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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Injunctive &amp; Declaratory Relief

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TIMOTHY J. RYAN, SBN 99542

MARLA R. WESTON, SBN 209460

RYAN & FONG, P.C.

2379 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 100

Sacramento, California 95833

Telephone: (916) 924-1912

Facsimile: (916) 923-3872

tryan@ryanfong.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

AVCO Corporation and 

its Lycoming Engines division

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROMEO BRAVO, INC., RONALD J.

BROWN, DANA POPE, for themselves and

classes of others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LYCOMING ENGINES, a Division of Avco

Corporation; AVCO CORPORATION,

Defendants.

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Case No. 2:06-cv-01947-LKK-GGH

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

During discovery in this action, Plaintiffs Romeo Bravo, Inc., Ronald J. Brown and Dana Pope

and Defendant AVCO Corporation, on behalf of its Lycoming Engines Division (hereinafter “Lycoming”)

(together, “the Parties”) may be required to produce documents, answer interrogatories and requests for

admission, or provide testimony (“Discovery Materials”), that might reveal sensitive, confidential and/or

proprietary information and/or trade secrets, which should not be disclosed except in a highly restricted

manner. The Parties desire to accomplish and facilitate discovery in this action without jeopardizing

privacy, business, and commercial interests in the confidentiality of this information. The undersigned

Parties therefore agree that:

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1. By agreeing to this Protective Order, neither AVCO Corporation nor AVCO’s Lycoming

Engines Division concedes that it is a proper party defendant.

2. The Parties shall have the right to designate as confidential certain portions of Discovery

Material, provided that it concerns bona fide trade secrets, nonpublic financial information,

research and development information, commercial information relating to future

development plans or to competitive considerations, information relating to negotiations or

transactions currently in progress or in prospect, or any other proprietary information.

Interrogatory answers, responses to requests for admission, deposition transcripts and

exhibits, pleadings, motions, affidavits, and briefs that quote, summarize, or contain

materials entitled to protection under this Stipulated Protective Order shall be treated in

accordance with the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order.

3. Any material designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall have the

legend “PROPRIETARY - SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” placed on it in a

manner obstructing the least possible amount of writing or other information on the page,

and thereafter shall be treated pursuant to the provisions ofthis Stipulated Protective Order.

4. Confidential Material shall be used by the receiving Parties and their counsel solely for the

preparation and trial of this action or the actions pending in the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entitled Charles Powers, et al. v. Lycoming Engines,

et al., Case No.: 06-2993, and Plane Time, LLC v. Lycoming Engines, et al., Case No.: 06-

4228, and shall not be communicated at any time, in any manner, directly or indirectly, to

anyone other than a person qualified under the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order as

set forth in paragraph 5, below. The Parties’ attorneys of record are responsible for

employing adequate and reasonable measures to ensure compliance with this Stipulated

Protective Order.

5. Access to Confidential Material, and to the information contained therein (including 

extracts and summaries derived from such material), shall be restricted to the following

Qualified Persons:

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(a)

each Party’s attorneys working on these actions, and their employees or agents

working on these actions;

(b)

each Party, and its employees, officers and agents who are working on these actions

and whose assistance is required in the preparation of these matters for trial;

(c) experts and consultants who are employed or retained by each Party or its counsel,

but only if the Party retaining the experts and consultants reasonably believes the

experts and consultants need the material to rendersuch assistance, and further

provided that the experts and consultants may not retain the material after that

use has ended, and further provided that such experts and consultants are

advised of the existence of this Stipulated Protective Order and given an

opportunity to read it, and agree to treat such material in accordance with its

terms;

(d) any persons who are deposed in these actions, whether appearing voluntarily or

pursuant to a validly issued notice or subpoena;

(e) private court reporting, videotaping, and document reproduction services;

(f) the Court and its support personnel and court reporters;

(g) the trier of fact; and

(h) any person designated by: (i) written consent of the disclosing party (in the case

of third party testimony, by the written consent of all of the Parties), or (ii) by

the Court in the interests of justice, upon such terms as the Court may deem

proper.

