giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.561.0
22 pg
…L. Giuffre,
Plaintiff, Case No.: 15-cv-07433-RWS
v.
Ghislaine Maxwell,
Defendant.
________________________________/
PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO EXCLUDE DEFENDANT’S DESIGNATION OF
DEPOSITION EXCERPTS OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ IN AN UNRELATED CASE
…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1328.20
14 pg
…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 ................................................................................................................. 9
B. Plaintiff’s Counsel Has …
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1332.16
16 pg
…if the Court allows Plaintiff Virginia
Giuffre to remove the confidentiality designation concerning the Ransome deposition—an action
that would require modification of the Protective Order in this case —it also simultaneously
remove the confidentiality designation from several related emails…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1187.0
3 pg
…the parties unrestricted authority to disclose
publicly the confidential materials from Maxwell--not least of
all because the parties only may agree to downgrade
confidentiality designations for materials that the “designating
party has subsequently produced in this action,” i.e.…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1182.0_1
3 pg
… 2.
It defines Confidential Information to include, inter alia, “information filed under seal or
designated as ‘Confidential’ in another action for which the confidentiality designation or seal
has not been lifted.” Id. Thus, “Confidential Information” encompasses sealed information from
Maxwell…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1199.6_1
14 pg
…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 ................................................................................................................. 9
B. Plaintiff’s Counsel Has …
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.996.0
14 pg
…just such a reservoir for her profit motives.
IV. Category 4: Trial deposition designations and counter-designations.
The parties designated and counter-designated many hundreds of pages from deposition
transcripts. Such designations are made routinely under Rule 32(a)(6…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1206.2
23 pg
…A. The Protective
Order included a mechanism for one party to challenge another party’s confidentiality
designation (such a challenge never occurred) and provided that it did not apply to any
information or material disclosed at trial. (Because the case…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1073.0
22 pg
…and deponents reasonably relied on protective order); DE 1062 at 3-6
(protective order tracks permissible scope under Rule 26(c)(1), includes provisions to challenge
improper designation of confidentiality, contained no temporal limit, and appropriately limited
use of confidential…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1062.0
7 pg
…as deserving of protection.
Contrary to Dershowitz’s assertions, the Protective Order also includes mechanisms to
ensure that confidentiality designations are justifiable. See Section 8 (stating that designation of
information as confidential constitutes a representation by the attorney for the…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1296.13
15 pg
…could be obtained by a simple visit to the
Department of Motor Vehicles. Any newfound privacy concerns can be alleviated by a
“confidential” designation on the production.
2
Ms. Ransome testified that she was “followed at least once,” but that…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1332.9
15 pg
…could be obtained by a simple visit to the
Department of Motor Vehicles. Any newfound privacy concerns can be alleviated by a
“confidential” designation on the production.
2
Ms. Ransome testified that she was “followed at least once,” but that…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.46.0
22 pg
…is patently frivolous. (Pl’s M. Compel at 10).
Likewise, her designation of Mark Cohen as a “non-attorney” (id. at 9) is similarly frivolous.
Further, Plaintiff submitted to the Court in Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss, a cease…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1218.50
15 pg
…Supp. 2d 318, 341 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) (granting modification of protective order where stipulated
order “allowed for unilateral designation of an exhibit as protected material, and it did not list
specific documents, or delineate the kinds of documents…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.40
19 pg
…Southern
District of Florida, 08-cv-80736-KAM pleadings to include:
a. Motion for Limited Appearance, Consent to Designation and Request
to Electronically Receive Notices of Electronic Filing (July 28, 2008)
(Doc. # 16)
b. Notice of Change of Address and…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1137.15_2
41 pg
…the designations in correspondence have
been modified here – as indicated by brackets – to track the current designation in the pleadings.
4
Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP
Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document
Document 1137-15
…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1122.0_2
13 pg
…by contrast, the USVI does not know who has testified in depositions that are
sealed or otherwise shrouded by confidentiality designations. This is why the highlighted
5
Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1122 Filed 09/24/20…
giuffre-maxwell
1320-40
19 pg
…Southern
District of Florida, 08-cv-80736-KAM pleadings to include:
a. Motion for Limited Appearance, Consent to Designation and Request
to Electronically Receive Notices of Electronic Filing (July 28, 2008)
(Doc. # 16)
b. Notice of Change of Address and…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1331.7
21 pg
…to portions of these and other depositions designated by Plaintiff. She further
states as follows:
INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff has filed deposition designations for 14 witnesses for use in her case in chief at
trial. With respect to four of the witness…
giuffre-maxwell
gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.363.0
18 pg
…the documents
designated as “confidential” under the Protective Order have not been individually scrutinized by
this Court to determine whether the designation is proper and/or that they are truly entitled to
confidential treatment under the law in this Circuit.
…
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