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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TINA M. UBALDI, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

SLM CORPORATION, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 11-cv-01320-EDL 

ORDER RE THE PARTIES’ JOINT 

MOTION FOR A PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

Re: Dkt. No. 272

On October 13, 2015, the Parties filed a joint motion for a protective order concerning 

Defendants’ production of documents to a third-party vendor so that potential class members can 

be identified. At a case management conference on October 20, 2015, the Court ordered the 

Parties to meet and confer on their dispute concerning liability in the event of a data breach. On 

November 10, 2015, the Parties filed a joint update indicating that they have been unable to reach 

an agreement. Although the Court recognizes Defendants’ concerns regarding potential data 

breaches and the limitation on the amount of the proposed third-party vendor’s insurance coverage 

for any such breaches, it declines to adopt Defendants’ unusual proposal of making Plaintiffs’ 

counsel jointly and severally liable with the third-party vendor in the event of a breach, for which 

Defendants cite no authority. The alternative of requiring a fully manual review in a “clean room” 

of approximately 170,000 documents risks being unduly burdensome if the vendor is in fact able 

to extract the data through electronic processes. The Court orders the Parties to meet and confer 

regarding the possibility of the vendor conducting the review in some form of “clean room” and/or

other safeguards to protect the data. The Parties should agree on a protocol that provides 

reasonable safeguards for the data so that it may be produced without the necessity of a fully 

manual review in the first instance, which the Court will then order the Defendants to permit and 

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the Plaintiffs to follow. The Parties shall file a joint update as to their meet and confer efforts by 

December 3, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 17, 2015

________________________

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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