6. Before making disclosure of anymaterial to any Qualified Person under paragraphs 5(c)

and (d) of this Protective Order, the Party seeking to make such disclosure shall obtain

the written agreement per the form attached hereto as Exhibit “A”.

7. In no event shall any disclosure of Confidential Material be made to competitors of any

defendant, or to any persons who, upon reasonable and good faith inquiry, could be

determined to be employees or consultants of any competitor of a defendant in the

business of the manufacture, sale, and overhaul of reciprocating aircraft engines and

their components, irrespective of whether they are retained as an expert in this action.

Prior to the disclosure of any Confidential Material, the Parties shall in good faith

endeavor to agree upon a definition of what constitutes “a competitor of a defendant in

the business of the manufacture, sale, and overhaul of aircraft engines and their

components and/or an employee or consultant employed or engaged by a competitor of

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a defendant.” In the event the Parties are unable to agree, the dispute shall be submitted

to the Court by motion.

8. The inadvertent failure of a Party to designate material as Confidential Material at the

time of production shall not constitute a waiver of that Party’s claim to confidentiality

as long as, upon discovery, it promptly designates such material as Confidential Material

under the protection of this Stipulated Protective Order. The recipient of such material

agrees to cooperate with the Producing Party to remedy any inadvertent disclosure

including, without limitation, returning the undesignated material and all copies,

wherever located, to the Disclosing Party upon receipt of replacement designated

material.

9. The Parties shall not be obligated to challenge the propriety of a confidentiality 

designation at the time made, and failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent

challenge to such a designation. In the event that a Party disagrees at any stage of these

proceedings with another Party’s designation of any material as Confidential Material,

the Parties shall attempt to resolve such dispute in good faith on an informal basis, then

the dispute shall be presented to the Court by motion. Until the Court rules on the

challenge, all Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of

protection designated by the Producing Party. Any material as to which such a motion

is made shall be treated as Confidential Material under the provisions of this Order until

further order of the Court. 

10. In the event that counsel for any Party files with the Court any Confidential Material or

any papers containing or making reference to any such material, the Parties agree to

comply with Eastern District of California Local Rule 39-141.

11. Nothing in this Order shall limit a Party’s right to disclose its own information

and documents to any person for any purpose nor to use them for any purpose, nor does

it limit a Party’s right to disclose information and documents which are publicly

available or available to the Party through non-confidential sources to any person for

any purpose. 

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12. This Protective Order shall not prevent material covered by it from being offered or

received as evidence in this Court, subject to such confidentiality measures as this Court

may then prescribe, if any. But for such use in this Court, this material shall continue

to be treated in accordance with this Stipulated Protective Order, and its use or

admission in this Court shall not affect the Parties’ rights to designate the same or

similar material as confidential or the like in any other or subsequent litigation, action,

or proceeding.

13. Within thirty (30) days of the termination of this litigation, including settlement or the

final determination of any appeal, counsel for each Party shall return all Confidential

Material and all copies, summaries, or excerpts thereof to counsel for the Party that

produced it, or shall destroy all such materials. Each such counsel returning or

destroying Confidential Material shall certify that he or she has recovered all

Confidential Material from those persons to whom such materials may have been

distributed during the litigation and has returned such documents to appropriate

opposing counsel or has destroyed them, and shall further certify that neither the

Party, its counsel and staff, its experts, nor its consultants has transmitted, nor will

transmit, either directly or indirectly, any of the information contained within the

Confidential Materials to any other person, party, or entity other those listed in

Paragraph 5 above.

14. In the event that any recipient of any material covered hereunder is served with a 

subpoena, document request, or other request for production in another action, such

recipient shall advise that the material was produced, and is still subject to, a

protective order, and immediately notify counsel for the Disclosing Party (and in the

case of third-party testimony, shall immediately notify counsel for all Parties). The

Receiving Party shall not oppose the Producing Party’s effort to seek appropriate

relief and shall cooperate in good faith with the Producing Party’s effort to intervene

in the proceeding, quash the subpoena, or other reasonable action to seek appropriate

relief.

