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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

BCBSM, INC., et al., 

Plaintiffs / Counter-Defendants, 

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WALGREEN CO., et al.,

Defendants / Counterclaimant.

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Case No. 1:20-cv-01853

Honorable Virginia M. Kendall

Honorable Sheila M. Finnegan

Consolidated with:

No. 1:20-cv-01929

No. 1:20-cv-03332

No. 1:20-cv-04738

No. 1:20-cv-04940

No. 1:22-cv-01362

WALGREEN CO. & WALGREENS 

BOOTS ALLIANCE, INC.,

Third-Party Plaintiffs,

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PRIME THERAPEUTICS LLC & 

OMEDARX, INC.,

Third-Party Defendants.

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DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO COMPEL 

PLAINTIFFS’ DOCUMENT DISCOVERY AND RELATED METRICS

Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26, 33, 34, and 37, Defendants Walgreen 

Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (together “Walgreens”), through their undersigned 

attorneys, respectfully move the Court to compel the twenty-eight Blue Cross insurer plaintiffs1

1 Plaintiffs are BCBSM, Inc. (d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue shield of Minnesota); HMO Minnesota (d/b/a Blue Plus); 

Health Options, Inc. (d/b/a Florida Blue HMO); Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Blue Cross Blue 

Shield of North Dakota; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. (d/b/a Florida Blue); Blue Cross and Blue 

Shield of Alabama; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. (“BCBS of Kansas”); Blue Cross and Blue Shield of 

Massachusetts, Inc.; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts HMO Blue, Inc.; Wellmark, Inc. (d/b/a Wellmark 

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to (i) provide assurances that they have corrected their previous document discovery errors and 

will produce all responsive documents, and (ii) produce responsive, non-privileged documents 

from 20 disputed custodians who fill key temporal and subject-matter gaps left by Plaintiffs’

error-plagued discovery to date.

In support of this motion, Walgreens relies on all pleadings and papers of record to date 

and their Memorandum in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Compel Plaintiffs’ Document 

Discovery and Related Metrics (“Defendants’ Memorandum”), filed contemporaneously with 

this Motion.

Walgreens has conferred with Plaintiffs, who oppose this Motion. Walgreens and 

Plaintiffs propose the following briefing schedule on this disputed Motion:

 Walgreens’ Memorandum filed contemporaneously with this Motion;

 Plaintiffs’ Opposition filed January 20, 2023; and

 Walgreens’ Reply filed February 6, 2023.

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WHEREFORE, Defendants respectfully request that the Court enter an order:

a. Adopting Walgreens’ and Plaintiffs’ proposed briefing schedule;

b. Directing Plaintiffs to supply data and information on their technology aided 

review (TAR) model’s performance as of (1) August 22, 2022, the date Plaintiffs

first declared their production substantially complete; (2) November 4, 2022, 

when Plaintiffs began producing documents from the CVS litigation; 

(3) November 23, 2022, the date of the parties’ first meet-and-confer regarding 

Plaintiffs’ TAR model; (4) December 12, 2022, the date of the parties’ meet-andconfer with their e-discovery experts; (5) December 21, 2022, the date Walgreens 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield and d/b/a Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa); Wellmark of South Dakota, 

Inc. (d/b/a Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota); Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc.; Wellmark 

Synergy Health, Inc.; Wellmark Value Health Plan, Inc.; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona, Inc. (d/b/a Blue 

Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and d/b/a AZBLUE); Asuris Northwest Health; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas 

City (“Blue KC”); Cambia Health Solutions, Inc.; Regence BlueShield of Idaho, Inc.; Regence BlueCross and 

BlueShield of Oregon; Regence BlueCross and BlueShield of Utah; Regence BlueShield of Washington; HealthNow 

New York, Inc.; BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, Inc. (f/k/a Blue Cross of Western New York); 

BlueShield of Northeastern New York; Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (d/b/a Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of 

New Jersey); and Horizon Healthcare of New Jersey, Inc. (d/b/a Horizon NJ Health).

2 Walgreens did not confer with Plaintiffs regarding the reply date.

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filed this Motion; and (6) the date the Court grants the Motion, such data and 

information to include:

i. the responsiveness rate for the highest score band just below the cutoff;

ii. validation sample results;

iii. the number of times the model had been refreshed; and

iv. a reasonably detailed description of how Plaintiffs built and trained their 

TAR model.

c. Directing Plaintiffs to certify that they are not knowingly withholding responsive 

documents merely because those documents fall outside the parties’ collection 

parameters; 

d. Directing Plaintiffs to produce a log of documents that hit on the following search 

terms3but that Plaintiffs have withheld from production, such log to include, for 

each document, (1) a unique identifier; (2) the custodian(s) from which the 

document was obtained; (3) the date the document was sent (for electronic 

communications) or created (for documents other than electronic 

communications); (4) for any electronic communications, the sender and 

recipient(s) (including CC and BCC recipients); (5) the subject line (for electronic 

communications) or file name (for documents other than electronic

communications); (6) for documents other than emails, the file extension or other 

identification of the native application in which the document can be read (for 

example, Word, PowerPoint, Excel):; 

i. “PSC” OR “WAG* card” OR “Walgreen* card” OR “W* Card” OR 

“saving* card” OR “saving* program” OR “saving* club” OR 

“Walgreen* club” OR “WAG* club” OR “prescription* saving* card” OR 

“prescription* saving* club” OR “discount club” OR “discount program” 

