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OPINION & ORDER On May 11, 2022, Petitioner Susan Devine (“Devine” or “Petitioner”) filed an ex parte motion for judicial assistance pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1782 requesting permission to subpoena the law firm Spears & Imes LLP (“Spears & Imes”). (Doc. 1.) Before me is Petitioner’s motion for reconsideration of my May 25, 2022 Opinion & Order (“Opinion”) transferring this case to the Middle District of Florida. (Doc. 19.) Because Petitioner provides no matters that might reasonably be expected to alter my Opinion, the motion for reconsideration is DENIED. I. Factual Background1 Petitioner seeks confidential documents that are currently in the custody of a New York law firm, Spears & Imes, after having been produced in Activist Value Master Fund Ltd. et al. v. Devine, No. 2:15-cv-328 (M.D. Fla.). (Doc. 1; see generally Doc. 3.) In that litigation, nine hedge funds incorporated in the Cayman Islands (the “Funds”) sued Devine in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging securities fraud under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) and (d). (See Doc. 3

2, 4; see generally Devine, No. 2:15-cv-328 (M.D. Fla.).) As part of that lawsuit, the Funds produced certain confidential documents to Devine under a protective order. (See Doc. 3 5; see also Doc. 64 (“Protective Order”), Devine, No. 2:15-cv-328 (M.D. Fla. July 30, 2015).) On February 14, 2018, the Funds filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of their Middle District of Florida lawsuit. (See Doc. 3 9.) Thereafter, the judge assigned to the case, Judge John E. Steele, ordered the return of the Funds’ confidential documents to the Funds’ law firm, Spears & Imes, “for destruction or return” to the Funds pursuant to the protective order filed in that case. (Id.

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