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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441in Removal- Insurance Contract

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WAWGD, INC. DBA FORESIGHT 

SPORTS, a California Corporation,

Plaintiff,

v.

SENTINEL INS. COMPANY, LTD., a 

Connecticut corporation, and DOES 1-

100, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No.: 16cv2917 CAB (BGS)

ORDER GRANTING THIRD JOINT 

MOTION FOR STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE: 

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

[ECF No. 19]

On July 14, 2017, the parties submitted a Third Joint Motion for Stipulated 

Protective Order Re: Confidential Documents. (ECF No. 19.) The Court previously denied 

two prior joint motions for stipulated protective orders due to failure to comply with the 

Court’s Chambers’ Rules. (ECF Nos. 16, 18.) 

Having reviewed and considered the instant motion, and good cause appearing, the 

Court GRANTS the Third Joint Motion for Stipulated Protective Order Re: Confidential 

Documents (ECF No. 19) as follows:

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Pursuant to the Parties’ Stipulation, discovery in this action is likely to involve 

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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. As the parties acknowledge, the Court notes 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 

Court further notes, as set forth in Section 13.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order 

does not entitle the Parties to file confidential information under seal; instead, the Civil 

Local Rules 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.

2. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

Pursuant to the Parties’ Stipulation and counsel’s representations to the Court 

therein, this action is likely to involve the discovery of confidential, proprietary, and trade 

secret policies, procedures, manuals, guidelines, and/or standards regarding the handling 

of insurance claims for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for 

any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such confidential and 

proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, confidential business 

information, information regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential 

commercial information, information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or 

which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal 

statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of 

information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery 

materials, to adequately protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to 

ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in 

preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the 

litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified 

in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as 

confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith 

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belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good 

cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

3. DEFINITIONS

3.1 Action: WAWGD, Inc. v. Sentinel Ins. Co. Ltd., S.D. Cal., Case No. 3:16-cv02917-CAB-BGS. 

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

information or items under this Order.

3.3 “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), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.

3.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record (as well as their support staff).

3.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

3.6 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.

3.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an 

expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.

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

legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

3.9 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 that has appeared on 

behalf of that party, including support staff.

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3.10 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, representatives, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record 

(and their support staffs).

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

Material in this Action.

3.12 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.

3.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

a Producing Party.

4. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this 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. 

Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the trial 

judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

5. DURATION

Once a case proceeds to trial, all of the court-filed information to be introduced that 

was previously designated as confidential or maintained pursuant to this protective order 

becomes public and will be presumptively available to all members of the public, including 

the press, unless compelling reasons supported by specific factual findings to proceed 

otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance of the trial. See Kamakana v. City and 

County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180-81 (9th Cir. 2006) (distinguishing “good cause” 

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showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons” standard 

when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, the terms of this 

protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of the trial.

6. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 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. 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 the case development process or to impose unnecessary 

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

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 inapplicable designation.

6.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 6.2(a) below), 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, at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”, along with the name 

and case number of this case (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that 

contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies 

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for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., 

by making appropriate markings in the margins).

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

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

documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 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 “CONFIDENTIAL legend” 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).

(b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identify the 

Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition. 

(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 is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants protection, 

the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

6.3 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.

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order. 

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

process under the Civil Local Rules and Hon. Judge Skomal’s Chambers Rules. Any 

discovery motion must strictly comply with said procedures.

7.3 Burden. 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 or withdrawn 

the confidentiality designation, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question 

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

the Court rules on the challenge.

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

8.1 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 Action 

only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material 

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

this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of section 14 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.

8.2 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) any Receiving Party who has signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A to Parties’ Stipulation);

(b) 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 Action;

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(c) the officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

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

is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A to Parties’ Stipulation);

(e) the Court and its personnel;

(f) court reporters and their staff; 

(g) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A to Parties’ Stipulation);

(h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

(i) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the Action 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party requests that 

the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto; and (2) they will not be permitted 

to keep any confidential information unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A to Parties’ Stipulation), 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 may be separately bound by the 

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

Protective Order; and

(j) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually 

agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 

9. 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,” that Party must: 

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(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” 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.

10. 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 NonParty in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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: 

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(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 Action, 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, 

if requested. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to 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 Non-Party 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.

11. 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, 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 as Exhibit A to the Parties’ Stipulation.

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12. 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 ediscovery 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.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

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

to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

13.2 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.

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

Material must comply with the Civil Local Rules. Protected Material may only be filed 

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

Material at issue; good cause must be shown in the request to file under seal. If a Party’s 

request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the Court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the Court.

14. FINAL DISPOSITION

14.1 After the final disposition of this Action, within 60 days of a written request 

by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

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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. Producing Party shall provide said written certification for 

execution to the Receiving Party. 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 5 (DURATION).

14.2 Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 

measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.

14.3 Any action by the Court must be preceded by an ex parte motion for an order 

authorizing the return of all Confidential and Attorneys’ Eyes Only Material to the party 

that produced the information or the destruction thereof.

15. PROVISIONS PURSUANT TO JUDGE SKOMAL’S CHAMBERS 

RULES

Pursuant to Hon. Judge Skomal’s Chambers Rules, it is further ordered as follows:

15.1 What the Court shall do with confidential or sealed documents after the case 

is closed: see Section 14. Pursuant to Section 14.3, any action by the Court must be 

preceded by an ex parte motion for an order authorizing the return of all Confidential and 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Material to the party that produced the information or the destruction 

thereof.

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15.2 Modification of the Protective Order by the Court. The Court may modify the 

terms and conditions of this Order for good cause, or in the interest of justice, or on its own 

order at any time in these proceedings.

15.3 Relation to any court or local rules. This Order and the Parties’ Stipulation 

do not change, amend, or circumvent any court rule or local rule.

15.4 Filing documents under seal. No document shall be filed under seal unless 

counsel secures a court order allowing the filing of a document under seal. An application 

to file a document under seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and on the person or 

entity that has custody and control of the document, if different from opposing counsel. If 

opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has custody and control of the document, 

wishes to oppose the application, he/she must contact the chambers of the judge who will 

rule on the application, to notify the judge’s staff that an opposition to the application will 

be filed.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 17, 2017

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _________________________ [print or type full name], of 

__________________________________________ [print or type full address], 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 Southern 

District of California on July 17, 2017 in the case of WAWGD, Inc. v. Sentinel Ins. Co., 

Ltd., S.D. Cal., Case No. 3:16-cv-02917-CAB-BGS. 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 

Southern 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. I hereby appoint _________________________ [print or type full name] of 

__________________________________________ [print or type full address and 

telephone number] as my California agent for services of process in connection with this 

action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: ______________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: ______________________________

Printed Name: ______________________________

Signature ______________________________

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