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[REDACTED) ORACLE DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SANCTIONS RELATING TO THE
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Mr. Jurk's Identity and the Jurk CID should not have been
withheld on the basis of work product privilege....................................... 29
The Attorney General's argument that Jurk's identity needed
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protection was false................................................................................... 31
The State told the Court that it had a right to withhold the transcript
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because defendants had not subpoenaed Mr. Jurk, but the State
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When the State finally disclosed the Jurk CID statement on
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June 17, 2016, it admitted to knowing that Oracle was entitled to it........ 32
The State Breached Its Duty to Prepare its Rule 39 C(6) Witnesses, and Those
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Witnesses Breached Their Own Independent Obligations to Testify
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The State improperly altered evidence ..................................................... 33
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After altering the Jurk CID Statement, the State's lawyers used the
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misleading document to prepare its ORCP 39 C(6) witnesses,
who in turn testified inaccurately .............................................................. 34
The State's Bad Faith and Lack of Candor Taints Its Entire Case, Because It
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VIII. CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................40
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Pursuant to UTCR 5.010, counsel for defendant Oracle America, Inc. and the individually
named Oracle employees (collectively "the Oracle Defendants") conferred by telephone and in
writing with counsel for Plaintiffs Ellen Rosenblum and the State of Oregon regarding this motion.
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Pursuant to UTCR 5.050, the Oracle Defendants request oral argument and official court
reporting services for the hearing on this matter. The Oracle Defendants estimate that 60 minutes
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Pursuant to ORCP 46 B and D, and the Court's inherent authority, the Oracle Defendants
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hereby move the Court for the following discovery sanctions (some of which are alternatives to
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each other for the Court's consideration) including scheduling relief, as follows:
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A judgment of dismissal as to all claims set forth in the State's and Attorney
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General's First Amended Complaint ("FAC") with prejudice and all fees and costs to moving
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defendants;
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An order excluding any evidence offered by plaintiffs from David Jurk, including
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any of his testimony (whether by deposition, pursuant to a Civil Investigative Demand ("CID"),
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declaration or otherwise);
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An order striking any and all allegations in Attorney General Rosenblum's and the
State's First Amended Complaint ("FAC") based on testimony or evidence from David Jurk;
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An order prohibiting the State and Attorney General Rosenblum from making use
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of any deposition testimony that relied upon the redacted testimony given by David Jurk pursuant
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to the State's CID ("the Jurk CID statement") including, in particular, the testimony of Oregon
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Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Fred Boss, and Chief of the DOJ's Civil
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An order denying the Attorney General's and State's motion for leave to amend in
Fees and costs associated with depositions that the Oracle Defendants will have to
re-take because of the misconduct of the Department of Justice and its Special Assistant Attorneys
Fees and costs associated with motions that the Oracle Defendants were forced to
file because of the State's and Attorney General's refusal to produce and ultimately late production
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Scheduling relief in the form of an extension of the fact discovery period, relief
from the hours' limitation on depositions, and a reasonable continuance of the trial date; and,
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during her civil investigation but which have not been produced or logged, and a finding that any
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claims of privilege have been waived for failure to log the documents.
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IV. INTRODUCTION
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As the Court knows well, the State and Attorney General Rosenblum are pursuing multi-
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billion dollar claims against Oracle and its employees, most of which allege fraud, racketeering
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and false claims. The stakes are high nn both sides, and vigorous advocacy is expected. But there
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are limits to vigorous advocacy: limits that guarantee due process and fair trials and ensure the
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integrity of the judiciary and its truth-seeking function. When the State government and its
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Attorney General are plaintiffs, their duty to conduct that litigation in a manner beyond reproach
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is of heightened importance, because they wield the power of the State against private parties and
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must not abuse that power. Their sole duty is to do justice. But in this case, the State, its Attorney
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General, its outside Special Assistant Attorneys General at the Markowitz firm, and the
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Department of Justice's own high-ranking attorneys, Fred Boss and Lisa Udland, have embraced
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a "win-at-all-costs" strategy that has overstepped those limits in so many ways and to such a degree
This motion focuses on the State's and the Department of Justice's decision to conceal
evidence, to mislead the Court about their compliance with their discovery obligations, to use an
altered CID transcript to prepare witnesses to testify deceptively based on that altered evidence, to
fight a motion to compel production of the complete CID transcript with a shower of false and
baseless arguments, and then finally to release the complete transcript only after all the damage
It all started when the State and Attorney General decided to withhold critical evidence in
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the form of sworn testimony given by former Oracle employee David Jurk in response to a civil
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investigative demand (the Jurk CID statement). The Jurk CID statement is critical evidence: we
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now know Mr. Jurk is the purported Oracle whistleblower heavily quoted in the State's complaint
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(and in the press). Mr. Jurk's CID testimony allegedly supplied the good faith basis upon which
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the State and Attorney General filed their complaint against the Oracle Defendants.
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On September 30, 2015, this Court ordered the State and Attorney General to substantially
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complete their document productions by December 31, 2015. In January 2016, Special Assistant
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Attorney General Lisa Kaner represented to the Court that her clients had complied with that order.
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With that representation in hand, this Court set trial for January 2017, over the Oracle Defendants'
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strong objections.
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Mont/zs before, the Oracle Defendants had requested documents concerning the identity
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and statements of the unnamed "former Oracle employee" featured centrally in the complaint.
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Though her counsel represented otherwise, the Attorney General did not produce documents
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responsive to those requests at any time in 2015, and did not produce a privilege log listing what
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she had withheld. So the first time the Oracle Defendants learned of the existence of the Jurk CID
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transcript was in late January 2016, when they started taking the depositions of the State's ORCP
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39 C(6) witnesses. The Attorney General and her Special Assistant Attorneys General from the
Markowitz firm apparently had concluded they could not prepare "most knowledgeable" witnesses
to testify about the foundations for the State's allegations without first showing those witnesses
the CID transcript. But if they showed the transcript to the 39 C(6) witnesses, they would have to
produce it to the Oracle Defendants, and they did not want to do that.
Instead, counsel for the State prepared and produced for the depositions a heavily redacted
version of the Jurk CID statement that deleted all identifying information about the testifier, as
well as broad swaths of questions and answers in the transcript. They deleted all testimony
favorable to the Oracle Defendants, as well as testimony establishing Mr. Jurk's lack of personal
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knowledge of much of the material they wanted to use against the Oracle Defendants. They then
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showed this version of the transcript to the State's "most knowledgeable" witnesses in order to
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"educate" them on the subjects about which Oracle intended to examine them. It was a deliberately
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incomplete and unreliable education, but it formed the basis of substantial 39 C(6) testimony from
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State's witnesses. Because those witnesses prepared by reviewing an obviously altered transcript,
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Further compounding the offense is that the witnesses who went along with this scheme
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were Fred Boss, Deputy Attorney General and second-in-command in Attorney General
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Rosenblum's Department of Justice, and Lisa Udland, Chief Counsel to the DOJ's Civil
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Enforcement Division. They had no personal knowledge of the subjects for which they had been
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designated, and therefore knew they had a duty as a matter of law to prepare. They had access to
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the complete transcript, but chose instead to remain deliberately ignorant of the complete contents
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of the CID transcript they were given to review. They testified about the contents of that redacted
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CID transcript as if it were the complete truth. They knew it was not. This conduct violated their
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obligations to uphold the law as members of the Oregon Department of Justice. Lisa Udland even
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went so far as to testify that she did not know the identity of the witness, even though she had
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The story, unfortunately, gets worse still. In late March, Oracle and Mythics moved to
compel production of the Jurk CID transcript in unredacted form. The State and Attorney General
opposed the motion. Minutes before the June 17, 2016 hearing on the motion to compel, however,
the State and Attorney General dropped their objections and agreed to produce the unredacted
transcript. Along the way, however, the State and its lawyers made arguments and offered
explanations for their long overdue production of the complete CID transcript that were blatant
misrepresentations:
The State and Attorney General had opposed the motion to compel production of
the unredacted transcript because, they told this Court, Oracle had not yet
They knew this was false.
