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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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CHARLES F. PREUSS (State Bar No. 45783) 

THOMAS W. PULLIAM, JR. (State Bar No. 46322) MICHELLE A. CHILDERS (State Bar No. 197064) 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

50 Fremont, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105-2235 

Telephone: (415) 591-7500 

Facsimile: (415) 591-7510 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DePUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. and 

WILLIAM FRANCIS GILES 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

 

THOMAS J. GALLAGHER and 

KATHLEEN ANN GALLAGHER, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC., a 

foreign corporation; WILLIAM FRANCIS 

GILES, an individual; and DOES 1-25, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C 05 4313 JCS 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER [REVISED] 

Plaintiffs, Thomas J. Gallagher and Kathleen Ann Gallagher, and Defendants 

Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc. and William Francis Giles, (hereinafter referred to as “DePuy”) 

hereby stipulate and agree, through their respective attorneys of record as follows: 

1. DePuy may designate as confidential material all or any part of documents 

produced by them in response to initial disclosures, various interrogatories and requests 

for production of documents filed by plaintiffs herein. DePuy agrees that the designation 

of material as confidential shall be made by them only after a bona fide determination 

that the material is in fact a trade secret or other confidential research, commercial or 

proprietary information. 

2. The designation of confidential material shall be made by placing or 

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affixing on the material in a manner which will not interfere with its legibility the words 

“Confidential: Protective Order” or words to that effect. The designation shall be made 

prior to, or contemporaneously with, production or disclosure of that material. 

Deposition testimony or any portion thereof may be designated “Confidential” on the 

record at the time of the deposition or within a reasonable time after receipt of the 

deposition transcript. All copies, duplicates, extracts, summaries or descriptions 

(hereinafter referred to collectively as copies), of documents designated as Confidential 

under this Order or any portion of such a document, shall be immediately affixed with the 

designation CONFIDENTIAL if the word does not already appear on the copy. All such 

copies shall be afforded the full protection of this Order. If timely corrected, an 

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information as “Confidential” does not waive 

DePuy’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

3. Material or information designated as confidential under this Stipulation 

and Protective Order shall not be used or disclosed by plaintiffs, or their counsel or any 

person acting on their behalf to any other persons except as provided for hereinafter or 

for any business or competitive purposes, or for any other purposes whatsoever other than 

the preparation and trial of this action and any appeal herein. 

4. Counsel for plaintiffs shall not disclose or permit the disclosure of any 

material or information designated as confidential under this Stipulation and Protective 

Order to any other person or entity, except in the following circumstances: 

 (a) Disclosure may be made to employees of 

counsel for plaintiffs who have direct functional 

responsibility for assisting in the preparation and trial of this action or any appeal herein. Any employee to whom disclosure is made shall be advised of, shall become subject 

to, and shall agree in advance of disclosure to, the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order requiring that the material and information be held in confidence. 

 (b) Disclosure may be made to consultants or 

experts (hereinafter, “expert”) employed by plaintiffs or their counsel to assist in the preparation and trial of this litigation. Prior to disclosure to any expert, the expert must agree to be bound by the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order by executing the Confidentiality Agreement annexed hereto 

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as Exhibit “A.” A copy of each executed Confidentiality Agreement shall be furnished to counsel for DePuy prior to disclosure to the expert. In no event shall any disclosure be made to employees, officers or directors of any competitors 

of DePuy, irrespective of whether they are retained as an expert for plaintiffs. 

 (c) Disclosure may be made to plaintiffs to the 

extent required for assisting in the preparation and trial of this action or any appeal herein. To the extent such disclosure is 

made, plaintiffs shall be advised of, shall become subject to, 

and shall agree in advance of disclosure to, the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order requiring that the 

material and information be held as confidential and shall 

execute the Confidentiality Agreement annexed hereto as 

Exhibit “A.” 

 (d) Disclosure may be made to the Court and court 

personnel (including the court having jurisdiction over any appeal) as provided hereinafter in paragraph 7 or 8.. 

 (e) Disclosure may be made to Court reporters used 

in connection with the litigation. 

 (f) Disclosure may be made to any person who (i) 

wrote or received a copy of the document designated 

confidential before it was furnished in this litigation, or (ii) was present or participated in a meeting or discussion of the protected information before it was furnished in this 

litigation. 

 (g) Disclosure may be made to any mediators, 

secretaries, paraprofessional assistants, and other employees of such mediators who are actively engaged in assisting the 

mediators in connection with this matter. 

 (h) Disclosure may be made to employees of 

outside copying, document imaging and facsimile services. 

 (i) Disclosure may be made to witnesses or 

deponents in the course of this litigation, only as necessary for the litigation and only after the person to whom such disclosure is made has been informed of the Protective Order 

and has agreed in writing to be bound by it, by signing the form of acknowledgement attached to this Protective Order as 

Exhibit “A”. The executed acknowledgement shall be 

retained by plaintiffs’ counsel, with a copy provided to DePuy’s counsel on request. 

