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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE(S) DISCUSSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. THE DOCUMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SEEKS FROM HOLTEC ARE RELEVANT, NOT COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE, AND CAN BE PROTECTED FROM DISCLOSURE BY A PROTECTIVE ORDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Based Upon The Rationale Of This Court's Decision in Tutor-Saliba Corp. v. United States, Holtec's Request For This Court To Quash The Government's Subpoena Is Untimely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Holtec Has Not Provided Sufficient Evidence That The Documents Which Defendant Seeks Constitute Confidential Commercial Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Holtec Has Not Established That Disclosure Of The Information Under An Appropriate Protective Order Would Harm Holtec . . . . . . . . . 6 Even Assuming That Holtec Established Harm From The Disclosure Of Confidential Commercial Information, The Information Is Highly Relevant To This Litigation And Should Be Produced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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THE GOVERNMENT IS ENTITLED TO DISCOVERY THAT WILL ALLOW IT TO EVALUATE PLAINTIFF'S FUTURE COST ESTIMATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 THE INFORMATION THAT THE GOVERNMENT SEEKS IS RELEVANT BOTH TO PLAINTIFF'S OVERALL DAMAGES CLAIM AND TO PLAINTIFF'S EFFORTS TO MITIGATE ITS DAMAGES . . . . . . . . 13

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CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Alaska Pulp Corp. v. United States, 59 Fed. Cl. 400 (2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 American Standard Inc. v. Pfizer Inc., 828 F.2d 734 (Fed. Cir. 1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 8 Diamond State Ins. Co. v. Rebel Oil Co., 157 F.R.D. 691 (D. Nev. 1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . passim Indiana Michigan Power Co. v. United States, No. 98-486C, 2004 WL 1161880 (Fed. Cl. May 21, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 14 International Fidelity Ins. Corp. v. United States, 25 Cl. Ct. 469, 479-80 (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Midwest Indus. Painting of Fla. v. United States, 4 Cl. Ct. 124, 133 (1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Nager Electric Co. v. United States, 194 Ct. Cl. 835, 442 F.2d 936 (1971) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Northern Helex Co. v. United States, 207 Ct. Cl. 862, 524 F.2d 707 (1975) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13 Quiman, S.A. de C.V. v. United States, 39 Fed. Cl. 171 (1997), aff'd, 178 F.3d 1313 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (unpublished) . . . . . . . . 14 Rice v. United States, 39 Fed. Cl. 747 (1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Standard Space Platforms Corp. v. United States, 35 Fed. Cl. 505 (1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6 Tutor-Saliba Corp. v. United States, 30 Fed. Cl. 155 (1993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 3 Wells Fargo Bank v. United States, 88 F.3d 1012 (Fed. Cir. 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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48 C.F.R. § 31.201-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 48 C.F.R. § 31.201-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MISCELLANEOUS Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 350, at 126 (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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