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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1109 Breach of Fiduciary Duties

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Donald Patrick Sullivan

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

50 California Street, 9th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-4615 

Telephone: (415) 394-9400 

Facsimile: (415) 394-9401 

Donald.Sullivan@jacksonlewis.com 

Howard Shapiro (admitted pro hac vice) 

Stacey C.S. Cerrone (admitted pro hac vice) 

Lindsey H. Chopin (admitted pro hac vice) 

Andrew T. Will (admitted pro hac vice) 

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

601 Poydras Street, Suite 1400 

New Orleans, LA 70130 

Telephone: (504) 208-1755 

Facsimile: (504) 208-1759 

Howard.Shapiro@jacksonlewis.com 

Stacey.Cerrone@jacksonlewis.com

Lindsey.Chopin@jacksonlewis.com 

Andrew.Will@jacksonlewis.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(FRESNO DIVISION)

In re Sutter Health ERISA Litigation Master Case and File No. 1:20-cv-01007-JLTBAM

[PROPOSED] JOINT STIPULATION 

FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action will involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information, including but not limited to privileged confidential 

investigation(s) related to personnel records, medical records, and sensitive investment material

for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than 

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prosecuting this litigation is warranted. Accordingly, Plaintiffs and Defendant (the “Parties”) 

hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The 

Parties acknowledge 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 Parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, 

that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under 

seal; Local Rule 141 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. However, the 

Parties agree they will meet and confer about obtaining a sealing order before filing any 

confidential information.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “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). 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as 

well as their collective support staff). 

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

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

2.5 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.

2.6 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 

(whether testifying or non-testifying) or as a consultant in this action.

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2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party to this action. House 

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

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

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.9 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 which has appeared on behalf of 

that Party.

2.10 Party: any Party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

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

Material in this action.

2.12 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.

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

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

Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and 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. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as 

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a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party 

prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who 

obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 

this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court 

order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; or (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law.

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 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) 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 mistaken designation. 

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

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(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 the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” 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).

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

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

material 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 deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony.

(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 or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a 

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portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the 

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

5.3 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. For purposes of this section, a correction 

made within a reasonable time of being put on notice of an inadvertent failure to designate shall 

constitute a timely correction.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a 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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 

for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written 

notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 

specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The Parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in 

good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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, if no change in designation is offered, 

to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next 

stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or 

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establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in 

a timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. Subject to the intervening and superseding rules of United 

States Magistrate Judge McAuliffe, if the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Local Rules 141.1 and 251 within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of 

the Parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is 

earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the 

movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. 

Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration within 

21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged 

designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality 

designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the

designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this 

provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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 the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 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 case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

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been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 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. 

The Parties will seek to obtain a sealing order prior to filing any Confidential Information with 

the Court. 

7.2 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) 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 litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 

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

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

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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

necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 

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 must be separately 

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bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

8. 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: 

(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.

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 Stipulated Protective 

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

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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 hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. 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 e-discovery 

order that provides for production without prior privilege review. The Parties’ Stipulated Rule 

502(d) Order is attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated herein by reference. 

11. MISCELLANEOUS

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

seek its modification by the court in the future. 

11.2 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.

11.3 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 Local Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed under 

seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. 

Pursuant to Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the 

Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to 

protection under the law. If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal 

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pursuant to Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record pursuant to Local Rule 141 unless otherwise instructed by the 

court. 

 11.4 The Parties’ duties described in this Stipulation for Protective Order to maintain the 

confidentiality of “CONFIDENTIAL” information and only use such material and information 

for purposes of this litigation shall commence upon execution of this document by their counsel 

regardless of when or if the terms herein become an order of the Court. 

12. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 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. 

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 4 (DURATION).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: August 21, 2023 MILLER SHAH LLP

 By: /s/ Alec Berin ALEC BERIN

 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, the Plan, 

and the Proposed Class 

Date: August 21, 2023 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

By: /s/ Howard Shapiro 

HOWARD SHAPIRO

 Attorneys for Defendants 

ORDER

Having considered the parties’ joint stipulation for the entry of a protective order, and 

finding good cause, the Court adopts the stipulated protective order. (Doc. 104.) 

The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California, any documents subject to the protective order to be filed under seal 

must be accompanied by a written request which complies with Local Rule 141 prior to sealing.

The party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required to show good cause for 

documents attached to a non-dispositive motion or compelling reasons for documents attached to 

a dispositive motion. Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). 

Within five (5) days of any approved document filed under seal, the party shall file a redacted 

copy of the sealed document. The redactions shall be narrowly tailored to protect only the 

information that is confidential or was deemed confidential. 

