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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Bobbi Lee Felix,

 Plaintiff,

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United States of America,

 Defendant.

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No. CV-11-1203-PHX-PGR

 

 ORDER

 

Pending before the Court is the parties’ Stipulated Protective Order Re:

Nondisclosure of Confidential Information (Doc. 16). While the Court is certainly

willing to issue a protective order in this action, the Court cannot accept the

parties’ proposed form of protective order as currently drafted. 

First, pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 8 of the proposed protective order, only

the parties’ counsel will be permitted to exam confidential documents without the

necessity of signing a copy of the protective order. These provisions need to be

revise to exempt authorized Court personnel from that requirement.

Second, proposed paragraph 7 provides that “[a]ll portions of the

depositions, moving papers, or any other pre-trial written materials that refer to

confidential information shall be sealed by the Court to protect such information.”

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 The parties are also advised that the Court’s normal practice when a

submitted document is permitted to be filed under seal is to require that a public

version of the same document also be filed that redacts only the specific

confidential information. 

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This provision needs to be revised so that it complies with all of the sealing

procedures required by LRCiv 5.6, as well as any appropriate portions of section

II.J. of the Court’s Case Management/Electronic Case Filing Administrative

Policies and Procedures Manual. The parties are advised that no document

submitted for filing will be sealed by the Court unless a properly supported motion

to seal that document is first filed and granted.1

Third, proposed paragraphs 9 and 10, which refer to the resolution of

disputes concerning the applicability of the protective order, need to be revised to

incorporate the Court’s requirement that no motion seeking a resolution of any

dispute concerning any production or designation of protected material or an

amendment of the protective order may be filed unless a statement of moving

counsel is attached thereto certifying that after personal consultation and sincere

efforts to do so, counsel have been unable to satisfactorily resolve the dispute.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the parties’ Stipulated Protective Order

Re: Nondisclosure of Confidential Information (Doc. 16) is rejected without

prejudice to the filing of a revised stipulation and proposed form of protective

order that complies with this Order.

DATED this 4th day of October, 2011.

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