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. 04-cv- 0865- REB- CBS
ESTATE OF APRIL HILL , SCOTT HILL , personal representative; SCOTT HILL , as Conservator of the Estate of Katelyn Hill; and SCOTT HILL , individually,

Plaintiffs,

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY; MERASTAR INSURANCE COMPANY; AND PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA

Defendants.
JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER
Plaintiffs , Estate of April Hill et al. through their attorney, Robert Carey,
Defendant Merastar Insurance Company, through its attorneys , Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Defendant Prudential Insurance Company of America , through its attorneys Campbell
Latiolais & Ruebel , P.

, and Defendant Allstate Insurance Company, through its

attorneys Wheeler Trigg Kennedy LLP, (hereinafter collectively referred to as the

Parties ) jointly move this Court pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure to enter the attached Stipulated Protective Order concerning the treatment of
confidential information in this litigation , and as grounds therefor , state as follows:

Certain documents and information that Defendants will produce pursuant

to Rules 26(a), 33, and/or 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contain trade

secret , or confidential research , development , or commercial information as defined in

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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(7) (hereinafter " Confidential

Information

). The

Confidential Information of the respective defendants may be discussed at depositions

to be taken in this case. The Parties agree that the disclosure of any such Confidential
Information outside of this litigation could result in significant injury to the defendants

respective legitimate business interests.
The Parties have agreed not to disclose Confidential Information produced in this litigation to unauthorized individuals and have agreed not to use such

Confidential Information for purposes other than this litigation. The Parties request that
the Court confirm this agreement by entry of the attached Stipulated Protective Order
pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).

Rule 26(c)(7) authorizes the Court to enter an order requiring the Parties

to preserve the confidentiality of information produced in discovery and restricting the

use of such information to purposes directly related to this litigation. The Tenth Circuit
and this Court have acknowledged that blanket protective orders, such as the Stipulated
Protective Order proffered by the Parties , are appropriate.
Cranford Ins.

See United Nuclear Corp. v.

Co. , 905 F. 2d 1424 , 1427 (10th Cir. 1990);
196 F. R.D. 382 , 385- 86 (D. Colo. 2000).

Gilard v. Boulder Valley Sch.

Dist. RE-

WHEREFORE , the Parties request that the Court enter the attached Stipulated
Protective Order for the handling of Confidential Information.

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Respectfully submitted this 1 st day of September , 2005.

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Robert Carey

Robert Carey, Esq.

The Carey Law Firm

2301 East Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80909

Attorney for Plaintiff

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Elizabeth Lokey

Gregory S. Tamkin, Esq. Elizabeth Lokey, Esq.
DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP Republic Plaza Building, Suite 4700

370 17th Street Denver, CO 80202- 5647
Attorneys for Defendant Merastar Insurance Company

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Clifton J. Latiolais Clifton J. Latiolais, Jr. , Esq. CAMPBELL, LATIOLAIS & RUEBEL , P. 1625 Downing Street

Denver , CO 80218- 1528
Attorneys for Defendant Prudential Insurance
Company of

America

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Terence M. Ridley John M. Vaught , Esq. Terence M. Ridley, Esq. Michael D. Alper , Esq.

Alma M. Lugtu, Esq. WHEELER TRIGG KENNEDY LLP
1801 California Street , Suite 3600

Denver, CO 80202
Attorneys for Defendant Allstate Insurance Company

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 1 st day of September , 2005, a copy of the forgoing JOINT MOTION FOR ENTRY OF PROTECTIVE ORDER was served via United States Mail , sufficient postage attached, to the following:

Michael D. Alper alper wtklaw. com purdy wtklaw. com Michael K. Alston michael. alston husch. com Meghan Frei Berglind berglind wtklaw. com

Robert Bruce Carey
rob. carey att. net kuhl careylaw. com . Co Horgan hbsslaw. com karenw hbsslaw. com

Clifton J. Latiolais , Jr
cjl

clr- Iaw. com dla

clr- Iaw. com

. Alma M. Lugtu lugtu wtklaw. com purdy wtklaw. com Elizabeth L. Morton lokey . Iizzy dorsey . com valenzuela. lisa dorsey . com ;chafin. kemper

dorsey. com

Alan E. Popkin alan. popkin husch. com lisa. carter husch. com Casey A. Quilen caq clr- Iaw. com amm clr- Iaw. com
Terence M. Ridley ridley wtklaw. com norris
wtklaw. com

Kenneth Alan Senn
ksen n

bell south . net

David W. Sobelman
david . sobelman
husch . com

Gregory Scot Tamkin dorsey . com valenzuela. lisa dorsey . com;chafin. kemper dorsey . com
tamkin . greg

Cindy Rae Ten Pas ctenpas careylaw . com ddomingues careylaw . com
John Mark Vaught vaught wtklaw. com como wtklaw. com

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And I hereby certify that a copy of the document has been served to the following nonCMIECF participant in the manner indicated by the non- participant's name:

Marian Elizabeth Lokey Dorsey & Whitney, LLP- Colorado
District Court Box Number 2

(X) via E- Mail

370 Seventeenth Street , #4700
Denver , CO 80202- 5647