Duffy v. Yardi Systems Inc

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: April 2, 2024
• Docket: 2:23-cv-01391
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 7 AT SEATTLE 8 MCKENNA DUFFY and MICHAEL BRETT, | Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL 9 || individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, 10 STIPULATED MOTION FOR ENTRY Plaintiffs, OF PROTECTIVE ORDER AND 1 ORDER 12 v. 13 || YARDI SYSTEMS, INC., BRIDGE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, L.C., 14 || CALIBRATE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, DALTON MANAGEMENT, INC., 13 || HNN ASSOCIATES, LLC, LEFEVER 16 | MATTSON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, MANCO ABBOTT, INC., MORGUARD 17 | MANAGEMENT COMPANY, R.D. MERRILL REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS, 18 || LLC, SUMMIT MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., and CREEK WOOD 19 | pROPERTY CORPORATION, 20 Defendants. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Matthew Carvalho, Attorney at Law, PLLC 770 Seneca Street

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties ° acknowledge that this agreement is consistent with LCR 26(c). It does not confer blanket protection on all disclosures or responses to discovery, the protection it affords from public ’ disclosure and use extends only to the limited 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. '0 This Order has been agreed to by the Parties to facilitate discovery and the production of relevant evidence in this action. Neither the entry of this Order, nor the designation of any document, "2 information, or the like as Confidential material or Highly Confidential material, nor the failure to 8 make such designation, shall constitute evidence with respect to any issue in this action. 4 By stipulating to the entry of this Order, the Parties do not waive any right to object to disclosing '° or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Order. Similarly, the Parties do not waive any right to object on any ground to the use in evidence of any documents or information, including Confidential material or Highly Confidential material covered by this 8 Order. 19 2. “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL “Confidential” material shall include the following documents and tangible things produced or a otherwise exchanged: (a) information prohibited from disclosure by statute or contractual agreement; (b) information that reveals trade secrets; (c) research, development, technical, commercial, financial, or corporate information that the party has maintained as confidential; (d) medical information concerning any individual; (e) personal identifying information; (f) income tax returns (including attached schedules and forms), W-2 forms and 1099 forms; or (g) personnel *6 or employment records of a person who is not a party to the case. Confidential material shall be ar marked or otherwise designated “CONFIDENTIAL.” The parties will make reasonable efforts to STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - 1 sere rae we (Case No. 2:23-cv—01391-RSL) 730 Seneca Street

1 |/ensure that information or documents that are available to the public are not designated as 2 || Confidential material. 3 13. “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL 4 3.1 “Highly Confidential—Source Code” material. “Highly Confidential—Source 5 || Code” material shall include extremely sensitive “Confidential” material representing computer 6 and associated comments and revision histories, formulas, engineering specifications, or 7 schematics that define or otherwise describe in detail the algorithms or structure of software or 8 hardware designs, disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would create a substantial 9 || risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 10 3.2. “Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only” material. “Highly Confidential— 11 || Attorneys’ Eyes Only” material, such as competitive internal business information and 12 |}communications, shall include extremely sensitive “Confidential” material that the producing 13 || party reasonably believes to be so sensitive that it is entitled to additional protection via an 14 || “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” designation, and disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party 15 || would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 16/4. SCOPE 17 || The protections conferred by this agreement cover not only Confidential and Highly Confidential 18 |] material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Confidential or 19 || Highly Confidential material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Confidential 20 || or Highly Confidential material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties 21 or their counsel that might reveal Confidential or Highly Confidential material. 22 || However, the protections conferred by this agreement do not cover information that is in the 23 || public domain or becomes part of the public domain through trial or otherwise. 2415, | ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL 25 5.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use Confidential material that is disclosed 26 || or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 27 || defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Confidential material may be disclosed only to 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 2 wicca aire stag (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 categories of persons and under the conditions described in this agreement. Confidential 2 || material must be stored and maintained by a receiving party at a location and in a secure manner 3 || that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this agreement. 4 5.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered 5 || by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may disclose any 6 || Confidential material only to: 7 (a) the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as employees 8 || of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 9 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including in-house counsel) of the 10 || receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 11 (c) experts, their staff, and consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably 12 |\necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 13 || Bound” (Exhibit A); 14 (d) the court, court personnel, and court reporters and their staff; 15 (e) copy or imaging services retained by counsel to assist in the duplication of 16 || Confidential material, provided that counsel for the party retaining the copy or imaging service 17 || instructs the service not to disclose any Confidential material to third parties and to immediately 18 |] return all originals and copies of any Confidential material; 19 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 20 || reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 21 || (Exhibit A), provided that counsel for the party intending to disclose the information has a good- 22 basis for believing such Confidential information is relevant to events, transactions, 23 || discussions, communications or data about which the witness is expected to testify or about which 24 || the witness may have knowledge, unless otherwise ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 25 || deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Confidential material must be 26 || separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted 27 || under this agreement; SERRE Se. 791) Seneca Street