Oracle had
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subpoenaed Mr. Jurk a week before it and Mythics filed the motion to compel.
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The State and Attorney General further opposed the motion to compel production
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of the unredacted transcript on grounds that they were protecting a witness "from
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the risk of retribution" and "from the possibility of reprisal by Oracle against its
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former employees." When Mr. Jurk was later deposed, however, he made clear he
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never had any such concern about possible reprisal, and that Special Assistant
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Attorney General Lisa Kaner had told him he should expect his testimony to
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Ms. Kaner explained at the hearing on June 17 that the Attorney General had
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decided to disclose the full transcript because Plaintiffs had used Mr. Jurk's
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the State had filed that motion a full month earlier; the explanation could not
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The State's and Attorney General's misconduct calls into question whether the State and
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Attorney General Rosenblum continue to withhold evidence from the Oracle Defendants and
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Mythics. Though the State has recently updated its privilege log to include materials from the CID
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investigation, that log is still patently incomplete. There is no way of knowing what other evidence
the Attorney General has withheld. Her document productions are still not complete, her privilege
log still omits whole categories of documents, and the representations her Special Assistant
Attorneys General have made to this Court have been repeatedly proven misleading.
It is well within the Court's power to reprimand the State, the Attorney General, and the
lawyers who represent them for their active concealment of discoverable evidence, and grant
Oracle's requested relief. That misconduct has impeded not only the Oracle Defendants' ability
to defend themselves, but also this Court's efforts to adjudicate the claims before it. They have
attempted what is tantamount to a fraud on the Court, and their misconduct has infected the entire
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case. No judge or jury can trust what they say. Dismissal with prejudice, plus costs and fees, is
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therefore the most appropriate remedy. In the alternative, the trial date must be reset: the State's
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and Attorney General's concealment of foundational evidence until nearly the end of discovery
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has impaired Defendants' right to mount a complete defense absent additional time to attempt to
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repair the injury already inflicted. In addition, defendants are entitled to monetary sanctions
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Below is a brief summary of the State's and Department of Justice's wrongdoing. The
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January 2016. Lisa Kaner, Special Assistant Attorney General, tells this Court the
State had substantially completed the ordered document production. Unbeknownst
to defendants, however, who were just then starting on the task of reviewing the
State's documents, the State's production did not include the Jurk CID statement,
or any other CID-related documents.
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January March 2016. Deputy Attorney General Fred Boss and DOJ Civil
Enforcement Chief Attorney Lisa Udland testify as ORCP 39 C(6) witnesses for
the State, relying heavily on an altered version of the Jurk CID transcript. That
heavily redacted document omitted all identifying information, all testimony
favorable to the Oracle Defendants, and all testimony showing a lack of personal
knowledge of most of the witness' anti-Oracle testimony.
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Marc/z 31, 2016, Oracle and Mythics move Co compel production of the unredacted
Jurk CID transcript.
April S, 2016. The State finally produces a privilege log, but does not log every
document pertaining to the State's pre-litigation investigation.
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April 21, 201G. The State opposes defendants' joint motion to compel production
of the CID transcript asserting that defendants "have not yet attempted to depose
former Oracle employees," and that the witness' identity needed to remain
confidential because of "the risk of retribution" and "the possibility of reprisal"
against the witness. Those assertions were knowingly misleading.
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May 16, 2016. The State files its motion to amend to add punitive damages, and
uses Mr. Jurk's declaration in support.
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June 17, 2016. Minutes before the hearing on the motion to compel, Special
Assistant Attorney General Lisa Kaner announces the Attorney General had
decided just that morning to produce the unredacted Jurk CID transcript, explaining
that Oracle's subpoena of Mr. Jurk was the reason the State had decided to use his
declaration in support of its punitive damages motion.
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Mr. Jurk.
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potential claims against Oracle. It conducted that investigation largely in private, and it issued a
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number of CIDs under the guise of its statutory authority to compel information from individuals
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Mr. Jurk worked for Oracle in two different stints between ]une 2010, and February 2013.
Mr. Jurk joined Oracle in June 2010, as a Consulting Technical Manager and worked on two
projects before resigning in January 2011. (Declaration of Pilar C. French ("French Decl.") Ex. 1
at 2; Ex. 2 (Durk Depo. at 66:6-69:10).) Shortly after he left Oracle, Mr. Jurk became dissatisfied
with his new job and decided he wanted to return to Oracle. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Jurk Depo. at
89:21-90).) He reapplied for his former position at Oracle, and Oracle rehired him in mid-January
2012. (Id. Ex. 1 at 2.) After his re-hire, Mr. Jurk worked on the Oregon HIX project as a
WebCenter~ lead for approximately six months and then transitioned to the role of solution
architect and SOA lead, which he held for another six months.2 (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Durk Depo.
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at 181:11-182:5).)
Apparently, no job interested Mr. Jurk for long. Near the end of his second stint at Oracle,
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lying to them, and that if Cover Oregon hired him, he could help them "counter these ploys" and
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"malc[e] Oracle accept responsibility for their products performing as they should." (French Decl.
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Ex. 4.) Cover Oregon did not hire him, but Mr. Jurk did land a job with CGI to work on the
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Vermont HIX project. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Jurk Depo. at 92:15-93:24),) Mr. Jurk's last day at
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Oracle was in February 2013, but while he was still on Oracle's payroll and before the end of his
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notice period, he started working for CGI. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Durk Depo. at 304:24-305:6),)
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When Oracle discovered Mr. Jurk's dual employment, it immediately terminated him, revoked his
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access to Oracle proprietary data and systems, and reminded him of his obligations with respect to
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Lisa Udland, DOJ's Chief Counsel, Civil Enforcement Division, Issues a CID on
Mr. Jurlc to Compel His Testimony.
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More than a year after Mr. Jurk left Oracle, on July 17, 2014, Lisa Udland issued a CID
"commanding" Mr. Jurlc to appear and testify under oath at a location in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(French Decl. Ex. 7.) Ms. Udland signed the CID notice herself. (Id.) Though the CID set
Mr. Jurk's testimony for August 12, Mr. Jurk appeared at the designated location in Grand Rapids
on August 8, 2014, and gave sworn testimony beginning at approximately 1:20 PM.3 (Declaration
of Nellie Q. Barnard ("Barnard Decl.") Ex. 1 at 1, 6.) Lisa Kaner examined Mr. Jurk for
approximately four hours, resulting in the 128-page CID statement. (Barnard Decl. Ex. 1 at 6 and
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The Jurk CID statement reveals extensive testimony relevant to the State's claims and
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Oracle's defenses in this lawsuit, including testimony about whether Oracle's statements about its
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software were accurate, whether Oracle's software was appropriate to the project and could have
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resulted in timely delivery of the HIX, whether the State or Oracle served as the systems integrator
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for the project (and why), and whose fault it was that the HIX project was delayed. (French Decl.
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Ex. 7; Barnard Decl. Ex. 1 at 30-31; 43-45; 67; 72; 87; 105-106). At least 24 paragraphs of the
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complaint in this case expressly quote or implicitly rely on testimony from the Jurlc CID statement.
