Houghton v. Rancho Mesquite Casino, Inc.

District Court, D. Nevada·Decided December 16, 2024·No. 2:23-cv-00276·Unknown

Opinion

1 David E. Chavez Nevada Bar No. 15192 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 900 3 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: 702.471.7000 4 Facsimile: 702.471.7070 chavezd@ballardspahr.com 5 Edward J. McAndrew, Esq. 6 Admitted Pro Hac Vice BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 7 1735 Market Street, Suite 3300 Philadelphia, PA 19103-7501 8 Telephone: (215) 568-3100 Facsimile: (215) 568-3439 9 Email: emcandrew@bakerlaw.com

10 Marcus McCutcheon, Esq. Admitted Pro Hac Vice 600 Anton Blvd., Suite 900 12 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Telephone: (714) 754-6600 13 Facsimile: (714) 754-6611 Email: mmccutcheon@bakerlaw.com 14 Counsel for Rancho Mesquite Casino, Inc. d/b/a Eureka 15 Casino Resort 18 In re: Case No. 2:23-cv-00276-CDS-NJK

19 Eureka Casino Breach Litigation. Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement and 20 This Document Relates to: All Actions [Proposed] Protective Order 21 22 Plaintiffs William Houghton, Andrew Figura, Michael Oldham, and Kristin Andrew 23 (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendant Rancho Mesquite Casino, Inc. dba Eureka Casino Hotel (“Defendant”) 24 (collectively the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby submit this 25 proposed Protective Order pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to protect 26 confidential information and materials that may be made available in the ordinary course of 27 discovery in this action. 28 2 1. Scope. This Protective Order, if adopted by the Court, shall govern the handling of 3 all documents, depositions, deposition exhibits, interrogatory responses, affidavits and any attached 4 exhibits thereto, or other information produced, given, or exchanged by and among the Parties and 5 any other parties or non-parties to this litigation (collectively, the “Discovery Material”) that have 6 been or may be designated CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to this 7 Protective Order (the “Protected Material”). This Protective Order is binding upon the Parties, their 8 agents and employees, all counsel for the Parties and their agents and employees, and all persons to 9 whom the disclosure of Protected Material under this Protective Order is made. 10 2. No Use for Other Purposes. All Discovery Material shall be used by the Parties only 11 for the purpose of conducting the above-captioned consolidated action, In Re: Casino Breach 12 Litigation, No. 2:23-02-00276-CDS-NJK (the “Litigation”), including any appellate proceedings, 13 and not by anyone else for any other purpose. 14 3. Producing Person and Receiving Person. Any person or entity who generated (in 15 whole or in part), or provided information contained in any Protected Material, shall be referred to 16 herein as a “Producing Person.” Any person or entity who receives any Protected Material shall be 17 referred to as a “Receiving Person.” 18 4. Counsel. The term “Counsel” shall mean in-house counsel for the respective Parties, 19 as well as outside counsel for the respective Parties and other attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and 20 other support staff employed by outside counsel. 21 5. Confidentiality Designations. Each Party (or any non-party served with a subpoena 22 duces tecum by a Party) that produces or discloses any Discovery Material that the Producing Person 23 believes should be subject to this Protective Order may designate the same as CONFIDENTIAL or 25 a. CONFIDENTIAL – The Producing Person may designate the following 26 Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL: sensitive, confidential, or proprietary, technical, business, 27 or financial information which gains value from not being generally known or the disclosure of 28 which would harm the business or reputation of the Producing Person, or other information that the 1 Producing Person reasonably believes in good faith is confidential or otherwise qualifies for 2 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 3 b. HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – The Producing Person may designate the 4 following Discovery Material as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: highly sensitive, confidential, or 5 proprietary, technical, business, or financial information that the Producing Person reasonably 6 believes in good faith will result in competitive or other harm if any individual who is entitled to 7 review material designated CONFIDENTIAL has access to it. Examples of such Discovery Material 8 are trade secrets, highly confidential business and/or financial information, and proprietary 9 personnel information. 10 6. In the event the Producing Person elects to produce Discovery Material for 11 inspection, no marking need be made by the Producing Person in advance of the initial inspection. 12 For the purposes of the initial inspection, all Discovery Material produced will be considered as 13 HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL and must be treated as such pursuant to the terms of this Protective 14 Order. Thereafter, upon selection of specified Discovery Material for copying by the inspecting 15 party, the Producing Party must, within a reasonable time prior to producing the specified Discovery 16 Material to the inspecting party, apply any appropriate confidentiality markings. Under no 17 circumstances shall a “reasonable time” be deemed to be more than ten (10) business days after the 18 selection of documents for copying is communicated to the Producing Party, unless the Parties agree 19 to a different time period in writing. 20 7. The inadvertent production by any of the undersigned Parties or non–Parties to the 21 Proceedings of any Discovery Material during discovery in this action without a CONFIDENTIAL 22 or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL designation, shall be without prejudice to any claim that such item 23 is CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL and such Party shall not be held to have waived 24 any rights by such inadvertent production. In the event that any Discovery Material that is subject 25 to a CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL designation is inadvertently produced 26 without such designation, the Party that inadvertently produced the document shall give written 27 notice of such inadvertent production within twenty (20) days of discovery of the inadvertent 28 production, together with a further copy of the subject Discovery Material designated as 1 CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL (the “Inadvertent Production Notice”). Upon 2 receipt of such Inadvertent Production Notice, the Party that received the inadvertently produced 3 Discovery Material shall promptly destroy the inadvertently produced Discovery Material and all 4 copies thereof, or, at the expense of the producing Party, return such together with all copies of such 5 Discovery Material to counsel for the producing Party and shall retain only the CONFIDENTIAL 6 or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL materials. Should the receiving Party choose to destroy such 7 inadvertently produced Discovery Material, the receiving Party shall notify the producing Party in 8 writing of such destruction within ten (10) days of receipt of written notice of the inadvertent 9 production. This provision is not intended to apply to any inadvertent production of any Discovery 10 Material protected by attorney–client or work product privileges. In the event that this provision 11 conflicts with any applicable law regarding waiver of confidentiality through the inadvertent 12 production of Discovery Material, such law shall govern. 13 8. Whenever a deposition taken on behalf of a Party involves the disclosure of 14 CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL Discovery Material of any Party or non-party: 15 a.

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