In re California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation

DISCUSSION

17 The parties have agreed upon the form of the protective order with two exceptions. (Dkt. 18 No. 243-1.1) Defendants propose that the protective order include two provisions from the Model 19 Protective Order for Litigation Involving Patents, Highly Sensitive Confidential Information 20 and/or Trade Secrets regarding experts. (Id. at Sec. 2.7, Sec. 7.4.) Plaintiffs object to inclusion of 21 these provisions insisting that they are not appropriate in this antitrust action and that they would 22 unduly constrain expert discovery. The Court orders inclusion of Section 7.4 (with modification), 23 but not Section 2.7. 24 Section 7.4 requires a party to identify a retained expert to a disclosing party before 25 showing the retained expert the disclosing party’s highly confidential information. Identifying the 26 27 expert will allow the designating party to determine if there are grounds for moving the Court to || prohibit that expert from seeing the highly confidential information for some particular reason. However, Section 7.4 shall be modified in accordance with the modifications ordered by the court in In re Google Assistant Privacy Litig., No.…