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Nature of Suit Code: 160
Nature of Suit: Stockholder's Suits
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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[PROPOSED] ORDER RE CONFIDENTIALITY: C 04-3364 RMW

SARA B. BRODY (Bar No. 130222) 

HOWARD S. CARO (Bar No. 202082) 

MICHAEL E. LIFTIK (Bar No. 232430) 

MADELEINE LOH (Bar No. 233388) 

HELLER EHRMAN LLP 

333 Bush Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104-2878 

Telephone: +1.415.772.6000 

Facsimile: +1.415.772.6268 

Sara.Brody@hellerehrman.com 

Howard.Caro@hellerehrman.com 

Michael.Liftik@hellerehrman.com 

Madeleine.Loh@hellerehrman.com 

[Additional Counsel Listed on Signature Page] 

Attorneys for Defendants 

NETOPIA, INC., ALAN B. LEFKOF, AND DAVID A KADISH 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

IN RE NETOPIA, INC. SECURITIES 

LITIGATION 

This Document Relates to: All Actions 

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Case No.: C 04-3364 RMW 

And Related Cases 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY

Judge: Ronald M. Whyte 

Courtroom: 6, Fourth Floor 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER RE CONFIDENTIALITY: C 04-3364 RMW

Disclosure and discovery activity in these consolidated actions 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 parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 

enter the following Protective Order. 

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

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

1.2 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. 

1.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

non-public and that a Party in good faith believes must be held confidential to protect 

personal privacy interests or proprietary commercial or business information, including 

trade secrets. 

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

a Producing Party. 

1.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

1.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items 

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

1.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “Confidential.” 

1.8 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

1.9 In-house Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

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1.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and In-house Counsel (as well 

as their support staffs). 

1.11 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. 

1.12 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. 

2. 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 parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal 

Protected Material. 

3. 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. 

4. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

4.1 Marking of Protected Material (other than deposition transcripts). 

Any Party to this litigation, or non-party who produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material, shall have the right to designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” any Protected Material it 

produces. All Protected Material shall bear a legend on each page stating that the material 

is “CONFIDENTIAL.” In order to speed the process of producing large volumes of 

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Protected Material, multi-page documents in which Protected Material is pervasive may be 

marked “CONFIDENTIAL” throughout, with the understanding that portions of those 

documents not containing Protected Material can be de-designated through the meet-andconfer process of Paragraph 5.2. Where a computer disk has been marked as Protected 

Material, and the files on it are not individually Bates-numbered or identified as Protected 

Material, all files contained on the disk shall be considered Protected Material. 

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 at the bottom of 

each page that contains Protected Material. 

Indiscriminate 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 Disclosure or Discovery Material does not qualify for 

protection at all, or does not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party 

or non-party shall promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken 

designation. 

4.2 Depositions. Deposition testimony may be classified as Protected Material at 

the deposition, or at any time during a review period of up to and including 30 days after 

receipt of the official transcript of such testimony by counsel for the Party whose 

information has been disclosed, or in the case of non-parties or others whose information 

has been disclosed, up to and including 30 days after the transcript is available for review, 

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whichever period is longer. Each deposition transcript in its entirety shall be treated as 

having been designated “CONFIDENTIAL” during the review period. Designations of 

Protected Material during the review period will be made in writing served upon all Parties 

and relevant non-parties. 

Designations of Protected Material made during the deposition will be reasonably 

identified at the beginning of the deposition transcript when produced. Transcript pages 

containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter, who must 

affix to the bottom of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” as instructed by the 

Party or non party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

4.3 Re-Designation: Inadvertent production of any Protected Material without a 

designation of confidentiality will not, standing alone, be deemed to waive a later claim as 

to its proper designation, nor will it prevent the Producing Party from designating said 

document or material “CONFIDENTIAL” at a later date. The Producing Party shall 

comply with Paragraph 4.1 when redesignating Disclosure or Discovery Material as 

Protected Material. Following any such redesignation, the Party receiving such material 

shall take reasonable steps to comply with the redesignation. However, the Receiving Party 

shall not be obligated to remove from the public record any Disclosure or Discovery 

Material that had been filed with the Court as part of the public record prior to the 

Producing Party’s redesignation of that material as Protected Material. The Producing Party 

may move to have any such material sealed. 

5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

5.1 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. 

5.2 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 

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conferring directly 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 Protected 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. 

5.3 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, 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. 

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 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. It may not use Protected 

Material for any other purpose. Such Protected Material maybe 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 7, below 

(FINAL DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location 

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and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under 

this Order. 

6.2 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; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including In-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” that is attached hereto as 

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 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 Protective Order. 

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

6.3 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 

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“CONFIDENTIAL,” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing 

(by 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 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 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. 

6.4 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 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 Order, and (d) 

request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

6.5 Using Protected Material in Court. 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. 

7. FINAL DISPOSITION

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Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 60 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 3 

(DURATION), above. 

8. RIGHT TO FURTHER RELIEF

Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its modification by the 

Court in the future. 

9. 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 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. 

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DATED: September 11, 2006 /s/ Seth R. Klein 

Seth R. Klein* 

SCHATZ & NOBEL, P.C. 

One Corporate Center 

20 Church Street, Suite 1700 

Hartford, Connecticut 06103 

Tel: (860) 493-6292 

Fax: (860) 493-6290 

Lead Counsel for Lead Plaintiffs 

Michael D. Braun 

BRAUN LAW GROUP, P.C. 

12400 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 920 

Los Angeles, CA 90025 

Tel: (310) 442-7755 

Fax: (310) 442-7756 

Liaison Counsel for Lead Plaintiffs

Reed R. Kathrein 

James W. Oliver 

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Tel: (415) 288-4545 

Fax: (415) 288-4534 

 -andWilliam S. Lerach 

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

401 B Street, Suite 1700 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Tel: (619) 231-1058 

Fax: (619) 231-7423 

Additional Counsel for Plaintiffs 

DATED: September 11, 2006 /s/ Theresa A. Sutton 

Theresa A. Sutton* 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & 

SUTCLIFFE LLP 

1000 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, California 94025 

Tel: (650) 614-7400 

Fax: (650) 614-7401 

Counsel to Defendant William D. Baker

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DATED: September 11, 2006 /s/ Robert Herrington 

Robert Herrington* 

SKADDEN ARPS SLATE 

MEAGHER & FLOM LLP 

300 South Grand Avenue 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Tel: (213) 687-5000 

Fax: (213) 687-5600 

Counsel to Defendant Thomas A. Skoulis

DATED: September 11, 2006 /s/ Michael E. Lifitik 

Michael E. Liftik 

HELLER EHRMAN LLP 

333 Bush Street 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Tel: (415) 772-6000 

Fax: (415) 772-6268 

Counsel for Defendants Netopia, Inc., 

Alan B. Lefkof and David A. Kadish

*I, Michael E. Liftik, under whose ECF user name and password this document is 

electronically filed, attest that the above-signed counsel have read and approved the 

[PROPOSED] ORDER REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY and consent to its filing in 

this action. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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STIPUPLATED PROTECTIVE ORDER: C 04-3364 RMW

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 ___________________ 

[insert formal name of the case and the number and initials assigned to it by the 

court]. 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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