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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement

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George M. Kraw (Cal. Bar No. 71551)

Donna L. Kirchner (Cal. Bar No. 138320)

Katherine McDonough (Cal Bar No. 241426)

Kraw and Kraw

605 Ellis Street, Suite 200

Mountain View, CA 94043

Telephone: (650) 314-7800

Facsimile: (650) 314-7899

gkraw@kraw.com

dkirchner@kraw.com

kmcdonough@kraw.com

Counsel for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

IRIGARAY DAIRY, et al.,

Plaintiffs

v.

DAIRY EMPLOYEES UNION LOCAL 

NO. 17 CHRISTIAN LABOR 

ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED 

STATES OF AMERICA PENSION 

TRUST, et al.,

 Defendants.

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Case No.: 1:13-CV001112-AWI-MJS

STIPULATION AND ORDER

RE PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information of dairies that are not parties to this litigation. Accordingly, 

the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information: financial and other non-public information 

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which relates to any person or entity that is not a party to this action and which qualifies for 

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c); and social security numbers and tax 

identification numbers of individuals, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability 

companies and corporations, whether parties herein or not.

2.2 Counsel: Counsel of Record and their support staff.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order cover not only 

CONFIDENTIAL Information (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from CONFIDENTIAL Information; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of CONFIDENTIAL Information; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal CONFIDENTIAL Information. Any 

use of CONFIDENTIAL Information at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 

this Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in effect until a designating party agrees otherwise 

in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of 

(1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final 

judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, 

or reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for 

extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

5.1 All financial information related to persons or entities who are not parties to this 

action nor employees, members, shareholders or partners with parties to this action shall be 

automatically deemed to be CONFIDENTIAL Information and protected as required herein. In 

addition, all social security numbers and tax identification numbers of individuals, partnerships, 

limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations shall be automatically deemed 

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to be CONFIDENTIAL Information and protected as required herein. In the event any party 

believes that any other information it has produced in discovery should be treated as 

CONFIDENTIAL Information, that party shall promptly notify the other parties that it is 

designating such information “CONFIDENTIAL Information” and shall describe the designated 

information with reasonable specificity so that the other parties will know exactly what 

information is subject to the protections of this Stipulated Protective Order.

5.2 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each party 

that designates information or items for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order must 

take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 

standards. The designating party must designate for protection only those parts of material, 

documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify - so that other portions of the 

material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not 

swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Stipulated Protective Order. If it comes to a 

designating party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not 

qualify for protection, that designating party must promptly notify all other parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation.

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

6.1 Basic Principles. A party may use CONFIDENTIAL Information that is 

disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for 

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such CONFIDENTIAL 

Information may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions 

described in this Stipulated Protective Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a 

receiving party must comply with the provisions of section 10 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

CONFIDENTIAL Information must be stored and maintained by a receiving party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 

under this Stipulated Protective Order.

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6.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party may 

disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as employees of said 

counsel of record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have agreed to keep the information confidential.

(b) the officers, directors, members and/or employees of the receiving party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have agreed to keep the 

information confidential.

(c) Experts (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) of the receiving party to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation or the related arbitration between 

these same parties and who have agreed to keep the information confidential.

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

agreed to keep the information confidential.

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary and who have agreed to keep the information confidential, unless otherwise agreed by 

the designating party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or 

exhibits to depositions that reveal CONFIDENTIAL Information must be separately bound by 

the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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7. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION 

If a party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that 

compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” 

other than its own information, that party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the designating party. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the 

other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective 

Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

designating party whose CONFIDENTIAL Information may be affected.

If the designating party timely seeks a protective order, the party served with the 

subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order 

issued, unless the party has obtained the designating party’s permission. The designating party 

shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material -

and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a receiving 

party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

8. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

CONFIDENTIAL Information to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the receiving party must immediately (a) notify in writing the 

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Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all 

unauthorized copies of the CONFIDENTIAL Information, (c) inform the person or persons to 

whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, 

and (d) request such person or persons to agree to keep the information confidential.

9. MISCELLANEOUS

9.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the court in the future.

9.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective 

Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, 

no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material 

covered by this Protective Order.

9.3 Filing CONFIDENTIAL Information. Without written permission from the 

designating party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a 

party may not file in the public record in this action any CONFIDENTIAL Information. A party 

that seeks to file under seal any CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL Information may only be 

filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific 

CONFIDENTIAL Information at issue.

10. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

receiving party must return all CONFIDENTIAL Information to the producing party or destroy 

such material. As used in this subdivision, “all CONFIDENTIAL Information” includes all 

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any 

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of the CONFIDENTIAL Information. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, 

legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work 

product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain 

CONFIDENTIAL Information. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute 

CONFIDENTIAL Information remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: September 21 , 2015 KRAW & KRAW LAW GROUP

 /s/ Donna Kirchner 

Donna L. Kirchner, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendants

Dated: September 21 , 2015 SAGASER, WATKINS & WIELAND PC

 /s/ Ian Wieland (as approved 9/21/15) 

Ian B. Wieland, Esq.

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

ORDER

Good case appearing, the above Stipulation is accepted and adopted as the 

Order of this Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 22, 2015 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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