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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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Hunton & Williams LLP 

575 Market Street, Suite 3700 

San Francisco, California 94105 

HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP

M. BRETT BURNS (State Bar No. 256965) 

575 Market Street, Suite 3700 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: 415.975.3700 

Facsimile: 415.975.3701 

mbrettburns@hunton.com

KEVIN J. WHITE (pro hac vice) 

Bank of America Center, Suite 4200 

700 Louisiana Street 

Houston, Texas 77002 

Phone: 713.229.5708 

Fax: 713.229.5750 

kwhite@hunton.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

Baker Hughes Incorporated and Baker Hughes 

Inteq Drilling Fluids, Inc. 

Daniel S. Brome, CA SBN 278915 

NICHOLS KASTER, LLP

One Embarcadero Center 

Suite 720 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 277-7235 

Facsimile: (415) 277-7238 

dbrome@nka.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and the putative classes 

(counsel of record continued on next page) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Marc McCulloch, individually and on behalf of 

others similarly situated, and on behalf of the 

general public, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Baker Hughes Inteq Drilling Fluids, Inc., Baker 

Hughes Incorporated, and DOES 1-50, 

inclusive, 

Defendants.

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Complaint Filed: February 3, 2016 

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575 Market Street, Suite 3700 

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Michele R. Fisher, MN Bar No. 303069 

NICHOLS KASTER, PLLP 

4600 IDS Center 

80 South 8th St. 

Minneapolis, MN 55402 

Telephone: (612) 256-3200 

Facsimile: (612) 215-6870 

Admitted pro hac vice 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and the putative classes

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, 

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

Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use 

extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the

applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge below, that this Stipulated Protective 

Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Local Rule 141 sets forth the

procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks 

permission from the court to file material under seal. 

The parties submit that good cause exists for the issuance of this Order for the following 

reasons: 

(i) Discovery obtained in the above-captioned action may involve disclosure of nonpublic, 

confidential, proprietary, commercially-sensitive and/or trade secret information. Disclosure of this 

information to persons who are not entitled to it carries the danger of compromising the competitive 

business interests of Defendants, and also risks invasion of legitimate personal privacy interests of 

Plaintiff, putative class members, and non-parties;

(ii) Defendants anticipate that they may need to produce material that contains proprietary 

information concerning their business practices and procedures for the operation of their facilities 

that may be of value to a competitor or may cause harm to their legitimate business interests in the 

marketplace; 

(iii) Defendants further anticipate that they may need to produce non-public information 

concerning Plaintiff, putative class members, or non-parties that is personal in nature and/or 

protected by the right of privacy; 

(iv) The issuance of this Order will allow for efficiency in the discovery process and provide 

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a mechanism by which discovery of relevant confidential information may be obtained in a manner 

that protects against risk of disclosure of such information to persons not entitled to such 

information; and 

(v) The issuance of this Order will protect the parties’ interests by providing the parties 

recourse in this Court in the event that a party or non-party improperly handles nonpublic, 

confidential, proprietary, commercially-sensitive and/or trade secret information that the parties have 

had to exchange in the course of discovery propounded and depositions taken in this action. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 26(c). 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and In-House Counsel (as 

well as their support staff). 

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter. 

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the 

litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a Party’s competitor, 

and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or of a Party’s 

competitor. 

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2.7 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another Party or 

Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means. 

2.8 In-House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. In-House 

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.11 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action 

but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on 

behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

2.12 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.13 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, 

storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 

2.15 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all 

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

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However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving

Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of 

publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record 

through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of 

Protected Material 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 

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 PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or 

Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to 

limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. To the 

extent it is practical to do so, 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 Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 

to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 

encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 

other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 

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protection do not qualify for protection at all or do not qualify for the level of protection initially 

asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the 

mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, or 

as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 

under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material 

on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, 

the level of protection being asserted. 

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 

need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it 

would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the 

material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, 

qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to each page that contains Protected Material. If 

only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also 

must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) 

and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted. 

