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Parties Involved:
Erik Knight
Plaintiff
Progressive Northwestern Insurance Company
Defendant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

NORTHERN DIVISION 

ERIK KNIGHT, individually and on behalf of all 

others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

PROGRESSIVE NORTHWESTERN 

INSURANCE COMPANY, an Ohio corporation, 

Defendant. 

/ 

Case No. 3:22-cv-00203 JM

STIPULATED CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER 

The parties to this Stipulated Protective Order have agreed to the terms of this Order; 

accordingly, it is ORDERED: 

PART I: Provisions concerning “Confidential” Material. 

1. Subject to this Order, any party to this action, captioned Knight v. Progressive

Northwestern Insurance Co., Case No. 3:22-cv-00203 (E.D. Ark.) (the “Action”) and any third 

party shall have the right to designate as “Confidential” any information, document, or thing, or 

portion of any document or thing: (a) that contains trade secrets, competitively sensitive technical, 

marketing, financial, sales, or other confidential business information, or (b) that contains private 

or confidential personal information, or (c) that contains information received in confidence from 

third parties, or (d) which the producing party otherwise believes in good faith to be entitled to 

protection under Rule 26(c)(1)(G) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Any party to this 

litigation and any third party covered by this Order (“Producing Party”) who produces or discloses 

any Confidential Material, including without limitation any information, document, thing, 

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interrogatory answer, admission, pleading, or testimony, shall mark the same with the following 

or a similar legend: “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – SUBJECT TO DISCOVERY 

CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER” (hereinafter “Confidential”). Before marking documents as 

confidential, a Producing Party must consider whether categories of information and documents 

qualify for a confidential designation. 

2. “Confidential Material,” as that term is used in this Confidentiality Order, means 

data, documents, electronically stored information, discovery responses, testimony, and all other 

material or information, whether in paper, electronic, digital, or other format, that is produced or 

supplied by any Producing Party in this Action and identified as Confidential as well as (1) any 

information copied or extracted from Confidential Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, 

translations, or compilations of Confidential Material; and (3) any oral, written, or electronic 

communications, testimony, or presentations, including for purposes of settlement, by Producing 

Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Confidential Material. 

3. Confidential Material shall be used only for the prosecution or defense of this 

Action, including discovery, trial, and/or hearings and preparation for same, and for no other 

purpose, except as may be required by law. Confidential Material shall not be used in the 

prosecution or defense of matters other than this Action. 

4. Confidential Material shall not be revealed or disclosed except to: 

a. The Court, its employees and necessary clerical support staff, and any 

appellate court or other court assuming jurisdiction over this Action; 

b. Counsel of record in this Action, other attorneys employed by their firms, 

and necessary clerical and support staff employed by counsel of record (who shall not be required 

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to execute the Confidentiality Acknowledgment and Affirmation, annexed as Exhibit A but all of 

whom shall, nevertheless, be bound by this Confidentiality Agreement); 

c. The Parties and any employees, former employees or agents of the Parties 

or their corporate affiliates, provided that, before disclosure of the Confidential Material to any 

former employees or agents, such former employees or agents shall execute a Confidentiality 

Acknowledgement and Affirmation in the form annexed as Exhibit A, which shall be provided to 

and maintained by counsel for the Producing Party; 

d. Persons consulted or retained for the purpose of providing litigation support 

or technical services in connection with discovery or preparation for trial of this Action, provided 

that, before disclosure of the Confidential Material to said persons, each shall execute a 

Confidentiality Acknowledgement and Affirmation in the form annexed as Exhibit A, which shall 

be maintained by counsel for the party using such persons; 

e. Persons consulted or retained for the purpose of providing expert or 

consulting services or for the purpose of offering expert testimony at the trial and/or hearings in 

this Action, provided that, before disclosure of the Confidential Material to said persons, each shall 

execute a Confidentiality Acknowledgement and Affirmation in the form annexed as Exhibit A, 

which shall be maintained by counsel for the party using such persons; 

f. Stenographic reporters and videographers (and their staff) involved in 

depositions or other proceedings in this Action; and 

g. Witnesses other than the Parties and their current employees appearing at 

depositions, hearings, or trial in this matter, provided that such witnesses (i) execute a 

