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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

DELORIS SUMPTER, ET AL., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CRITTENDEN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, 

GENE CASHMAN, DAVID RAINES, BRAD 

MCCORMICK, CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE 

INSURANCE CO. AND CIGNA CORPORATION, 

Defendants. 

RHONDA MICHELLE GOODFELLOW, 

on behalf of herself and all similarly situated 

persons, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EUGENE K. CASHMAN, JR.; JAMIE R. 

CARTER, JR.; DAVID G. BAYTOS; 

DAVID RAINES, JR.; W. BRAD 

MCCORMICK; JASON W. COLLARD; 

HERSCHEL F. OWENS; ANDREW 

LUTTRELL; DONNA B. LANIER; 

CAROL C. MCCORMACK; KEITH M. 

INGRAM; RANDALL CATT; DAVID 

FORD; THOMAS F. DONALDSON, JR.; 

WILLIAM JOHNSON; LANNIE L. 

LANCASTER; JULIO P. RUIZ; SHERRY 

L. LONDON; NESS S. SECHREST; 

RANDY R. SULLIVAN; LEVEN 

WILLIAMS; SIMPLIFI HEALTH 

BENEFIT MANAGEMENT, LLC; and 

CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

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AGREED CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER 

The parties have agreed to the terms of this Order, and the Court finds it appropriate and 

m accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26( c ). Therefore, the Court orders as 

follows: 

1. Scope. All materials that are produced in the course of discovery, including 

initial disclosures, responses to discovery requests, deposition testimony and exhibits, and 

information derived from the foregoing materials (collectively "documents"), are governed by 

this Order to the extent they are designated Confidential Information by the producing party. 

2. Confidential Information. As used in this Order, "Confidential Information" 

means information designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" by the producing party that falls within 

one or more of the following categories: (a) information whose disclosure is prohibited or 

restricted by statute or regulation; (b) information that reveals trade secrets, including proprietary 

information and documents covered by FRCP 26(c)(l)(G); (c) research, technical, commercial or 

financial information that the party has maintained as confidential, including documents related 

to nonpublic financial forecasts, sales, pricing, premiums, fees, commissions, and revenues; ( d) 

personal identity information; ( e) income tax returns (including attached schedules and forms), 

W-2 forms and 1099 forms; or (f) personnel or employment records of a person who is not a 

party to the case. Information or documents that are available to the public may not be 

designated as Confidential Information. 

3. Designation. 

(a) A party may designate a document or material as Confidential Information 

for protection under this Order by affixing the words "CONFIDENTIAL" on the document and 

on all copies in a manner that will not interfere with the legibility of the document. "Copies" 

includes electronic images, duplicates, extracts, summaries or descriptions that contain the 

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Confidential Information. The marking "CONFIDENTIAL" shall be applied before or at the 

time of the documents are produced or disclosed. Applying the marking "CONFIDENTIAL" to 

a document does not mean that the document has any status or protection by statute or otherwise 

except to the extent and for the purposes of this Order. Any copies that are made of any 

documents marked "CONFIDENTIAL" shall also be so marked, except that indices, electronic 

databases or lists of documents that do not contain substantial portions or images of the text of 

marked documents and do not otherwise disclose the substance of the Confidential Information 

are not required to be marked. 

(b) The designation of a document as Confidential Information is a 

certification by an attorney or a party appearing pro se that the document contains Confidential 

Information as defined in this order. 

4. Depositions. Any deposition testimony taken in this case shall not be treated as 

Confidential Information or entitled to protection under this order unless the party seeking to 

have deposition testimony treated as Confidential Information does the following: If during the 

course of a deposition a witness is shown protected information or is asked about protected 

information, within thirty calendar days after receiving the transcript, any party can designate 

certain pages/exhibits as Confidential Information, subject to the same procedure herein for 

designation of Confidential Information. The failure to serve a timely Notice of Designation 

shall waive any designation of testimony taken in that deposition as Confidential Information, 

unless otherwise ordered by the Court. 

5. Protection of Confidential Material. 

(a) General Protections. Confidential Information shall not be used or 

disclosed by the parties, counsel for the parties or any other persons identified in subparagraph 

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(b) for any purpose whatsoever other than in this litigation, including any appeal. Confidential 

Information may not be used for any commercial purpose (aside from prosecuting or defending 

against the claims in this action) or for the purpose of obtaining clients or developing business. 

This Order does not restrict a party's use of its own Confidential Information. 