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(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection and it 

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating Party 

may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right 

to have up to 21 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by the provisions

of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition 

or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript shall be 

treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If 

the Designating Party invokes such options, any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a

21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated. 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or 

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page that 

the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all pages 

(including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and the level 

of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform the court 

reporter of these requirements. 

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(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or 

containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only a portion or portions of the information 

or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 

portion(s) and specify the level of protection being asserted. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in 

accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, 

or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a 

confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original 

designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process 

by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each 

challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must 

recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph 

of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must 

begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication 

are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging 

Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and 

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must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 

designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it 

has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 

unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Local 

Rule 230 (and in compliance with Local Rules 140 and 141, if applicable) within 21 days of the 

initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet-and-confer process

will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet-and-confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a 

motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the

Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is 

good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any 

portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet-and-confer 

requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Frivolous challenges and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. 

Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to

retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question 

the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Designating Party’s designation until the court 

rules on the challenge. 

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7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material 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 Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material 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 Order. 

7.2 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 Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including In-House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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

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necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 

unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 

deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material 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. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

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 “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) Designated In-House Counsel of the Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement 

in competitive decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, 

and (3) who has signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 

and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(a)(1), below, have been followed; 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and 

(f) 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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7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

(a)(1) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an Expert (as defined in this Order) any 

information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” pursuant to paragraph 7.3(c) first must make a written request to the Designating Party that 

(1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets 

forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a 

copy of the Expert’s current résumé, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies 

each person or entity from whom the Expert has received compensation or funding for work in his or 

her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services, including in 

connection with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name

and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the 

Expert has offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a 

deposition or trial, during the preceding five years. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding respective paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert 

unless, within 14 days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice-to-voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by agreement 

within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the

disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Local Rule 230 (and in compliance with 

Local Rules 140 and 141, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such 

motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons why the 

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disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would 

entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such 

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the 

matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and setting 

forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden of 

proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards proposed) 

outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL 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” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 

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 Protected Material 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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 

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9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 

LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in 

this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is 

protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a 

Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with 

the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some 

or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 

Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the 

information requested; and 

3. make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may 

produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the NonParty timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its 

possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden

and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, 

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the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized 

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 

Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL 

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently produced 

material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties 

are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to

modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 

without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the 

parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by 

the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement 

in the stipulated protective order submitted to the court. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

its modification by the court in the future. 

12.2 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. 

12.3 Filing Protected Material. 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 Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material must comply with Local Rules 140 and 141. Protected Material may only be 

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

issue. Pursuant to Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the 

Protected Material at issue is entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to 

file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then the 

Receiving Party may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Local Rule 141 

unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. 

As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether 

the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written 

certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party)

by the 60-day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material

that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Upon the return of any such information to the Producing Party, the Producing Party 

agrees to retain an archival copy of all originals and all copies of such information, through its 

counsel of record in this action, for a period of at least four (4) years following Final Disposition of 

this litigation. To obtain a copy of any such information during this time period, a request must be 

made in writing with an explanation for the request to counsel of record for the Producing Party in 

this action. 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 Protected Material. Any such archival 

copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set 

forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: November 4, 2016 HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP 

By: s/ M. Brett Burns 

M. Brett Burns 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Baker Hughes Inteq Drilling Fluids, Inc. 

and Baker Hughes Incorporated 

DATED: November 4, 2016 NICHOLS KASTER, LLP 

By: s/ Daniel S. Brome 

Daniel S. Brome 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and the putative 

classes 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ________________ _____________________________________ 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

 I, _________________________________________, declare under penalty of perjury that I 

have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of California in the case of McCulloch. v. Baker Hughes 

Inteq Drilling Fluids, Inc, et al., Case No. 1:16-CV-00157-DAD-JLT. I agree to comply with and to 

be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that 

failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I 

solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of

this Order. 

 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even 

if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

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Date 

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Printed name 

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Signature 

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Address 

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City and State where sworn and signed 

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