Moore v. Robinhood Financial LLC

District Court, W.D. Washington·Decided July 29, 2022·No. 2:21-cv-01571·Unknown

Opinion

1 The Honorable Barbara J. Rothstein 2

6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 7 AT SEATTLE

8 COOPER MOORE and ANDREW GILLETTE, on their own behalf and on behalf of others No. 2:21-cv-01571-BJR 9 similarly situated,

10 Plaintiffs, STIPULATED MOTION AND STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 11 v. ORDER

12 ROBINHOOD FINANCIAL LLC,

13 Defendant.

14 15 Plaintiffs Cooper Moore and Andrew Gillette and Defendant Robinhood Financial LLC, 16 by and through their undersigned counsel, respectfully move for entry of the following Stipulated 17 Protective Order, to expedite and facilitate the production of confidential, proprietary, or private 18 information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose 19 other than prosecuting and defending this litigation would be warranted, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. 20 P. 26(c). Under LCR 26(c)(2), the parties began with the District’s Model Protective Order, and 21 have identified departures from the model in a redlined copy, attached as Exhibit 1. 22 I. STIPULATION 23 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 24 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or 25 private information for which special protection may be warranted. The parties acknowledge that 26 this agreement is consistent with LCR 26(c). It does not confer blanket protection on all 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND 1 disclosures or responses to discovery; the protection it affords from public disclosure and use 2 extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under 3 applicable legal principles, and it does not presumptively entitle parties to file confidential 4 information under seal. 5 2. “CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL” AND “ATTORNEYS EYES ONLY MATERIAL” 6 “Confidential Material” shall include the following information, documents, and tangible 7 things produced or otherwise exchanged: (1) personal and private information regarding 8 Plaintiffs and potential class members, including current and former street addresses for natural 9 persons, social security numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, driver’s 10 license numbers, account numbers, maiden names, and passwords; and (2) confidential business 11 and financial information. 12 “Attorney’s Eyes Only Material” may include information, documents, and tangible 13 things produced or otherwise exchanged that fall within Confidential Material the nature of 14 which is so highly confidential that the designating party in good faith believes that it risks 15 competitive or personal harm or injury through that material’s disclosure. 16 Confidential Material and Attorneys Eyes Only Material are “Protected Material.” 17 3. SCOPE 18 The protections conferred by this agreement cover not only Protected Material (as 19 defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from such material; (2) all 20 copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of such material; and (3) any testimony, 21 conversations, or presentations by parties or their counsel that might reveal such material. 22 However, the protections conferred by this agreement do not cover information that (a) is 23 in the public domain or becomes part of the public domain through trial or otherwise; (b) any 24 non-producing party owns or lawfully possesses or obtains lawfully and properly through its own 25 investigation or other means (i.e., not from the producing party); or (c) is produced without a 26 confidentiality designation, except as otherwise provided in this agreement (see, e.g., Section 5.3 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND 1 below) or as otherwise stipulated or ordered. 2 4. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 3 4.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 4 produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 5 defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Protected Material may be disclosed only to the 6 categories of persons and under the conditions described in this agreement. Protected Material 7 must be stored and maintained by a receiving party at a location and in a secure manner that 8 ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this agreement. 9 4.2 Disclosure of Protected Material. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or 10 permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may disclose any Confidential 11 Material or Attorneys Eyes Only Material only to: 12 (a) Plaintiffs Cooper Moore and Andrew Gillette and Defendant Robinhood 13 Financial LLC, including their officers, directors, and employees (including in-house counsel) to 14 whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, unless (except as to in house counsel) 15 particular information, documents or materials are produced for Attorneys Eyes Only and are so 16 designated; 17 (b) the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as employees 18 of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 19 (c) experts and consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 20 this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 21 (Exhibit A); 22 (d) the Court, court personnel, and court reporters and their staff, including 23 any court reporter, videographer reporting or third party who is necessary to resolve a 24 technological issue during a deposition that court reporters, videographers, and their staff are 25 unable to resolve; 26 (e) copy or imaging services or e-discovery vendors retained by counsel to 27 STIPULATED MOTION AND 1 assist in the duplication, storage or analysis of Protected Material, provided that counsel for the 2 party retaining the copy or imaging service instructs the service not to disclose any Protected 3 Material to third parties and to immediately return or destroy all originals and copies of any 4 Protected Material; 5 (f) during their depositions or while preparing with their counsel for their 6 depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have 7 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise bound 8 by this agreement, agreed by the designating party, or ordered by the Court. Pages of transcribed 9 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Confidential Material or Attorneys 10 Eyes Only Material must be separately bound in any hard copy transcript and separately 11 compiled in any electronic transcript by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone 12 except as permitted under this agreement; 13 (g) mediators or settlement officers, and their supporting personnel, hired or 14 appointed to address any issue(s) in the litigation; 15 (h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 16 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 17 (i) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and professional 18 vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 19 “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 20 (j) other persons by written agreement of the designating party. 21 4.3 Filing Protected Material. Should the receiving party include, discuss, or 22 reference Protected Material in court filings, the information must be redacted and/or filed under 23 seal. The designating party must file its own briefs and/or declarations in response to the filing 24 party’s motion to seal to state the reasons for keeping the designating party’s Protected Material 25 under seal, keeping in mind that a party who seeks to maintain the confidentiality of its 26 information must satisfy the “good cause” or “compelling reasons” requirements of Kamakana v.

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