Confidentiality Acknowledgement and Affirmation in the form annexed as Exhibit A prior to being 

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given access to Confidential Material; and (ii) will only be able to review, but not retain, 

Confidential Material. 

h. The author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

5. Persons entitled to access Confidential Material shall not disclose such Confidential 

Material to any person or entity other than those entitled to access as provided in this 

Confidentiality Order. A person or an entity not entitled to access to Confidential Material can or 

will be provided disclosure thereof upon agreement of the Producing Party or if either Party 

demonstrates to the Court that there is a sufficient and reasonable basis and necessity for such 

disclosure of specific Confidential Material but, otherwise, no person or entity other than those 

designated in this Confidentiality Order shall have access to the Confidential Material. If the Court 

determines that a person or an entity not entitled to access to Confidential Material pursuant to this 

Confidentiality Order has a sufficient and reasonable basis and necessity for disclosure, then that 

person or entity shall execute a Confidentiality Acknowledgement and Affirmation in the form 

annexed as Exhibit A, copies of which shall be provided to and maintained by counsel for all 

Parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Confidentiality Order shall restrict any 

Producing Party or person or entity from use of his, her, or its own Confidential Material for any 

purpose. 

6. If Confidential Material is used and disclosed at a deposition, subject to court 

approval where necessary, any person or entity, its officers, employees, and agents not entitled to 

Confidential Material shall be precluded from attending that portion of the deposition in which 

Confidential Material shall be used and disclosed. In addition, the portion of the deposition 

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transcript containing the Confidential Material shall not be disclosed to any person or entity, its 

officers, employees, or agents not entitled to access said Confidential Material. 

7. If any Confidential Material is discussed during a deposition, the transcripts of the 

depositions, and exhibits thereto, shall, in their entirety, be treated as Confidential Material for a 

period of 30 days after such transcripts are actually received by counsel for each of the parties. 

During that 30-day period, portions of deposition transcripts, and exhibits thereto, may be 

designated as Confidential Material pursuant to the terms of this Confidentiality Order by notifying 

all counsel in this Action, and the Producing Party if not a Party in this Action, in writing. If the 

Producing Party of the Confidential Material at issue is not a party to the lawsuit or otherwise in 

attendance at the deposition where the Confidential Material was discussed, the Party taking the 

deposition shall provide a copy of the transcript to the Producing Party, and the Producing Party 

shall have 30 days from the receipt of the transcript to designate portions of the transcript as 

Confidential Material. Portions of the deposition record reflecting such Confidential Material shall 

be stamped with the appropriate designation and access thereto shall be limited pursuant to the 

terms of this Confidentiality Order. 

8. This Confidentiality Order shall in no way affect or impair the right of any party or 

person or entity, its officers, employees, or agents to raise or assert any defense or objection, 

including, but not limited to, defenses or objections to the discovery or production of data, 

documents, and information, and to the use, relevancy or admissibility at trial or at any hearing of 

any evidence. A party that intends to present or anticipates that another party may present 

Confidential Material at a hearing or trial shall bring that issue to the Court’s and parties’ attention 

by motion reasonably in advance of the hearing or trial without disclosing the Confidential 

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Material. The Court may thereafter make such orders as are necessary to govern the use of such 

documents, material, or information at a hearing or trial. 

9. If any Party disagrees with the designation for certain data, documents, or 

information, that Party may object to the designation. Failure to object to the designation shall not 

preclude a subsequent objection to it. Any Party who wishes to object to the designation shall serve 

written objections (including a statement of the legal or factual basis for the objection) on the 

Producing Party and all other counsel of record and request a conference to resolve the matter. The 

objecting Party and the Producing Party shall make a good faith effort to resolve the dispute. If the 

dispute cannot be resolved, upon prior notice to all Parties, the Producing Party may move to the 

Court for determination as to whether the designation is proper. Any motion to retain 

confidentiality must be filed within 21 days of the conference outlined above, or 21 days after the 

last such conference, if multiple such conferences have occurred. The Parties may agree to extend 

this deadline and no Party will unreasonably withhold consent to a request for an extension. If the 