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Off the record, Ms. Kaner advised Mr. Jurk that his testimony would be a matter of public
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record, a fact that apparently did not trouble him in the least, as he testified in his recent deposition:
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"Q. Were [sic] you ever asked to keep the fact that you had given
this testimony confidential, and not to tell anyone that you had given
this testimony?
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(August 8) is one of several indicia of additional communications between the Markowitz firm
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The State filed its lawsuit in this case two weeks after it obtained Mr. Jurk's CID statement.
Its complaint directly quotes Mr. Jurk's CID statement but does not identify him by name, and
prominently relies on the Jurk CID statement to support several allegations. (Compl. 5, 12, 13,
90, 106, 157, 168.) The principal "factual" allegations Mr. Jurk's testimony purports to support
are that Oracle influenced the State not to hire an independent systems integrator ( 5, 90), that
Oracle misrepresented the availability of a "flexible," "integrated" "solution" that worked "out-of-
the-box" ( 12), and that "Oracle's products were seemingly configured `by a kindergartner"'
( 13). (See also Uriarte Decl. Appendix l (which is a chart identifying each paragraph in the First
Complaint
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rcp ~niinentlwin-states.htn~l (media report describing State's complaint as premised on "first hand"
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knowledge by a "whistleblower" who would later turn out to be Mr. Jurk, whose testimony was
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based, as he himself admits, on conjecture and hearsay); French Decl. Ex. 8 (chart identifying
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allegations enumerated in article and confirming which ones come from Jurk CID transcript; six
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of the eight allegations identified in the article are based on Mr. Jurk's CID statement).)
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Oracle Issues Document Request Specifically Covering Mr. Jurk's Identity and
Testimony, But the State Refuses to Produce the CID Statement.
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Oracle issued document requests to the State targeted at Mr. Jurk's identity and the CID
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statement on April 30, 2015. That request to produce sought "[aJll documents regarding the
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foFneer and current Oracle employees t/zat are referenced in the Complaint, including, but not
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limited to, all documents regarding the allegations in paragraphs 5, 12, 13, 90, 106, 157, and 168
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of the Complaint, and documents sufficient to identify the forrrcer or current Oracle employees
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referenced in those paragraphs." (French Decl. Ex. 9 (RFP No. 159) (emphasis added).)
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and December 31, 2015, the State did not produce the Jurk CID statement, or assert any need to
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protect the identity of any confidential "informant" under OEC 510. (French Decl. Exs. 1U, 24.)
But it would later make that assertion in opposing the motion to compel production. The State did
not disclose Mr. Jurk's identity as a witness, or include the Jurk CID statement (or numerous other
documents generated in its civil investigation) in the privilege log it produced on April 5, 2016, or
in its May 31, 2016 or July 11, 2016 revised logs. (Uriarte Decl. 2.)
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On January. 11, 2016, despite having withheld the Jurk CID statement in violation of the
September 30, 2015 Order, Special Assistant Attorney General Kaner represented to the Court that
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substantially completed the production for all of the original [document] requests, the 400-and-
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some requests." (French Decl. Ex. 11 (1/11/16 Hearing Tr. at 117:16-118:5).) Based on this
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[W]e have
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Based on a Heavily Redacted Version of the Jurk CID Statement and Only Then
Produces the Heavily Redacted Version.
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Oracle served the State with Rule 39 C(6) deposition notices on October 19, 2015.
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(French Decl. Exs. 12-13 (Deposition Notices to OHA and DCBS).) Among other topics, Oracle's
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Rule 39 C(6) notices sought the testimony of the State's "most knowledgeable" witnesses on:
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selected as the primary IT provider for the Modernization and HIX-IT projects;
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The State's assertion that Oracle made "material misrepresentations" and false
Cover Oregon's assertion that Oracle made material misrepresentations about the
HIX project that caused Cover Oregon to contract with Oracle and pay Oracle's bills;
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Cover Oregon's allegation that Oracle assigned people to work on the HIX-IT
project who lacked minimum levels of training, skill, and experience; and
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Cover Oregon's allegation that it performed the duties required of it under its
Ms. Udland had any personal knowledge of the subjects about which they were designated to
testify. Those witnesses therefore had an obligation as a matter of law to prepare to testify fully
and completely regarding the noticed topics, including by reviewing relevant documents and
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The State's lawyers at the Markowitz firm know their duties to prepare a corporate
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designee completely. They even published an article on the subject. (See David Markowitz and
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Lynn Nakamoto, The Basics for Deposing Entities Under Rule 30(B) (6), Oregon State Bar
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Litigation
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Ilndei--Rule-30-h-6).) In the article, the authors acknowledge the duty to prepare the designee:
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disregard of discovery obligations and orders, sanctions may include severe penalties, such as
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Aware that Mr. Jurk's testimony addressed the topics for which Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland
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were designated, the State's attorneys apparently decided that, in order to prepare Mr. Boss and
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Ms. Udland for their Rule 39 C(6) depositions, they needed Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland to review
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portions of Mr. Jurk's CID statement. (See Petranovich Decl. ISO Motion to Compel, dated
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3/31/2015, Exs. 4, 5, 6 (and filed under seal already).) But the Markowitz lawyers also seem to
have decideddespite Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland's obligation to prepare fully on their designated
topicsthat Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland would only review the portions of the statement that
helped the State's case. (Id.) Accordingly, the State's lawyers prepared a heavily redacted version
of the Jurk CID statement and provided only that version to Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland. (See id.;
French Decl. Ex. 14 (Apri121, 2016 Declaration of Lisa Kaner 4, 5).) The State also produced
that heavily redacted version to Oracle on January 22, 2016, less than a week before the Boss and
Udland 39 C(6) depositions commenced. (Id.) This was the first time that Oracle had seen the
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The redactions. For the Court's convenience, Oracle has attached a copy of the
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Jurk CID statement with the portions previously redacted by the State highlighted in grey so the
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Court can understand the full impact of the redactions. (See Declaration of Nellie Barnard
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("Barnard Decl.") Ex. 1.) As the Court can see from Exhibit 1, after the State's attorneys finished
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knowledgeable" witnesses included:
Context surrounding the unredacted material that either alters the meaning or lessens
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To provide a few specific examples, the State's lawyers completely removed Mr. Jurk's
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testimony that "there was certainly a share of blame that needs to be assessed to the State of
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Oregon in the body of Carolyn Luwsort and her office, and certainly Cover Oregon us well" with
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respect to project delays. (Barnard Decl. Ex. 1 at 30.) The State's lawyers also redacted Mr. Jurk's
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The Markowitz firm further redacted various passages of testimony that Mr. Jurk and others
repeatedly warned the State about various project problems (id. 94:7-98:4), as well as testimony
that Cover Oregon blamed the State for certain problems (id. 124:25-125:2 ("[FJro~n Cover
Oregon's perspective the State was as much responsible for the lateness of the functionality as
Oracle was.").)
statement, the State's lawyers also used selective redactions to render several of Mr. Jurk's
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answers materially misleading. For example, the Markowitz lawyers performed the following
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RDBMS perspective, Oracle's database meets that requirement. It is an excellent piece of
software."); 67:8-13 ("Oracle's saying its proposed solution contains Siebel Public Sector and
Oracle Siebel Server Sync, which synchronizes data for calendars anal contacts. Again,
technically it can do that sync * * *."); 93:8-13 ("Q. Were the products that were sold to Oregon
truly scalable? * * *A. * * * -- in theory, yes."); 100;6-10 ("Q.~ A~cl if you could read that and
tell one whether you think that that is [anJ accurate [description of SOAJ as of April of 2011. A.
That's an accurate depiction * * *.").)
