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

CourtDistrict Court, D. Nevada
DecidedOctober 4, 2019
Docket3:19-cv-00105
StatusUnknown

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Opinion

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10 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

11 DISTRICT OF NEVADA

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

13 Plaintiffs, AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER vs. 14 RYZE CAPITAL, L.L.C.; ENCORE DEC, 15 L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES RENO, L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES, L.L.C.; 16 MICHAEL BROWN; CHRIS DANCY; RESC, L.L.C.; RYZE RENEWABLES LAS 17 VEGAS, L.L.C.; MATT PEARSON; AND RANDY SOULE, 18 Defendants. 19

28 1 AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER 2 1. Proceedings and Information Governed.

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

4 Procedure (“FED. R. CIV. P.”).

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

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

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

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

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

10 not be dismissed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

17 protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or

18 items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

26 designated documents.

27 2. Designation and Maintenance of Documents and Information.

28 A. “Confidential Information” designation means any document, thing, or any portion 1 of a document or thing that a party believes in good faith (a) contains private or confidential 2 personal or financial information, (b) contains information received in confidence from third

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

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

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

6 producing party believes in good faith to require protection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 restrictions as “Attorney-Eyes Only.”

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

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

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

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

19 a manner making such information no longer confidential.

20 3. Documents Produced in Discovery and Depositions.

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

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

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

24 page and each thing a legend substantially as follows:

25 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Subject To Protective Order

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

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

28 1 falls within the scope of paragraph 2(B) above by placing on each page and each thing a legend 2 substantially as follows:

3 HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Subject To Protective Order

4 B. Depositions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13 and “Highly Confidential Information.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 such terms as are permitted under this Protective Order.

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

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

26 Confidential Information.

27 4. Inadvertent Failure to Designate.

28 A.

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