(b) Limited Disclosures. The parties and counsel for the parties shall not 

disclose or permit the disclosure of any Confidential Information to any third person or entity 

except as set forth in subparagraphs (1)-(9). Subject to these requirements, the following 

categories of persons may be allowed to review Confidential Information: 

(1) Counsel. Counsel for the parties and employees of counsel who 

have responsibility for the action; 

(2) Employees of a Party. Individual employees of a party to the 

extent counsel for the receiving party determines in good faith that 

the employee's assistance is reasonably necessary to the conduct of 

the litigation in which the information is disclosed; 

(3) The Court and its personnel; 

(4) Court Reporters and Recorders. Court reporters and recorders 

engaged for depositions; 

(5) Contractors. Those persons specifically engaged for the limited 

purpose of making copies of documents or organizing or 

processing documents, including outside vendors hired to process 

electronically stored documents; 

(6) Consultants and Experts. Consultants, investigators, or experts 

employed by the parties or counsel for the parties to assist in the 

preparation and trial of this action but only after such persons have 

completed the certification contained in Attachment A, 

Acknowledgment of Understanding and Agreement to Be Bound; 

(7) Witnesses at depositions. During their depositions, witnesses in 

this action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary. Witnesses 

shall not retain a copy of documents containing Confidential 

Information, except witnesses may receive a copy of all exhibits 

marked at their depositions in connection with review of the 

transcripts. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to 

depositions that are designated as Confidential Information 

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pursuant to the process set out in this Order must be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone 

except as permitted under this Order. 

(8) Author or recipient. The author or recipient of the document (not 

including a person who received the document in the course of 

litigation); and 

(9) Others by Consent. Other persons only by written consent of the 

producing party or upon order of the Court and on such conditions 

as may be agreed or ordered. 

(c) Control of Documents. Counsel for the parties shall make reasonable 

efforts to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of Confidential Information. Counsel 

shall maintain the originals of the forms signed by persons acknowledging their obligations 

under this Order for a period of three years after the termination of the case. 

6. Inadvertent Failure to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate a 

document as Confidential Information does not, standing alone, waive the right to so designate 

the document; but a failure to serve a timely Notice of Designation of deposition testimony as 

required by this Order, even if inadvertent, waives any protection for deposition testimony. If a 

party designates a document as Confidential Information after it was initially produced, the 

receiving party, on notification of the designation, must make a reasonable effort to assure that 

the document is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. No party shall be found 

to have violated this Order for failing to maintain the confidentiality of material during a time 

when that material has not been designated Confidential Information, even where the failure to 

so designate was inadvertent and where the material is later designated Confidential Information. 

7. Filing of Confidential Information. This Order does not, by itself, authorize the 

filing of any document under seal. Any party wishing to file a document designated as 

Confidential Information in connection with a motion, brief or other submission to the Court 

must seek Court approval for the sealed filing. 

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8. No Greater Protection of Specific Documents. Except on privilege grounds not 

addressed by this Order, no party may withhold information from discovery on the ground that it 

requires protection greater than that afforded by this Order unless the party moves for an order 

providing such special protection. 

9. Challenges by a Party to Designation as Confidential Information. The 

designation of any material or document as Confidential Information is subject to challenge by 

any party. The following procedure shall apply to any such challenge. 

(a) Meet and Confer. A party challenging the designation of Confidential 

Information must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly with 

counsel for the designating party. In conferring, the challenging party must explain the basis for 

its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the designating party 

an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the designation, and, if no change 

in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the designation. The designating party must 

respond to the challenge within five (5) business days. 

(b) Judicial Intervention. A party that elects to challenge a confidentiality 

designation may file a joint report pursuant to the Court's Scheduling Order. The burden of 

persuasion in any challenge proceeding shall be on the designating party. Until the Court rules 

on the challenge, all parties shall continue to treat the materials as Confidential Information 

under the terms of this Order. 

10. Action by the Court. Applications to the Court for an order relating to materials 

or documents designated Confidential Information shall be by motion. Nothing in this Order or 

any action or agreement of a party under this Order limits the Court's power to make orders 

concerning the disclosure of documents produced in discovery or at trial. 

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11. Use of Confidential Documents or Information at Trial. Nothing in this Order 

shall be construed to affect the use of any document, material, or information at any trial or 

hearing. A party that intends to present or that anticipates that another party may present 

Confidential Information at a hearing or trial shall bring that issue to the Court's and parties' 

attention by motion or in a pretrial memorandum without disclosing the Confidential 

Information. The Court may thereafter make such orders as are necessary to govern the use of 

such documents or information at trial. 

12. Confidential Information Subpoenaed or Ordered Produced in Other 

Litigation. 

(a) If a receiving party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any material or document designated in this action as 

Confidential Information, the receiving party must notify the designating party, in writing, 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. 

Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

(b) The receiving party also must immediately inform in writing the party 

who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material 

covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Order. In addition, the receiving party 

must deliver a copy of this Order promptly to the party in the other action that caused the 

subpoena to issue. 