1 (g) the author or recipient of a document contaiming the information or a 2 || custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 3 (h) identified persons who are referenced in the document or whose conduct is 4 || purported to be identified in the document, provided that counsel for the party intending to 5 || disclose the information has a good-faith basis for believing such Confidential information is 6 || relevant to events, transactions, discussions, communications, or data about which the person has 7 || knowledge; disclosure to such person is limited to the portion of the document in which the 8 l}person or person’s conduct is identified or referenced; and such person has signed the 9 || “Acknowledgment and Agree to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and 10 (1) other persons only by written consent of the producing party or upon order 11 the court and on such conditions as may be agreed or ordered, but such consent shall not be 12 || unreasonably withheld. 13 5.3 Filing “CONFIDENTIAL” Material. Before filing Confidential material or 14 || discussing or referencing such material in court filings, the filing party shall confer with the 15 || designating party, in accordance with Local Civil Rule 5(g). Any motion to seal filed by the 16 |/ receiving party, where a designating party must make a showing required by Local Civil Rule 17 || 5(g)(3)(B) in response to the motion, must be noted for consideration no earlier than the fourth 18 || Friday after filing. A party who seeks to maintain the confidentiality of its information must 19 || satisfy the requirements of Local Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(B), even if it is not the party filing the motion 20 seal. Failure to satisfy this requirement will result in the motion to seal being denied, in 21 || accordance with the strong presumption of public access to the court’s files. 22 16. ACCESS TO AND USE OF HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE 53 MATERIAL 6.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use Highly Confidential—Source Code material that is disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Highly Confidential—

