Free Motion for Protective Order - District Court of Colorado - Colorado

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 03-cv-01959-MSK-PAC AHMED M. AJAJ, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ROBERT A. HOOD, JAMES BURRELL, DAVID DUNCAN, C. CHESTER, and J.C. ZUERCHER, Defendants.

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), and upon a showing of good cause in support of the entry of a Protective Order to protect the production, discovery, and dissemination of confidential information and/or sensitive data or records, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 1. This Protective Order shall apply to all documents, materials, and information,

including without limitation, documents produced, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admission, deposition testimony, and other information disclosed pursuant to the disclosure or discovery duties created by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, that contain: (a) Plaintiff's medical laboratory results, or (b) Plaintiff's psychological records. 2. As used in this Protective Order, "document" is defined as provided in Fed. R.

Civ. P. 34(a). A draft or non-identical copy is a separate document within the meaning of this 1

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term. 3. Under this Protective Order, documents, materials, and/or information containing

Plaintiff's medical laboratory results and psychological records shall be marked "CONFIDENTIAL" and shall be disclosed on green-colored paper. 4. Documents, materials, and/or information marked CONFIDENTIAL and on

green-colored paper shall not, without the consent of the party producing it or further Order of the Court, be produced to Plaintiff. However, documents, materials, and/or information marked CONFIDENTIAL and on green-colored paper may be orally disclosed to Plaintiff. Moreover, documents, materials, and/or information marked CONFIDENTIAL and on green-colored paper may be shown to Plaintiff, as long as Plaintiff does not retain a copy of those documents, materials and/or information. 5. Documents, materials, and/or information marked CONFIDENTIAL and on

green-colored paper may be produced to the following: (a) (b) attorneys actively working on this case; persons regularly employed or associated with the attorneys actively working on the case whose assistance is required by said attorneys in the preparation for trial, at trial, or at other proceedings in this case; (c) expert witnesses and consultants retained in connection with this proceeding, to the extent such disclosure is necessary for preparation, trial or other proceedings in this case; (d) (e) the Court and its employees ("Court Personnel"); stenographic reporters who are engaged in proceedings necessarily 2

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incident to the conduct of this action; and (f) 6. other persons by written agreement of the parties.

Prior to disclosing any CONFIDENTIAL documents, materials and/or information

on green-colored paper, to any person listed above (other than counsel, persons employed by counsel, Court Personnel and stenographic reporters), counsel shall provide such person with a copy of this Protective Order and obtain from such person a written acknowledgment stating that he or she has read this Protective Order and agrees to be bound by its provisions. All such acknowledgments shall be retained by counsel and shall be subject to in camera review by the Court if good cause for review is demonstrated by the opposing party. 7. A party may object to the designation of particular CONFIDENTIAL information

on green-colored paper by giving written notice to the party designating the disputed information. The written notice shall identify the information to which the objection is made. If the parties cannot resolve the objection within ten (10) business days after the time the notice is received, it shall be the obligation of the party designating the information as CONFIDENTIAL greencolored paper to file an appropriate motion requesting that the Court determine whether the disputed information should be subject to the terms of this Protective Order. If such a motion is timely filed, the disputed information shall be treated as CONFIDENTIAL and kept on greencolored paper under the terms of this Protective Order until the Court rules on the motion. If the designating party fails to file such a motion within the prescribed time, the disputed information shall lose its designation as CONFIDENTIAL and shall not thereafter be treated as CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with this Protective Order. In connection with a motion filed under this provision, the party designating the information as CONFIDENTIAL and producing 3

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the information on green-colored paper shall bear the burden of establishing that good cause exists for the disputed information to be treated as CONFIDENTIAL and maintained on greencolored paper. 8. At the conclusion of this case, unless other arrangements are agreed upon, each

document and all copies thereof which have been designated as CONFIDENTIAL shall be returned to the party that designated it CONFIDENTIAL. 9. This Protective Order may be modified by the Court at any time for good cause

shown following notice to all parties and an opportunity for them to be heard. DATED this day of June, 2006.

By the Court:

United States District Court Judge

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