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Nature of Suit Code: 355
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Product Liability

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HAROLD J. PHILLIPS and GEORG-ANNE

PHILLIPS,

Plaintiffs,

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LEROY HAEGER, KORI D. HALEY, et al.,

Intervening Plaintiffs,

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THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER

COMPANY, an Ohio Corporation,

Defendant.

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CASE NO: 02 CV 1642 B (NLS)

ORDER ADOPTING

MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S REPORT

AND RECOMMENDATION AND

DENYING DEFENDANT’S

MOTION FOR AN OSC RE: 

CONTEMPT

[Docket Nos. 26, 68, & 77]

On February 1, 2008, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report and

Recommendation on Defendant Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s Motion for

Order to Show Cause As to Why Plaintiff’s Counsel Guy Ricciardulli Should Not Be

Found in Contempt for Violation of Protective Order and For Injunction Prohibiting

Further Disclosure. The Magistrate Judge recommended that Defendant Goodyear’s

motion be denied. (Sealed Doc. No. 68) 

Defendant Goodyear filed timely objections to the Magistrate Judge’s report to

the extent that it relied upon the court’s conclusion as to whether the June 2003

deposition was covered by the Protective Order. By separate Order, this Court

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The Court’s Order Denying Defendant’s Objections to the Magistrate Court’s

Order Denying as Moot the Intervenors’ Motion to Modify the Protective Order also filed

today removed the seal from the documents relative to this motion, including the

Magistrate Judge’s Order. 

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The Intervening Plaintiffs include Leroy Haeger, Kori Haley, Margaret Bogaert, 

Billy Woods, Joseph Anton, and John Schalmo, who are involved in collateral litigation

against Defendant Goodyear on the same subject as this case.

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resolved the companion motion by Intervenors to modify the Protective Order.1 No

other party filed objections to the merits of the Report and Recommendation.2

 

Having reviewed the record, the Court adopts the Magistrate Judge’s Report

and Recommendation and denies Defendant Goodyear’s request for a finding of

contempt and sanctions against Ricciardulli. As stated in the companion Order, the

testimony of Goodyear employee Kim Cox as to an alleged defect in the model tire

when used on motor homes as in the Phillips’ case was not protected by the Protective

Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 18, 2008

Hon. Rudi M. Brewster

United States Senior District Judge

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