(c) The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested persons to 

the existence of this Order and to afford the designating party in this case an opportunity to try to 

protect its Confidential Information in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The 

designating party shall bear the burden and the expense of seeking protection in that court of its 

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Confidential Information, and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or 

encouraging a receiving party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

The obligations set forth in this paragraph remain in effect while the party has in its possession, 

custody or control Confidential Information produced by the other party to this case. 

13. Obligations on Conclusion of Litigation. 

(a) Order Continues in Force. Unless otherwise agreed or ordered, this 

Order shall remain in force for one year after dismissal or entry of final judgment not subject to 

further appeal. Thereafter, this Order shall be a contract between the signatories. 

(b) Obligations at Conclusion of Litigation. Within 60 days after dismissal 

or entry of final judgment not subject to further appeal, all Confidential Information and 

documents marked "CONFIDENTIAL" under this Order, including copies as defined in~ 3(a), 

shall be returned to the producing party unless: (1) the document has been offered into evidence 

or filed without restriction as to disclosure; (2) the parties agree to destruction to the extent 

practicable in lieu of return;1 

or (3) as to documents bearing the notations, summations, or other 

mental impressions of the receiving party, that party elects to destroy the documents and certifies 

to the producing party that it has done so. 

(c) Retention of Work Product and one set of Filed Documents. 

Notwithstanding the above requirements to return or destroy documents, counsel may retain (1) 

attorney work product, including an index that refers or relates to designated Confidential 

Information so long as that work product does not duplicate verbatim substantial portions of 

Confidential Information, and (2) one complete set of all documents filed with the Court 

1 The parties may choose to agree that the receiving party shall destroy documents containing Confidential 

Information and certify the fact of destruction, and that the receiving party shall not be required to locate, isolate and 

return e-mails (including attachments to e-mails) that may include Confidential Information, or Confidential 

Information contained in deposition transcripts or drafts or final expert reports. 

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including those filed under seal. Any retained Confidential Information shall continue to be 

protected under this Order. An attorney may use his or her work product in subsequent 

litigation, provided that its use does not disclose or use Confidential Information. 

14. Order Subject to Modification. This Order shall be subject to modification by 

the Court on its own initiative or on motion of a party or any other person with standing 

concerning the subject matter. 

15. No Prior Judicial Determination. This Order is entered based on the 

representations and agreements of the parties and for the purpose of facilitating discovery. 

Nothing herein shall be construed or presented as a judicial determination that any document or 

material designated Confidential is entitled to protection under this Order. 

16. Persons Bound. This Order shall take effect when entered and shall be binding 

upon all counsel of record and their law firms, the parties, and persons made subject to this Order 

by its terms. 

So Ordered. 

Dated: 

Hon. D.P. Marshall fl": 

United States District Judge 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

DELORIS SUMPTER, ET AL., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CRITTENDEN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, 

GENE CASHMAN, DAVID RAINES, BRAD 

MCCORMICK, CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE 

INSURANCE CO. AND CIGNA CORPORATION, 

Defendants. 

RHONDA MICHELLE GOODFELLOW, 

on behalf of herself and all similarly situated 

persons, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

EUGENE K. CASHMAN, JR.; JAMIE R. 

CARTER, JR.; DAVID G. BAYTOS; 

DAVID RAINES, JR.; W. BRAD 

MCCORMICK; JASON W. COLLARD; 

HERSCHEL F. OWENS; ANDREW 

LUTTRELL; DONNA B. LANIER; 

CAROL C. MCCORMACK; KEITH M. 

INGRAM; RANDALL CATT; DAVID 

FORD; THOMAS F. DONALDSON, JR.; 

WILLIAM JOHNSON; LANNIE L. 

LANCASTER; JULIO P. RUIZ; SHERRY 

L. LONDON; NESS S. SECHREST; 

RANDY R. SULLIVAN; LEVEN 

WILLIAMS; SIMPLIFI HEALTH 

BENEFIT MANAGEMENT, LLC; and 

CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendants. 

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) No. CV-2014-303 

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ATTACHMENT A -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

AND 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

The undersigned hereby acknowledges that he/she has read the Confidentiality Order 

in the above-captioned action and attached hereto, 

understands the terms thereof, and agrees to be bound by its terms. The undersigned submits to 

the jurisdiction of the Eastern District of Arkansas in matters relating to the Confidentiality 

Order and understands that the terms of the Confidentiality Order obligate him/her to use 

materials designated as Confidential Information in accordance with the Order solely for the 

purposes of the above-captioned action, and not to disclose any such Confidential Information to 

any other person, firm or concern. 

The undersigned acknowledges that violation of the Confidentiality Order may result in 

penalties for contempt of court. 

Name: 

Job Title: 

Employer: 

Business Address: 

Signature 

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