Producing Party does not file a motion to retain confidentiality within this time period, the 

challenged material shall not be under any confidentiality designation. The objecting Party shall 

not object to the Producing Party filing the information at issue with the Court under seal in order 

for the Court to resolve the matter. The Producing Party shall have the burden of proving the 

propriety of the designation and of persuading the Court on the propriety of the designation. Any 

Party may challenge a designation by a non-party Producing Party. For disputes concerning the 

designations made to Confidential Material produced by non-Party Producing Parties, the 

objecting Party shall serve written objections (including a statement of the legal or factual basis 

for the objection) on the non-party Producing Party and all other counsel of record and request a 

conference to resolve the matter. If the dispute cannot be resolved, upon prior notice to all Parties, 

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the non-party Producing Party may apply to the appropriate compliance court under Rule 45 for 

determination as to whether the designation is proper. Any application or motion to retain 

confidentiality must be filed within 21 days of the conference outlined above, or 21 days after the 

last such conference, if multiple such conferences have occurred. The Parties may agree to extend 

this deadline and no Party will unreasonably withhold consent to a request for an extension. If the 

non-party Producing Party does not file a motion to retain confidentiality within this time period, 

the challenged material shall not be under any confidentiality designation. The non-party 

Producing Party shall have the burden of proving the propriety of the designation and of persuading 

the court on the propriety of the designation. Pending a ruling by the Court on the motion, the 

terms of this Confidentiality Order shall remain in effect for the Confidential Material that is the 

subject of said motion. 

10. All Confidential Material filed with the Court, and all portions of pleadings, 

motions, or other papers filed with the Court that disclose Confidential Material (“Confidential 

Court Submission”) shall be filed and maintained under seal. The Parties are required to file a 

separate motion for leave to file under seal prior to submitting any sealed pleading to the Court. 

To the extent a Confidential Court Submission is capable of redaction, the redacted version of the 

document is to be filed on the public docket, with the unredacted version delivered in hard copy 

to the Clerk’s Office for filing under seal. The redacted version of a Confidential Court 

Submission may include, when necessary, slip sheets appropriately labeled “UNDER SEAL” to 

indicate the exhibits or other materials that have been omitted in their entirety from the public 

filing. 

11. The provisions of this Confidentiality Order shall not terminate at the conclusion 

of this Action. Within 60 days of the conclusion of the trial and of any appeals, or upon other 

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termination of this litigation, all Confidential Material shall be destroyed or returned to the 

Producing Party. Following the expiration of this 60-day period, upon request of the Producing 

Party, any Party to whom Confidential Material was produced must submit a written certification 

to the Producing Party that: (1) states that commercially reasonable efforts have been made to 

assure that all Confidential Material has been returned or destroyed; and (2) affirms that the Party 

has not retained any originals, copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format 

reproducing or capturing any of the Confidential Material. The requirement set forth above does 

not affect or impair the right of any Party to whom Confidential Material was produced from 

maintaining copies of any pleadings, filings or court submissions that include citations or 

references to, or exhibits consisting of, Confidential Material that has been filed with the Court 

either in the public record or under seal; provided, however, that any Confidential Material retained 

after the conclusion of this Action shall be maintained only in strict compliance with this 

Confidentiality Order and shall not be used in any manner or for any purpose other than as 

expressly permitted by this Confidentiality Order. 

12. This Confidentiality Order shall remain in effect until modified, superseded, or 

terminated by written consent of the Parties hereto or by court order. 

13. If a Producing Party inadvertently produces any data, documents, or information 

that the Producing Party thereafter claims to be privileged, the Producing Party will give notice 

thereof to the receiving party in writing. Within five days, the documents, data, or information in 

question (and all notes and work product quoting, referring or relating thereto) will then be returned 

to the Producing Party or the receiving Party will certify that all copies have been retrieved and 

destroyed. If the receiving Party has disclosed the information to others before being notified of 

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the claim of privilege or protection, the receiving Party must take reasonable steps to retrieve and 

return or destroy the disclosed information. 

14. The receiving Party upon receiving a privilege log identifying the returned or 

destroyed document or information remains free to challenge any claim of privilege. However, 

pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), the production of a document shall not affect a waiver 

of any privilege or protection. Moreover, absent a ruling that the document, data, or information 

at issue is not privileged or protected, a receiving Party may not disclose nor make any use 

whatsoever of the information disclosed in or derived from the document or information at issue. 

