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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
15" JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND
FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.:50-2020-CA-007471
V.C.A. UNITED, LLC,
Plaintiff,
Vv.
MELISSA L. HANSLER; and INTEGRATED
VASCULAR IMAGING, LLC,
Defendants.
ORDER GRANTING, IN PART, MOTION TO COMPEL
THIS MATTER came before the Court for hearing on January 5 and 20, 2021 on the Plaintiff,
V.C.A. UNITED, LLC’s (“VCA”) Motion to Compel the production of documents from the
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Deétenians, MELISSA HANSLER aid INTEGRATED VASCULAR IMAGING, LLC
(collectively “Defendants”). The Court has considered the Motion and the arguments of
counsel, and being fully advised in the premises, orders as follows:
1. With respect to the documents which the Defendants have agreed to produce (in
Tesnonse to reauests numbered 1, 2, and 11 of VCA’s Sentember 9, 2020 Reanest for
Production (“the Request’)), all responsive documents shall be provided to VCA’s counsel
within twenty (20) days from the date of this Order.
2. With respect to the documents which Defendants insist should only be produced subject
to a confidentiality order (requests numbered 4, 6, 17, 19 and 20 of the Request), the parties
have agreed to the form of a confidentiality order which is being issued concurrently with this
Order. All responsive documents to the requests referenced in this paragraph shall be provided
to VCA’s counsel within twenty (20) days from the date of this Order.
3. With respect to the requests which Defendants suggest involve the disclosure of
confidential/proprietary/trade secret information (requests numbered 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15 and
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18 of the Request), the Defendants shall submit the requested information to the Court for an in
camera inspection within twenty (20) days from the date of this Order, following which the
Court will determine which of the documents do or do not constitute trade secrets, after which,
as to those documents the Court determines constitute trade secrets, VCA will be afforded an
opportunity at a hearing to show a reasonable necessity for the information. Appropriate findings
will thereafter be made and, if necessary, safeguards concerning the production of any trade
secret information will be established by the Court.
4, All general objections on relevance, overbreadth, and the like are overruled.
DONE AND ORDERED in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.
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Glenn D. Kelley.
Judge
Conformed copies to:
James S. Telepman, Esq, counsel for Plaintiff, at jst@cohennorriscom and
sme@cohennorris.com
David K. Markarian, Esq., counsel for Defendants, at dave@businessmindedlawfirmcom and
davidg@businessmindedlawfirmcom
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