective

“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. -l-

undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to the following additional terms governing the production or designation of materials from Non-Party Indivior Inc., subject to the Court’s approval. I. DEFINITIONS 1, “Highly Confidential Discovery Material” means any Discovery Material designated as “Highly Confidential” pursuant to the terms of this Order. 2. ‘Designating Party” means a Party or Non-Party Indivior Inc. who designates any Discovery Material as Confidential or Highly Confidential in connection with this Action. 3. “Discovery Material” means any information provided by a Party or Non-Party Indivior Inc. 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, including Indivior Inc., 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 “Highly Confidential,” or challenges a failure to so designate. 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 confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product protection, or other applicable privilege, that a Producing Party inadvertently discloses to a Receiving Party in this Action. 2.

9, “Receiving Party” means a Party or Non-Party, including Indivior, Inc. that receives

any Discovery Material from a Producing Party in this Action. Ik. DESIGNATING DISCOVERY MATERIAL 10. Any Producing or Receiving Party may designate as Highly Confidential any Discovery Material, or any portion thereof, that the Producing Party or Receiving Party reasonably and in good faith believes consists of or contains non-public information related to: {a) proprietary business information, including trade secrets and other highly sensitive and non-public research and analysis, customer information, current (not more than five (5) years old) sales techniques and financial, marketing, and strategic business planning information, and information older than five years that is indicative of current sales techniques and financial, marketing, and strategic busmess planning practices; (b) current or past communications with and submissions to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration regarding research, development, studies, testing, analyses, or reports regarding product composition, safety, or risks; (c) any current or future pricing information, information relating to research, development, testing of, and plans for, a Producing Party’s existing and proposed future products, information relating to the processes, apparatus, manufacture, or analytical techniques used by a Producing Party in its present or proposed commercial production of such products; (d) information relating to pending or abandoned patent applications not otherwise disclosed to the public; (e) communications regarding any of the Highly Confidential Material; and (f} any other information that a Producing Party believes in good faith could be used by a competitor to harm its business or to seek advantage beyond the purposes of this litigation. Examples may include dividends paid by a private corporation to its shareholders, revenues and -3-

profits of a private corporation, total dollar purchases by a private customer ofa private corporation, pricing to private customers of private corporation and terms of agreement with a third party whose disclosure would breach nondisclosure provisions imposed by that third party. ll. 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”). 14. The designation of any Discovery Material as Confidential or Highly Confidential shall be made in the manner set forth in the Stipulated Protective Order of June 29, 2022. (a) The Parties may modify this procedure for any particular deposition through apreement in advance with each other and with designating Non-Party Indivior Inc. on the record at such deposition or in writing, without further order of the Court; and (b) In such cases where the marking of each piece of Discovery Material as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” is impractical or impossible, the Designating Party shall designate in writing the Discovery Materials that it regards as containing Confidential or Highly Confidential Discovery Material at the time the Designating Party produces those Discovery Materials.

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Ill ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL AND HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIAL 15. Any person subject to this Order who receives from any Producing Party Discovery Material that is designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” shall not disclose such 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.

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