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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LAURIE SMITH,

Plaintiff,

 v.

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., and 

DOES 1 to 50, 

Defendants. /

No. C 09-02903 WHA

ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S

LETTER DATED MAY 24, 2010

With respect to the letter dated May 24 by Attorney Louis Franecke, all counsel will

remember from the last discovery conference that American Airlines was ordered to produce

certain documents to plaintiff’s counsel for counsel’s eyes only with the understanding that

“American and plaintiff” would work out a protective order to cover those documents that were

claimed to be a trade secret or otherwise of a sensitive nature. Evidently, American did produce

documents but American and plaintiff failed to work out a protective order. It is distressing that

counsel could not assist the Court with this simple task. 

The Court has now reviewed the materials submitted by plaintiff’s counsel and finds that

none of them, with the exception noted below, deserve any protection. The exceptions are pages

AMR0009 through 11. Those three pages must be produced to the expert only with the

understanding that he would use it solely for the purposes of this litigation only and disclose to

no one else. A fortiori, all of the other documents supplied with the May 24 letter may be shown

without restriction to the expert. 

Case 3:09-cv-02903-WHA Document 46 Filed 05/25/10 Page 1 of 2
United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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Counsel for both sides are ORDERED to meet and confer and agree on a protective order

by FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010, AT 5:00 P.M. of this week. This is to cover all other documents

produced in this case as agreed upon, but unless the parties otherwise agree, nothing in the

protective order shall disturb the rulings made in this order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 25, 2010. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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