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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
SPRINGFIELD DIVISION
SEXUAL MINORITIES UGANDA,
Plaintiff,
CIVIL ACTION
v.

NO. 3-12-CV-30051-MAP

SCOTT LIVELY, individually and as President of

Abiding Truth Ministries,
Defendant.
DECLARATION OF DANIEL W. BEEBE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS
MOTION TO AMEND THE ORDER REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY
OF CERTAIN DISCOVERY MATERIAL
I, DANIEL W. BEEBE, declare and state as follows:
1.

I am an associate at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, counsel to Plaintiff

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG or Plaintiff) in the above-captioned case and submit this
declaration in support of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Order Regarding Confidentiality of
Certain Discovery Materials (Dkt. No. 106) (the Protective Order) so that SMUG may
designate a specific set of exceptionally sensitive documents for Attorneys Eyes Only
protection (the Motion). I make this declaration upon personal knowledge.
2.

Pursuant to Local Rule 37.1, the parties met and conferred by telephone on

Thursday, April 23, 2015 to discuss whether Defendant Scott Lively (Lively) would agree to
allow Attorneys Eyes Only designations for a discrete set of approximately 220 documents
(the AEO Documents).

For purposes of the conference, SMUG sent Livelys counsel an

index titled Index of Documents for Attorneys Eyes Only Designation, identifying each of the

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AEO Documents by bates range, date, author, recipient, and description with SMUGs basis for
making an AEO designation.
3.

My colleague, Mr. Kaleb McNeely, and I participated in the telephonic

conference on behalf of SMUG, and Mr. Horatio Mihet and Mr. Roger Gannam, participated on
behalf of Lively.
4.

Despite conferring in good faith, the parties were unable to reach agreement.

5.

SMUGs position is that, as set forth in greater detail in its contemporaneously-

filed Memorandum of Law, the Protective Order should be amended to permit SMUG to
designate documents Attorneys Eyes Only if they fit within any of the four AEO Categories,
and that documents so-marked should not be disclosed to Lively.
6.

Livelys position, as articulated by his counsel during the telephonic conference,

is that he personally should be allowed to review all documents produced by SMUG in this
litigation.

I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on May 5, 2015 at New York, New York.

_/s/ Daniel W. Beebe___

Daniel W. Beebe