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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Product Liability

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

MICHAEL O'DONNELL and MICHALE 

O'DONNELL, 

 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

DAIFUKU AMERICA CORPORATION, and 

DOES 1 through 25, Inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

 

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Case No. CIV-S-13-1747-EFB 

Assigned to: Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan 

STIPULATED NON-SHARING PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

 WHEREAS, Plaintiffs filed this action against Daifuku America Corporation; and 

WHEREAS, certain documents produced by Daifuku America Corporation and Daifuku Co., Ltd. 

(collectively "Daifuku") are claimed by Daifuku to contain information that includes proprietary interests, 

trade secrets, and confidential commercial information, in addition to information that provides Daifuku 

a competitive advantage that will be irretrievably lost if the information is acquired by Daifuku's 

competitors in the relevant industry and marketing business; and 

 WHEREAS, Daifuku desires to preserve the confidentiality of such information and prevent the 

information from being acquired by its competitors; 

 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED that the Court may enter the following Stipulated Non-Sharing 

Protective Order for these documents only. 

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 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

 1. The term “confidential information” as used in this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective 

Order shall refer to those documents identified and marked as “Confidential” as described below, and 

to the substance of any information obtained from such documents that are claimed by Daifuku to 

contain confidential or sensitive information, including but not limited to, trade secrets, research, 

design, development, financial, technical, marketing, planning, personal or commercial information, as 

such terms are used in Rule 26(c)(1)(G) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and any applicable 

case law interpreting the same or the former Rule 26(c)(7), and other information that provides Daifuku 

a competitive advantage that will be irretrievably lost if the information is acquired by competitors of 

Daifuku. 

 2. The documents protected by this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order have been 

designated "confidential" by: 

(a) Typing, stamping or imprinting upon the document “CONFIDENTIAL,” 

“PRODUCED PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER,” or “SUBJECT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER” and 

(b) Applying such in a manner so as not to obscure any information contained 

therein. 

 3. All information and documents designated as "confidential" shall be accorded 

confidential status until such time as determined otherwise pursuant to the following provisions of the 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

 4. Any notes, lists, memoranda, indices, compilations, electronically stored information, 

reports, records and documents prepared or based on an examination of “confidential information” and 

any summaries of “confidential information,” which quote from, identify or refer to the “confidential 

information” with such specificity that the “confidential information” can be identified, or by reasonable 

logical extension can be identified, shall be accorded the same status of confidentiality as the 

underlying “confidential information” from which they are made and shall be subject to all of the terms 

of the Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

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 5. All “confidential information” shall be used for this litigation, shall not be used for any 

business, commercial or competitive purposes, may be disclosed only to the following individuals or 

entities, and shall not be revealed, discussed or disclosed in any manner or in any form, to any person, 

entity or judicial tribunal other than: 

(a) The Court, court personnel including court reporters retained by the parties, and 

jurors; 

(b) Counsel of record with the law firms representing the parties; 

(c) An employee of counsel of record with the law firms representing the parties who 

is working on the case and to whom it is necessary that the material be shown for 

purposes of litigation; 

(d) Deponents during their deposition only and only where there is a good faith belief 

that it is necessary that the material be shown to them; 

(e) Experts or professional advisors and persons regularly employed in their offices 

retained by a party to assist in the prosecution or defense of this action, but only 

to the extent necessary for such person to perform their assigned tasks in 

connection with this action. 

 6. “Confidential information” shall not be shown or disclosed to persons described in 

paragraphs 5(b), 5(c), 5(d) and 5(e) until that person shall be shown this Stipulated Non-Sharing 

Protective Order and signs and dates a written agreement to be bound by the terms of this Stipulated 

Non-Sharing Protective Order, which agreement shall be identical to that set forth in Appendix A of this 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

 7. The original and copies of the signed agreement(s) shall be maintained in the 

possession, custody and control of Plaintiffs’ counsel. Daifuku may seek a Court Order requiring 

Plaintiffs to disclose such signed copies to them. 

 8. All persons who receive “confidential information” and/or material or information 

accorded the status of confidentiality in this action shall maintain the confidentiality of such material and 

information in accordance with the terms of this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

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 9. Copies of discovery responses and documents containing “confidential information” shall 

not be filed with the Court, except in accordance with Paragraph 10 herein. 

 10. In the event that any document, deposition testimony, deposition exhibit, interrogatory, 

answer thereto, exhibit or attachment to an interrogatory or answer, request for production, answer to 

request for production, documents and/or exhibits accompanying a document request or answer, 

request for admission or response thereto, motion, memorandum, affidavit, brief or any other 

submission by any party is filed with the Court which includes, incorporates or quotes “confidential 

information,” such filings shall be submitted in sealed envelopes and other appropriate containers 

endorsed to the effect that they are sealed pursuant to this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order by 

reason of containing “confidential information” and shall be lodged with the court under seal and not 

disclosed, except to the Court, in accordance with Local Rules 141 and 141.1. 