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answer; removing those phrases fundamentally altered both the meaning and import of the
testimony.
Finally, the State removed testimony showing that Mr. Jurk's role on the HIX project was
limited and that he had no personal knowledge of many of his purported "facts." As an example,
Mr. Jurk opines in the CID statement on the accuracy of various purported statements that Oracle
made to the State in late 2010, and early 2011. Mr, Jurk did not work on the Oregon project during
that time period, was not involved in any way in the discussions between the State and Oracle, and
he testified explicitly that he had never before seen documents he was being asked about. (See id.
46:7-8; 53:1-5, 92:20-21.) -The State's lawyers redacted Mr. Jurk's testimony that he had never
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seen those documents and had not been on the project at the time those documents were produced,
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while leaving unredactecl Mr. Jurk's speculative statements about the veracity of the content of
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those documents. (See, e.g., id. 46-47, 49-50, 58-59, 62-63, 69-93, 102-104.)
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designated Deputy Attorney General Frederick Boss to testify as the Rule 39 L(6) designee for
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29, 2016, and March 17, 2016. During his deposition, Mr. Boss testified that he relied on the
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redacted CID statement as the basis for his testimony (French Decl. Ex. 16 (3/17/2016 Boss. Depo.
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multiple elements of the State's complaint alleging Oracle misrepresentations. (French Decl.
Ex. 17 (1/29/2016 Boss. Depo. Vol. 2 at 305:9-18; 308:7-17); see also Uriarte Decl. Appendix 2.)
Mr. Boss testified that he believed he was told that the CID witness was a former Oracle
employee, that he assumed that the CID witness had personal knowledge of the facts stated in the
CID statement, and that he believed that all of the statements in the redacted CID transcript to be
true because he "did not have any reason to doubt the truth of the statements." (French Decl.
Ex. 16 (3/17/2016 Boss Depo. Vol. 4 at 469:1-8).) However, based on his experience with the
DOJ, Mr. Boss conceded that facts unknown to him regarding the CID witnesssuch as the
person's background, context, personal observations, lack of personal knowledge, or potential bias
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against Oraclecould affect the credibility and weight Mr. Boss would assign to the testimony.
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would be relevant to assessing the witness's bias and credibility. (French Decl. Ex. 16 (3/17/2016
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unredacted copy of the CID transcript. (French Decl. Ex. 16 (3/17/2016 Boss Depo. Vol. 4 at
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485:19-22).) When Oracle's counsel asked Mr. Boss why he did not review an unredacted copy
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in order to fulfill his obligations under Rule 39 C(6), the attorney defending Mr. Boss's deposition,
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David Mr~rkowitZ, instructed Mr. Boss not to answer the question. (French Decl. Ex. 16
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(3/17/2016 Boss Depo. Vol. 4 at 483:6-10).) That instruction was either improper or tantamount
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occurred over four days between January 28, and February 8, 2016. During her deposition,
Ms. Udland testified that Ms. Kaner told her that the CID witness was a former Oracle employee.
(French Decl. Ex. 18 (2/1/2016. Udland Depo. at 186:20-187:1).) Ms. Udland further testified that
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issued pursuant to statutes within their purview. (French Decl. Ex. 19 (2/3/2016 Udland Depo. at
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139:24-140:12).) She further acknowledged that in her role as Chief Enforcement Officer, it is her
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(French Decl. Ex. 20 (1/28/2016 Udland Depo at 121:15-19).) Ms. Udland also testified that she
provided "stylistic input" regarding the draft of the State's complaint against Oracle and ultimately
"approved it for filing." (Id. at 114:22-120:7.) Ms. Udland apparently approved the complaint
without asking whether there was a good faith basis for the allegations it contained.
Like Mr. Boss, Ms. Udland could have reviewed an unredacted copy of the Jurk CID
statement but chose not to. Ms. Udland also testified unequivocally that she had no personal
knowledge of the CID witness. Ms. Udland had, however, personally signed the investigative
demand issued to Mr. Jurk. (Compare French Decl. Ex. 18 (2/1/2016 Udland Depo. at 193:17-21)
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Mythics and Oracle jointly moved to compel production of the full CID statement on
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March 31, 2016. The State opposed, arguing that: (1) the CID transcript was protected attorney
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work product; (2) the CID transcript was subject to an "informer privilege;" and (3) ORCP 39 C(6)
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State asserted that it was necessary to protect the witness' identity due to "the possibility of reprisal
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by Oracle against its former employee." (Plaintiffs' Response to Defendants' Motion to Compel
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from the start that his testimony would be public record and, far from fearing retaliation, he wanted
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to testify. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Durk Depo at 79:18-25).) It is hard to reconcile the State's argument
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for the State's work product because "neither Oracle nor Mythics has taken any step to obtain
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discovery from the former employees most likely to be critical of Oracle's work in Oregon."
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(MTC Opp. at 9.) This, too, was untrue. The State knew that Oracle had weeks earlier issued a
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The State Files a Jurk Declaration to Support Its Motion for Leave to Amend to
Assert Punitive Damages Against Oracle.
On May 16, 2016, the State filed a Motion for Leave to Amend to Allege Punitive
Damages, relying heavily on a declaration of Mr. Jurlc.g A careful read of Mr. Jurk's declaration
suggested that he was the secret CID witness. Accordingly, Mythics promptly filed a supplemental
reply in support of its motion to compel the unredacted CID transcript. Mythics argued that if
Mr. Jurk was in fact the State's claimed confidential informant, then the State had no legitimate
basis to continue withholding the unredacted CID Statement. (See May 19, 2016, Supplemental
Reply ISO Motion to Compel.) The State continued withholding the statement.
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complete transcript by October 30 or December 31, 2015, at the latest, Oracle did not know that
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Mr. Jurk's testimony was central to the State's complaint. Oracle thus had not deposed Mr. Jurk
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when the State filed its Motion for Leave to Amend to Allege Punitive Damages. Unaware that
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would be due, Oracle had previously scheduled Mr. Jurk's deposition for July 12, 2016. That date
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turned out to be after Oracle's June 22, 2016 deadline to oppose the State's Motion for Leave to
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heavily on Mr. Jurk's declaration and that he was likely the unidentified witness, Oracle
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depose Mr. Jurk before opposing the State's Motion for Leave to Amend. The State rejected them
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all. (See Motion for Continuance for Discovery to Respond to Motion to Amend to Allege Punitive
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Damages at 7-8.) Oracle was thus forced to move this Court for a continuance of the briefing
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at Oracle, and the period of time that he worked on the Oregon HIX project. The State filed an
"amended" Jurk declaration on June 3U, 2016, after these falsehoods came to light during
Mr. Jurk's June 28, 2016 deposition. (See French Decl. Ex. 1.)
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schedule, so that Oracle could take Mr. Jurk's deposition before opposing that motion. The State
opposed the motion for a continuance, forcing Oracle to file its reply on Friday, June 17, 2016 (the
same day Defendants' motion to compel was scheduled to be heard). The hearing on Oracle's
motion for a continuance was scheduled for the following Monday, June 20.
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The State Capitulates on the Motion to Compel and the Motion for a Continuance at
the Last Possible Moment.
Literally minutes before the start of the hearing on Oracle's motion to compel on June 17,
2016, the State's attorney, Lisa Kaner, advised counsel that the Attorney General would
"voluntarily" produce an unredacted version of the Jurk CID statement after all. (French Decl.
