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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:15 Antitrust Litigation

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PROTECTIVE ORDER 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, OAKLAND DIVISION 

IN RE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES

ANTITRUST LITIGATION 

_______________________________

This Document Relates to: 

ALL CONSOLIDATED ACTIONS 

CASE NO. 13-MD-2420-YGR (DMRx)

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

This Protective Order applies only to documents and information produced by Palladium 

Energy, Inc. in this litigation. All other discovery continues to be governed by the Court’s 

prior protective orders in this litigation. 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may involve production of trade secrets or 

other confidential research, development, or commercial information, within the meaning of 

Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c); or other private or competitively sensitive information for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation 

would be warranted. This Protective Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or 

responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or 

items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to confidential treatment. As set forth in 

Section 10, below, this Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under 

seal. Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards 

that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal, and is 

hereby incorporated by reference. This Protective Order shall not apply to the use of protected 

material at trial. The parties agree to meet and confer and seek Court approval in advance of trial to 

address appropriate limitations on the use of such material at trial. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Party: Any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, documents, 

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

to discovery in this matter. 

2.3 Confidential Information or Items: Information (regardless of how generated, stored 

or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 26(c). 

2.4 Highly Confidential Information or Items: Extremely sensitive Confidential 

Information or Items whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would create a substantial risk 

of injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. This category includes Information and 

Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ 

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EYES ONLY” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL— OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” as defined 

herein. 

2.5 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: A Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.7 Designating Party: A Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

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

CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY.” 

2.8 Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY.” 

2.9 Outside Counsel: Attorneys, along with their paralegals, and other support personnel, 

who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.10 In House Legal Personnel: Attorneys and other personnel employed by a Party to 

perform legal functions and/or who are responsible for overseeing this litigation for the Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and In House Legal Personnel (as well 

as their support staffs, including but not limited to attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, law clerks, and 

investigators), and, in the event an action or actions are brought by state Attorney(s) General, the 

Attorney General’s office including its attorneys, paralegals, and other support personnel. 

2.12 Expert and/or Consultant: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a 

matter pertinent to the litigation, along with his or her employees and support personnel, who has 

been retained by a Party or its Counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this action, 

and who is not a current employee, nor has been an employee within four years of the date of entry 

of this Protective Order, of a Party or of a Lithium-Ion Battery business unit of a non-party, and 

who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or of a LithiumIon Battery business unit of a non-party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

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consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

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

3. SCOPE 

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

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

Parties or Counsel in settings that might reveal Protected Material. However, this Protective Order 

shall not be construed to cause any Counsel to produce, return, and/or destroy their own attorney 

work product, or the work product of their co-counsel. 

4. DURATION 

The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Protective Order shall remain in effect, even 

after the termination of this litigation, until the Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or this 

Court orders otherwise. 

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 Protective Order must take 

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

and avoid indiscriminate designations. 

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. 

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for 

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 Receiving Parties that it is withdrawing or 

changing the mistaken designation. 

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

Order (see, e.g., section 5.2(b), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies 

for protection under this Protective Order must be clearly so designated before the material is 

disclosed or produced. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, should a Producing Party discover 

that it produced material that was not designated as Protected Material, the Producing Party may 

notify all Parties, in writing, of the error and identify (by Bates number or other individually 

identifiable information) the affected material and their new designation. Thereafter, the material so 

designated will be treated as Protected Material. Promptly after providing such notice, the 

Producing Party shall provide re-labeled copies of the material to each Receiving Party reflecting the 

change in designation. The Receiving Party will replace the incorrectly designated material with the 

newly designated material and will destroy the incorrectly designated material. 

Designation in conformity with this Protective Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary or digital image format (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” 

on each page or digital image that contains protected material unless otherwise agreed to a different 

designation protocol for digital information. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition, or other pretrial proceedings, that a Party, or a nonparty that sponsors, offers, gives, or elicits the testimony, designate any portion of the testimony as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” 

either on the record before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other pretrial proceeding, or in 

writing on or before the later of (i) twenty days after the final transcript is received or (ii) the date by 

which any review by the witness and corrections to the transcript are to be completed under Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 30(e). Only those portions of the testimony that are designated for protection in accordance 

with the preceding sentence shall be covered by the provisions of this Protective Order. The entire 

testimony shall be deemed to have been designated Confidential or Highly Confidential until the 

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time within which the transcript may be designated has elapsed. If testimony is not designated 

within the prescribed time period, then such testimony shall not be deemed Confidential or Highly 

Confidential except as ordered by the Court. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” as instructed by the Party or nonparty 

sponsoring, offering, giving or eliciting the witness’ testimony. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary or digital image, 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,” 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY”. 

