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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:2671 Federal Tort Claims Act

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER

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KEVIN V. RYAN (SBN 118321)

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON (SBN 88143)

Chief, Civil Division

JONATHAN U. LEE (SBN 148792)

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue,10th Floor

San Francisco, California 94102-3495

Telephone: (415) 436-6909

Facsimile: (415) 436-6748

Email: jonathan.lee@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Federal Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SHAWN LEE HILLER and STACEY 

HILLER

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and 

DOES 1 to 20

Defendant. 

 

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No. C 05-01620 SBA

E-FILING CASE

STIPULATION AND (PROPOSED)

ORDER REGARDING DISCOVERY

Subject to the approval of this Court, plaintiffs SHAWN LEE HILLER and STACEY

HILLER and defendant UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by and through their undersigned

counsel, hereby stipulate to the following protective order:

The parties agree that entry of the following protective order is necessary in order to: (1)

facilitate discovery of information without document by document controversy concerning

confidentiality; (2) protect privacy rights generally; (3) protect the plaintiff’s private medical

information, and (4) avoid violation of the Privacy Act as codified at 5 U.S.C. §522a. The

parties therefore request that the Court enter the following protective order pursuant to Federal

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).

STIPULATED ORDER

All documents obtained from the parties in response to discovery requests made under the

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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or made pursuant to any disclosure requirement, including

initial disclosure requirements, that are contained within any medical file, related Court file, or

any personnel file of any person (the “Documents”) shall be subject to the following restrictions:

1. The Documents and the information contained therein shall be used only for purposes of

this litigation and not for any other purpose;

2. Neither the Documents nor the information contained therein shall be disclosed to anyone

other than (a) the attorneys employed by parties and the attorneys’ staff; (b) the parties; (c) actual

or potential third-party witnesses; (d) outside experts or consultants retained by any of the parties

or their counsel for purposes of this litigation; (e) stenographic deposition reporters; and (f) other

persons whom the parties mutually agree upon in writing;

3. Each of the named persons in section 2 must also sign the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A prior to having documents disclosed to him

or her;

4. However, the Documents or the information contained therein may be disclosed to the

Court in further proceedings herein, but those Documents or the information so disclosed shall

remain protected under this Order;

5. There shall be no reproduction of the Documents, except that, as required by the

litigation, copies, excerpts, or summaries may be shown to those authorized in Paragraph 2;

6. Except as otherwise provided in Paragraphs 2 and 5, all of the Documents shall remain in

the custody of the receiving party’s attorney of record, during the pendency of the litigation;

7. Upon final determination of this litigation, including all appeals, all of the Documents,

including copies, extracts or summaries thereof, produced by defendant that pertains to any

person other than the plaintiff herein, shall be returned to defendant’s counsel. Likewise,

documents, including copies, extracts or summaries thereof, produced by plaintiff shall be

returned to the plaintiff’s attorney. Notwithstanding this paragraph, however, the parties’

attorneys may retain one copy of each pleading and other document filed with the Court that

contains any of the Documents covered by this Order. Furthermore, nothing in this paragraph

shall be construed to require the receiving party’s attorney to turn over any attorney workCase 4:05-cv-01620-SBA Document 40 Filed 06/19/06 Page 2 of 4
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product;

8. 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) 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; and,

9. This Stipulation and Protective Order is without prejudice to the right of any party to seek

modification of it from the Court. It shall remain in effect until such time as it is modified,

amended or rescinded by the Court and shall survive termination of this action. The 

Court shall have continuing jurisdiction to modify, amend, or rescind this Stipulation and

Protective Order notwithstanding the termination of this action.

10. Upon the completion of this litigation, the parties agree to return all copies of documents

exchanged in discovery to the attorney of record for the adverse party.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: June 14, 2006 JONES CLIFFORD JOHNSON & JOHNSON LLP

 /s/ 

J. KEVIN MORRISON

Attorney for Plaintiffs Shawn Lee Hiller 

and Stacey Hiller

DATED: June 14, 2006 KEVIN V. RYAN

United States Attorney

 /s/ 

JONATHAN U. LEE

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants

IT IS SO ORDERED:

DATED: __________________ _________________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

June 19, 2006

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

MAGISTRATE

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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 June __, 2006 in the case of Hiller v. USA, C 05-1620

SBA. 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: ______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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