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Ex. 22.) Ms. Kaner then asked the Court to deem the motion moot, but counsel for Mythics argued
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that State's last-minute concession did not resolve all issues. (French Decl. Ex. 22 (6/17/2016
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Hearing Tr. at 111:4-116:11).) The Court recognized that the State's refusal to earlier produce the
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full CID transcript had impaired Oracle's depositions of Mr. Boss, Ms. Udland, and possibly
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others, and that further depositions of these witnesses may be appropriate. (French Decl. Ex. 22
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(6/17/2016 Tr, at 116:14-20).) Counsel for Mythics advised the Court that it and Oracle would
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seek sanctions and other relief based on the discovery misconduct of the State and its counsel, and
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timely produce the transcript, misleadingly redacting the transcript, withholding the unredacted
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transcript from its 39 C witnesses, using Mr. Jurk's declaration in a motion to amend without
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having produced the complete transcript or disclosed his identity (even on a privilege log), and
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agreeing to disclose the unredacted version only on the date of the motion to compel hearing-
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Ms. Kaner told the Court that the State "did not anticipate that we were going to use [Jurk's]
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declaration until Oracle noticed [Jurk's] deposition. And so his identity would have remained
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confidential had Oracle not taken the steps of noticing his deposition." (French Decl. Ex. 22
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Oracle, however, had noticed its intent to serve a deposition subpoena for Mr. Jurk in
March 2016, a full month before the State opposed the motion to compel production of the
unredacted transcript. (French Decl. Ex. 21 (Oracle March 2016 Notice of Deposition).) If, as
Ms. Kaner said, Oracle's subpoena to Mr. Jurk was actually what encouraged the State to reveal
Mr. Jurk's identity, the State had no basis for opposing defendants' motion to compel or for waiting
Similarly, on that same day and into the weekend before the Monday hearing on Oracle's
motion for continuance of the briefing schedule on the motion to amend to add punitive damages,
the State finally agreed to allow Oracle to depose Mr. Jurk before filing its opposition. The
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agreement ultimately reached was nearly identical to one of Oracle's original proposals.
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at 3).) Once again, the State had taken a knowingly insupportable position, forced Oracle to spend
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time and money briefing an unnecessary motion, and then recanted its position to resolve the issue
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ordered to produce the .Turk CID statement, six months after representing to the Court that it had
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substantially completed its production, five months after the 39 C(6) depositions, and just over two
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months before the close of discovery. The State and its lawyers thus kept a key document out of
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Oracle' hands for more than a year, deprived Oracle of the benefits of its 39 C(6) depositions, and
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prejudiced the development of its defenses, which might have been different had it known of
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Mr. Jurk's identity and statement earlier. Moreover, Oracle has no means of knowing what else
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has been withheld under the guise of privilege, because the State's privilege log is still incomplete.
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obligations. ORCP 46 B(2) provides for sanctions for violating court orders:
If a party or an officer, director, or managing agent or a person
designated under Rule 39 C(6) or Rule 40 A to testify on behalf of
a party fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery * * * ,
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Appropriate sanctions for violations under ORCP 46 B and D may include awarding
attorney's fees and costs against the offending party. ORCP 46 B(3), D.
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Criteria for dismissing claims as a basis for sanctions. Though case dispositive
sanctions are considered "drastic" and should be reserved for the most severe violations of rules
and court orders, see Johnson v. Eugene Emergency Physicians, P.C., 159 Or. App. 167, 173, 974
P.2d 803 (1999), dismissal may nevertheless be ordered if the Court makes findings that the
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sanction is "just" in view of the other available sanctions, and that the offending party's violation
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was willful, in bad faith or of a fault of similar degree. Parnplin v. VictoYia, 319 Or. 429, 437, 877
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control of the litigant." Henry v. Gill Industries, Inc., 983 F.2d 943, 948 (9th Cir. 1993) (citation
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omitted). Case dispositive sanctions may be appropriate where the Court finds that that the
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offending party acted with "dishonesty, not just recalcitrance and delay, regarding production of
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critical evidence." Valley Engineers v. Electric Eng'g Co., 158 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir. 1998)
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sanction, but it may consider prejudice in deciding to impose a sanction. Stasch v. `69 Inv. Inc.,
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system, not the parties to the particular case). As the Ninth Circuit explained in Valley engineers,
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to produce requested documents was intentional rather than mere oversight, the trial court is well
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introducing documents at trial that were not produced in response to a discovery request).
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broad judicial authority "[t]o enforce order in the proceedings before it," "[t]o provide for the
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orderly conduct of proceedings before it," "[t]o compel obedience to its judgments, orders and
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process," and "[t]o control, in furtherance of justice, the conduct of its ministerial officers, and of
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all other persons in any manner connected with a judicial proceeding before it, in every matter
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appertaining thereto." ORS 1.010; see also Espinoza v. Evergreen Helicopters, Inc., 359 Or. 63,
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90 (2016) (inherent judicial power includes the "power to do whatever may be done under the
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See Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 45 (1991) ("As we recognized in Roadway Express,
outright dismissal of a lawsuit, which we had upheld in Link, is a particularly severe sanction, yet
is within the court's discretion.") (citations omitted); Halaco Eng'g Co. v. Costle, 843 F.2d 376,
380 (9th Cir. 1988) ("Dismissal under a court's inherent powers is justified in extreme
circumstances, in response to abusive litigation practices, and to insure the orderly administration
of justice and the integrity of the court's orders.") (internal citations omitted).
Under Oregon law, an attorney is required to "[e]mploy, for the purpose of maintaining the
causes confided to the attorney, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never seek to
mislead the court or jury by any artifice or false statement of law or fact." ORS 9.460(2). The
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actions of the State's attorneys, which are detailed herein, violate ORS 9.460 and therefore
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warrant sanctions pursuant to the inherent authority of the Court under ORS 1.010. See State ex
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have the authority to grant relief subject to common equitable principles, including ORS 1.010 and
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9.460). The misconduct of the State's attorneys has so thoroughly infected every stage of these
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proceedings that the Court should invoke its inherent authority to do whatever is necessary to
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symptom of a larger problemthey are determined to win this case at all costs, and without regard
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to discovery rules, ethics, fair play, or even the standards to which government attorneys are held.
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Crim. L. &Criminology 3, 6 (1940). While they may "strike hard blows, [they are] not at liberty
In this case, the State and the DOJ have strayed far from their mission to pursue "justice
and uphold[] the law."9 Instead, the State has systematically produced only what it needs for its
own case, while making every effort to withhold documents or information helpful to Oracle.
Here, when required to make a production, the State did not disclose the Jurk CID statement on its
privilege log or even disclose Mr. Jurk's identity. At the same time, it misrepresented to the Court
that it had substantially completed its discovery obligations when it had not done so, in violation
of the Court's September 30, 20l 5 Order. Then, the State refused to produce any form of the CID
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statement until the State needed to use it to prepare its own witnesses for deposition, and then
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produced only a version so heavily redacted as to alter its meaning. The State's ORCP 39 C(6)
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witnesses who relied on it thus testified in a materially misleading manner, and were induced to
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principal witnesses who adopted the altered evidence as their own were Fred Boss and Lisa
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Udland, two of the highest ranking members of the Oregon Department of Justice. They both had
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access to the complete transcript, but opted not to review it, and to go along with the scheme to
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testify deceptively.
