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Parties Involved:
Regions Bank
Defendant
Regions Financial Corporation
Defendant
Brenda Tate-Lee
Plaintiff

Document Text:

FILED 

u.s. DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT ARKANSAS 

JUN 2 t 2010 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
 

WESTERN DIVISION
 

BRENDA TATE-LEE 

v.	 CASE NO. 4:10-CV-004 JMM 

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION 

and REGIONS BANK DEFENDANTS 

PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION AND AGREEMENT 

On this L\ day Of~ , 2010, the Court reviewed the stipulation and 

agreement for a Protective Order between Brenda Tate-Lee (Plaintiff) and Regions Financial 

Corporation and Regions Bank (Defendants), and makes the following Orders: 

1. Confidential Information, as later defined herein, and produced by either party or 

pursuant to a release for medical or employment records in this action, shall be used only for the 

purpose of this litigation and for no other purpose whatsoever, and shall not be given, shown, 

made available, or communicated in any way to anyone except Qualified Persons, as herein 

defined. 

2.	 Confidential Information shall be deemed to include, without limitation: 

a)	 Personnel records, medical records and reports, financial records, 

company policies, company financial information, proprietary 

information, customer information, account information, trade secrets, 

operational methods and other matters now requested or hereinafter 

requested by the parties or relating to the operation and organization of 

Defendant and such other information as may be deemed by this Court to 

be relevant or material herein. 

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b) Plaintiff's medical, financial, and employment records, and other private 

documents and information requested by the Defendant as may be deemed 

by the court to be relevant or material herein. 

c)	 Any information concerning such as set forth in 2(a) and 2(b) herein above 

as may be, from time to time, produced by the parties herein and 

designated by the party at the time of production to be "Confidential 

Information" and subject to this Order. Such designation is to be made by 

marking the documents "CONFIDENTIAL." Any document so marked 

shall not be disclosed to any person except as may be permitted by this 

Protective Order. The designation of any document as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" will be made in good faith. 

3. In the event that personal, confidential, or proprietary information is disclosed in 

response to an interrogatory, the answering party may designate the response as confidential 

information by conspicuously stamping the interrogatory answer with the word 

"CONFIDENTIAL." The parties may also designate deposition testimony that reveals personal 

or confidential information as confidential by advising all persons present that the party believes 

that the portion ofthe deposition in question falls under the scope of this Protective Order. 

4. The patties will redact Social Security numbers from any documents produced in 

the course of this litigation. However, they reserve the right to file a motion to produce with the 

Court should same become relevant to this litigation. The parties agree that they shall exercise 

reasonable care not to disclose Social Security numbers or home addresses by placing them in 

the public record of this case. 

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5. Except with the prior written consent of the party or pursuant to further Order of 

this Court on motion with notice to the party, no Confidential Information may be disclosed to 

any person other than "Qualified Persons" who shall be defined to include: 

a)	 the pmties; 

b)	 any current or future counsel of record for the parties III this action; 

secretaries, paraprofessional assistants, and other employees of such 

counsel who would be actively engaged in assisting counsel in connection 

with this action; 

c)	 witnesses, including but not limited to persons requested by counsel to 

furnish technical or other expert service, to give testimony or to otherwise 

prepare for any deposition, hearing, trial, or any other proceeding in this 

action; and 

d)	 The Court and its personnel, including the stenographic reporters not 

regularly employed by the Court who are engaged by the palties or the 

Court during the litigation of this case. 

The parties agree that if Confidential Information is disclosed to witnesses or prospective 

witnesses during trial preparation, depositions, or the actual trial proceedings, the disclosing 

party will advise the recipient of the information that he/she must keep the information 

confidential except during depositions or the actual trial proceedings. 

6. This Order, insofar as it restricts the communication in any way and use of 

Confidential Information, shall continue to be binding through and after the conel usion of this 

litigation. At the conclusion of this action, including all appeals: 

a)	 At the end of three (3) years following the conclusion of this case, counsel 

may destroy the Confidential Information or, prior to the expiration of the 

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three (3) year deadline, counsel may take all reasonable steps necessary to 

reclaim all Confidential Information, including correspondence, 

memoranda, notes, or any other documents embodying such information, 

in whole or in part, by requesting the return of all copies of such 

Confidential Information and paying reasonable expenses for the return of 

the documents. 

b)	 Counsel and all Qualified Persons are enjoined from disclosing in any 

manner any Confidential Information obtained during the course of this 

proceeding except as referenced in Paragraph 3 above. 

7. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any party from seeking modification of this 

Order at any time as to specific matters designated "Confidential Information" to remove such 

from the application of this Order. 

8. Such Confidential Information as may be required to be filed with the Court and 

with the Clerk of this Court shall be filed under seal. Only the Court, Court personnel, and 

counsel for the patties shall have access to the sealed record in this proceeding until further 

Order of this Court. 

IT IS HEREBY SO ORDERED. 

~\M~ :s:DIS'fRICT JUDGE 

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Gena Gregory (#901 . 

06/10/2010 09:41 IFAX .. Elizabeth Rowe lil!OOllOOl 

Elizabeth LaRue (#2 3217)
 

Gregory & LaRue. PLLC
 

2800 Cantrell Road, Suite 202
 

Little Rock. AR 72202
 

Telephone: (SOl) 707-0466
 

E-mail: ggregory@gregorylarue.com
 

E-mail: elaroe@gregorylarue.com
 

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF
 

BRENDA TATE-LEE
 

~D~~~ Elizabeth Rowe Cummings (#07242)
 

Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, P.C.
 

500 President Clinton Avenue, Suite 200
 

Little Rock, Arkansas 7220 I
 

Telephone: (SOl) 371-9999
 

Facsimile: (SO I) 371-0035
 

E-mail: mduke@cgwg.com
 

E-mail: ecummings@cgwg.com
 

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS 

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND REGIONS BANK 

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