Civil Procedure – Discovery – Blanket Protective Order – Good Cause 
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Published: November 16, 2010
Tags: Civil Procedure, U.S. District Court - Eastern District
In this False Claims Act suit, an Alexandria U.S. District Court vacates the magistrate judge’s blanket protective order that authorized any party’s counsel to designate any discovery materials as confidential and prohibited any party from making any public disclosure of that material.
Plaintiffs, Melan and Brad Davis, are former employees of one of the corporate defendants, ...
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