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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER; [PROPOSED] ORDER Case No.: 1:06-CV-00604-LJO-DLB

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SCHIFF HARDIN LLP 

JEFFREY R. WILLIAMS (CSB #84156) 

KATHLEEN A. STIMELING (CSB #209226) 

One Market, Spear Street Tower, 32nd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 901-8700 

Facsimile: (415) 901-8701 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP, erroneously sued herein as 

HOBART CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BASSAM MASARWEH, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

HOBART CORPORATION and DOES 1 

through 100, Inclusive , 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 1:06-CV-00604-LJO-DLB 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

NOW COME the parties, by and through their counsel of record, and by 

agreement enter into the following protective order governing the confidentiality of 

documents produced by the parties during the above-captioned litigation: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED: 

1. This Protective Order shall govern all documents, computer disks, 

information, and tangible materials which the parties shall designate as “Confidential”. 

2. The parties may specifically designate as “Confidential” any documents, 

information, or materials of a proprietary, financial, or competitively sensitive nature, or 

which otherwise implicate any recognized privacy interest, by placing in a conspicuous 

location a stamp bearing the legend “Confidential” or the like. The parties must have a 

reasonable basis for any such designation. 

3. Any party may also designate as confidential any portion of a deposition 

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transcript of its agent or employee that it deems to include confidential information. 

4. No documents, information or materials designated as “Confidential” by 

another party shall be furnished, shown, or otherwise disclosed to any person 

unaffiliated with the designating party except the following qualified persons: (1) counsel 

for the parties, their associate attorneys, paralegal assistants, and clerical employees 

assisting such counsel and employees; (2) essential employees of the parties with whom 

it is necessary to consult in connection with the prosecution of this cause; and (3) 

outside consultants and experts retained by the parties to consult and/or assist counsel 

in the preparation and trial of this action. All documents, information, and materials that 

are designated as confidential shall be used solely for the preparation and trial of this 

action and for no other purpose. 

5. All copies, reproductions, extracts, and summaries of documents, answers 

to interrogatories, responses to requests for admission, testimony and other materials 

and information, as well as briefs and other Court papers that quote or refer to 

confidential documents, information, or materials shall also be subject to the provisions 

of this Protective Order. 

6. Whenever filed with the Court for any reason, all designated materials 

disclosed by any party shall be filed with the Court under seal and shall be kept under 

seal until further order of the Court. However, such designated materials shall continue 

to be available to the Court and to such persons who are permitted access to the same 

under this Protective Order. Where possible, only the confidential portions of filings with 

the Court shall be filed under seal. 

7. Nothing contained in this Protective Order shall bar or restrict the parties’ 

attorneys from rendering advice to their respective clients with respect to this litigation. 

This Protective Order shall not prevent the use of “Confidential” documents, information, 

or materials at a deposition, so long as reasonable advance notice is given to the 

opposing party that the other party will or may use confidential materials, so that the 

documents, information, or materials shall be disclosed or displayed only upon the 

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implementation of reasonable safeguards to preserve their confidentiality. 

8. Nothing in this Protective Order shall preclude a subsequent motion to 

amend the terms of this Protective Order. 

9. The inadvertent or unintentional disclosure of “Confidential” information, 

produced after the effective date of this Protective Order, regardless of whether the 

information was so designated at the time of disclosure, shall not be deemed a waiver in 

whole or in part of a party’s claim of confidentiality either as to specific information 

disclosed therein or on the same or related subject matter, provided that the party 

asserting the claim of confidentiality informs the opposing party of its claim within a 

reasonable time after learning of the disclosure. 

10. Materials designated as “Confidential” shall not be placed or deposited in 

any sort of data bank or otherwise be made available to indiscriminate or general 

circulation to lawyers, litigants, consultants, expert witnesses, or any other persons or 

entities. This paragraph and the other provisions of this Protective Order shall not apply 

to materials which, if challenged by another party, the Court rules are not entitled to 

protection. 

11. All parties other than ITW Food Equipment Group (“ITW Food”), including 

their counsel, technical consultants, and/or experts shall not otherwise sell, offer, 

advertise, publicize, or provide under any condition, any information provided and 

designated as “confidential” by ITW Food, to any competitor of ITW Food. 

12. Within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of this case, defined as the latest 

of the completion of the trial and appeals, if any, in this action, or at the satisfaction of 

any judgment, or upon conclusion of any settlement, if any, the other parties agree to 

return all copies of “confidential” documents, information, or materials to the designating 

party. Each party in receipt of designated documents shall deliver to the designating 

party an affidavit within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of this case certifying that all 

such confidential information and copies thereof, excerpts from and summaries of such 

information, have been returned to the party who produced such confidential information. 

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The parties shall further provide, within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of this case, 

affidavits from each testifying or consulting expert to which they have provided such 

information, certifying their compliance with this provision. To the extent inconsistent 

with this Protective Order, the parties waive their right to maintain the confidentiality of 

the identities of their consulting experts. 

13. If any party elects to challenge a designation of “Confidential” made by the 

other party, the challenging party shall provide written notice of such challenge and 

specify the documents, information, or materials for which the designation is challenged 

and the reasons therefore. The producing party must respond in writing within thirty (30) 

business days, or within such additional time as the parties agree, or the Court 

determines, is reasonable (taking into account the number of documents or other 

information in issue). After receiving the producing party’s response, if the party 

challenging the confidentiality designation is still not satisfied that the information was 

properly designated, that party may move the Court to lift the confidentiality designation. 

Until the Court rules, the confidentiality designation shall remain in effect. If the Court 

rules that the information should not be restricted, the original designation shall remain in 

effect for five business days after the Court’s Order, unless otherwise ordered by the 

Court. 

14. All materials designated as entitled to protection shall be treated as such 

pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order until further order of this Court. Such a 

designation raises no presumption that the information or documents are entitled under 

the law to protection. 

15. The determination of how any material designated as “Confidential” shall 

be used at the trial of this case, if any, is not made at this time. Rather, any such 

determination will be made prior to trial. 

16. The terms of this Protective Order shall become effective when it is 

mutually executed by the respective attorneys for the parties, or ordered by the Court, 

and shall survive and remain in full force and effect after conclusion of this cause of 

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action. 

The following representatives agree to this Protective Order. 

DATED: April 6, 2007 SCHIFF HARDIN LLP 

By /s/ 

 Kathleen A. Stimeling 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ITW FOOD EQUIPMENT GROUP, 

erroneously sued herein as HOBART 

CORPORATION 

DATED: March 22, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF BRYMAN & APELIAN 

By /s/ 

 Andrew C. Bryman 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

BASSAM MASARWEH 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Documents may be filed under seal only upon Order of Court. A party wishing to 

file documents under seal shall apply for leave to file documents under seal on each 

occasion the party wishes leave to file under seal. 

DATED: April 9, 2007_____________ /s/ Dennis L. Beck __________________________________ HON. DENNIS L. BECK 

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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