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Nature of Suit Code: 880
Nature of Suit: other
Cause of Action: 18:1836(b) Civil Action to Protect Trade Secrets

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BUCHALTER

A Professional Corporation

DYLAN W. WISEMAN (SBN: 173669)

PHILIP CHAN (SBN: 263907)

500 Capitol Mall, Suite 1900

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: 916.945.5170

Email: dwiseman@buchalter.com

 pchan@buchalter.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

TRI TOOL, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

TRI TOOL, INC., a Nevada corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

THAD HALES, an individual;

MIKE BRACIKOWSKI, an individual; 

ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP., a Wisconsin

corporation; and

DOES 1- 30, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:22-CV-01515-DAD-KJN

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

This Stipulation and Order (“Stipulation and Order”) is made by and among Plaintiff TRI 

TOOL, INC. (“Plaintiff”), on the one hand, and Defendants THAD HALES, MIKE 

BRACIKOWSKI, and ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP. (collectively, “Defendants”), on the 

other hand. This Stipulation refers to Plaintiff and Defendants individually as “Party,” and refers 

to Plaintiff and Defendants collectively as “the Parties”. The Parties, through their counsel of 

record, hereby stipulate as follows:

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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 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 12.3, below, 

that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under 

seal; Civil Local Rule 141 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 26(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” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

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 

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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. 

2.7 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another Party 

or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means.

2.8 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. 

2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 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. 

2.11 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). 

2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

2.13 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. 

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

2.15 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, 

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

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.

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 

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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 at all or do not qualify for the level of protection initially 

asserted, 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” 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) and must specify, for 

each portion, the level of protection being asserted.. 

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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) 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 

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also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted.

(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. When it is impractical to identify separately each 

portion of the testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the 

testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 21 days to identify the 

specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of 

protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated 

for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition or up to 21 days 

afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious 

legend on the title page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be 

followed by a list of all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as 

Protected Material and the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The 

Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is 

prepared before the expiration of a 21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period 

as if it had been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its 

entirety unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated 

only as actually designated.

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(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” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. 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) and specify the level of 

protection being asserted.

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. 

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 

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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 230 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 141, 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 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. A ruling on the propriety of the 

designation shall not be determinative of whether information is entitled to lawful protection as 

confidential information and/or a trade secret at trial. 

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. 

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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 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 Stipulation and 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” 

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(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 Stipulation and 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.

Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 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) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(a), below, have 

been followed];

(c) the court and its personnel;

(d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 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); and

(e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

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

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to Experts.

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an Expert (as defined in this Order) any 

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information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” pursuant to paragraph 7.3(b) first must make a written request to the Designating 

Party that (1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) 

sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) 

attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) 

identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received compensation or funding for 

work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services, 

including in connection with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years,9 and (6) 

identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in 

connection with which the Expert has offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, 

report, or testimony at a deposition or trial, during the preceding five years.10

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding respective paragraphs may disclose the subject Protected Material to the Expert unless, 

within 14 days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with 

the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking 

to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 230 (and in 

compliance with Civil Local Rule 141, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. 

Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons 

why the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure 

would entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce that risk. In addition, 

any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration describing the parties’ efforts to 

resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer 

discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to 

approve the disclosure.

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In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden 

of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards proposed) 

outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 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 Stipulation and 

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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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. 

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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 NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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. 

(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 Stipulation and 

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 NonParty 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. 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 Stipulation and Order, 

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the Receiving Party must immediately (a) 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 Stipulation and Order submitted to 

the court. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulation and 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 Stipulation 

and 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 Stipulation and Order. Similarly, no 

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered 

by this Stipulation and Order. 

12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party 

or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested 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 141. Protected Material may only be filed 

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under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, 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 141 is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 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). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: November 17, 2022 BUCHALTER, A Professional Corporation 

By:/s/DYLAN WISEMAN

Dylan W. Wiseman 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

TRI TOOL, INC.

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Dated: October __, 2022 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

 By: /s/ James P. Carter

Jonathan P. Schmidt 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 ENERPAC TOOL GROUP CORP.

Dated: October __, 2022 THAD HALES

 By: 

 

 Defendant THAD HALES 

Dated: October __, 2022 MIKE BRACIKOWSKI

 By: 

 

 Defendant MIKE BRACIKOWSKI

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ORDER

The court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, of which all parties but 

defendant Hales signed. (See ECF No. 17). Defendant Hales was ordered to respond but failed 

to do so.1 (See ECF No. 18.) Based on the representations by counsel in the motion for 

protective order, as well as in the complaint and the stipulation, the court finds the applicable 

local rule satisfied. See L.R. 141.1. The court APPROVES the above protective order and orders 

it effective subject to the following clarification. The Local Rules state that once an action is 

closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement of the 

terms of any protective order filed in that action.” L.R. 141.1(f); see also, e.g., MD Helicopters, 

Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., Feb. 03, 2017) (noting that courts in the 

district generally do not agree to retain jurisdiction for disputes concerning protective orders after 

closure of the case). Thus, the court will not retain jurisdiction over this protective order once the 

case is closed. Further, plaintiff’s request for attorneys’ fees is DENIED at this time, but 

defendant Hales is cautioned that further failures to communicate or cooperate with opposing 

counsel may result in sanctions including attorneys’ fees. 

Dated: December 21, 2022 

trit.1515

1

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Summons.” (ECF No. 21.) However, Defendant’s Second Request for Summons is unresponsive 

to the motion for protective order. 

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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 Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of Tri Tool, Inc. v. Thad Hales, et al., 

with Case Number 2:22-CV-01515-DAD-KJN. 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 

Eastern 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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