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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 7:6(b) Federal Commodity Exchange Regulation

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STIPULATED REQUEST FOR A REVISED STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER BETWEEN THE 

TEMPORARY RECEIVER AND DEFENDANTS 

 

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GARDNER CARTON & 

DOUGLAS LLP

191 N. WACKER – STE. 2900 

CHICAGO, IL 60606 

(312) 569-1000 

ROBERT S. LAWRENCE (State Bar No. 207099) 

COLLETTE ERICKSON FARMER & O’NEILL LLP 

235 Pine Street, Suite 1300 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 788-4646 

Fax No.: (415) 788-6929 

TIMOTHY J. CAREY 

DAVID W. PORTEOUS 

GARDNER CARTON & DOUGLAS LLP 

191 N. Wacker Drive – Suite 2900 

Chicago, IL 60606 

Telephone: (312) 569-1000 

Fax No.: (312) 569-1415 

(Pro Hac Vice) 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY; 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY AND 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC; 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C 05-02142 PJH 

STIPULATED REQUEST FOR A 

REVISED STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER BETWEEN THE TEMPORARY 

RECEIVER AND DEFENDANTS 

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. LaPorte 

Pursuant to L.R. 6-1(b) and L.R. 6-3, Defendants Robert Joseph Beasley and Longboat 

Global Funds Management, LLC, and the Temporary Receiver, Robb Evans and Associates, 

LLC, hereby submit this Stipulated Request for a Revised Stipulated Protective Order between 

the Temporary Receiver and Defendants, to protect confidential information that has been 

subpoenaed by the Temporary Receiver from Defendants. In support of this request, 

Defendants’ Counsel, David Porteous, submits the attached declaration. 

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GARDNER CARTON & 

DOUGLAS LLP

191 N. WACKER – STE. 2900 

CHICAGO, IL 60606 

(312) 569-1000 

For the reasons set forth in the attached declaration, the Temporary Receiver and the 

Defendants respectfully request that the Court enter the Revised Stipulated Protective Order, 

thereby replacing the Stipulated Protective Order previously entered by the Court in this matter 

on May 2, 2006, for the categories of documents identified in Paragraph 5 of the Proposed 

Revised Stipulated Protective Order. 

Dated: May 11, 2006 ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY AND 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC 

 /s/ David W. Porteous 

 One of Their Attorneys 

/s/ Linda Candler 

Attorney for Temporary Receiver 

Robb Evans and Associates LLC 

IT IS SO ORDERED, 

DATE:__________ / / 

 ________________________________ 

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. LaPorte 

May 11, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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GARDNER CARTON & 

DOUGLAS LLP

191 N. WACKER – STE. 2900 

CHICAGO, IL 60606 

(312) 569-1000 

ROBERT S. LAWRENCE (State Bar No. 207099) 

COLLETTE ERICKSON FARMER & O’NEILL LLP 

235 Pine Street, Suite 1300 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 788-4646 

Fax No.: (415) 788-6929 

TIMOTHY J. CAREY 

DAVID W. PORTEOUS 

GARDNER CARTON & DOUGLAS LLP 

191 N. Wacker Drive – Suite 2900 

Chicago, IL 60606 

Telephone: (312) 569-1000 

Fax No.: (312) 569-1415 

(Pro Hac Vice) 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY; 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY AND 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC; 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C 05-02142 PJH 

DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF 

STIPULATED REQUEST FOR A 

REVISED STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER BETWEEN THE TEMPORARY 

RECEIVER AND DEFENDANTS 

In support of the Stipulated Request For A Revised Stipulated Protective Order Between 

The Temporary Receiver And Defendants, David W. Porteous, counsel for Defendants Robert 

Joseph Beasley and Longboat Global Funds Management, LLC, declares as follows: 

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GARDNER CARTON & 

DOUGLAS LLP

191 N. WACKER – STE. 2900 

CHICAGO, IL 60606 

(312) 569-1000 

1. On May 2, 2006, the Temporary Receiver submitted a Stipulated Request for a 

Protective Order (the “Request”). The Court entered that Request on the same day. 

2. The Temporary Receiver and Defendants now seek to replace the Stipulated 

Protective Order with the Revised Stipulated Protective Order to clarify that the Protective Order 

entered between them applies to documents sought by and exchanged between the Temporary 

Receiver and Defendants and does not include nor extend to other parties in this Action, namely 

Plaintiff Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

3. Thus, the Temporary Receiver and Defendants now propose the Revised 

Stipulated Protective Order, a copy of which is attached, to replace the original Stipulated 

Protective Order entered by the Court on May 2, 2006. 