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1 || Source Code material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions 2 || described in this agreement. 3 (a) Any source code produced in discovery shall be made available for inspection, in a 4 || format allowing it to be reasonably reviewed and searched, during normal business hours or at 5 || other mutually agreeable times, at an office of the producing party’s counsel or another mutually 6 ||/agreed upon location. The source code shall be made available for inspection on a secured 7 || computer in a secured room without internet access or network access to other computers, and the 8 || receiving party shall not copy, remove, or otherwise transfer any portion of the source code onto 9 recordable media or recordable device. The producing party may visually monitor the 10 || activities of the receiving party’s representatives during any source code review, but only to 11 || ensure that there is no unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of the source code. 12 (b) The receiving party may request paper copies of limited portions of source code 13 }|that are reasonably necessary for the preparation of court filings, pleadings, expert reports, or 14 papers, or for deposition or trial, but shall not request paper copies for the purposes of 15 reviewing the source code other than electronically as set forth in paragraph (c) in the first 16 instance. The producing party shall provide all such source code in paper form including bates 17 ||numbers and the label “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE.” The producing party 18 || may challenge the amount of source code requested in hard copy form pursuant to the dispute 19 |/resolution procedure and timeframes set forth in Section 9 whereby the producing party is the 20 || ‘challenging party” and the receiving party is the “designating party” for purposes of dispute 21 resolution. 22 (c) The receiving party shall maintain a record of any individual who has inspected 23 || any portion of the source code in electronic or paper form. The receiving party shall maintain all 24 || paper copies of any printed portions of the source code in a secured, locked area. The receiving 25 || party shall not create any electronic or other images of the paper copies and shall not convert any 26 || of the information contained in the paper copies into any electronic format. The receiving party 27 only make additional paper copies if such additional copies are (1) necessary to prepare 28 || sTIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - 5 wiiaiesi war Cirlna, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 |/court filings, pleadings, or other papers (including a testifying expert’s expert report), (2) 2 ||necessary for deposition, or (3) otherwise necessary for the preparation of its case. Any paper 3 || copies used during a deposition shall be retrieved by the producing party at the end of each day 4 || and must not be given to or left with a court reporter or any other unauthorized individual. 5 6.2 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE” Material. Unless 6 || otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party 7 || may disclose any Highly Confidential—Source Code Material only to: 8 (a) receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action, as well as 9 ||employees of said outside counsel of record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 10 information for this litigation; 11 (b) experts and staff of the receiving party (1) to whom disclosure is 12 }|reasonably necessary for this litigation; (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 13 |} Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 14 (c) the court and its personnel subject to paragraph 6.3 below; 15 (d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants and 16 || professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 17 || signed the “Acknowledgment and Agree to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 18 (e) witnesses during depositions or testimony at trial or any hearing, witnesses 19 |/in this action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary, provided that counsel for the party 20 |/intending to disclose the information has a good-faith basis for believing such Highly 21 || Confidential—Source Code material is relevant to events, transactions, discussions, 22 || communications, or data about which the witness is expected to testify or about which the witness 23 have knowledge. Before disclosing any document pursuant to this paragraph, counsel who 24 || intends to disclose the document must first notify counsel for the designating party of their intent 25 || to do so. At depositions, trial, or hearings, such notice may be accomplished by presenting a copy 26 the Highly Confidential—Source Code material to counsel for the designating party and 27 || permitting counsel an opportunity to object before the document is shown to the witness. Until the 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - 6 wiiaiesi war Cirlna, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 designating party agrees to the disclosure, or the court orders such disclosure, Highly 2 || Confidential—Source Code material shall not be disclosed to or discussed with any witness. 3 || Witnesses shall not retain a copy of documents containing Highly Confidential—Source Code 4 || material, except witnesses may receive a copy of all exhibits marked at their depositions in 5 ||/connection with review of the transcripts. Pages of transcribed testimony or exhibits to 6 || depositions that are designated as Highly Confidential—Source Code material must be separately 7 || bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 8 || Order-; 9 (f) the author or recipient of the document (not including a person who received the 10 || document solely in the course of litigation); and 11 (g) other persons only by written consent of the producing party or upon order of the 12 and on such conditions as may be agreed or ordered, but such consent shall not be 13 || unreasonably withheld. 14 To the extent any person is required to complete the certification contained in Attachment 15 ||A to this Order, facsimile signatures or signatures transferred in electronic format (e.g., PDF) 16 shall be treated as original signatures for purposes of this Order. 17 6.3 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 18 || CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE” Material to Designated Experts. 19 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the 20 || designating party, a party that seeks to disclose to an expert any information or item that has been 21 || designated Highly Confidential—Source Code pursuant to Section 3 first must make a written 22 || request to the designating party that (1) identifies the general categories of Highly Confidential— 23 || Source Code material that the receiving party seeks permission to disclose to the expert, (2) sets 24 || forth the full name of the expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches 25 copy of the expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies 26 person or entity from whom the expert has provided professional services, including in 27 || connection with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - 7 wiiaiesi war Cirlna, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with 2 which the expert has offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, report, or 3 testimony at a deposition or trial, during the preceding five years. The party receiving that 4 || disclosure may not disclose the identity of the expert to any other party in the litigation, unless the 5 identity of that expert has already been disclosed to that party or unless the identity of that expert 6 learned another way, for example as part of the source code review process. The party receiving 7 disclosure must also not disclose the identity of the expert to experts, consultants, or staff 8 || retained by the party receiving that disclosure at any point prior to the expert disclosures set forth 9 |/in the pre-existing schedule, or unless the identity of that expert is learned another way, for 10 || example as part of the source code review process. 11 (b) A party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 12 preceding respective paragraphs may disclose the protected material to the identified expert 13 unless, within 14 calendar days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection 14 || from the designating party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is 15 |] based. 16 (c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 17 || designating party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 18 |] agreement within seven business days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the 19 Party seeking to make the disclosure to the expert may file a motion seeking permission from the 20 || court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in 21 || detail the reasons why the disclosure to the expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm 22 the disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce 23 risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 24 || describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content 25 the meet and confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the designating 26 || party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 27 EERE ESTSERL OR Se. 791) Seneca Street

