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…District of New York
Virginia L. Giuffre,
Plaintiff, Case No.: 15-cv-07433-RWS
v.
Ghislaine Maxwell,
Defendant.
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PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO MAINTAIN CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATION
Plaintiff Virginia Giuffre, by and through her undersigned couns…
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…is that the public interest might otherwise be harmed if extremely
sensitive material were to lose this special shield of confidentiality.2
Whether the privilege applies is determined by balancing the needs of the plaintiffs against the needs of the…
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…designations.
May 4, 2107, Pre-trial Conference to address any outstanding issues including
confidentiality.
WHEREFORE, the parties request that the Court adopt the proposed schedule and
modify the Court' s Order of October 3, 2016 to reflect the above deadlines…
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…and correct copies of conferral
communication between counsel, including a true and correct copy of Jeffrey Epstein’s written
waiver of claims concerning settlement agreement’s confidentiality provision dated August 16,
2016.
4. Attached as Exhibit C (filed under seal…
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…because Ms. Giuffre
corrected some typographical and spelling issues.
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confidentiality designations of that type of discovery would wrongfully allow the
abuser to hide behind a claim of confidentiality.
Purposes and Limitations: Ms. Giuffre’s proposed revisions include…
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…C. All Documents Were Redacted Appropriately By the Law Enforcement Agencies ........... 8
II. PLAINTIFF HAS WAIVED ANY ARGUMENT AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY ................ 9
A. Plaintiff Failed to Timely Move this Court to Uphold Her Designation of the Documents
as Confidential ...........................................…
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…and Law Enforcement are not news-
gathering activities ........................................................................................................... 7
II. THE ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE OF THE SHIELD LAW IS NOT APPLICABLE
BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EXPECTATION OF CONFIDENTIALITY ..................... 9
…
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…Which
Disqualifies Him from Relief.................................................................... 22
4. Under This Court’s Order, Non-Parties Cannot Challenge Confidentiality
Designations and Dershowitz has Already Agreed to be Bound by the…
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…case. In unsealing the summary judgment record,
the Court of Appeals redacted “deposition responses concerning
intimate matters where the questions were likely only permitted—
and the responses only compelled—because of a strong expectation
of continued confidentiality.” Brown v. Maxwell…
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…Giuffre requests that this Court maintain the confidentiality
designations over these police reports and direct the Defendant to disclose all the recipients of the
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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1199-1 Filed 01/27/21 Page…
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…Id. at 2. As this Court knows, the Second Circuit spoke directly to the
issues of confidentiality and unsealing of documents in this case and specifically vacated two of
the three decisions cited by Maxwell. Brown v. Maxwell, 929 F…
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…the
hundreds of interested Non-Parties together with Ms. Maxwell have every right and reason to
expect that the promises of confidentiality afforded by a Protective Order, to which Plaintiff and
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Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document…
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…from when she was a child, some
of them concerning her being raped when only 14 years. Defendant’s challenge to Ms. Giuffre’s
confidentiality designation is without merit, and it is for improper purposes. Therefore, it should
be denied…
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…2017, this Court ordered: “[A]ll documents, materials, and information
subject to the Protective Order must be returned to the party who designated its confidentiality as
of the date this action was dismissed.” Id. 2 (emphasis supplied). Ms. Giuffre and…
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…that a non-party cannot seek to overturn the protective order as follows:
“The Protective Order states that parties can object to the confidentiality
designations: “A party may object to the designation of particular
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION by giving written notice…
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…Morgan and Foreman, P.C.
150 East 10th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80203
• Main 303.831.7364 FX 303.832.2628
[email protected]
www.hmflaw.com
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail…
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…Intervenor’s June 21, 2017 letter and its attachments, and remove the confidentiality designation
from several related emails and attachments that the parties previously designated confidential
(RANSOME_000273-557) (“the Emails”). The Emails will demonstrate that Ms. Ransome’s
inflammatory…
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…sealed in Maxwell.” DE 233, at 2. The Court’s revised language
underscored that “the parties may only agree to remove confidentiality designations for Ms.
Giuffre’s personal documents” from Maxwell, “i.e., those bearing her bates stamp in Maxwell…
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…See May 18, 2016 letter from J. Pagliuca ("Your email does not
provide any good faith basis for the [confidentiality] assertion, likely because there is none."). I
disagree.
Your latest produc6on includes a police report detailing the rape of a…
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…that this is fishing with a drift net. We decline your
request to engage in this exercise.
Regarding redacted police reports that plaintiff designated “confidential”: We
objected to plaintiff’s confidentiality designation, and plaintiff failed to file a
motion in…
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