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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Insurance Contract

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[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

SARA M. THORPE (SBN 146529)

sthorpe@gordonrees.com 

JASON NELSON (SBN 215186)

jnelson@gordonrees.com 

GORDON & REES LLP

Embarcadero Center West

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 986-5900

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054

Attorneys for Plaintiff

UTICA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

UTICA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Plaintiff.

vs.

HAMILTON SUPPLY COMPANY 

INCORPORATED, a California corporation; 

Defendant.

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CASE NO. C 06-07846 SI

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PROTECTIVE ORDER

Complaint Filed: December 22, 2006

The following Protective Order governs protection of documents in this case,

pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and Federal Rule of Evidence 501.

1. This Protective Order shall control (a) the exchange of all documents, 

things and other products, including discovery material, between and among the Parties 

(as defined below), and from Applicable Nonparties (as defined below); (b) the filing of 

pleadings, motions, exhibits, and other papers; and (c) the questioning of witnesses.

2. Any Party that has not appeared in this litigation at the time this Order is 

executed by the Court may agree to be bound by to this Order at anytime.

3. As used herein:

UTICA/1036948/1186755v.1

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a. “Confidential Material” means information that is of value to its 

owner and is treated by it in the ordinary course of business as 

confidential. “Confidential Material” shall include the information, 

document, material or thing itself as well as all data derived 

therefrom and all copies, summaries, abstracts, excerpts, indices 

and descriptions. “Confidential Material” may include, without 

limitation, information relating to claims handling or underwriting 

decisions, claims handling or underwriting rules, processes, plans, 

strategies, operations, negotiations, business analyses, 

identification of employees, amount or source of any income, 

profits, losses, or expenditures of any person, firm, partnership, 

cooperation, or other organization or concerning or relating to the 

business of the person or firm from which the information was 

obtained.

b. “Party” and “Parties” means Utica Mutual Insurance Company and 

Hamilton Supply Company, Inc.

c. “Applicable Nonparty” and “Applicable Nonparties” means a 

nonparty from whom discovery is sought or whose Confidential 

Material is at issue in this lawsuit.

4. Any Party or Applicable Nonparty may designate as “Confidential” any 

exhibits, papers, things, representations of facts, discovery material (including answers 

to interrogatories, documents and things responsive to requests for production or 

inspection, and responses to requests for admissions) and sworn testimony (including 

affidavits, declarations, depositions, and exhibits thereto), or any portion thereof, 

produced or given in the course of this action that the Party or Applicable Nonparty 

contends in good faith contains Confidential Material. 

5. When producing material designated as “Confidential,” the producing 

Party or Applicable Nonparty shall mark the face of the document or thing (including 

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responses to interrogatories, requests for admissions, or written deposition questions) 

to indicate its confidential nature and production pursuant to this Protective Order. In 

the case of electronic media, the case or container shall be marked as applicable. A 

producing Party/Nonparty may make documents or things available prior to designating 

them Confidential Material, by informing of its intention to do so. Such initial inspection 

does not constitute any waiver of confidentiality with respect to any document or thing 

so inspected.

6. When giving testimony designated as “Confidential,” a testifying witness 

(or his or her counsel) may announce on the record that such testimony is Confidential 

Material pursuant to this Protective Order. Alternatively, the testifying witness (or his or 

her counsel) may designate the beginning and end of the confidential testimony on the 

errata sheet or in any written form within five (5) calendar days after receipt of a copy of 

the transcript from the court reporter. All testimony shall be deemed “Confidential” until 

that 5-calendar day period has expired. After that 5-calendar day period has expired, 

only that testimony that has been designated as such shall be deemed “Confidential” in 

accordance with this Order. The court reporter shall bind the Confidential testimony in 

separate volumes and mark the face of the transcript to indicate its confidential nature 

and production pursuant to this Order. The producing Party or Applicable Nonparty 

seeking to have testimony treated as Confidential pursuant to this Order shall bear any 

and all costs charged by the court reporter in connection with the separate binding or 

marking of Confidential Material.