1 In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to the expert shall bear the burden 2 || of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards proposed) 3 || outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to an expert. 4 6.4 Filing “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE” Material. Before filing 5 || Highly Confidential—Source Code material or discussing or referencing such material in court 6 || filings, the filing party shall confer with the designating party, in accordance with Local Civil 7 || Rule 5(g). Any motion to seal filed by the receiving party, where a designating party must make a 8 || showing required by Local Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(B) in response to the motion, must be noted for 9 || consideration no earlier than the fourth Friday after filing. A party who seeks to maintain the 10 || confidentiality of its information must satisfy the requirements of Local Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(B), 11 even if it is not the party filing the motion to seal. Failure to satisfy this requirement will result in 12 || the motion to seal being denied, in accordance with the strong presumption of public access to the 13 || court’s files. 14 17, ACCESS TO AND USE OF HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES 15 ONLY MATERIAL 7.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material that is disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this agreement. 7.2 Disclosure “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY material. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may disclose Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material only to: (a) the receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action, as well as employees of said outside counsel of record to whom it 1s reasonably necessary to disclose the °° information for this litigation; 26 27 [ERB ETT Se. 791) Seneca Street

1 (b) in-house litigation counsel and legal assistants at Yardi Systems, Inc., none 2 || of whom advise on business transactions involving competitive decisionmaking where Yardi and 3 || any named Defendant in this action are on opposite sides of the transaction; 4 (c) experts and staff of the receiving party (1) to whom disclosure is 5 ||reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 6 || Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) 7 (d) the court and its personnel subject to paragraph 7.3 below; 8 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants and 9 || professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 10 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agree to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 11 (f) copy or imaging services retained by counsel to assist in the duplication of 12 || confidential material, provided that counsel for the party retaining the copy or imaging service 13 || instructs the service not to disclose any confidential material to third parties and to immediately 14 return all originals and copies of any confidential material; 15 (g) witnesses during depositions or testimony at trial or any hearing, witnesses 16 |/in this action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary, provided that counsel for the party 17 |/intending to disclose the information has a good-faith basis for believing such Highly 18 || Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material is relevant to events, transactions, discussions, 19 || communications, or data about which the witness is expected to testify or about which the witness 20 || may have knowledge. Before disclosing any designating party’s document to a non-designating 21 || party’s witness pursuant to this paragraph, counsel who intends to disclose the document must 22 || first notify counsel for the designating party of their intent to do so. At depositions, trial, or 23 || hearings, such notice may be accomplished by presenting a copy of the Highly Confidential— 24 || Attorneys’ Eyes Only material to counsel for the designating party and permitting counsel an 25 || opportunity to object before the document is shown to the non-designating party’s witness. Until 26 designating party agrees to the disclosure, or the court orders such disclosure, Highly 27 || Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material shall not be disclosed to or discussed with any © [SERRE Se. 791) Seneca Street

