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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1132 E.R.I.S.A.

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JEFFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO LLP

ROBERT E. MANGELS (Bar No. 48291)

SUSAN ALLISON (Bar No. 133448)

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Seventh Floor

Los Angeles, California 90067-4308

Telephone: (310) 203-8080

Facsimile: (310) 203-0567

Attorneys for Defendant

TOWERS, PERRIN, FORSTER & CROSBY, INC.

LEWIS FEINBERG, LEE, RENAKER & JACKSON, P.C.

TERESA S. RENAKER (Bar No. 187800)

CATHA WORTHMAN (Bar No. 230399)

1330 Broadway, Suite 1800

Oakland, CA 94612

Telephone: (510) 839-6824

Facsimile: (510) 839-7839

Attorneys for PLAINTIFFS

RUKIN HYLAND DORIA & TINDALL LLP

STEVEN M. TINDALL (Bar No. 187862)

CAROLE VIGNE (Bar No. 251829

100 Pine Street, Suite 725

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 421-1800

Facsimile: (415) 421-1700

Attorneys for PLAINTIFFS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS A. PAULSEN, et al.

Plaintiffs,

v.

CNF, INC., et al.

Defendants.

CASE NO. C 03-03960 JW (PVT)

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER FOR STANDARD

LITIGATION

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 may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate

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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 from public

disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to

confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The parties further

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 8, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order

does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-

5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be

applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the

designation of information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: Information

(regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify

for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 2 6(c).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record

and House Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates

information or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information,

regardless of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained

(including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are

produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.6 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.

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2.7 House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party to

this action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other

outside counsel.

2.8 Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation,

association, or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: Attorneys who are not

employees of a party to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to

this action and have appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated

with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party.

2.10 Party: Any party to this action, including all of its officers,

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record

(and their support staffs).

2.11 Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces

Disclosure or Discovery Material in this action.

2.12 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide

litigation support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing

exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or

medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

2.13 Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material

that is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.14 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or

Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not

only Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or

presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.

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However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of

disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its

disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of

this Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise;

and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or

obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate

agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall

be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action,

with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action,

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time

pursuant to applicable law.

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. The Designating Party must

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.

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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 Designating Party’s attention that information or

items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating

Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken

designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise

provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as

otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery 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 (e.g., paper or

electronic documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each

page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a

page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the

protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

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

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Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must

affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If

only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making

appropriate markings in the margins).

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

or trial proceedings, that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close

of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony.

(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

information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or

portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the

extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing

alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for

such material. Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party 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. Any Party or Non-Party may

challenge a designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable,

substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a 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.

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6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the

dispute resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is

challenging and describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to

whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge

to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the

Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and

must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms

of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice.

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 or establishes that the Designating

Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a

challenge without court intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a

motion to retain confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with

Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge

or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not

resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by

a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and

confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating

Party to make such a motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14

days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each

challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion

challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing

so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions

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thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and

confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on

the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose

(e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived

the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as

described above, 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 until the

court rules on the challenge.

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 13 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 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is

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reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as

Exhibit A;

(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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” (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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or

trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the

Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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

Stipulated Protective Order.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the

information or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the

information.

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in

other litigation that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this

action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must:

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material

covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification

shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought

to be pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party

served with the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated

in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which

the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information

produced by a Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such

information produced by Non- Parties in connection with this litigation is protected

by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should

be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.

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(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery

request, to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the

Party is subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s

confidential information, then the Party shall:

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and

the Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a

confidentiality agreement with a Non- Party;

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the

Stipulated Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and

3. make the information requested available for

inspection by the Non-Party.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order

from this court within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information,

the Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information

responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order,

the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that

is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination

by the court.1 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the

burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

10. 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)

1 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to

protect its confidentiality interests in this court.

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notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its

best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized 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.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR

OTHERWISE PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that

certain inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other

protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule

of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever

procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production

without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e),

insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work

product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated

protective order submitted to the court.

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 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 of any of the material covered by this

Protective Order.

12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from

the Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested

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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. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant

to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue.

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade

secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request

to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by

the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record

pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79- 5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION. Within 60 days after the final disposition

of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must return all

Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this

subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,

summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected

Material. 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 60 day deadline that (1) identifies

(by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or

destroyed and (2)affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,

abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any

of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing

transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert

reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert 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 4 (DURATION).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: May 27, 2010 JEFFER, MANGELS, BUTLER & MARMARO LLP ROBERT E. MANGELS

SUSAN ALLISON

By: /s/Susan Allison

SUSAN ALLISON

Attorneys for Defendants TOWERS, PERRIN, FORSTER

& CROSBY, INC.

DATED: May 27, 2010 LEWIS, FEINBERG, LEE, RENAKER & JACKSON, P.C. TERESA S. RENAKER

JEFFREY LEWIS

CATHA WORTHMAN

By: /s/Catha Worthman

CATHA WORTHMAN

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

DATED: May 27, 2010 RUKIN HYLAND DORIA & TINDALL LLP STEVEN M. TINDALL

By: /s/Steven M. Tindall STEVEN M. TINDALL

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED:

Dated:

The Honorable Patricia V. Trumball

United States Magistrate Judge

July 26, 2010

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PRINTED ON

RECYCLED PAPER

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 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 Thomas A. Paulsen, et al. v. CNF, Inc., et al., Case No. C 03-03960 JW

(EAI). 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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