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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Insurance Contract

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Drew E. Pomerance, Esq. (SBN. 101239) 

David R. Ginsburg, Esq. (SBN. 210900) ROXBOROUGH, POMERANCE & NYE LLP

5820 Canoga Avenue, Suite 250 

Woodland Hills, California 91367 

Telephone: (818) 992-9999 Facsimile: (818)992-9991 Email: dep@rpnlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

OCADIAN CARE CENTERS, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

OCADIAN CARE CENTERS, LLC, 

a California limited liability company, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

CLARENDON NATIONAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

corporation; and DOES 1 through 50, 

inclusive, 

 Defendants.

 

CASE NO. CGC-06-07096 MHP

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

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 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, Plaintiff Ocadian Care 

Centers, LLC (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Clarendon National Insurance Company 

(“Defendant”), by and through their respective counsel, 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 extends only to the 

limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles 

to treatment as confidential. The parties 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 a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 

 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, 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). 

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 2.4 “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes Only” Information or 

Items: Workers’ compensation claim files produced by Defendant in this action. 

 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” or “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes Only.” 

 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is

designated as “Confidential” or as “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ 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). 

 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. 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 

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therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or 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. 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. 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. 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 Party’s or a non-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 

Party or non-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 

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 “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes 

Only” on each page (preferably the bottom of each page) that contains Protected 

Material. 

 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or 

trial proceedings, that the Party or non-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 “Confidential” or “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ 

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 or non-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 from receipt of 

the deposition transcript 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 “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes Only”). Only those 

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 

20 days from receipt of the deposition transcript shall be covered by the provisions 

of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

 (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 

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information or item is stored the legend “Confidential” or “Confidential - 

Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes Only.” 

 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an 

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or 

“Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ 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 “Confidential - 

Attorneys’/Experts’ 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. 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 writing a meet and confer letter. The meet and confer process 

shall also include conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue) 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. 

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

a confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the 

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Designating Party may seek court intervention or direction from the court as 

identified by the court at the initial Case Management Conference on April 3, 

2007. If the challenge is not resolved by these methods, then the challenging 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, 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. 

 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 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 

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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) 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); 

(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; 

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

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary; and 

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

information. 

 7.3 Disclosure of “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ 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 “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ 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; 

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(b) experts 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); 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

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

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; and 

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

information. 

 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 “Confidential - Attorneys’/Experts’ Eyes Only” the 

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

if possible) promptly 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 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 confidentiality interests in the court from which 

the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the 

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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, and (c) inform the 

person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of this Order. 

 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. After the final termination of this action, all 

Protected Material shall remain 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. 

 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 

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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 any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye LLP 

DATED: April 11, 2007 By: /S/ David R. Ginsburg

Drew E. Pomerance, Esq. 

David R. Ginsburg, Esq. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

OCADIAN CARE CENTERS, LLC 

Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow & Canter, LLP 

DATED: April 11, 2007 By: /S/ Kevin P. McNamara

 Kevin P. McNamara, Esq. 

Attorneys for Defendant, CLARENDON 

NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY 

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ORDER

Having considered the foregoing stipulation and good cause appearing 

therefore: 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATE: 

 

___________________________________ 

 Marilyn Hall Patel, 

 United States District Judge 

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4/12/2007

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

 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 ____________________ 

in the case of Ocadian Care Centers, LLC v. Clarendon National Insurance 

Company, case number CGC-06-07096 MHP. 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. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

 [signature]

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