RB Products, Inc. v. Encore, DEC, LLC

District Court, D. Nevada·Decided October 4, 2019·No. 3:19-cv-00105·Unknown

Opinion

RB PRODUCTS, INC., CASE NO.: 3:19-cv-00105-MMD-WGC

Plaintiffs, AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER vs. RYZE CAPITAL, L.L.C.; ENCORE DEC, L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES RENO, L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES, L.L.C.; MICHAEL BROWN; CHRIS DANCY; RESC, L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES LAS VEGAS, L.L.C.; MATT PEARSON; AND RANDY SOULE, Defendants.

1. Proceedings and Information Governed.

This Order (“Protective Order”) is made under Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure (“FED. R. CIV. P.”).

This protective order is being entered into following the Court’s September 18, 2019

Hearing Re: Proposed Discovery Plan/Scheduling Order and Motion to Stay Discovery. By

entering into this Protective Order, no party is waiving any arguments that this entire case should

or should not be stayed in favor of the related arbitration pending with JAMS in Orange County,

California (Case No. 1200055940) (the “JAMS Arbitration”), or that the claims should or should

not be dismissed.

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action and the JAMS Arbitration are likely to

involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection

from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation or the

JAMS arbitration may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to request that the

Court enter the following Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Protective Order

does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that 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.

This Protective Order applies to any document, information, discovery responses, or other

tangible or intangible thing (collectively, “documents”) furnished by a party to any other party, as

well as documents furnished by non-parties who receive subpoenas in connection with this action,

if and when the documents are designated by a party or non-party as “Confidential Information”

or “Highly Confidential Information” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order. This

Protective Order also applies to copies, excerpts, abstracts, analyses, summaries, descriptions, or

other forms of recorded information or data containing, reflecting, or disclosing all or parts of

designated documents.

2. Designation and Maintenance of Documents and Information.

A. “Confidential Information” designation means any document, thing, or any portion of a document or thing that a party believes in good faith (a) contains private or confidential personal or financial information, (b) contains information received in confidence from third

parties that a party is required to keep confidential, the disclosure of which is likely to cause harm

to an individual or the business or competitive position of the designating party, or (c) contains

commercially-sensitive competitive or technical information or other information that the

producing party believes in good faith to require protection.

B. “Highly Confidential Information” designation means any document, thing, or any

portion of a document or thing that contains confidential and competitively-sensitive business

information, existing or new products, services, current or forward-looking business plans,

financial information, or technology where that information is not yet known to the public

including, but not limited to, confidential research and development, sensitive financial

information, or trade secret information, or information being utilized for the preparation or

prosecution of a patent application dealing with such subject matter. Such documents merit greater

restrictions as “Attorney-Eyes Only.”

C. “Confidential Information” and “Highly Confidential Information” do not include,

and this Protective Order does not apply to, documents already in the knowledge or possession of

the party to whom disclosure is made unless that party is already bound by an agreement not to

disclose such information, or information that has been disclosed to the public or third persons in

a manner making such information no longer confidential.

3. Documents Produced in Discovery and Depositions.

A. A producing party may designate documents and things produced in this litigation

where the producing party has a good faith belief that such information falls within the scope of

paragraph 2(A) above, where the producing party has a good faith belief that by placing on each

page and each thing a legend substantially as follows:

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Subject To Protective Order

A producing party may designate documents and things produced in this litigation as “Highly

Confidential Information” where the producing party has a good faith belief that such information

falls within the scope of paragraph 2(B) above by placing on each page and each thing a legend substantially as follows:

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Subject To Protective Order

B. Depositions

(i) For deposition testimony or exhibits to be entitled to protection under this

Order, a party must designate the testimony and exhibits disclosed at a deposition as “Confidential

Information” or “Highly Confidential Information” by requesting the reporter to so designate the

transcript or any portion of the transcript at the time of the deposition.

(ii) If no such designation is made at the time of the deposition, any party has

twenty (20) days after delivery by the court reporter of the final transcript of the deposition session

to designate (“Designation Period”), in writing to the other parties and to the court reporter, what

portions of the transcript and which exhibits the party designates as “Confidential Information”

and “Highly Confidential Information.”

(iii) During the Designation Period, the transcript and exhibits must be treated

as Highly Confidential Information, unless the disclosing party consents to less confidential

treatment of the information in writing or on the record and the deposition.

(iv) Each party and the court reporter must attach a copy of any final and timely

written designation notice to the transcript and each copy of the transcript in its possession, custody

or control, and the portions designated in such notice must thereafter be treated in accordance with

this Protective Order. It is the responsibility of counsel for each party to maintain materials

containing Confidential Information or Highly Confidential Information in a secure manner and

appropriately identified so as to allow access to such information only to such persons and under

such terms as are permitted under this Protective Order.

(v) If no such designation is made at the deposition or within the Designation

Period, then the entire deposition will be considered devoid of Confidential Information or Highly

Confidential Information.

4. Inadvertent Failure to Designate.

A. The inadvertent failure to designate documents as “Confidential Information” or “Highly Confidential Information” will not be a waiver of a claim that the document contains confidential information, and will not prevent the producing party from designating such

information as confidential at a later date in writing, so long as the designation is done with

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