Dated: May 11, 2006 ROBERT JOSEPH BEASLEY AND 

LONGBOAT GLOBAL FUNDS 

MANAGEMENT, LLC 

 /s/ David W. Porteous 

 One of Their Attorneys 

CH01/ 12473480.1 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Commodity Futures Trading ] No. C-05-2124 

Commission ] 

] 

Plaintiff, ] 

] REVISED STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

] BETWEEN THE TEMPORARY RECEIVER AND 

] DEFENDANTS 

v. ] 

] Hon. Phyllis J. Hamilton 

Longboat Global Funds ] Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. LaPorte 

Management, LLC and ] 

Robert Joseph Beasley ] 

] 

Defendants. ] 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from 

use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the 

Temporary Receiver, Robb Evans & Associates (the “Receiver”), and Defendants Longboat 

Global Funds Management, LLC and Robert Joseph Beasley (“Defendants”) hereby stipulate to 

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

Defendants acknowledge that this 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 treatment as confidential. The 

Receiver and Defendants further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this 

Stipulated 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 the Temporary Receiver or Defendants seek permission from the court to file 

material under seal with respect to documents exchanged between them. 

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2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Party: the signatories to this Stipulated Protective Order, including the Receiver and 

Defendants as well as each of their 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, 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 

F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty 

would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive 

means. 

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party, as defined in Section 2.1 supra, that receives Disclosure or 

Discovery Material from a Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: a Party, as defined in Section 2.1 supra, that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.7 Designating Party: a Party, as defined in Section 2.1 supra, that designates 

information or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.10. House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.11. Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

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2.12. Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

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

consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor 

of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a 

Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 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 Stipulation and 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 a Party or its counsel in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination 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. 

5. DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 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. A Designating 

Party must take care to 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. 

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The Receiver and Defendants agree that the following categories of documents are subject 

to this Stipulated Protective Order: 

a. Personal financial information of defendant Beasley or Mrs. Beasley; 

b. Financial or personal information relating to investors 

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), may give rise to sanctions against the Designating Party upon motion 

and hearing. 

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, the Designating Party must promptly notify the Receiving Party 

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

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, 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 (apart from transcripts of depositions or other 

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of each page (or 

elsewhere on the document as appropriate so as not to obscure the underlying information 

contained in that document) 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) and must specify, for 

each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

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A 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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of each page (or elsewhere on the 

document as appropriate so as not to obscure the underlying information contained in that 

document) 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level 

of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions 

of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record 

(before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the 

specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of 

protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately 

designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

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

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Party offering 

or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection 

under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the 

Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure 

that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

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 

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) 

with counsel for the Designating Party. 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. 

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6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve 

a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each 

such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets 

forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, each Party shall continue to afford the 

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation. 

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 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 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 

Order. 

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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto 

as Exhibit A; 

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(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 “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), including members of the 

Receiver’s staff; 

(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 “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel subject to the strictures of Section 10 herein; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 

Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected 

Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone 

except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

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 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 and 

who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A; 

(b) Members of the Receiving Party’s staff to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary 

for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit 

A), 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

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Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(e) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts” 

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any information or item that 

has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must 

make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the 

Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary 

residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current 

employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received 

compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided 

professional services at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and 

number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the 

Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding five years. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the preceding 

paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within 

seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert 

may file a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-

5, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the 

circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the 

Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and 

suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion 

must be accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant describes each Party’s 

efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer 

discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to 

approve the disclosure. 

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In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the 

burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards 

proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION. 

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the 

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by email or fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. 

Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused 

the 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 Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the Designating Party to the 

existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity 

to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order 

issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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 

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

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(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. 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, which is 

incorporated herein by reference. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the 

Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party 

must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all 

Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the 

Designating Party, 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 sixty 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. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

its modification by the Court in the future. 

12.2 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 

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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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: May 11, 2006 /s/ Linda Candler 

Attorney for the Temporary Receiver 

DATED:May 11, 2006 /s/ David W. Porteous 

Attorney for Defendants 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ___________________________ _________________________________ 

Elizabeth D. Laporte 

United States District/Magistrate Judge 

May 11, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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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 Northern 

District of California on ___________ [date] in the case of CFTC v. Longboat Global Funds 

Management, LLC and Robert Joseph Beasley, Case No. C-05-2124. 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 Northern 

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: ______________________________ 

[printed name] 

Signature: _________________________________ 

[signature] 

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