King County v. Express Scripts Inc

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: September 30, 2024
• Docket: 2:24-cv-00049
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 The Honorable Barbara J. Rothstein

2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9 KING COUNTY, 10 11 Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 2:24-cv-00049-BJR 12 v. STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER 13 EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC., EXPRESS TO SEAL PORTIONS OF (1) SCRIPTS ADMINISTRATORS, LLC, MEDCO PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO 14 HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC., MERCK- CERTAIN DEFENDANTS’ MOTION MEDCO, ESI MAIL ORDER PROCESSING, TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S 15 INC., ESI MAIL PHARMACY SERVICE, INC., AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR 16 EXPRESS SCRIPTS PHARMACY, INC., FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM AND EXPRESS SCRIPTS SPECIALTY (2) PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO 17 DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, INC., CERTAIN DEFENDANTS’ MOTION OPTUMINSIGHT, INC., OPTUMINSIGHT TO DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S 18 LIFE SCIENCES, INC., THE LEWIN GROUP, AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR LACK INC., INGENIX PHARMACEUTICAL OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION 19 SERVICES, INC., INGENIX, INC.,

OPTUMRX, INC., and OPTUM, INC., 20

Defendants. 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 Pursuant to Local Civil Rule (“LCR”) 5(g)(3), Plaintiff King County and Defendants1 2 jointly move the Court for an order sealing limited portions of (1) Plaintiff’s Opposition to Certain 3 Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint for Failure to State a Claim and 4 (2) Plaintiff’s Opposition to Certain Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Amended 5 Complaint for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction (together, the “Oppositions”). 6 The parties make this request because portions of Plaintiff’s Oppositions quote and 7 describe the content of multiple documents cited in Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint, Dkt. # 51, that 8 were produced under protective orders in the national opioid multidistrict litigation, In re National 9 Prescription Opiate Litigation, No. 17-md-2804 (N.D. Ohio), and were designated “Confidential” 10 or “Highly Confidential” by the producing parties in that litigation. In accordance with LCR 11 5(g)(3)(B), Defendants represent that the contents of these documents should remain sealed 12 because of their designation as “Confidential” and “Highly Confidential” under the In re National 13 Prescription Opiate Litigation protective orders and because they contain Defendants’ confidential 14 and sensitive business information, including confidential internal business strategy. See, e.g., 15 Kamakana v. City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1179 (9th Cir. 2006) (sealing is appropriate 16 to prevent the “release [of] trade secrets”); Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 17 1092, 1097 (9th Cir. 2016) (sealing is appropriate to prevent public disclosure of “sources of 18 business information that might harm a litigant’s competitive standing”); McCurley v. Royal Seas 19 Cruises, Inc., 2018 WL 3629945, at *1 (S.D. Cal. July 31, 2018) (courts “routinely permit the 20 sealing of records containing business information which competitors could potentially misuse if 21 disclosed”); Res Exhibit Servs., LLC v. LNW Gaming, Inc., 2023 WL 4826506, at *1 (D. Nev. June 22 21, 2023) (granting motion to seal because the “material contain[ed] proprietary business 23 information and contents of contractual agreements between the parties”). 24

25 1 Defendants in the instant action are Express Scripts, Inc., Express Scripts Administrators, LLC, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., ESI Mail Order Processing, Inc, ESI Mail Pharmacy Service, 26 Inc., Express Scripts Pharmacy, Inc., Express Scripts Specialty Distribution Services, Inc., OptumInsight, Inc., OptumInsight Life Sciences, Inc., The Lewin Group, Inc., OptumRx, Inc.,

and Optum, Inc. 1 As required by LCR 5(g)(3)(A), the parties certify that prior to the filing of this motion, 2 they conferred on August 1, 2024 and August 2, 2024 in an attempt to avoid the filing of this 3 motion. The parties conferred via email on which numerous counsel for all parties were cc’d, with 4 David Ko and Matthew Melamed the primary participants for Plaintiff, and Kimberly 5 Chemerinsky the primary participant for Defendants. Given the confidentiality designations 6 referenced above, the parties agreed to file this stipulated motion. 7 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD 8 DATED this 30th day of September, 2024. 9 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P. 10 SULLIVAN, LLP 11 By /s/ David J. Ko /s/ Alicia Cobb Derek W. Loeser, WSBA #24274 12 Alicia Cobb, WSBA #48685 David J. Ko, WSBA #38299 1109 First Avenue, Suite 210 Alison S. Gaffney, WSBA #45565 13 Seattle, Washington 98101 Matthew Gerend, WSBA #43276 14 P Fah xo n (e 2 0( 62 )0 6 9) 0 9 5-0 75 1-7 00 00 0 A 12n 0d 1r e Tw h iL rdin Ads va ey n, u W e, S SB uA ite # 36 40 03 08 6 15 aliciacobb@quinnemanuel.com Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: (206) 623-1900 16 Attorneys for Defendants Express Fax: (206) 623-3384 Scripts, Inc., Express Scripts 17 Administrators, LLC, Medco Health KELLER ROHRBACK L.L.P. 18 Solutions, Inc., ESI Mail Order Matthew Melamed, admitted pro hac vice Processing, Inc, ESI Mail Pharmacy 180 Grand Ave, Suite 1380 19 Service, Inc., Express Scripts Pharmacy, Oakland, CA 94612 Inc., Express Scripts Specialty Phone: (510) 463-3900 20 Distribution Services, Inc. Attorneys for Plaintiff 21

26 1 MCDOUGALD LAW GROUP P.S. 2 /s/ Shannon L. McDougald Shannon L. McDougald, WSBA #24231 3 7900 SE 28th Street, Suite 500 4 Mercer Island, WA 98004 T: 425-455-2060 5 F: 425-455-2070 smcdougald@mcdougaldlaw.com 6 Attorneys for Defendant OptumInsight, 7 Inc., OptumInsight Life Sciences, Inc., 8 The Lewin Group, Inc., OptumRx, Inc., and Optum, Inc. 9 IT IS SO ORDERED. 10 A 11 September 30, 2024 12 Dated Hon. Barbara J. Rothstein United States District Judge 13

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 2 3 I, David Ko, hereby certify that on September 30, 2024, I electronically filed the 4 STIPULATED MOTION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO SEAL PORTIONS OF 5 PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITIONS TO CERTAIN DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS 6 FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM AND LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION with 7 the clerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington using the 8 CM/ECF system, which shall send electronic notification to all counsel of record. 9 /s/ David J. Ko 10 David J. Ko 11 4883-0955-5156, v. 4 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26