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Parties Involved:
Quincy Bioscience, LLC
Defendant
Phillip Racies
Plaintiff

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER RE DISCOVERY OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION

Matthew R. Orr, Bar No. 211097

 morr@calljensen.com

Joshua G. Simon, Bar No. 264714

 jsimon@calljensen.com

CALL & JENSEN

A Professional Corporation

610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 700

Newport Beach, CA 92660

Tel: (949) 717-3000

Fax: (949) 717-3100

Attorneys for Defendant Quincy Bioscience, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PHILLIP RACIES, On Behalf of Himself 

and All Others Similarly Situated,

Plaintiff,

vs.

QUINCY BIOSCIENCE, LLC, a 

Wisconsin limited liability company,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:15-cv-00292 HSG

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER 

RE DISCOVERY OF 

ELECTRONICALLY STORED 

INFORMATION 

Complaint Filed: January 21, 2015

Trial Date: None Set

1. PURPOSE

This Order will govern discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in 

this case as a supplement to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, this Court’s 

Guidelines for the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information, and any other 

applicable orders and rules. 

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2. COOPERATION

The parties are aware of the importance the Court places on cooperation and 

commit to cooperate in good faith throughout the matter consistent with this Court’s 

Guidelines for the Discovery of ESI.

3. LIAISON

The parties have identified liaisons who are and will be knowledgeable about and 

responsible for discussing their respective ESI. Each e-discovery liaison will be, or 

have access to those who are, knowledgeable about the technical aspects of e-discovery, 

including the location, nature, accessibility, format, collection, search methodologies, 

and production of ESI in this matter. The parties will rely on the liaisons, as needed, to 

confer about ESI and to help resolve disputes without court intervention.

4. PRESERVATION

The parties have discussed their preservation obligations and needs and agree that 

preservation of potentially relevant ESI will be reasonable and proportionate. To reduce 

the costs and burdens of preservation and to ensure proper ESI is preserved, the parties 

agree that: 

a) The parties will agree on a reasonable limitation to the time period for 

preserving ESI;

b) The parties will exchange a list of the types of ESI they believe should be 

preserved and the custodians, or general job titles or descriptions of custodians, for 

whom they believe ESI should be preserved. The parties shall add or remove 

custodians as reasonably necessary;

c) The parties will agree on the number of custodians per party for whom ESI 

will be preserved; and

d) ESI from data sources that are not reasonably accessible because of undue 

burden or cost pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2)(B) will be preserved but not 

searched, reviewed, or produced:

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5. SEARCH

The parties agree that in responding to an initial Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 request, or 

earlier if appropriate, they will meet and confer about methods to search ESI in order to 

identify ESI that is subject to production in discovery and filter out ESI that is not 

subject to discovery.

6. PRODUCTION FORMATS

The parties agree to produce documents in PDF, TIFF, native, paper, or a 

combination thereof. If particular documents warrant a different format, the parties will 

cooperate to arrange for the mutually acceptable production of such documents. The 

parties agree not to degrade the searchability of documents as part of the document 

production process and agree to preserve existing metadata associated with original 

electronic documents and to meet and confer regarding its production.

The parties agree to produce imaged documents with a legible, unique page 

identifier (“Bates Number”) electronically “burned” onto the image in a location that 

does not obscure or interfere with any information from the source document. Any 

confidential documents will be marked as such with a legend “burned” onto the image 

in a location that does not obscure or interfere with any information from the source 

document. The parties shall confer on an appropriate method for applying a unique 

identifier to any documents produced in native format.

7. PHASING

When a party propounds discovery requests pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 34, the 

parties agree to phase the production of ESI. Following the initial production, the 

parties will continue to prioritize the order of subsequent productions.

8. DOCUMENTS PROTECTED FROM DISCOVERY

a) Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the production of a privileged or workproduct-protected document, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of 

privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state 

proceeding. For example, the mere production of privileged or work-product-protected 

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documents in this case as part of a mass production is not itself a waiver in this case or 

in any other federal or state proceeding.

b) The parties have agreed upon a “quick peek” process pursuant to Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 26(b)(5) and reserve rights to assert privilege. 

c) Communications involving trial counsel that post-date the filing of the 

complaint need not be placed on a privilege log. Communications may be identified on 

a privilege log by category, rather than individually, if appropriate (e.g., e-mail chains, 

etc.).

9. MODIFICATION

This Stipulated Order may be modified by a Stipulated Order of the parties or by 

the Court for good cause shown.

10. CONFIDENTIALITY

The parties incorporate the provisions of any discovery confidentiality order 

and/or protective order concerning protection of confidential or otherwise sensitive 

information that may be agreed to by the parties and/or entered by the Court. For the 

avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Stipulation shall supersede or alter any discovery 

confidentiality order and/or protective order concerning protection of confidential or 

otherwise sensitive information that may be agreed to by the parties and/or entered by 

the Court.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, through Counsel of Record.

Dated: July 10, 2015 /s/ Max Stein

Max Stein, Counsel for Plaintiff, Phillip Racies

Dated: July 10, 2015 /s/ Joshua G. Simon

Joshua G. Simon, Counsel for Defendant, Quincy 

Bioscience, LLC

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SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

I hereby attest that I have on file all holographic signatures corresponding to any 

signatures indicated by a conformed signature (/s/) within this e-filed document.

_/s/ Joshua G. Simon___________ Joshua G. Simon

IT IS ORDERED that the forgoing Agreement is approved. 

Dated:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT/MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE

7/15/2015

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on July 10, 2015, I electronically filed the foregoing 

document described as [PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER RE DISCOVERY 

OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION with the Clerk of the Court 

using the CM/ECF System which will send notification of such filing via electronic 

mail to all counsel of record.

/s/ Joshua G. Simon

Joshua G. Simon

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