1 || witness of the non-designating party. Witnesses shall not retain a copy of documents containing 2 || Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material, except witnesses may receive a copy of all 3 |/exhibits marked at their depositions in connection with review of the transcripts. Pages of 4 |/transcribed testimony or exhibits to depositions that are designated as Highly Confidential— 5 || Source Code material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to 6 || anyone except as permitted under this Order; 7 (h) the author or recipient of the document (not including a person who 8 || received the document solely in the course of litigation); and 9 (1) other persons only by written consent of the producing party or upon order 10 || of the court and on such conditions as may be agreed or ordered, but such consent shall not be 11 || unreasonably withheld. 12 || To the extent any person is required to complete the certification contained in Attachment A to 13 || this Order, facsimile signatures or signatures transferred in electronic format (e.g., PDF) shall be 14 || treated as original signatures for purposes of this Order. 15 7.3 Filing “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Material. 16 || Before filing Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only material or discussing or referencing 17 material in court filings, the filing party shall confer with the designating party, in 18 || accordance with Local Civil Rule 5(g). Any motion to seal filed by the receiving party, where a 19 || designating party must make a showing required by Local Civil rule 5(g)(3)(B) in response to the 20 || motion, must be noted for consideration no earlier than the fourth Friday after filing. A party who 21 || seeks to maintain the confidentiality of its information must satisfy the requirements of Local 22 || Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(B), even if it is not the party filing the motion to seal. Failure to satisfy this 23 ||requirement will result in the motion to seal being denied, in accordance with the strong 24 || presumption of public access to the Court’s files. 25 26 27 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 11 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 8. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 2 8.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each party 3 || or non-party that designates material for protection under this agreement must take care to limit 4 || any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. 5 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are expressly prohibited and shall expose 6 || the designating party to sanctions, to the extent that such designations unnecessarily encumber or 7 || delay the case development process or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties, 8 liprevent a party to this litigation with demonstrated subject matter expertise from using it to g || advance a claim or defense, and the like. 10 If it comes to a designating party’s attention that-material designated for protection does 1] qualify for protection, the designating party shall promptly notify all other parties that it is 12 || withdrawing the mistaken designation. 13 8.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 14 agreement, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, disclosure or discovery material that qualifies 15 || for protection under this agreement must be clearly so designated before or when the material 1s 16 || disclosed or produced. 17 (a) Material in documentary form (e.g., paper_or electronic documents and 18 || deposition exhibits, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings): 19 || the designating party must affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL— 20 || SOURCE CODE,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to each 21 ||page that contains confidential material. In the case of material produced in native electronic 22 ||format, the designating party must append to the file names of such material the legend 23 || “CONFIDENTIAL,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE,” or “HIGHLY 24 || CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. 25 (b) Testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial proceedings: the parties 26 any participating non-parties must identify on the record, during the deposition or other 27 |\pretrial proceeding, all protected testimony, without prejudice to their right to so designate other 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 12 sire □□□ ceca (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 |} testimony after reviewing the transcript. Any party or non-party may, within 15 calendar days 2 || after receiving the transcript of the deposition or other pretrial proceeding, provide written notice 3 designated portions of the transcript, or exhibits thereto, will be treated as Confidential, 4 || Highly Confidential—Source Code, or Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only. No later than 5 || 60 days after receiving the transcript of the deposition or other pretrial proceeding, a designating 6 || party may serve a Notice of Designation to all parties of record and the court reporter for the 7 || deposition in question as to specific pages of the transcript that are designated Confidential, 8 || Highly Confidential—Source Code, or Highly Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only. The court 9 reporter shall provide a final copy of the transcript that reflects any designations of pages of the 10 | transcript as Confidential or Highly Confidential Information in the lower left-hand corner of each 11 || designated page. A party may request additional time for good cause shown if the party is unable 12 meet the above deadline. The Parties agree to meet and confer about any such requests in an 13 || effort to limit disputes that are brought to the Court’s attention. If a party or non-party desires to 14 || protect confidential information at trial, the issue should be addressed during the pre-trial 15 || conference. 16 (c) Other tangible items: the producing party must affix in a prominent place 17 the exterior of the container or containers in which the material is stored the legend 18 || “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE or “HIGHLY 19 || CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 20 8.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected after being identified, an 21 || inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 22 || designating party’s right to secure protection under this agreement for such material. Upon timely 23 || correction of a designation, the receiving party must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the 24 || material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this agreement. 25 CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 26 9.1 Timing of Challenges. Any party or non-party may challenge a designation of 27 || confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a designating party’s confidentiality 28 | STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 13 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 791) Seneca Street