5. The counsel for plaintiffs shall keep all material or information designated 

as confidential which is received under this Stipulation & Protective Order within its 

exclusive possession and control, except as provided hereinafter in paragraph 6, and shall 

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maintain such material and information in their offices or other secure facility. Except as 

provided in paragraph 4 above, no person shall have access to the foregoing material and 

information. 

6. Any person having access to material or information designated 

confidential under this Stipulation & Protective Order, including consultants and experts, 

shall not make copies, extracts, summaries, or descriptions of the material or information 

or any portion thereof, except as convenient or necessary for the preparation and trial of 

this litigation. 

7. Material or information claimed to be confidential that is subject to a 

dispute as to whether it is in fact confidential material or information shall, until further 

order of the Court, be treated as confidential in accordance with the provisions of this 

Stipulation & Protective Order. DePuy’s designation of material or information as 

confidential shall not be controlling. Plaintiff may challenge any or all confidential 

designations of DePuy by written notice in accordance with this paragraph. If plaintiffs 

elect to challenge any designation of confidentiality of any material or information 

pursuant to this Order, said party shall begin the process by conferring directly (in voice 

to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient). In conferring, the 

challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation 

was not proper and must give the designating party an opportunity to review the 

designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and change the designation. Should 

DePuy not voluntarily remove such designation after the meet and confer process, DePuy 

may then file a written motion with the Court for an order determining confidentiality, 

accompanied by one copy of each document, response, or other portion of transcript 

challenged. The motion and accompanying materials shall be filed under seal as 

provided herein, and the confidentiality of such materials or information shall remain 

protected until the Court shall order otherwise. The parties shall attempt to resolve any 

such challenge by agreement prior to the time for filing such a motion as herein provided. 

8. If, in connection with any motion or other proceeding except trial, any party 

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intends to offer into evidence any documents claimed to be confidential by DePuy, such 

evidence shall be lodged with the Court in accordance with Civil Local Rule 79-5. The 

plaintiffs shall be entitled to identify and use documents for trial purposes regardless of 

confidentiality designations, provided that for any documents identified on the Plaintiffs’ 

Exhibit List for use at trial, DePuy shall be entitled to seek appropriate protection, by 

motions in limine or otherwise, for any document so identified. 

9. Upon final termination of this action, whether by judgment, settlement or 

otherwise, upon written request from counsel for DePuy, counsel for plaintiffs shall 

return to counsel for DePuy all materials and all copies thereof in his possession or 

subject to his control (including but not limited to materials furnished to consultants 

and/or experts) that were designated by DePuy as confidential material in accordance 

with this Stipulation & Protective Order and/or, in the alternative, execute an affidavit or 

declaration affirming based on personal knowledge that all copies of such materials, 

including copies upon which any notes have been made, have been destroyed. 

STIPULATED TO and CONSENTED TO BY: 

Dated: August 10, 2006 MOORE & BROWNING

 /s/ MICHAEL B. MOORE 

MICHAEL B. MOORE 

595 Market Street, Suite 1320 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 956-6500 

Facsimile: (415) 591-6580 

and 

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Dated: August 10, 2006 MAGLIO LAW FIRM

 /s/ ALTOM M. MAGLIO

ALTOM M. MAGLIO 

2480 Fruitville Road, Suite 6 

Sarasota, FL 34237 

Telephone: (941) 952-5242 

Facsimile: (941) 952-5042 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 

THOMAS J. GALLAGHER and 

KATHLEEN ANN GALLAGHER 

And 

Dated: August 10, 2006 DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP

 /s/ MICHELLE A. CHILDERS

MICHELLE A. CHILDERS 

50 Fremont, 20th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2235 

Telephone: (415) 591-7500 

Facsimile: (415) 591-7510 

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Michael R. Conner 

BARNES & THORNBURG LLP 

11 South Meridian Street 

Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 

(317) 236-1313 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DePUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC. and 

WILLIAM FRANCIS GILES 

SO ORDERED, this day of , 2006. 

 

Judge Jeffrey S. White 

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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT CASE NO. C 05 4313 JCS

 

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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT

The undersigned hereby acknowledges that he/she has read the Stipulation & 

Protective Order executed by the attorneys of record for the parties in the action presently 

pending In The United States District Court Northern District of California, entitled. 

Thomas J. Gallagher and Kathleen Ann Gallagher, Plaintiffs, vs. DePuy Orthopaedics, 

Inc., et al, Defendants, Case No. C 05 4313 JCS, and understands the terms thereof and 

agrees, upon threat of penalty of contempt, to be bound by such terms. 

Dated: , 2006 By 

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