United States of America for the Use and Benefit of Wells Cargo, Inc. v. Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. ( 2019 )

1 Ryan D. Yahne, Pro Hac Vice Benjamin J. McDonnell, Pro Hac Vice 2 Piskel Yahne Kovarik, PLLC 3 522 West Riverside Ave., Suite 700 Spokane, WA 99201 4 Telephone: (509) 321-5930 Facsimile: (509) 321-5935 5 Email: ryan@pyklawyers.com ben@pyklawyers.com 6 7 Counsel for Northcon, Inc. 8 Brian W. Boschee, Nevada Bar #7612 Donna DiMaggio, Nevada Bar #9794 9 Holley Driggs Walch Fine Wray Puzey & Thompson 10 400 S. Fourth Street, 3rd Floor 11 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Telephone: (702) 791-0308 12 Facsimile: (702) 791-1912 Email: bboschee@nevadafirm.com 13 ddimaggio@nevadafirm.com 14 Local counsel for Northcon, Inc. 15 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 18 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, for the use Civil Action No. 2:18-cv-01182-JCM-DJA and benefit of WELLS CARGO, INC., 19 STIPULATION AND ORDER GOVERNING DISCOVERY [FRE 502(d)] Plaintiff, 20 v. 21 ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., a 22 Missouri corporation, and AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, a 23 California corporation, 24 Defendants. 25 _______________________________________ ALPHA ENERGY AND ELECTRIC, INC., a 26 Missouri Corporation, 27 Third-Party Plaintiff, 1 v. 2 NORTHCON, INC., an Idaho Corporation; 3 SOUTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION, INC., a Utah corporation; DOES 1 through 10; and 4 ROE corporations 1 through 10, 5 Third-Party Defendants. 6 A ND ALL RELATED CASES. 7 Northcon, Inc. (“Northcon”), Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. (“Alpha”), American 8 Contractors Indemnity Company (“ACIC”), and Southwestern Construction, Inc. 9 10 (“Southwestern”) (collectively the “Parties”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby 11 stipulate as follows: 12 1. The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, 13 electronically stored information, or information, whether inadvertently or otherwise, and 14 whether pursuant to a parties’ discovery request or informal production, should not be a waiver 15 of the privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state 16 proceeding, to the maximum extent allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d). 17 18 2. Nothing contained in this stipulation is intended to or shall serve to limit a 19 party’s right to conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including metadata) for 20 relevance, responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information before 21 production. 22 3. When a producing party gives notice to receiving parties that certain documents, 23 ESI, or information are subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 24 receiving parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). 25 26 4. The Parties stipulate to entry of an order consistent with the foregoing. 27 SO STIPULATED. 1 Dated this 9th day of December 2019. Dated this 15th day of October 2019. 2 PISKEL YAHNE KOVARIK, PLLC STRONG & HANNI 3 /s/ Benjamin J. McDonnell /s/Approved for filing by Michael D. Stanger Ryan D. Yahne, Esq., Pro Hac Vice Michael D. Stanger, Esq. (#8272) 4 Benjamin J. McDonnell, Esq., Pro Hac Vice 102 South 200 East, Suite 800 522 West Riverside Ave., Suite 700 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 5 Spokane, WA 99201 Telephone: (801) 532-7080 6 Telephone: (509) 321-5930 Facsimile: (801) 596-1508 Facsimile: (509) 321-5935 Email: mstanger@strongandhanni.com 7 Email: ryan@pyklawyers.com ben@pyklawyers.com SMITH LARSEN & WIXOM 8 1935 Village Center Circle Brian W. Boschee, Esq. (#7612) Las Vegas, NV 89134 9 Donna DiMaggio, Esq. (#9794) Telephone: (702) 252-5002 10 HOLLEY, DRIGGS, WALCH, FINE, Facsimile: (702) 252-5006 WRAY, PUZEY & THOMPSON Email: cag@slwlaw.com 11 400 S. Fourth Street, 3rd Floor Las Vegas, NV 89101 Attorneys for Southwestern Construction 12 Telephone: (702) 791-0308 Facsimile: (702) 791-1912 13 Email: bboschee@nevadafirm.com 14 ddimaggio@nevadafirm.com 15 Attorneys for Northcon, Inc. 16 Dated this 15th day of October 2019. Dated this 7th day of November 2019. 17 THE MEDRALA LAW FIRM, PLLC THE FAUX LAW GROUP 18 /s/ Approved for filing by Jakub P. Medrala / s / Approved for filing by Jordan F. Faux 19 Jakub P. Medrala, Esq. (#12822) Kurt C. Faux, Esq. (#003407) 1091 S. Cimarron Road, #A-1 Willi H. Siepmann, Esq. (#002478) 20 Las Vegas, NV 89145 Jordan F. Faux, Esq. (#12205) Telephone: (702) 475-8884 2625 N. Green Valley Parkway, #100 21 Facsimile: (702) 938-8652 Hendersen, NV 89014 22 Email: jmedrala@medralaw.com Telephone: (702) 458-5790 Facsimile: (702) 458-5794 23 Attorney for Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc. Email: kfaux@fauxlaw.com wsiepmann@fauxlaw.com 24 jfaux@fauxlaw.com 25 Attorneys for ACIC 26 27 ORDER Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, and as authorized by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that: 5 1. The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, 6 electronically stored information, or information, whether inadvertently or otherwise, and 7 || whether pursuant to a parties’ discovery request or informal production, is not a a waiver of the 8 privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding, to ? the maximum extent allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d). '0 2. Nothing contained in this order is intended to or shall serve to limit a party’s right to conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including metadata) for relevance, B responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information before production. 14 3. When a producing party gives notice to receiving parties that certain documents, 15 | ESI, or information are subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 16 receiving parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). M IT IS SO ORDERED. 18 19 \ 20 UNITED CY S MAGISTRATE JUDGE 21 DATED: December 12, 2019 22 23 24 25 26 27 28