1 || designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 2 || burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a party does not waive its right to 3 || challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 4 || original designation is disclosed. 5 9.2 Meet and Confer. The parties must make every attempt to resolve any dispute 6 ||/regarding confidential designations without court involvement. Any motion regarding 7 || confidential designations or for a protective order must include a certification, in the motion or in 8 declaration or affidavit, that the movant has engaged in a good faith meet and confer conference 9 || with other affected parties in an effort to resolve the dispute without court action. The certification 10 list the date, manner, and participants to the conference. A good faith effort to confer 11 || requires a face-to-face meeting or a telephone conference. 12 9.3 Judicial Intervention. If the parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 13 intervention, within 10 business days of the conclusion of the good faith effort to resolve the 14 || dispute, the designating party may file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Local 15 Rule 7 (and in compliance with Local Civil Rule S(g), if applicable). The burden of 16 |] persuasion in any such motion shall be on the designating party. Frivolous challenges, and those 17 ||made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 18 || other parties) may expose the challenging party to sanctions. All parties shall continue to maintain 19 || the material in question as confidential until the court rules on the challenge. 20 110. 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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—SOURCE CODE,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL— ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” that party must: °° (a) promptly notify the designating party in writing and include a copy of the *° subpoena or court order; 27 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 14 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law: PLLC 79) Seneca Street

1 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to 2 in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is 3 || subject to this agreement. Such notification shall include a copy of this agreement; and 4 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by 5 || the designating party whose confidential material may be affected. 6 111. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 7 If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed confidential 8 || material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this agreement, the receiving 9 || party must immediately (a) notify in writing the designating party of the unauthorized disclosures, 10 use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the protected material, (c) inform the 11 || person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this agreement, 12 || and (d) request that such person or persons execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 13 || Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 14 112. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 15 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). In addition, any Party receiving a document or information that appears to be privileged or work product shall promptly notify the producing Party. These provisions are 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.

54 13. NON TERMINATION AND RETURN OF DOCUMENTS Within 60 calendar days after the termination of this action, including all appeals, each receiving party must return all confidential material to the producing party, including all copies,

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1 || extracts and summaries thereof. Alternatively, the parties may agree upon appropriate methods of 2 || destruction. 3 Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain one archival copy of all 4 |/documents filed with the court, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, correspondence, 5 || deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert 6 || work product, even if such materials contain confidential material. 7 The confidentiality obligations imposed by this agreement shall remain in effect until a 8 || designating party agrees otherwise in writing or a court orders otherwise. 9 10 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 1] D DATED: April 1, 2024 13 | HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 14 || Steve W. Berman Steve W. Berman (WSBA No. 12536) 13. || Theodore Wojcik (WSBA No. 55553) 16 Stephanie A. Verdoia (WSBA No. 58636) Xiaoyi Fan (WSBA No. 56703) 17 || 1301 Second Avenue, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98101 18 || Telephone: (206) 623-7292 Facsimile: (206) 623-0594 19 | Email: steveWhbsslaw.com 0 Email: tedw@hbsslaw.com Email: stephaniev@hbsslaw.com 91 || Email: kellyf@hbsslaw.com 22 S. Pierce (pro hac vice) 715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 300 23 Berkeley, CA 94710 4 Telephone: (510) 725-3000 Facsimile: (510) 725-3001 25 || Email: rrop@hbsslaw.com 26 || Attorneys for Plaintiffs 27 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 16 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law, PLLC 7370 Seneca Street