 11. To the extent that any “confidential information” is used in the taking of depositions, such 

“confidential information” shall remain subject to the provisions of this Stipulated Non-Sharing 

Protective Order. Daifuku may designate depositions or other testimony concerning the documents 

and the information contained therein as “confidential information” by: 

(a) Stating orally on the record the day the testimony is given that the information is 

expected to be “confidential;” and, 

(b) Sending written notice designating by page and line the portions of the transcript 

of the deposition or other testimony to be treated as “Confidential,” within 30 days 

after receipt of the transcript. 

The reporter shall operate in a manner consistent with this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order 

and shall separately label the confidential portions of the deposition transcript, including documents and 

other exhibits containing confidential information. The confidential information shall be sealed and 

made part of the original deposition transcript, and counsel for Daifuku shall retain custody and control 

of the original transcript, or that portion of the original transcript referring to the confidential information 

and the sealed confidential documents. Any certified copies containing confidential information will be 

returned to counsel for Daifuku after the conclusion of this litigation in accordance with paragraph 17. 

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 12. Any party may apply to the Court for the imposition of further limitations upon the 

disclosure of specific information if such party deems further limitations are required in specific 

instances. Any party may apply to the Court for relief from limitations if such party deems such relief is 

required in specific instances. 

 13. Nothing in this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order shall prevent any disclosure if 

the party designating the information as confidential consents to such disclosure. 

 14. The execution of this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order shall not in any way 

detract from the right of a party to object to the production of discovery materials on grounds other than 

confidentiality. 

 15. Failure by a party to challenge the confidentiality of any document or information at the 

time of receipt thereof shall not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto. In the event a party to this 

litigation disagrees with the designation of any information as confidential, the parties shall attempt to 

dispose of such dispute in good faith on an informal basis. If the disagreement cannot be resolved in 

this fashion, the party contesting the confidentiality of the material may, by sealed motion setting forth 

with specificity the items challenged, seek an Order freeing the material in question from the 

designation as “confidential information.” The party asserting that documents or other tangible litigation 

materials constitute “confidential information” shall bear the burden of proof that the terms of this 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order apply. Any information as to which such Motion is made shall 

remain “confidential information” under the provisions of this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order 

until further Order of the Court. 

 16. Nothing contained in this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order shall prevent a party 

to this action from using its own confidential information and material in any way that it sees fit, or from 

revealing its own confidential information and material to whomever it chooses, without prior consent of 

any person or of the Court. 

 17. After the conclusion of this litigation as to all parties, all “confidential information” and all 

copies thereof shall be returned to counsel for Daifuku and shall remain subject to the terms of this 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order, and the parties consent to the continuation of jurisdiction and 

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venue of this Court to resolve any disputes arising from the treatment or disposition of “confidential 

information” after conclusion of this litigation. 

 18. This Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order shall not be abrogated, modified, 

amended or enlarged except by agreement of the parties or by Motion, with notice given to each of the 

parties. 

 19. Nothing contained herein shall restrict the presentation of any evidence, including 

“Confidential Information,” to a jury or the Court during a trial or other hearing of this action. However, 

such presentation shall not constitute a waiver of any restrictions provided for in this Stipulated NonSharing Protective Order and the parties agree to take reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality 

of any “confidential information” at any hearing or upon trial of this matter in such a manner and until 

such time as the Court may direct and/or as the parties may otherwise agree. Before any such 

presentation of “confidential information,” the party presenting the “confidential information” shall 

provide Daifuku with appropriate notice so that Daifuku may have the opportunity to lodge appropriate 

objections or seek the Court’s direction to prevent disclosure of the “confidential information.” 

 The Stipulation may be signed in counterpart. 

Dated: February __, 2014 GORDON & REES LLP 

____________________________ 

Stuart Gordon 

James Reilly 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Michael O'Donnell and Michale O'Donnell 

Daifuku America Corporation 

Dated: February __, 2014 BOWMAN AND BROOKE LLP 

____________________________ 

Ryan A. McCarthy 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Daifuku America Corporation 

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 The Court, after reading the Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order submitted by the parties, 

hereby approves of and enters this Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: February 24, 2014. 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

MICHAEL O'DONNELL and MICHALE 

O'DONNELL, 

 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

DAIFUKU AMERICA CORPORATION, and 

DOES 1 through 25, Inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

 

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Case No. CIV-S-13-1747-EFB 

Assigned to: Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan 

APPENDIX "A" TO STIPULATED 

NON-SHARING PROTECTIVE ORDER

 I, ___________________________________________________, certify that I have read the 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order dated _____________, entered in the above-captioned action 

and further certify that I fully understand the procedural and substantive requirements of that Stipulated 

Non-Sharing Protective Order, a copy of which is attached hereto. Before reviewing or receiving 

access to any document, material, information and/or discovery subject to the protection of that 

Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order and as a condition for such review and/or access, I 

understand and agree that I am personally bound by and subject to all of the terms and provisions of 

the Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. I subject myself to the jurisdiction and venue of said 

Court for purposes of enforcement of the Stipulated Non-Sharing Protective Order. 

___________________________________ 

(signature) 

___________________________________ 

(print name) 

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