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

qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” does not, standing alone, 

waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Protective Order for such 

material. If material is re-designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” after the material 

was initially produced, the Receiving Party, upon notification of the designation, must make 

reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Protective Order. 

5.4 Increasing the Designation of Information or Items Produced by Other Parties or 

Non-Parties. Subject to the standards of paragraph 5.1, a Party may increase the designation (i.e., 

change any Disclosure or Discovery Material produced without a designation to a designation of 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” 

or designate any Disclosure or Discovery Material produced as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY”) of any Discovery Material produced by any 

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other Party or non-Party, provided that said Discovery Material contains the upward Designating 

Party’s own Confidential or Highly Confidential Information. 

Increasing a designation shall be accomplished by providing written notice to all Parties 

identifying (by bates number or other individually identifiable information) the Disclosure or 

Discovery Material whose designation is to be increased. Promptly after providing such notice, the 

upward Designating Party shall provide re-labeled copies of the material to each Receiving Party 

reflecting the change in designation. The Receiving Party will replace the incorrectly designated 

material with the newly designated materials and will destroy the incorrectly designated materials. 

Any Party may object to the increased designation of Disclosure or Discovery Materials pursuant to 

the procedures set forth in paragraph 6 regarding challenging designations. The upward Designating 

Party shall bear the burden of establishing the basis for the increased designation. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later 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. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by notifying the 

Designating Party in writing, by telephone or in person of its challenge and identify the challenged 

material, then conferring directly in voice-to-voice dialogue (other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. The Parties must then meet and confer in good 

faith. Each Party must explain the basis for its respective position about the propriety of the 

challenged confidentiality designations. The parties shall have fourteen (14) days from the initial 

notification of a challenge to complete this meet and confer process. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. In any judicial proceeding challenging a confidentiality 

designation, the burden of persuasion with respect to the propriety of the confidentiality designation 

shall remain upon the Designating Party. If the parties are not able to resolve a dispute about a 

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confidentiality designation within the time provided in paragraph 6.2, above, the parties shall comply 

with the court’s Standing Order regarding resolution of discovery disputes and submit a joint letter 

to the court regarding the dispute. Until the ruling on the dispute becomes final, 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. 

In the event that the final ruling is that the challenged material is not confidential or that its 

designation should be changed, the Designating Party shall reproduce copies of all materials with 

their designations removed or changed in accordance with the ruling within thirty (30) days at the 

expense of the Designating Party. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF DISCOVERY MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Discovery Material that is disclosed or 

produced by a Producing Party only in connection with this action for prosecuting, defending, or 

attempting to settle this action. Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of 

persons and under the conditions described in this Protective Order. When the litigation has been 

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, 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 Protective 

Order. For purposes of this Protective Order, a secure website, or other internet-based document 

depository with adequate security and access limited to the persons authorized under this Protective 

Order, shall be deemed a secure location. 

The restrictions on Protected Material shall not apply to information which, at or prior to 

disclosure thereof in this action, is or was public knowledge as a result of publication by one having 

the unrestricted right to do so, or which is otherwise in the public domain. Nothing in this Protective 

Order shall in any way restrict the use or dissemination by a Party or third Party of its own 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” 

Protected Material. 

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7.2 Disclosure of “Confidential” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the 

Court or permitted in writing or on the record 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 counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 

(b) officers, directors, and employees of Parties to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) 

has been signed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) the author, addressees, or recipients of the document; 

(g) during their deposition, any natural person who would have likely reviewed such 

document during his or her employment as a result of the substantive nature of his or her 

employment position, or who is specifically identified in the document, or whose conduct is 

purported to be specifically identified in the document, or who would reasonably be expected to 

have knowledge of the information in the document based on the specific context; 

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

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A), which shall be made an exhibit to the deposition transcript, or has agreed on the record 

to keep the information confidential and not to use it for any purpose, or has been ordered to do so; 

and provided further that, pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 

reveal Confidential Information must be marked “Confidential” and separately bound by the court 

reporter and not included in the main deposition transcript and exhibit binder, and may not be 

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disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Protective Order; 

(i) participants in a focus group or mock jury who have agreed in writing to keep the 

information confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than the focus group, mock jury, or 

similar exercise, provided that such participants shall not be permitted to retain any copies of any 

Protected Material or to retain any notes of any Protected Material; and 

(j) any other person to whom the Designating Party agrees in writing or on the record 

and any other person to whom the Court compels access to the Confidential Information. 