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15. This Stipulated Protective Order shall survive the termination of this litigation and the

Court shall retain jurisdiction over the Parties and their attorneys, agents, and employees

to enforce the provisions hereof.

16. Nothing contained in this Stipulated Protective Order, and no action taken pursuant to

it, shall prejudice the right of any Party to contest the alleged relevancy, admissibility,

or discoverability of the material covered by it.

17. This Stipulated Protective Order represents a valid and binding agreement of the Parties

effective as of the date executed by their authorized representatives.

18. It is expressly contemplated, agreed, and ordered that third parties, including witnesses,

who provide discovery in this action may invoke all provisions of this Stipulated

Protective Order as to that discovery, and that the Parties will treat all material formally

designated by such third parties as Confidential Material in accordance with the terms

of this Stipulated Protective Order.

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19. If a Party, through inadvertence, produces or provides discovery that it believes is

subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege or work product immunity, the Producing

Party may give written notice to the Receiving Party or Parties that the matter is subject

to a claim of attorney-client privilege or work product immunity and request that it be

returned to the Producing Party. The inadvertent disclosure of information shall not

constitute a waiver of attorney-client privilege or work-product immunity. The

Receiving Party or Parties shall return such material to the producing Party, along with

any copies, wherever located. Return of the document by the receiving Party or Parties

shall not constitute an admission or concession, or permit any inference, that the

returned material is, in fact, properly subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege or

work product immunity, nor shall it foreclose any Party from thereafter moving the

Court for an order that such material has been improperly designated or should be

producible for reasons other than a waiver caused by the inadvertent production.

AGREED by and among the Parties, by and through their duly authorized representatives, intending

to be legally bound.

DATED: _______________

 

Robert W. Mills

Harry Shulman

THE MILLS LAW FIRM

145 Marina Blvd.

San Rafael, CA 94901

Counsel for Plaintiff

DATED: _________________

 

Michael F. Ram

Erica L. Craven

LEVY, RAM & OLSON, LLP

639 Front St., 4 Flr th

San Francisco, CA 94111

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

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DATED: _________________

 

Jonathan Shub

TerriAnne Benedetto

SHELLER LUDWIG & SHELLER

1528 Walnut Street, 3 Floor rd

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

DATED: _________________

 

Kathy Bailey

Bailey Law Group, P.C.

1615 L Street, NW

Suite 1350

Washington, DC 20036

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

DATED: _________________

 

Joseph F. Roda

Michele S. Burkholder

RodaNast, P.C

801 Estelle Drive

Lancaster, PA 17601

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

DATED: _________________

 

John R. Climaco

Jennifer L. Gardner

Lisa Ann Gorshe

Climaco, Lefkowitz, Peca, Wilcox & Garofoli Co., LPA

55 Public Square,

Suite 1950

Cleveland, OH 44113

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

DATED: _________________

 

Keith T. Vernon

The Vernon Law

888 16th Street NW

Suite 800

Washington, DC 20006 

Co-Counsel for Plaintiff

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DATED: _______________ 

Timothy J. Ryan

Marla R. Weston

RYAN & FONG

2379 Gateway Oaks Dr., Suite 100

Sacramento, CA 95833

Attorneys for Defendant Avco Corporation and its

Lycoming Engines division 

IT IS SO ORDERED, this 6 day of August, 2007. ** Regarding paragraph 10, the parties must th

demonstrate good cause for the sealing of court documents as explicated by Ninth Circuit decisions.

Regarding paragraph 13, absent special order, confidential documents filed with the court shall remain with

the court.

BY THE COURT:

/s/ Gregory G. Hollows

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U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROMEO BRAVO, INC., RONALD J.

BROWN, DANA POPE, for themselves and

classes of others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

LYCOMING ENGINES, a Division of Avco

Corporation; AVCO CORPORATION;

TEXTRON, INC.,

Defendants.

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Exhibit “A”

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE ORDER

I hereby acknowledge that I have received a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order, have read

the same, and agree to be bound by all of the provisions thereof.

Dated: _____________________ _____________________________

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