In the interests of effectuating this Confidentiality Order and protecting the efficient process of 

discovery, pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), the Court further rules that productions 

during the course of this Action of materials or information claimed to be privileged and sought to 

be reclaimed by the Producing Parties shall not be used as grounds by any Party or third party to 

argue that any waiver of privilege or protection has occurred by virtue of any production in this 

Action. Nothing in this Order overrides any attorney’s ethical responsibilities to refrain from 

examining or disclosing materials that appear on their face to be privileged and to disclose to the 

Producing Party that such materials have been produced. 

15. If a Producing Party inadvertently fails to stamp certain documents Confidential 

upon their production, it may, at any time, designate such documents as Confidential Material. In 

that event, at the request of the Producing Party, and upon receipt of the new documents 

subsequently designated and properly marked as Confidential Material, the receiving Party shall 

either destroy or return the original documents inadvertently not designated as Confidential 

Material to the Producing Party. The receiving Party shall not be held liable or responsible for any 

disclosure prior to the subsequent designation of the documents as Confidential Material. 

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16. If any Party or person that has obtained Confidential Material under the terms of 

this Confidentiality Order receives a subpoena or other legal process commanding the production 

of any such documents or information (the “Subpoena Recipient”), the Subpoena Recipient shall 

within five (5) business days provide written notice of the service of the subpoena to counsel for 

the Producing Party or the Party that designated the information or documents as Confidential 

Material. The Subpoena Recipient shall not produce any Confidential Material in response to the 

subpoena without either the prior written consent of the Producing Party or an order of a court of 

competent jurisdiction. The Subpoena Recipient shall lodge an objection to the subpoena on the 

grounds that it calls for the production of materials that are Confidential Material pursuant to this 

Protective Order and shall provide a copy of the objection to the Producing Party. However, the 

Subpoena Recipient shall not have any obligation to defend the appropriateness or validity of the 

designation of the requested materials as Confidential Material under this Confidentiality Order, 

or to negotiate the terms of production under a protective order in another matter. Rather, the 

Subpoena Recipient will only be required to defend the existence of this Confidentiality Order and 

that the materials sought were produced as, and are treated as, Confidential Material under this 

Protective Order. The Producing Party or the Party that designated the materials as Confidential 

Material shall bear the burden of defending the appropriateness or validity of the designation of 

Confidential Material, if necessary. 

17. The parties acknowledge that the Court retains discretion as to whether, in Orders 

and Opinions, to afford confidential treatment to information that the parties have redacted, sealed, 

or designated as confidential. 

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PART II: Provisions Concerning “Highly Confidential” Material 

18. In this action, Plaintiff has, or will imminently, issue a subpoena to non-party J.D. 

Power that seeks to have J.D. Power produce the data that underlies the calculation of the Projected 

Sold Adjustment (“PSA”) that is at issue in this Action (the “PSA Underlying Data”). Subject to 

and notwithstanding any objections J.D. Power may raise in response to the third-party subpoena, 

J.D. Power may produce the PSA Underlying Data with the label “Highly Confidential – Outside 

Counsel’s Eyes Only” (“Highly Confidential Material”). For purposes of this Confidentiality 

Order, “Highly Confidential Material” includes data, documents, electronically stored 

information, discovery responses, testimony, and all other material or information, whether in 

paper, electronic, digital, or other format, that includes the PSA Underlying Data, as well as (1) 

any information copied or extracted from Highly Confidential Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, 

summaries, translations, or compilations of Highly Confidential Material; and (3) any oral, written, 

or electronic communications, testimony, or presentations, including for purposes of settlement, 

by Producing Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Highly Confidential Material. Counsel for 

J.D. Power shall be required to execute a certification in substantially the same form as the Counsel 

of Designation of Information as Highly Confidential – Outside Counsel’s Eyes Only, set forth at 

Exhibit B hereto, that he or she has, in good faith, determined that the production documents 

contain Highly Confidential Material, which shall be provided to the Parties to this Action 

concurrently with the production. 