7.3 Disclosure of Information of Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. No information or items designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

may be disclosed to any Party or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, current or former directors, 

officers, or employees, including In House Legal Personnel. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court 

or permitted in writing or on the record by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose, 

summarize, describe, characterize or otherwise communicate or make available, in whole or in part, 

information or items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to the following persons: 

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

of said counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 

(b) Experts and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) 

has been signed; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(e) the author, addressees, or recipients of the document; 

(f) during their deposition, any natural person who is specifically identified in the 

document, or whose conduct relevant to the claims or defenses in this litigation is purported to be 

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specifically identified in the document; 

(g) participants in a focus group or mock jury who have agreed in writing to keep the 

information confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than the focus group, mock jury, or 

similar exercise, provided that such participants shall not be permitted to retain any copies of any 

Protected Material or to retain any notes of any Protected Material. 

7.4 Disclosure of Information of Items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY”. The use of the designation “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY’ shall be limited to production of Protected Material of third parties in 

the possession of the Designating Party when such third party has instructed the designating Party to 

use this designation. No information or items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL ONLY” may be disclosed to any Party or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, current or 

former directors, officers, or employees, including In House Legal Personnel. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the Court or permitted in writing or on the record by the Designating Party, a Receiving 

Party may disclose, summarize, describe, characterize or otherwise communicate or make available, 

in whole or in part, information or items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL ONLY” only to the following persons: 

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

of said counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 

(b) Experts and/or Consultants with respect to each of whom (1) disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and (2) an “Agreement To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) 

has been signed; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) stenographers, their staffs, Professional Vendors, and private mediators to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement To Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(e) the author, addressees, or recipients of the document. 

7.5 Retention of Exhibit A. Outside Counsel for the Party that obtains the signed 

“Agreements To Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), as required above, shall retain such 

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documents for one year following the final termination of this action, including any appeals, and 

shall make them available to other Parties upon good cause shown. 

7.6 Retention of Protected Material. Persons who have been shown Protected Material 

pursuant to Section 7.2(b), (c), (f), (g), (h), or (i); Section 7.3(a), (e), or (f); or Section 7.4(a) or (e) 

shall not retain copies of such Protected Material. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION 

If a Receiving Party is served with a discovery request, subpoena or an order issued in other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY,” 

or any information or items produced in this action regardless of designation, the Receiving Party 

must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by electronic mail, if possible), along with a copy 

of the discovery request, subpoena or order, as soon as reasonably practicable. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform the party who caused the discovery 

request, subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Protective Order promptly to the party in the other action that caused the 

discovery request, subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this 

Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its 

interests in the court from which the discovery request, subpoena or order is issued. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court. 

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. 

9. 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 Protective Order, the 

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

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

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

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

Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. 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 Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within thirty days after 

the final termination of this action, including any appeals, each Receiving Party must return all 

Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “Protected Material” 

includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing 

any of the Protected Material. The Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected 

Material instead of returning it. 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 thirty day deadline that identifies (by category, 

where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the 

Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are 

entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence or attorney 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), above. 

12. INADVERTENTLY PRODUCED DOCUMENTS 

If a Party at any time notifies any other Party that it inadvertently produced documents, 

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testimony, information, and/or things that are protected from disclosure under the attorney-client 

privilege, work product doctrine, and/or any other applicable privilege or immunity from disclosure, 

or the Receiving Party discovers such inadvertent production, the inadvertent production shall not be 

deemed a waiver of the applicable privilege or protection. 

The Receiving Party shall immediately return all copies of such documents, testimony, 

information and/or things to the inadvertently producing Party and shall not use such items for any 

purpose until further order of the Court. In all events, such return must occur within three (3) 

business days of receipt of notice or discovery of the inadvertent production. The return of any 

discovery item to the inadvertently producing Party shall not in any way preclude the Receiving 

Party from moving the Court for a ruling that the document or thing was never privileged. 

13. ATTORNEY RENDERING ADVICE 

Nothing in this Protective Order will bar or otherwise restrict an attorney from rendering 

advice to his or her client with respect to this matter or from relying upon or generally referring to 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL—OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY” 

Disclosure or Discovery Material in rendering such advice; provided however, that in rendering such 

advice or in otherwise communicating with his or her client, the attorney shall not reveal or disclose 

the specific content thereof if such disclosure is not otherwise permitted under this Protective Order. 