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Additionally, the parties shall consider resolving any dispute arising under the stipulated 

protective order according to the Court’s informal discovery dispute procedure.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 22, 2023 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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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 Eastern District of California on 

_____________, 2023 in the case of In Re Sutter Health ERISA Litigation, Case No. Master Case 

and File No. 1:20-cv-01007-JLT-BAM. 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 

Eastern 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 service 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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EXHIBIT B

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED ORDER REGARDING THE

DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED INFORMATION

(Federal Rules of Evidence 502(d)) 

Sutter Health (“Defendant”) and Christina Bonicarlo, Nicole Garcia, Ronald Hudson, 

Adam Blackburn, Robert L. Hackett, Tabitha Hoglund, and Stephanie Chadwick (“Plaintiffs”) 

(collectively the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel, have jointly stipulated to the 

terms of Stipulated Order Governing the Disclosure of Privileged Information, and with the Court 

being fully advised as to the same, it is hereby ORDERED: 

I. APPLICABILITY

 1. This Order shall be applicable to and govern all deposition transcripts and/or 

videotapes, and documents produced in response to requests for production of documents, 

answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, affidavits, declarations and all 

other information or material produced, made available for inspection, or otherwise submitted by 

any of the parties in this litigation as well as testimony adduced at trial or during any hearing 

(collectively “Information”). 

II. PRODUCTION OF DISCOVERY MATERIALS CONTAINING POTENTIALLY 

PRIVILEGED INFORMATION 

 1. The production of any privileged or otherwise protected or exempted Information, 

as well as the production of Information without an appropriate designation of confidentiality, 

shall not be deemed a waiver or impairment of any claim of privilege or protection, including, but 

not limited to, the attorney-client privilege, the protection afforded to work-product materials, or 

the subject matter thereof, or the confidential nature of any such Information, as to the produced 

Information, or any other Information.

 2. The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, electronically 

stored information (“ESI”) or Information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of 

the privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. 

This Order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum protection allowed by Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d). 

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 3. The producing party must notify the receiving party promptly, in writing, upon 

discovery that a document containing privileged and/or work-product material has been produced. 

Upon receiving written notice from the producing party that privileged and/or work-product 

material has been produced, all such Information, and all copies thereof, shall be returned to the 

producing party within ten (10) business days of receipt of such notice and the receiving party 

shall not use such information for any purpose, except as provided in paragraph 5, until further 

Order of the Court. The receiving party shall also attempt, in good faith, to retrieve and return or 

destroy all copies of the documents in electronic format.

 4. The receiving party may contest the privilege or work-product designation by the 

producing party, shall give the producing party written notice of the reason for said disagreement. 

However, the receiving party may not challenge the privilege or immunity claim by arguing that 

the disclosure itself is a waiver of any applicable privilege. In that instance, the receiving party 

shall, within fifteen (15) business days from the initial notice by the producing party, seek an 

Order from the Court compelling the production of the material.

 5. Any analyses, memoranda or notes which were internally generated based upon 

such produced Information shall immediately be placed in sealed envelopes and shall be 

destroyed in the event that (a) the receiving party does not con-test that the Information is 

privileged, or (b) the Court rules that the Information is privileged. Such analyses, memoranda or 

notes may only be removed from the sealed envelopes and returned to its intended purpose in the 

event that (a) the producing party agrees in writing that the Information is not privileged, or (b)

the Court rules that the Information is not privileged. 

 6. Nothing contained herein is intended to or shall serve to limit a party’s right to 

conduct a review of documents, ESI or Information (including metadata) for relevance, 

responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected Information before production. 

7. IMMEDIATE OBLIGATION 

The Parties’ duties described in this Stipulation to maintain the confidentiality of 

“CONFIDENTIAL” information and only use such material and information for purposes of this 

litigation shall commence upon execution of this document by their counsel regardless of when or 

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if the terms herein become an order of the Court. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: August 21, 2023 MILLER SHAH LLP

 By: /s/ Alec Berin 

 ALEC BERIN

 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, the Plan, 

and the Proposed Class 

Date: August 21, 2023 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

By: /s/ Howard Shapiro 

HOWARD SHAPIRO

 Attorneys for Defendants 

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RULE 502(d) ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED:

 1. The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, electronically 

stored information (“ESI”) or information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of 

the privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. 

This Order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum protection allowed by Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d). 

 2. Nothing contained herein is intended to or shall serve to limit a party’s right to 

conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including metadata) for relevance, 

responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information before production. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 22, 2023 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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