OR “discount card” OR “generic* card” OR “generic* program” OR 

“generic* club” OR “club* program*” OR (Walgreen* w/3 card) OR 

(saving* w/3 card) OR (saving* w/3 program) OR (prescription* w/3 

saving* w/3 card) OR (prescription* w/3 saving* w/3 club) OR (generic* 

w/3 card) OR (generic* w/3 program) OR (generic* w/3 club) OR 

(generic* w/3 pric* w/3 program*)

ii. ((Walgreen* OR WAG OR “Walgreens Boots Alliance” OR WBA OR 

Argus OR PTI OR Prime OR “Prime Therapeutics” OR 

PrimeTherapeutics OR ESI OR “Express Scripts” OR ExpressScripts OR 

Envision* OR Elixir OR MSC OR “medical security card” OR Optum* 

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In correspondence, Walgreens asked for and Plaintiffs refused to provide a log of documents that hit on three sets 

of search strings. Walgreens has combined two of the search strings in (ii) as a compromise to reduce the number of 

hits.)

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OR Medimpact OR (audit* w/10 “U&C”) OR (pharmacy w/3 benefit*) 

OR Medco OR Catalyst OR Catamaran OR CVS OR Caremark OR 

“CaremarkPCS” OR “Preferred Care” OR PCS OR “Systems Xcellence” 

OR SXC OR ComCo OR ComCoTec OR (PBM w/3 Maryland)) w/5

(contract* OR agreement* OR PPA OR “participating pharmacy 

agreement” OR negotiat* OR amend* OR (provider w/3 manual*) OR 

recover* OR compens* OR rebate* OR refund* OR reconcil* OR 

reimburs* OR club OR card OR program OR claim* OR payment* OR 

“U&C” OR “U & C” OR “usual and customary” OR “U and C” OR 

“UandC” OR “UNC” OR “U n C” OR “U+C” OR “U + C” OR “U/C” OR 

“UC” OR “usual&customary” OR “usual & customary” OR (usual w/3 

custom*) OR (usual w/3 pric*) OR (customary w/3 pric*))

e. Directing Plaintiffs to collect and produce responsive documents from the 

following custodians; 

i. Joan McCusker (BCBS of North Dakota); 

ii. Shanda Harclerode (Wellmark Plaintiffs); 

iii. Michael Patterson (BCBS of Alabama); 

iv. Arif Khan (BCBS of North Carolina); 

v. Rebecca Sheridan (HealthNow); 

vi. Lara Magnani (Cambia); 

vii. Tracy Hill (Cambia); 

viii. Dudley Slater (Cambia); 

ix. Raulo Frear (Cambia); 

x. John Morgan (Cambia); 

xi. Chip Parkinson (Cambia); 

xii. Kerry Bendel (Cambia); 

xiii. Diana Otis (Cambia); 

xiv. Karen Jackson (BCBS of Massachusetts); 

xv. Matthew Connell (BCBS of Massachusetts); 

xvi. Kristine Dyment (BCBS of Massachusetts); 

xvii. Cedric Terrell (BCBS of Massachusetts); 

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xviii. Melinda Nelhuebel (BCBS of Massachusetts); 

xix. Bill Fedus (BCBS of Massachusetts); and 

xx. Saira Jan (Horizon)

f. Granting such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.

Dated: December 21, 2022 Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ Jeffrey J. Bushofsky

Jeffrey J. Bushofsky

Laura G. Hoey

Timothy R. Farrell

Charles D. Zagnoli

ROPES & GRAY LLP

191 N. Wacker Drive

32nd Floor

Chicago, IL 60606

Telephone: (312) 845-1200

Facsimile: (312) 845-5522

Jeffrey.Bushofsky@ropesgray.com

Laura.Hoey@ropesgray.com

Timothy.Farrell@ropesgray.com

Charles.Zagnoli@ropesgray.com

Attorneys for Defendant / Counterclaimant / 

Third-Party Plaintiff Walgreen Co. & 

Defendant / Third-Party Plaintiff Walgreens 

Boots Alliance, Inc.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Charles D. Zagnoli, hereby certify that the foregoing document was electronically filed 

on December 21, 2022, and will be served electronically via the Court’s ECF Notice system 

upon all registered counsel of record.

 /s/ Charles D. Zagnoli

Charles D. Zagnoli

ROPES & GRAY LLP

191 N. Wacker Dr.

32nd Floor

Chicago, IL 60606

Telephone: (312) 845-1200

Facsimile: (312) 845-5522

Charles.Zagnoli@ropesgray.com

Attorney for Defendant / Counterclaimant / 

Third-Party Plaintiff Walgreen Co. & 

Defendant / Third-Party Plaintiff Walgreens 

Boots Alliance, Inc.

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