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marks omitted) (emphasis added)); In re “Agent Orange” Prod. Liab. Litig., 821 F.2d at 145 (“It
is undisputed that a district court retains the power to modify or lift protective orders that it has
entered.”). It also bears noting that Martindell and its progeny do not discuss law enforcement
applications in Fourth Amendment terms.
In an effort to avoid the application of the third party doctrine, Maxwell contends that she
did not in fact voluntarily share anything in the civil suit, and that “every other circumstance”
supported her “expectation that her deposition transcripts would be private.” (Def. Mot. 11 at 9).
Neither argument withstands scrutiny. As an initial matter, the facts of this case are far removed
from the “narrow” circumstances in which the Supreme Court has found an exception to the third
party doctrine. For example, the Carpenter Court, while stressing that its holding was a “narrow
one,” 138 S. Ct. at 2220, held that “[g]iven the unique nature of cell phone location records,” which
provide a “intimate window into a person’s life,” “the fact that the information is held by a third
party does not by itself overcome the user’s claim to Fourth Amendment protection.” /d. at 2217;
see also Zietzke v. United States, 426 F. Supp. 3d 758, 768 (W.D. Wash. 2019) (“The Court...
will extend Carpenter to new circumstances only if they directly implicate the privacy concerns
that animated the majority. [T]he majority was overwhelmingly concerned with ‘Carpenter’s
anticipation of privacy in his physical location.’ In other words, Carpenter was about
surveillance.” (internal citation omitted)).
There can be no serious argument that the facts of this case, or the materials obtained
pursuant to the subpoena issued here, revealed Maxwell’s physical location over a period of time
or are otherwise in any way analogous to the narrow category of information contemplated by the
majority in Carpenter. To the extent the defendant argues that her deposition transcripts implicate
such interests because she “did not ‘voluntarily convey’ her testimony to Giuffre,” (Def. Mot. 11
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