7. If Confidential Material is included in any paper to be submitted to the 

Court, that material shall be filed with the Clerk of the Court under seal pursuant to 

Local Rule 79-5, and the Clerk of the Court shall keep the material under seal unless 

and until the Court enters a separate Order specifically directing it to be unsealed. The 

filing Party or Applicable Nonparty will take steps necessary to ensure that any such 

material will be maintained under seal by the Clerk of the Court before filing it. When 

filing material under seal, the filing Party or Applicable Nonparty shall submit the 

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material to the Court pursuant to the procedures specified in Local Rule 79-5.

8. In the event the Court determines sua sponte to unseal any material filed 

under seal, the Parties or Applicable Nonparties will be provided with adequate 

advance notice of the planned action and will have the opportunity to object.

9. Any Party may move the Court, upon notice, to remove the designation of 

“Confidential” with respect to any specified document, testimony, or any other thing, or 

any portion thereof. The Party challenging the designation of any document, testimony 

or other thing as “Confidential” shall have the burden of proving the impropriety of such 

designation.

10. Confidential Material produced or testimony given in this action that is 

“Confidential”, including all information derived therefrom and all copies, summaries, 

abstracts, excerpts, indices and descriptions, shall be held in confidence and shall not 

be used, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, disclosed, transferred, reverse 

engineered, decompiled or disassembled, directly or indirectly, in any form, by any 

means, or for any purpose other than to assist counsel of record in the prosecution, 

defense, or settlement of the action captioned above. Confidential Material produced 

in this action may not be used by any Party or other person in any other litigation.

11. Material or Testimony designated as “Confidential” shall not be made 

available or disclosed by the receiving Party to anyone other than the following:

a. In-house attorneys for any Party, active outside attorneys of record 

and the partners, associates, secretaries, paralegal assistants, and 

employees of such attorneys to the extent reasonably necessary to 

render professional services in the litigation;

b. Employees for any Party, for the sole purpose of assisting in the 

litigation, and reinsurers of any Party;

c. Deposition witnesses that are not a Party or employee of a Party,

provided that each executes a copy of the declaration pursuant to 

¶ 12 below;

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d. Independent persons retained by a Party or its attorney solely for 

the purpose of assisting counsel of record in the prosecution, 

defense or settlement of this action, such as independent experts 

or consultants, pursuant to the provisions of ¶ 12 below;

e. The Court, the Court’s staff attorney(s), and judicial assistants of 

the Court;

f. Court reporters and videographers;

g. Persons retained by a Party for the purpose of producing graphic or 

visual aids;

h. Any outside copying or document processing vendor (independent

of the Parties) retained by counsel to assist such counsel in 

connection with this action; and

i. Any other person designated by written agreement between the 

Parties or Applicable Nonparties or by subsequent Order of the 

Court after reasonable notice to all Parties and Applicable 

Nonparties.

12. The following procedures shall govern the disclosure of Confidential 

Material or Testimony to independent persons. Any party proposing to disclose any 

Confidential Material or Testimony marked as such by an opposing party to an 

independent person, including experts or consultants, must have that person execute a 

written, dated declaration in the form attached as Exhibit A acknowledging that he/she 

has received and read a copy of this Protective Order and he/she agrees to be bound 

by its terms. The Parties warrant that they will obtain declarations for all such persons 

prior to disclosure. Counsel of record shall be responsible for maintaining a file of all 

original executed declarations.

13. In the event that a Confidential document paper, or thing is produced 

without having been previously marked “Confidential,” the Party in receipt of that 

material shall, upon written notice from the producing Party or Applicable Nonparty, 

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stamp the document or thing “Confidential,” as applicable, and thereafter preserve 

such document or thing in accordance with this Protective Order.

