Wallace v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC

CourtDistrict Court, E.D. California
DecidedJuly 15, 2020
Docket2:18-cv-02768
StatusUnknown

This text of Wallace v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC (Wallace v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering District Court, E.D. California primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Wallace v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, (E.D. Cal. 2020).

Opinion

1 AKERMAN LLP JUSTIN D. BALSER (SBN 213478) 2 Email: justin.balser@akerman.com NATALIE L. WINSLOW (SBN 281704) 3 Email: natalie.winslow@akerman.com 601 West Fifth Street, Suite 300 4 Los Angeles, CA 90071 Telephone: (213) 688-9500 5 Facsimile: (213) 627-6342

6 Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaimants NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC dba MR. COOPER f/k/a Centex Home Equity Co. 7 LLC and BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON f/k/a THE BANK OF NEW YORK as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as 8 Trustee for Centex Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-A

9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

10 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

12 DENISE WALLACE, No. 2:18-cv-02768-JAM-DB

13 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER AND ORDER 14 v.

15 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, Individually and dba MR. COOPER, 16 CENTREX HOME EQUITY, LLC., THE BANK OF NEW YORK 17 MELLON, THE MORTGAGE LAW FIRM and DOES 1-100, inclusive, 18 Defendants. 19 Defendants Nationstar Mortgage LLC dba Mr. Cooper f/k/a/ Centex Home 20 Equity Co. LLC (Nationstar) and Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a/ the Bank of New 21 York as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Centex 22 Home Equity Loan Trust 2006-A (BoNYM, and together with Nationstar, defendants) 23 and plaintiff Denise Wallace by and through their attorneys of record, stipulate to the 24 following Protective Order: 25 To expedite the flow of discovery, facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes 26 over confidentiality, adequately protect material claimed to be confidential, and ensure 27 1 protection is afforded only to material so designated, it is, pursuant to the Court's 2 authority under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c), ORDERED this Protective 3 Order shall govern the disclosure, handling and disposition of documents in this 4 litigation as follows: 5 1. Application. 6 1.1 This Protective Order shall govern any document, information or other 7 material that is designated as containing "Confidential Information" as defined herein, 8 and is produced in connection with this litigation by any person or entity (the "producing 9 party"), whether in response to a discovery request, subpoena or otherwise, to any other 10 person or entity (the "receiving party") regardless of whether the person or entity 11 producing or receiving such information is a party to this litigation. 12 1.2 The party who asserts that particular information should be treated as 13 Confidential Information under this Protective Order has the burden of proof to 14 establish that the information or document is entitled to such protection. 15 2. Definitions. 16 2.1 Confidential Information. "Confidential Information" shall mean and 17 include, without limitation, any non-public information that concerns or relates to the 18 following areas: personal information protected by a right to privacy, individual health 19 information, including but not limited to medical records, individual treatment records, 20 and individual mental health treatment information, confidential proprietary 21 information, trade secrets, practices and procedures, personal financial information, 22 commercial, financial, pricing, budgeting, and/or accounting information, information 23 about existing and potential customers, marketing studies, performance projections, 24 business strategies, decisions and/or negotiations, personnel compensation, evaluations 25 and other employment information, and confidential proprietary information about 26 affiliates, parents, subsidiaries and third-parties with whom the parties to this action 27 have or have had business relationships. 1 2.2 Documents. As used herein, the term "documents" includes all writings, 2 records, files, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, e-mails, video tapes, audio tapes, 3 compact discs, electronic messages, other data compilations from which information 4 can be obtained and other tangible things subject to production under the Federal Rules 5 of Civil Procedure. 6 3. Initial Designation. 7 3.1 Good Faith Claims. Claims of confidentiality will be made only with 8 respect to documents, other tangible things and information that the asserting party has 9 a good faith belief are within the definition set forth in subparagraph 2.1 of this 10 Protective Order. Objections to such claims made pursuant to paragraph 5, below, shall 11 also be made only in good faith. 12 3.2 Produced Documents. A party producing documents that it believes 13 constitute or contain Confidential Information shall state that the material is being 14 produced under this Protective Order by describing the documents or materials to be 15 treated as confidential in writing, by page or bates number wherever possible and/or 16 shall produce copies bearing a label that contains or includes language substantially 17 identical to the following: 18 CONFIDENTIAL 19 This label shall be affixed in a manner that does not obliterate or obscure the 20 contents of the copies. If any person or party makes copies of documents designated as 21 containing Confidential Information, the copying person or party shall mark each such 22 copy as containing Confidential Information in the same form as the Confidentiality 23 notice on the original document. 24 A party producing documents that are stored on electronic, magnetic, optical or 25 other non-paper media, such as compact discs, DVD's, video tapes and audio tapes 26 (collectively, "data storage devices") shall designate the data storage device as 27 containing Confidential Information, by affixing a label or stamp to the data storage 1 device in the manner described above at the time copies of such data storage devices 2 are produced. If the receiving party or other persons or entities to whom disclosure is 3 authorized pursuant to subparagraph 7.1 make a copy of any data storage device 4 designated by the producing party as containing Confidential Information, the receiving 5 party or other authorized person shall mark each such copy as containing Confidential 6 Information in the same form as the confidentiality notice on the original data storage 7 device produced. If the receiving party or other authorized person prints out or 8 otherwise makes copies of the documents or information stored on such data storage 9 device, the receiving party or other authorized person shall mark each page so copied 10 with the label or stamp specified in subparagraph 3.2. 11 3.3 Interrogatory Answers. If a party answering an interrogatory or other 12 discovery demand believes that its answer contains Confidential Information, it shall 13 state so in the interrogatory response, and that portion of the response will be entitled 14 to the protections of this order. 15 3.4 Inspection of Documents. In the event a party elects to produce files and 16 records for inspection and the requesting party elects to inspect them, no designation of 17 Confidential Information needs to be made in advance of the inspection. For purposes 18 of such inspection, all material produced shall be considered as Confidential 19 Information. If the inspecting party selects specified documents to be copied, the 20 producing party shall designate Confidential Information in accordance with 21 subparagraph 3.2 at the time the copies are produced. 22 3.5 Deposition Transcripts. The party asserting confidentiality shall state on 23 the record the portions it deems confidential. The failure to designate testimony on the 24 record as confidential shall be a waiver unless the designating party notifies all other 25 parties and files a motion to designate the testimony as confidential within 5 days of the 26 notification. 27 3.6 Inadvertent Failure to Designate.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Related

Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu
447 F.3d 1172 (Ninth Circuit, 2006)
Center for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Group, LLC
809 F.3d 1092 (Ninth Circuit, 2016)

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
Wallace v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/wallace-v-nationstar-mortgage-llc-caed-2020.