Federal Trade Commission v. Advocate Health Care Network

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Jeffrey Cole, UNITED. STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

On January 8, 2016, with direction from Judge Alonso, the FTC and the two defendants, Advocate and Northshore, entered into an agreed confidentiality order covering discovery in this litigation. [Dkt. # 36]. With the confidentiality order in place, about a week later, the defendants sought production of data and information the FTC relied upon to form the basis of the allegations of its Complaint. [Dkt. # 48]. As the FTC concedes, in the run-up to filing suit, it accumulated highly confidential information from a number…