19. Highly Confidential Material shall be used only for the prosecution or defense of 

this Action, including discovery, trial, and/or hearings and preparation for same, and for no other 

purpose, except as may be required by law. Highly Confidential Material shall not be used in the 

prosecution or defense of matters other than this Action. The Parties to this Action expressly agree 

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that the Highly Confidential Material may not be used to attempt to identify the Parties to any 

particular transaction that is included in the Highly Confidential Material. 

20. Highly Confidential Material shall not be revealed or disclosed except to: 

a. The persons identified in Paragraphs 4(a), 4(b), 4(e), and 4(f); and 

b. Any J.D. Power witness or counsel. 

21. Persons entitled to access Highly Confidential Material shall not disclose such 

Highly Confidential Material to any person or entity other than those entitled to access as provided 

in this Confidentiality Order. 

22. In order to ensure control over and the security of the Highly Confidential Material, 

in lieu of producing the Highly Confidential Material directly to Plaintiff, J.D. Power will produce 

the Highly Confidential Material to a law firm that has no connection to or involvement in the 

above captioned case and said firm shall securely store the Highly Confidential Material in a 

database (the “Secure Location”). Persons consulted or retained by Plaintiff as described in 4(e) 

shall physically visit the Secure Location to view the Highly Confidential Material in accordance 

with the established Security Protocol agreed to by J.D. Power and Plaintiff. Such persons 

consulted or retained by Plaintiff as described in 4(e) are expressly prohibited from removing the 

Highly Confidential Material in its native form from the Secure Location, as fully described in the 

Security Protocol. The Secure Location will allow access to the Highly Confidential Material only 

in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Security Protocol. 

23. If Highly Confidential Material is used and disclosed at a deposition, subject to 

Court approval where necessary, any person or entity, its officers, employees, and agents not 

entitled to Highly Confidential Material shall be precluded from attending that portion of the 

deposition in which Highly Confidential Material shall be used and disclosed. In addition, the 

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portion of the deposition transcript containing the Highly Confidential Material shall not be 

disclosed to any person or entity, its officers, employees, or agents not entitled to access said 

Highly Confidential Material. 

24. If any Highly Confidential Material is discussed during a deposition, the transcripts 

of the depositions, and exhibits thereto, shall, in their entirety, be treated as Highly Confidential 

Material for a period of 30 days after such transcripts are actually received by counsel for each of 

the parties and counsel for J.D. Power. During that 30-day period, portions of deposition 

transcripts, and exhibits thereto, may be designated as Highly Confidential Material pursuant to 

the terms of this Confidentiality Order by notifying all counsel in this Action in writing. Portions 

of the deposition record reflecting such Highly Confidential Material shall be stamped with the 

appropriate designation and access thereto shall be limited pursuant to the terms of this 

Confidentiality Order. 

25. A party that intends to present or anticipates that another party may present Highly 

Confidential Material at a hearing or trial shall bring that issue to the attention of the Court, the 

other Parties to this Action, and outside counsel for J.D. Power by motion reasonably in advance 

of the hearing or trial without disclosing the Highly Confidential Material. The Court may 

thereafter make such orders as are necessary to govern the use of such documents, material, or 

information at a hearing or trial. 

26. No provisions from Part I of this Confidentiality Order shall apply to Highly 

Confidential Material, save for Paragraphs 10-12 and 16-17, which shall apply to Highly 

Confidential Material in the same manner they apply to Confidential Material. 

27. As to all provisions of this order, the parties are reminded that proceedings before 

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the Court are to be open to the public absent a showing of extraordinary cause, which includes 

making such documents as may be admitted into evidence at any hearing or trial accessible to the 

public. The entry of this Order does not prevent the Court from later determining that materials 

designated as confidential by the parties under this Order which are then introduced at such 

hearings or trial in this cause should be made accessible to the public and not be sealed. 

Additionally, the provisions of this Order shall not prevent the Court from otherwise addressing 

discovery disputes that may arise concerning documents designated as confidential or highly 

confidential in any manner deemed necessary by the Court under applicable law. The Court will 

permit the parties to be heard before any document designated as confidential or highly 

confidential is filed into the public record. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, through Counsel of Record. 