14. Except as provided below, witnesses at depositions taken during this 

action may be shown any Confidential Material without restriction during the course of

their deposition and a Party’s ability to use, exhibit, or disclose such Confidential 

Material at depositions taken in this action shall not be limited. Such use will not be 

deemed a waiver of the provisions of this Protective Order. The Party using 

Confidential Material during a deposition shall notify the court reporter of this Protective 

Order. After time for correction of the deposition has expired, the court reporter shall 

not retain a copy of any Confidential Material.

15. Whenever Confidential Material or Testimony is to be discussed or 

disclosed in a deposition, the Party or Applicable Nonparty producing the Confidential 

Material or giving the Confidential Testimony, may require the exclusion from the room 

of any person who is not entitled to receive the Confidential Material or Testimony 

under this Protective Order, except the witness, his or her counsel, the court reporter, 

and if applicable, the videographer.

16. Confidential Material designated Confidential can be replaced by an 

unmarked copy, if appropriate, for use at trial, without waiving the rights and 

obligations under this Order.

17. Within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of this action (including all 

appeals, if any) each Party shall assemble and deliver to the producing Party or 

Applicable Nonparty all Confidential Material, whether from formal or informal 

discovery, including papers, documents, things, testimony, and all extracts, summaries 

and reproductions thereof. The producing Party or Applicable Nonparty will bear the 

cost of shipping such documents from the non-producing Party’s location. 

Alternatively, at the option and expense of the producing Party or Applicable Nonparty, 

counsel for the receiving Party may within the thirty (30) day period certify to the 

producing Party or Applicable Nonparty the destruction of all such Confidential Material 

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that would otherwise be returned. Insofar as the provisions of this Protective Order 

restrict communication about, and the use of, the discovery material produced and 

testimony given thereunder, this Protective Order shall continue to be binding after the 

conclusion of the action. Notwithstanding the foregoing, outside counsel may retain a 

complete set of all papers filed in this matter.

18. All originals or reproductions of any Confidential Material given by a nonproducing Party to any independent person shall be retrieved by the non-producing 

Party and returned to the producing Party or Applicable Nonparty, within 30 days of the 

conclusion of this action or destroyed. All Parties receiving such documents or 

information shall certify within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the action that they 

have returned or destroyed all such documents or information and all copies thereof.

19. In the event that any Party is served any judicial process, court order, 

and/or administrative or regulatory order to compel production or disclosure of any 

documents, materials, papers, testimony, or things obtained by that Party from another 

Party or Applicable Nonparty in this action, and which have been designated

“Confidential” by the producing Party, the Party served with such judicial process or 

order shall, in writing, inform the Parties to this Order, or Applicable Nonparties, within 

ten (10) calendar days of the receipt of such process or order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Date: _________________, 2007 _______________________________

HON. SUSAN ILLSTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

UTICA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY agrees to be bound by this Protective 

Order.

Date: _________________, 2007 _______________________________

SARA M. THORPE

Counsel for UTICA MUTUAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY

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HAMILTON SUPPLY COMPANY Inc. agrees to be bound by this Protective 

Order.

Date: _________________, 2007 _______________________________

Counsel for HAMILTON SUPPLY 

COMPANY INC.

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EXHIBIT A

DECLARATION RE PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. I, _______________________, have read the attached PROTECTIVE 

ORDER dated _______________________, as Ordered by the Hon. Susan Illston (the 

“Order”), and agree to be bound by its terms with respect to any designated Confidential 

Material furnished to me as set forth in the Order.

2. I further agree (a) not to disclose to anyone any such Confidential Material 

or materials and (b) not to make any copies of any Confidential Material furnished to 

me.

3. I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court, 

Northern District of California with regard to any proceedings to enforce the terms of the

Order.

4. I hereby agree that any Confidential Material furnished to me will be used 

by me only for the purposes of this litigation and for no other purpose, and will not be 

used by me in any business affairs of my employer or of my own or be imparted by me 

to any other person and will be returned to the person who furnished such Confidential 

Material to me.

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Date Print Name:__________________________

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