1 || VAN KAMPEN & CROWE PLLC MATTHEW CARVALHO, 5 ATTORNEY AT LAW, PLLC Al Van Kampen /s/ Matthew A. Carvalho 3 || Al Van Kampen (WSBA No. 13670) Matthew A. Carvalho (WSBA No. 31201) P.O. Box 33632 720 Seneca Street Seattle, WA 98133 4 Seattle, WA 98101 Telephone: (206) 441-1121 Telephone: (206) 799-6888 5 || Email: avankampen@vkclaw.com Email: matt@mattcarvalholaw.com 6 || VINSON & ELKINS LLP DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP 7 | Michael W. Scarborough (pro hac vice) Nos I Sebone (en (pr o hac vice) ichael Schaper (pro hac vice 8 yan L Baar v0 hae vice) Kristin D. Kiehn (pro hac vice) Revit Vosteno (pro ac vice) 66 Hudson Boulevard 9 |} Madison Lo (pro hac vice) New York, NY 10001 555 Mission Street, Suite 2000 Telephone: (212) 909-6000 10 || San Francisco, CA 94105 Email: mkmonaghan@debevoise.com Telephone: (415) 979-6900 Email: mschaper@debevoise.com 11 |) Email: mscarborough@velaw.com Email: kdkiehn@debevoise.com 12 rma Callan @velaw.com Abraham Tabaie (pro hac vice) mat" costello@velaw.com 650 California Street 13 || Email: mlo@velaw.com San Francisco, CA 94108 Telephone: (415) 738-5700 14 || Stephen Medlock (pro hac vice) Email: atabaie@debevoise.com 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 15 | suite 500 West Attorneys for Defendant Yardi Systems, Inc. 16 || Washington, DC 20037 Telephone: (202) 639-6500 17 || Email: smedlock@velaw.com BAILEY DUQUETTE PC 18 || Mackenzie Newman (pro hac vice) /s/ Hozaifa Cassubhai 1114 Avenue of the Americas Hozaifa Cassubhai (WSBN No. 39512) 19 o39nd Floor William Burnside (WSBN No. 36002) 20 || New York, NY 10036 800 Fifth Ave, Suite 101-800 Telephone: (212) 237-0000 Seattle, WA 98104 21 || Email: mnewman@velaw.com Phone: (206) 225-2250 Fax : (866) 233-5869 22 Attorneys for Defendant Bridge Property Email: hozaifa@baileyduquette.com 53 Management, L.C. Email: will@baileyduquette.com 24 Attorneys for Defendant Calibrate Property CABLE HUSTON LLP Management, LLC 25 /s/ Brian S. Epley 26 || Brian S. Epley (WSBA No. 48412) FOGARTY LAW GROUP PLLC 7 Jon W. Monson (WSBA No. 43912) /s/ Paul E. Fogar 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 17 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law, PLLC 7370 Seneca Street

1 || 1455 SW Broadway, Suite 1500 Paul E. Fogarty (WSBN No. 26929) Portland, OR 97201-3412 1904 Third Avenue, Ste 933 2 Telephone: (503) 224-3092 Seattle, WA 98101 3 || Email: jmonson@cablehuston.com Telephone: (206) 441-0172 Email: bepley@cablehuston.com Email: pfogarty@fogartylawgroup.com 4 Attorneys for Defendant Dalton NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP 5 || Management, Inc. Michael Swarztendruber (pro hac vice) 6 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 3600 7 Dallas, TX 75201 /s/ Steven Rich Telephone: (214) 855-8067 8 || Steven Rich (WSBA No. 48444) michael.swartzendruber@nortonrosefulbright.com 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6800 9 | Seattle, WA 98104 Eliot Turner (pro hac vice) 10 Telephone: (206) 344-7600 1301 McKinney, Suite 5100 Email: srich@shb.com Houston, TX 77010 11 Telephone: (713) 651-5113 Ryan Sandrock (pro hac vice) Email: eliot.turner@nortonrosefulbright.com 12 || 555 Mission Street, Suite 2300 San Francisco, CA 94105 Attorneys for Defendant Creekwood Property 13 || Telephone: (415) 544-1900 Corporation 14 Email: rsandrock@shb.com PERKINS COIE LLP 15 || Attorneys for Defendant LeFever Mattson Property Management /s/ David A. Perez 16 David A. Perez (WSBA No. 43959) Elvira Castillo (WSBA No. 43893) 17 | K&L GATES LLP Tiffany Lee (WSBA No. 51979) 18 Marten King (WSBA No. 57106) /s/ Christopher M. Wyant 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 19 || Christopher M. Wyant (WSBA No. 35561) Seattle, WA 98101-3099 Tyler Lichter (WSBA No. 51090) Telephone: 206.359.6767 20 || 925 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2900 Email: DPerez@perkinscoie.com Seattle, WA 98104 Email: ECastillo@perkinscoie.com 21 | Phone: (206) 623-7580 Email: TiffanyLee@perkinscoie.com 97 | Fax: (206) 623-7022 Email: MKing@perkinscoie.com Email: chris. wyant@klgates.com 23 || Email: tyler.lichter@klgates.com Adrianna Simonelli (WSBA No. 58472) 1120 NW Couch Street, Tenth Floor 24 || Lauren Norris Donahue (pro hac vice) Portland, OR 97209-4128 70 W. Madison St., Suite 3300 Telephone: 503-727-2000 ll Chicago, IL 60602 Facsimile: 503—727-2222 26 || Telephone: (312) 372-1121 Email: ASimonelli@perkinscoie.com Fax: (312) 827-8000 27 || Email: lauren.donahue@klgates.com Attorneys for Defendant HNN Associates, LLC 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 18 Ninna valley, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law, PLLC 7370 Seneca Street