DATED: October 2, 2023 

 [Signatures on the following page] 

 

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/s/ Lee Lowther 

Hank Bates 

Lee Lowther 

Tiffany M. Wyatt Oldham 

CARNEY BATES & PULLIAM, PLLC 

519 W. 7th Street 

Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 

Phone: (501) 312-8500 

Fax: (501) 312-8505 

Email: hbates@cbplaw.com 

Email: llowther@cbplaw.com 

Email: toldham@cbplaw.com 

Andrew J. Shamis (pro hac vice) 

Edwin Eliu Elliott (pro hac vice) 

SHAMIS & GENTILE, P.A.

14 NE 1st Avenue, Suite 705 

Miami, FL 33132 

Phone: (305) 479-2299 

Email: ashamis@shamisgentile.com 

Email: edwine@shamisgentile.com 

Counsel for Plaintiff and 

the Proposed Class 

/s/ Graham Talley 

Graham Talley 

MITCHELL, WILLIAM, SELIG, GATES &

WOODYARD, P.L.L.C 

425 West Capitol Ave., Suite 1800 

Little Rock, Arkansas 

Phone: (501) 688-8800 

Fax: (501) 688-8807 

gtalley@mwlaw.com 

Jeffrey S. Cashdan (pro hac vice) 

Zachary A. McEntyre (pro hac vice) 

J. Matthew Brigman (pro hac vice) 

Allison Hill White (pro hac vice) 

Logan R. Hobson (pro hac vice) 

KING & SPALDING LLP 

1180 Peachtree Street, NE 

Atlanta, Georgia 30309 

Phone: 404.572.4600 

Fax: 404.572.5100 

Email: jcashdan@kslaw.com 

Email: zmcentyre@kslaw.com 

Email: mbrigman@kslaw.com 

Email: awhite@kslaw.com 

Email: lhobson@kslaw.com 

Julia C. Barrett (pro hac vice) 

KING & SPALDING LLP 

500 W 2nd Street 

Austin, Texas 78701 

Phone: 512.457.2000 

Fax: 512.457.2100 

Email: jbarrett@kslaw.com 

Counsel for Defendant 

Progressive Northwestern Insurance 

Company 

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IT IS SO ORDERED that the foregoing Stipulated Confidentiality Order is approved. 

DATED: This 4th day of October, 2023. 

___________________________ 

James M. Moody, Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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EXHIBIT A 

CONFIDENTIALITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AFFIRMATION 

 I acknowledge that I have read and understand the Confidentiality Order governing the 

confidentiality of data, documents, and information, which was entered into by and among Erik 

Knight and Progressive Northwestern Insurance Company on _______, and entered as an Order 

of the Court on ________, in the matter of Knight v. Progressive Northwestern Insurance 

Co., Case No. 3:22-cv-00203 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. 

I qualify under its provisions as a person who may have access to data, documents, and 

information deemed Confidential under the Confidentiality Order. I will abide by the terms and 

provisions set forth in the Confidentiality Order and subject myself to the personal jurisdiction 

of this Court to enforce its terms. 

Date: 

Signature: 

Name: 

 

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EXHIBIT B 

CERTIFICATION BY COUNSEL OF DESIGNATION OF INFORMATION AS 

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY 

Documents produced herewith [whose bates numbers are listed below (or) which are 

listed on the attached index] have been marked as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY pursuant to the Confidentiality Order entered into by and among Erik 

Knight and Progressive Northwestern Insurance Company on ________, and entered as an Order 

of the Court on _______, in the matter of Knight v. Progressive Northwestern Insurance Co., 

Case No. 3:22-cv-00203 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. 

By signing below, I am certifying that I have personally reviewed the marked documents 

and believe, based on that review, that they are properly subject to protection under the terms of 

the Confidentiality Order. 

Check and complete one of the two options below. 

☐ I am a member of the Bar of the United States District Court for the Eastern District 

of Arkansas. My District Court Bar number is [District Court Bar #]. 

☐ I am not a member of the Bar of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Arkansas but am admitted to the bar of one or more states. The state in 

which I conduct the majority of my practice is [state in which I practice most] where 

my Bar number is [that state's Bar #]. I understand that by completing this 

certification I am submitting to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of Arkansas as to any matter relating to this certification. 

* * * 

Date: [date Exhibit B signed] [Signature of Counsel [s/name]] 

Signature of Counsel 

[Printed Name of Counsel[A]] 

Printed Name of Counsel 

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