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needed to do so to support its motion to add punitive damages. And it relied on that witness's
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testimony while obstructing Oracle's right to depose him so that it might mount a fair opposition
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sanctions in the form of dismissal with prejudice and fees and costs. Its misdirection and lack of
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candor have irreversibly corrupted the truth-seeking process. Oracle has wasted more than a year
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trying to develop its defenses. Discovery expires in a mere six weeks and will have expired by the
time the Court hears this motion. And no one can begin to know what else has been concealed by
the State, because its privilege log is incomplete. Because the State and its lawyers have concealed
evidence and have misrepresented the true facts to this Cpurtrepeatedlytheir statements
cannot be trusted. To continue to permit them to prosecute this case in such a fashion would be a
waste of judicial resources, a waste of jurors' time, and a further waste of the defendants'
resources. The misconduct described here warrants the mast severe of sanctions, including
dismissal of the State's claims. While Oracle has also described a variety of lesser sanctions that
the Court may alternatively elect to impose, those sanctions cannot cure the harm..
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The State's "Explanations" for Withholding the Jurk CID Statement Were False and
in Bad Faith.
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Litigation positions must be rooted in good faith. Wilkens v. Edwards and State of Ofegon,
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2016 WL 1271663, at *3 (D. Or. March 29, 2016) (awarding fees against the State because
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litigation tactics employed lacked "regard for the law and the facts of the case"). Here the State
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asserted numerous litigation positions along the way to avoid production of the Jurl< CID
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The State's intentional failure to produce the Jurk CID Statement violated the
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Court's September 30, 2015 Order. The Court ordered the. State to produce all responsive
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documents that did not need to be reviewed for PHI by October 30, 2015, and to substantially
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complete discovery by December 31, 2015. (French Decl. Ex. 24.) The Jurk CID statement was
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responsive to a discovery request, did not need to be reviewed for PHI, and therefore should have
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Moreover, in January 2016, the State represented to the Court that it had complied with the
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September 30, 2015 Order. (French. Decl. Ex. 11.) But the State had purposefully withheld the
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Jurk CID statement ostensibly on the grounds of privilege while at the same time failing to identify
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the document in its privilege log or even to reveal Mr. Jurl<'s identity. (Uriarte Decl. 2.) That
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conduct amounts to an effort to mislead, and to conceal relevant evidence. The State's lawyers,
after all, represented to Oracle that anything not produced would be logged. (French Decl. Ex. 25.
2.
Mr. Jurk's Identify and the Jurk CID should not have been withheld on the
basis of work product privilege. Mr. Jurk's identity and the Jurlc CID statement should never
have been withheld as privileged in the first place. The State did not cite a single case in support
of its argument that a sworn CID statement, transcribed by a court reporter and quoted in a party's
complaint, constitutes protected attorney work product. Even assuming arguendo that work
product privilege could be asserted over the CID statement, it is beyond dispute that disclosing 67
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of its 128 pages waived any such privilege. "[A] litigant cannot use the work product doctrine as
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both a sword and shield by selectively using the privileged documents to prove a point but then
12
invoking the privilege to prevent an opponent from challenging the assertion." Frontier Ref. Inc.
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v. Gorman-Rupp Co., Inc., 136 F.3d 695, 704 (10th Cir. 1998); see also Verinata Health, Inc. v.
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Segaienom, Inc., 2014 WL 4076319, at *4 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 18, 2014) ("Because the document was
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used as a `sword' in the prior proceedings, CUHK cannot now attempt to `shield' the remaining
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undisclosed communications that relate to the same subject matter."); State ex rel. Grimm v.
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Ashmanskas, 298 Or. 206, 212, 690 P.2d 1063 (1984) (under OEC 511, a party cannot use the
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physician patient privilege as both a sword and a shield). This is especially so here, where the
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State deliberately put Mr. Jurk's testimony at issue by repeatedly quoting it in its complaint.
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State ofFla. ex rel l3utterwoNth v. Industrial Chems., Inc., 145 F.R.D. 585 (N.D. Fla 1991)
There the district court rejected Florida's claim that its civil investigation
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is instructive.
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depositions were protected as work product and therefore not discoverable after it sued the target.
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The Court recognized that a contrary holding would eviscerate the discovery rules every time the
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[T]he State seems to believe that it can conduct abroad-based, onesided discovery, and then, after it has completely prepared for trial,
hide the results from the defendant. This goes well beyond the
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product, substantial need and undue hardship would nonetheless require their production, and that
requiring the movant to replicate the investigation would be extremely difficult and wasteful.
Id. at 5 8 8.
Here, the State has taken the same approach as the State of Florida but worse, the State
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failed to disclose the existence of this evidence at alleven in a privilege logso that Oracle
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could challenge the State's claims of privilege. The parties and the Court should not be in such a
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position a mere six weeks before the close of discovery. The Jurk CID statement should have been
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produced more than a year ago and certainly by no later than October 30. The State depicted
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Mr, Jurk as its whistleblower, quoting his testimony in the complaint. The State knew he was
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going to be its witness; it put his testimony directly at issue. Under these circumstances it had no
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the State uncovered during its investigation. For that reason, if the Court does not dismiss this case,
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it should compel the State to produce within 10 days every piece of evidence discovered during its
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civil investigation, which has not been previously produced or logged. That is appropriate because
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to Although the Multnomah County Circuit Court's Civil Motion Panel Statement of Consensus is
not binding on this Court, it evidences standard practices for Oregon civil discovery. Every
Oregon lawyer practicing in Multnomah County, including the State's lawyers, know it well. As
to identity of witnesses, "the court has reQuired production of documents including those prepared
in anticipation of litigation, reflecting the names, addresses, and phone numbers of occurrence
witnesses. To avoid having to produce documents which might otherwise be protected, attorneys
have been allowed to provide a list of occurrence witnesses." Witness statements if taken ~n
anticipation of litigation may be subject to work product but may be discoverable on a showing of
substantial need, which clearly exists here. (French Decl. Ex. 26 at 3.)
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any claims of privilege are waived by the State's failure to provide a complete log. Burlington
Northern &Santa Fe Railway Company v. U.S. District CouNt .for the District of Montana,
408 F.3d 1142, 1149-50 (9th Cir. 2005) (privilege waived where sophisticated party issued
boilerplate objections to discovery requests and then produced an untimely privilege log and then
The Attorney General's argument that Jurk's identity needed protection was
false. The Department of Justice repeatedly told this Court that it was concealing Mr. Jurlc's
identity because he was a confidential informant at risk of retribution. (4/21/16 Opp. to Motion to
Compel 7 ("informer may be at risk of retribution") and 8 (the State can "refuse to disclose the
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identity of a person who furnished information that assisted in [the Attorney General's]
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investigation * * *due to the possibility of reprisal by Oracle against its former employee.").
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That contention was baseless. First, any "informant privilege" objection was waived
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because the State did not properly assert it in responding to Oracle's RFPs (see Mythics Motion to
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Compel at 9-10), and because Mr. Jurk is not entitled to informant status given the central role his
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testimony plays in supporting the State's allegations. (See Section V.D., infra); OEC 510(4) (B).
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The Attorney General knew she had waived the objection but still forced defendants to litigate the
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issue.
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Second, the Attorney General knew the argument that Mr. Jurk "may he at risk of
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retribution" or "from the possibility of reprisal" from Oracle if his identity were revealed was false.
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At the same time that she was arguing that keeping Mr. Jurk's identify confidential was important
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because of the risk of retribution or reprisal from Oracle, the State was telling Mr. Jurk that his
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testimony would be public and his identity known. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Jurk Dep. Tr. at 34:4-12)
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("Ms. Kaner encouraged me at every point to be aware that any communication with her, any
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material exchanged with her, were public domain.").) Mr. Jurlc was not the least concerned by
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that; he wanted to testify. (French Decl. Ex. 2 (Durk Dep. Tr. 20:17:24).)