1 Derek Sutton (pro hac vice) STOKES LAWRENCE, P.S. 2 Il 301 Hillsborough St., Suite 1200 3 || Raleigh, NC 27603 /s/ Mathew Harrington Telephone: (919) 743-7331 Mathew Harrington 4 || Fax: (919) 516-2122 Valerie Walker Email: derek.sutton@klgates.com 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3000 5 Seattle, WA 98101-2393 6 Attorneys for Defendant R.D. Merrill Real — Telephone: (206) 626-6000 Estate Holdings, LLC Email: mathew.harrington@stokeslaw.com 7 Email: valerie.walker@stokeslaw.com 8 || GORDON REES SCULLY SPENCER FANE LLP MANSUKHANT, LLP 9 Jessica Nelson (pro hac vice) 10 /s/ Todd A. Bowers Donald Heeman (pro hac vice) Todd A. Bowers (WSBA No. 24638) 100 South Fifth Street, Suite 2500 1] || 701 Sth Avenue, Suite 2100 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Seattle, WA 98104 Telephone: (612) 268-7006 12 || Telephone: (206) 695-5197 Email: jnelson@spencerfane.com 3 Email: tbowers@grsm.com Email: dheeman@spencerfane.com 14 ROETZEL & ANDRESS Attorneys for Defendant Manco Abbott, Inc. 15 || Stephen W. Funk (pro hac vice) 222 South Main Street, Suite 400 BRADLEY BERNSTEIN SANDS LLP 16 arom OH B49 6602 /s/ Heidi B. Bradle 17 || Telephone: (330) 849— Heidi B. Bradley (WSBA No. 35759) Cell: (330) 819-5387 2800 First Avenue, Suite 326 18 Email: sfunk@ralaw.com Seattle, WA 98121 Telephone: (206) 337-6551 19 || Attorneys for Defendant Summit Email: hbradley@bradleybernstein.com M ices, Inc. . 20 anagement Services, Inc Darin M. Sands (WSBA No. 35865) 1425 SW 20" Ave., Suite 201 21 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: (503)734—2480 Email: dsands@bradleybernstein.com 33 Attorneys for Defendant Morguard Management Company Inc. 24 25 26 27 28 || STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER — 19 liiaistiwe Carving, (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391-RSL) Attorney at Law, PLLC 7370 Seneca Street

1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 2 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the production of any 3 || documents, electronically stored information (ESI), or information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, 4 this proceeding shall not, for the purposes of this proceeding or any other federal or state 5 || proceeding, constitute a waiver by the producing party of any privilege applicable to those documents, 6 including the attorney-client privilege, attorney work-product protection, or any other privilege or 7 || protection recognized by law. This Order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum protection 8 || allowed by Fed. R. Evid. 502(d). 9 10 Dated this 2nd day of April, 2024.

12 Robert S. Lasnik 3 United States District Judge 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Se. 79) Seneca Street

1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, ____________________________________ [print or type full name], of 4 ____________________________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of 5 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 on 6 ____________ [date] in the case of Duffy v. Yardi Systems, Inc., et al. (Case No. 2:23-cv-01391- 7 RSL). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order 8 and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 9 punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner 10 any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity 11 except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. I will use any confidential material 12 disclosed to me solely for purposes of this action, and I will take appropriate steps and assume full responsibility to assure that any other people working for me, including clerical or secretarial 13 personnel, will abide by the Stipulated Protective Order. I will not use, either directly or 14 indirectly, any confidential material disclosed to me for any other purpose or proceeding. I will 15 return all confidential material that comes into my possession to counsel for the party by whom I 16 am employed or retained when requested to do so by that counsel. 17 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 18 Western District of Washington for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and for civil remedies in the form of legal and equitable relief, including 19 damages, for any breach thereof, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of 20 this action. 21

22 DATE: 23 City and State where sworn and signed:

25 Printed name: 26 27 Signature: 28