14. TRIAL 

The terms of this Protective Order shall govern in all circumstances except at trial. The 

parties shall meet and confer in advance of trial and seek the guidance of the Court as to appropriate 

procedures to govern such proceedings. 

15. GRAND JURY DISCOVERY 

No party shall serve or seek any discovery that would refer, reflect, or relate to any party’s or 

witness’ communications with the United States or with the grand jury (including, but not limited to, 

the fact or the existence of such communications), relating to the grand jury proceedings concerning 

the lithium ion battery industry, except by order of the Court upon good cause shown and consistent 

with governing law. This provision shall not bar the production to Plaintiffs of documents produced 

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by any defendant to the United States concerning lithium ion batteries and/or lithium ion battery 

products if ordered by the Court. 

16. MISCELLANEOUS 

16.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Protective Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

16.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. 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 

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. 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, __________________________________________________ [print full name], of 

_________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________ [print position of employment, firm name and full address], declare under 

penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California, Oakland Division on ___________________ [date] in the case of In re 

Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 4:13-MD-02420-YGR (DMRx).

I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 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 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 

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

if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

Date:__________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed:________________________________________ 

Printed name:____________________________________________ 

Signature:_______________________________________________ 

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The undersigned parties jointly and respectfully request that the Court enter this proposed 

Protective Order as an order. 

Dated: March 15, 2016 

By: /s/ Jeffrey J. Amato 

 JEFFREY J. AMATO 

A. Paul Victor (pro hac vice) 

Eva W. Cole (pro hac vice) 

Jeffrey J. Amato (pro hac vice) 

Erica C. Smilevski (pro hac vice) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

200 Park Avenue 

New York, NY 10166-4193 

Telephone: (212) 294-4601 

Facsimile: (212) 294-4700 

jkessler@winston.com 

pvictor@winston.com 

ewcole@winston.com 

jamato@winston.com 

esmilevski@winston.com 

Ian L. Papendick (SBN 275648) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

101 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 591-6904 

Facsimile: (415) 591-1400 

ipapendick@winston.com 

dhughes@winston.com 

Roxann E. Henry (pro hac vice) 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 

2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

Suite 6000 

Washington, DC 20006 

Telephone: (202) 887-1500 

Facsimile: (202) 887-0763 

rhenry@mofo.com 

Counsel for Panasonic Corporation, 

Panasonic Corporation of North America, 

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., and 

SANYO North America Corporation 

 

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By: /s/ Shana E. Scarlett 

 SHANA E. SCARLETT 

Steve W. Berman 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300 

Seattle, WA 98101 

Telephone: 206-623-7292 

Facsimile: 206-623-0594 

steve@hbsslaw.com 

Shana E. Scarlett 

Jeff D. Friedman 

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP 

715 Hearst Avenue, Suite 202 

Berkeley, CA 94710 

Telephone: 510-725-3000 

Facsimile: 510-725-3001 

jefff@hbsslaw.com 

shanas@hbsslaw.com 

Elizabeth J. Cabraser 

Richard M. Heimann 

Eric B. Fastiff 

Lin Y. Chan 

Brendan Glackin 

LIEFF CABRASER HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

275 Battery Street, 29th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

ecabraser@lchb.com 

rheimann@lchb.com 

efastiff@lchb.com 

lchan@lchb.com 

bglackin@lchb.com 

Joseph W. Cotchett 

Steven N. Williams 

Nancy L. Fineman 

Joanna W. LiCalsi 

COTCHETT, PITRE & McCARTHY, LLP 

840 Malcolm Road 

Burlingame, CA 94010 

Telephone: (650) 697-6000 

Facsimile: (650) 697-0577 

jcotchett@cpmlegal.com 

nfineman@cpmlegal.com 

swilliams@cpmlegal.com 

jlicalsi@cpmlegal.com 

Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel for Indirect Purchaser Plaintiffs 

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E-FILING ATTESTATION 

I, Jeffrey J. Amato, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this 

document. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), I hereby attest that each of the signatories 

identified above has concurred in this filing. 

 /s/ Jeffrey J. Amato 

 Jeffrey J. Amato 

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IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED:__March 24, 2016_____________ ________________________________ 

U

DONNA M. RYU 

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Donna M. Ryu

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