Free Motion to Compel - District Court of Delaware - Delaware

Case 1:05-cv-00737-JJF Document 61 Filed 04/11/2008 Page 1 of 3
I IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE _
Tl-IE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, ) n I
Plaintiff} )
v. ) C.A. No. 05-737 (JJF)
NOVA CHEMICALS CORPORATION ) JU RY TRIAL DEMANDED
(CANADA), and NOVA CHEMICALS INC. )
(DELAWARE), )
Defendants. ) ‘
DEFENI}AN'I`S’ MOTION TO COMPEL
PRODUCTION OF WITHHELD DOCUMENTS
Defendants NOVA Chemicals Corporation and NOVA Chemicals Inc. ("NOVA") bring
this motion to compel Plaintiff The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow") to produce documents
improperly withheld as work product or privileged attorney-client communications.
Dow is improperly withholding as work product documents prepared in Dow’s ordinary
course of business of competitive analysis and testing. Dow is also improperly asserting the
attorney~client privilege to withhold, inter alfa, uncommunicated notes, public documents, and
factual data. Dow’s steadfast withholding of these documents breaches the bounds of work
product immunity and attorney client privilege.
NOVA respectfully requests that its Motion to Compel be granted. NOVA further
requests such additional relief, general and special, at law or in equity, to which it may show
itself justly entitled.

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I}. DEL. LOCAL RULE 7.1.1 CERTIFICATE
Counsel for NOVA and counsel for Dow conferred regarding the above motion. No
agreement was reached, therefore, it is presented to the Court for ruling.
Respectfully submitted,
POTTER ANDERSON & CORROON LLP
OF COUNSEL:
Ford F. Farabow, Jr. By: /s/ Richard L. Horwitz
Ronald A. Bleeker Richard L. Horwitz (#2246) . .
Joann M. Neth David E. Moore (#3983)
Mark 3. Feldstein Hercules Plaza, 6th Floor
Jeffrey W. Abraham 1313 N. Market Street
Troy A. Petersen Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Martin I. Fuchs Tel: (302) 984-6000
Ken Moto1enich—·SaIas rhorwitz(@,r:;otterar1derson.com
FINNEGAN. HENDERSON. FARABOW. dmoore@_ootteranderson. com
GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P,
901 New Y01'k Avenue. NW- Attorneys for Defendants
Washington, DC 20001—44l3 NOVA Chemicals Corporation (Canada), and
Tek (202) 408-4000 NOVA Chemicals Inc. (Delaware) c
H. Woodruff Turner
Thomas A. Donovan
Robert D. Yeager
Brian P. Anderson
KIRKPATRICK. & LOCKHART
PRESTON GATES ELLIS LLP
535 Smithfield Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Tel: (412) 355-6478
Dated: April li, 2008
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Case 1:05-cv-00737-JJF Document 61 Filed 04/11/2008 Page 3 of 3
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I, Richard L. Horwitz, hereby certify that on April ll, 2008, the attached document was
electronically filed with the Clerk ofthe Court using CM/ECF which will send notification to the
registered attorney(s) of record that the document has been tiled and is available for viewing and
downloading.
I hereby certify that on April 1 1, 2008, the attached document was Electronically Mailed
to the following person(s):
Rodger D. Smith Il Harry J. Roper
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP Steven R. Trybus
1201 N. Market Street Aaron A. Barlow
P.O. Box 1347 Jenner & Block LLP ‘
Wilmington, DE 19899-1347 One IBM Plaza
1‘[email protected] Chicago, IL 606ll
hrogger@;'enner.com
st_rybus@`]e1mer.com
abarlow{@,]`en11er.corn
/s/ Richard L. Horwitz
Richard L. Horwitz
David E. Moore
Porrsa Arroenson & Common i.r.1=·
Hercules Plaza, 6th Floor
1313 North Market Street
Wilmington, DE 19899—O95l
(302) 984-6000
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