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The State told the Court that it had a right to withhold the transcript because
defendants had not subpoenaed Mr. Jurk, but the State knew that was false.. 'the State told
the Court to deny the motion to compel the CID witness' identity and testimony, because Oracle
and Mythics "have not yet attempted to depose former Oracle employees who were in a position
to see what the companies were doing wrong and who are likely to be critical." (MTC Opp. 13-
14.) But when it mlde this statement, the State knew Oracle had already noticed M~^. Jurk's
deposition. (See trench Decl. Ex. 21.) The State's argument to the Court that Oracle had not
attempted to depose the unnamed "former Oracle employee" was not true.
5.
When the State finally disclosed the Jurk CID statement on June 17, 2016, it
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admitted to knowing that Oracle was entitled to it. At the June 17, 2016 hearing, the State's
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attorney admitted that "because we have put in a declaration from Mr. Jurlc * * * in support of the
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punitive damage motion" "it's appropriate that we unredact [his secret transcript] and provide it."
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(French Decl, Ex. 22 (6/17/2016 Hearing Tr. at 110:13-24).) F3ut the Jurk declaration was dated
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May 12 and served May 16. And, the State surely contemplated using Mr. Jurk as a declarant
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weeks before it actually filed its motion for leave to amend. But the State did not produce the full
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Jurk CID statement until June 17, 2016. The duty to supplement document production must be
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done "promptly." ORCP 43 B(4). The State violated ORCP 43 B(4) by withholding the Jurk CID
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The State's attorney also advised the Court that the State decided to "voluntarily" produce
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the transcript only after Oracle noticed Mr. Jurk's deposition. (Id. at 117:22-118:1 ("[W]e did not
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anticipate we were going to use his declaration until Oracle noticed their former employee's
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deposition. And so his identity would have remained confidential had Oracle not taken the steps
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of noticing his deposition.").) That representation confirms that the State knew on March 18, 2016
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(when Oracle served notice on the State of its intent to subpoena Mr. Jurk) that (a) Mr. Jurk's
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identity would be revealed, (b) the State would rely on a declaration from him, and (c) this would
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State opposed that motion and urged the Court to allow it to continue to conceal Mr. Jurk's identity
and testimony, even though by its own admission it knew that disclosure was inevitable. Again,
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The State Breached Its Duty to Prepare its Rule 39 C(6) Witnesses, and Those
Witnesses Breached Their Own Independent Obligations to Testify Truthfully.
The State and its attorneys also violated their discovery obligations by preparing 39 C(6)
The State improperly altered evidence. The State claimed that its alteration of
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the CID statement sought to redact work product information. This is a curious view of the work
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product doctrine; the redactions excluded testimony helpful to the Oracle Defendants and
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unhelpful to the State and Attorney General. If this is the "work product' rule on which the
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Attorney General withheld other evidence, the Court should issue a blanket order invalidating the
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State's assertion of work product, and order all such materials produced immediately. Redactions
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Redaction is, after all, an alteration of potential evidence. The
Federal Rules sanction only very limited unilateral redaction,
see Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2. Outside of these limited circumstances, a
party should not take it upon him, her or itself to decide unilaterally
what context is necessary for the non-redacted part disclosed, and
what might be useless to the case. It should not come as a shock to
those involved in litigation, that parties may see the outcome
differently. * * * [U]nless a particular section unmistakably has no
relevance whatsoever to the allegations in a complaint or
denials/defenses in an answer, it should be produced along with the
other relevant sections. And a word of warning to those who redact
even under this standardif you make unwarranted redactions, a
court may well award sanctions for non-disclosure of requested
evidence up to and including default/dis`nissul based on u seerreing
budfaith hiding of information.
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After altering the Jurk CID Statement, the State's lawyers used the misleading
document to prepare its ORCP 39 C(6) witnesses, who in turn testified inaccurately. When
Oracle issued Rule 39 C(6) deposition notices, the State was obligated to designate "one or more
officers, directors, managing agents, or other persons who consent to testify on its behalf' as to
"matters known or reasonably available to the organization." The State was also obligated to make
a conscientious, good-faith effort to prepare its witnesses to give complete testimony based on all
information reasonably known t4 the organization or its counsel. See, e.g., GreatAm. Ins. Co. of
N.Y. v. Vegas Constr. Co., 251 F.R.D. 534, 539 (D. Nev. 2008) (citation omitted).11 A corporate
witness designee "cannot pick and choose between sets of facts within its corporate knowledge,"
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nor can the designee ignore unfavorable evidence. Instead, the designee has an "independent
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obligation totell the truth" based on all information known to the organization. 1100 West, LLC
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v. Red Spot Paint &Varnish Co., 2009 WL 1605118, at *30-31 (S.D. Ind. June 5, 2009). "[T]he
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rule requires, if need be, that the responding party must prepare deponents by having them review
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prior fact witness deposition testimony as well as documents and deposition exhibits."
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Memory Integrity, LLC v. Intel Corp., 308 F.R.D. 656, 660-661 (D. Or. 2015) (internal quotation
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marks omitted).
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In spite of their known obligations to properly prepare their designees, the Markowitz
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lawyers withheld the complete Jurk CID statement from the State's ORCP 39 C(6) witnesses, and
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prepared them with the altered version. Because those witnesses did not have the complete CID
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statement, they testified inaccurately about what they learned from it.
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Equally disconcerting was the fact that the witnessesboth high-ranking DOJ attorneys-
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deliberately chose to remain only partially informed about the facts before testifying as the State's
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"most knowledgeable" witnesses on allegations central to its claims against Oracle. When asked
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imposed by Rule 39 C(6), there is awell-developed body of case law applying Federal Rule of
Civil Procedure 30 (b)(6), which served as the model for Rule 39 C(6). Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
v. Main, 240 Or. 533, 537 n.2, 402 P.2d 476 (1965) (listing FRCP 30(b) as a "Federal Rule[]
relating to discovery -and depositions [that] served as the model for the Oregon Act.").
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about the heavily redacted CID transcript, Mr. Boss admitted that his testimony might have been
different had he been given more complete information regarding Mr. Jurk's background, the
scope of Mr. Jurk's personal involvement with respect to the subject matter of his testimony, and
the circumstances surrounding Mr. Jurk's separation from employment. (French Decl. Ex. 16
5 - (3/17/2015 Boss Depo. Vol. 4 at 475:7-13).) Given that Mr. Jurk had no personal knowledge
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regarding many of the topics discussed in his CID statement, exhibited strong anti-Oracle bias
throughout, and left Oracle on less than amicable terms, Mr. Boss's testimony would necessarily
have been different had he reviewed the entire transcript. (Section V.F.2, supra.)
Ms. Udland's testimony was similarly impaired by her deliberate ignorance of the full
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content of Mr. Jurk's CID testimony. For example, she relied on the redacted Jurk CID statement
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to testify that Oracle "should have known that it could not deliver the website." (French Decl.
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Ex. 20 (1/28/2016 Udland Depo, at 166:24-167:4).) But Mr. Jurk actually testifiedin a portion
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of the transcript that the Markowitz firm redactedthat Oracle could have delivered the website
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in the timeframe discussed. (Barnard Decl. Ex. 1 at 105-106.) Mr. Jurk attributed delayed delivery
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of the HIX not to technical issues, but instead to various "political" problems, some of which were
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caused by Cover Oregon and the State and all of which arose after the project began. (Id. at 30.)
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As another example, during her deposition, Ms. Udland pointed to a November 2013
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internal Qracle email (marked as Exhibit 1304) as a factual basis for the State's allegation that
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Oracle failed to appropriately staff the project. (French Decl. Ex. 18 (2/1/2016 Udland Depo. at
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74:18-23).) Exhibit 1304 discussed a desire to hire additional resources to work on two particular
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aspects of the project. Oracle's counsel asked Ms. Udland if Oracle ever hired the personnel
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discussed in Exhibit 1304, and Ms. Udland gave a series of evasive, misleading, and boilerplate
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people that it hired for the, this part of the project. What I do know
is that despite numerous representations that the project will be done
in October, November, December, January, that did not happen.
Q. I move to strike the question after, the answer after "I don't
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unredacted Jurk CID statement, she could have actually answered counsel's questions. Mr. Jurk
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testified during his CID examination that Oracle did in fact bring on resources requested in Exhibit
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1304, and that "they did amazing work" and "actually overcame the challenges of integrating
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story," the Markowitz lawyers, Mr. Boss, and Ms. Udland engaged in bad faith discovery conduct
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in violation of pRS 9.460(2), as well as blatantly improper discovery conduct in connection with
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F.3d 1205, 1211 (1lth Cir. 2015). As the Eleventh Circuit explained when affirming a significant
sanctions order in Sciarretta:
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The district court determined that Imperial had acted in bad faith
based on a finding that, among other actions, Imperial hacl
selectively prepared Norris, not that it had failed to prepare him at
all. The court pointed out that Norris was prepared to answer
questions in ways that were helpful to Imperial, but that he lacked
knowledge when the questions turned to areas that might cast
Imperial in a bad light or otherwise harm it. Preparing a designated
corporate witness with only the self-serving half of the story that
is the subject of his testimony is not an act of goodfaith. * * * A
contrary result would allow Imperial to convert the investigation
into its admitted criminal behavior into a stroke of good luck.
Imperial's own employees who were knowledgeable about the
transaction that gave rise to the litigation could not take the stand
and offer non-answers like Norris did, at least not without perjuring
themselves. So t/ze company seized on the existence of the criminal
investigation as a~ oppoYtunity to craft a perfect witness for its
interests: once who was knowledgeable about helpful facts and
dumb about harrrrful ones.
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Sciarretta applies directly here. The Markowitz arm selectively prepared Mr. Boss and
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Ms. Ud]and to answer questions in ways that were helpful to the State while ensuring that they
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lacked knowledge regarding evidence harmful to the State. And Mr. -Boss and Ms. Udland, for
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their part, remained purposefully ignorant of information to which they had easy access.
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(See Section V.F.2, 3.)1z The Court should sanction this behavior. ORCP 46 D; see GNeal Am.
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1z Because both Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland had unfettered access to the complete Jurk CID
statement, the State's argument (MTC Opp. at 12-13) that Rule 39 C(6) does not require a party to
testify to information known only to its outside counsel is a complete red herring. The State's
argument is also wrong. E.g., In re Vitamins Antitrust Litig., 216 F.R.D. 168, 172 (D.D.C. 2003)
(obligation is to testify "to all facts known to [party] or its counsel, regardless of whether such
facts are memorialized in work product protected documents or reside in the minds of counsel");
Paul ReveNe Life Ins. Co. v. Jafari, 206 F.R.D. 126, 127 (D. Md. 2002) (same); Ballentine v. Las
Vegas Metro. Police Dept, 2016 WL 2743504, at *3-7 (D. Nev. May 9, 2016) (same); Sprint
Commz~ns. Co., L.P. v. Theglobe.com, Inc., 236 F.R.D. 524, 529 (D. I{an. 2006) (same); GreatAm.
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a failure to appear, and sanctionable under [Federal] Rule 37(d).") see also id. (quoting Black
Horse Lane Assoc. v. Dow Chemical CoNp., 228 F.3d 275, 304 (3d Cir. 2000) (a "witness [who] is
unable to give useful information `is no more present for deposition than would be a deponent who
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The State's Bad Faith and Lack of Candor Taints Its Entire Case, Because It Cannot
Be Trusted to Be Truthful.
The State's conduct has irreparably infected this case to such a degree that dismissal with
prejudice and an award of fees and costs to defendants as authorized by ORCP 46 is the only
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appropriate sanction.
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The State and Attorney General and their outside counsel have repeatedly taken legal
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positions in this case that are not rooted in good faith; they have made misleading statements in
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The State, the Attorney General, and their lawyers have improperly altered key evidence
to conceal evidence that would be helpful to the Defendants.
The State's lawyers prepared an incomplete privilege log, leaving the Court and Oracle to
guess as to what other discovery has been wrongfully withheld.
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The Department of Justice and its outside lawyers deliberately evaded their obligations to
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produce persons most knowledgeable by failing to review, and be prepared to testify about, the
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The evasive tactics were willful and deliberate. As noted, DOJ attorney Lisa Udland
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testified under oath that she did not have personal knowledge of the identity of the CID witness
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whose redacted transcript she reviewed to prepare for her Rule 39(c) deposition. (French Decl.
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Ins., 251 F.R.D. at 539 (same); FTC v. AMG Servs., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114550, at *21 (D.
Nev. Aug. 28, 2015) (same); see also Memory Integrity, 308 F.R.D. at 660-661(discussing duty of
witness to review discovery responses and deposition transcripts).
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Ex. 18 (2/1/2016 Udland Depo. at 90:1-9).) But Ms. Udland signed the CID subpoena issued to
Mr. Jurk. In addition, Ms. Udland had administrative responsibility for reviewing drafts and
approving the filing of the complaint, which relied heavily on Mr. Jurk's CID statement.
testimony that she did not know Mr. Jurk's identity is simply not credible.
Ms. Udland's
Mr. Boss testified in his deposition that he delegated to Ms. Udland the responsibility for
being familiar with all of the CID statements obtained by the State during the Cover Oregon
investigation, and that Ms. Udland "had more of a hands-on knowledge and execution of the [CID
notices] and hands-on knowledge of the investigation." (French Decl. Ex. 16 (3/17/2016 Boss
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Depo. Vol. 4 at 463:4-464:4).) Mr. Boss believed that Ms. Udland authorized and signed the CID
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notices related to the Cover Oregon matter, and at least with respect to Mr. Jurk's CID notice,
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credibility of the then-mystery CID witness, and to the validity of the State's complaint.
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Moreover, Ms. Kaner took no steps to correct Ms. Udland's testimony. Instead, she facilitated
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Ms. Udland's testimonial approach by preparing her with the redacted transcript. (French Decl.
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Ex. 14 (Kaner Declaration in Support of Opposition to Motion to Compel, dated April 21, 2016).)
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Here, the State's lawyers admit they induced the DOJ attorney witnesses to unlawfully
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withhold relevant, material testimony about portions of the CID transcript that were adverse to the
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State. By providing a heavily and selectively redacted LID transcript to Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland
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for use in preparing for their depositions, the State's lawyers altered evidence and directed the DOJ
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attorneys to ignore the complete CID transcripts, which were in the DOJ's possession and
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control. Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland went along willingly. And, the Markowitz lawyers improperly
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13 When the Department of Justice filed the complaint, Ms. Udland apparently made no effort to
determine if the allegations based nn statements by a "former Oracle employee" were supportable.
Perhaps even more egregious, the Markowitz attorneys apparently felt no ethical obligation to
provide her with the information from that same witness that undermined those allegations and
thus, the State's good faith basis for filing the complaint.
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instructed Mr. Boss and Ms. Udland not to answer when asked why they did not review the
complete CID statement, suggesting that they instructed the State's 39 C(6) witnesses not to review
The State's discovery violations warrant sanctions in the form of dismissal with prejudice
and an award of costs and fees in accordance with ORCP 46. Lesser sanctions cannot cure the
prejudice to the system. However, in the alternative, the Court should grant the other sanctions as
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