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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:2201 Declaratory Judgement (Insurance)

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BRUCE D. CELEBREZZE (SBN 102181) 

bruce.celebrezze@sedgwicklaw.com

ALEXANDER E. POTENTE (SBN 208240) 

alex.potente@sedgwicklaw.com

ERYK R. GETTELL (Bar No. 245245) 

eryk.gettell@ sedgwicklaw.com 

SEDGWICK LLP 

333 Bush Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 781-7900 

Facsimile: (415) 781-2635 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY formerly 

known as ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY, 

as successor to GLOBE INDEMNITY COMPANY 

GARY W. OSBORNE (SBN 145734) 

DOMINIC S. NESBITT (SBN 146590) 

OSBORNE & NESBITT LLP 

501 West Broadway, Suite 1760 

San Diego, California 92101 

Phone: (619) 557-0343 

Fax: (619)557-0107 

gosborne@onlawllp.com

dnesbitt@onlawllp.com

Attorneys for Defendant and 

Counterclaim Plaintiff, BEL AIR MART 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY, 

a Delaware corporation formerly known as 

ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY, as 

successor to GLOBE INDEMNITY 

COMPANY,

Plaintiff,

vs.

BEL AIR MART, a California corporation; 

R. GERN NAGLER, as Trustee of the John 

W. Burns Testamentary Trust; ROBERT 

GERN NAGLER, an individual,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 2:11-CV-00976-JAM-DAD 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

Hon. John A. Mendez

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BEL AIR MART, a California corporation,

Counterclaim Plaintiff,

vs.

ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY, 

a Delaware corporation formerly known as 

ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY, as 

successor to GLOBE INDEMNITY 

COMPANY,

Counterclaim Defendant.

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the 

following protective order:

1. Purposes and Limitations

Discovery proceedings in this action may involve the production and disclosure 

of trade secrets or other confidential and proprietary commercial or financial 

information for which protection from public disclosure and from use for purposes 

other than prosecuting or defending this litigation may be warranted. The parties 

acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 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 

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; Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures to be followed when 

a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal.

2. Definitions

For purposes of this Order, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth 

below:

2.1. "Challenging Party" shall mean and refer to a Party that challenges 

a designation of information under this Order;

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2.2. "Confidential Information" shall mean information that qualifies 

for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c);

2.3. "Designating Party" shall mean and refer to a Party that designates 

information that it produces in responses to discovery as "CONFIDENTIAL";

2.4. "Discovery Material" shall mean all information, regardless of the 

medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among 

other things, testimony and transcripts), that are produced or generated in responses to 

discovery in this action;

2.5. "Expert" shall mean and refer to 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;

2.6. "Party" shall mean and refer to any party to this action, including all of 

its officers, directors, employees, consultants, attorneys, affiliates and subsidiaries (and 

their support staffs);

2.7. "Producing Party" shall mean and refer to a Party that 

produces Discovery Material in this action;

2.8. "Professional Vendors" shall mean and refer to 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;

2.9. "Protected Material" means any Discovery Material that is designated 

as "CONFIDENTIAL";

2.10. "Receiving Party" means a Party that receives Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party.

3. Scope

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover (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 

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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

This Order shall continue to be binding throughout this action, including any 

appeal thereof. This Order, as an agreement, shall remain in effect until all Confidential 

Information is returned to the Producing Party or destroyed, as provided below. Within 

thirty (30) days after termination of this action by dismissal, final non-appealable 

judgment or otherwise, each Party shall return to counsel for the Producing Party all 

Protected Material, including all copies, prints, excerpts, and other reproductions 

thereof, however generated or maintained. In the alternative, counsel for any Party 

receiving Protected Material may supervise the destruction thereof, including all copies, 

prints, excerpts, and other reproductions thereof, however generated or maintained. 

Counsel shall then advise counsel for the Producing Party in writing that all Protected 

Material, including all copies, prints, excerpts, and other reproductions thereof, 

however generated or maintained have been destroyed or returned. Notwithstanding the 

foregoing, counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy (in electronic form or 

otherwise) 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 material contain 

Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected 

Material remain subject to the parties' agreement for confidentiality as set forth herein. 

5. Designating Protected Material

By designating a document, testimony, or information derived therefrom as 

"CONFIDENTIAL", the Designating Party certifies to the Court and other Parties that 

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there is a good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation within the meaning 

of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(g).

5.1. Documents 

All confidentiality designations shall be made by the Designating Party at the 

time documents are produced by affixing the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" to each page 

that contains Confidential Information. If only a portion or portions of material on a 

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

protected portions (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). Affixing the 

legend "CONFIDENTIAL" on the cover of any multi-page document shall designate all 

pages of the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the Producing 

Party.

5.2. Deposition Testimony 

Testimony taken at a deposition may be designated as confidential by making a 

statement to that effect on the record before the close of the deposition or at some 

reasonable time thereafter. Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter taking 

and transcribing the deposition to separately bind such portions of the transcript 

containing information designated as confidential, and to label such portions 

appropriately.

5.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate 

An inadvertent failure to designate qualified information does not 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 Confidential Designations

Any 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 

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challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly 

after the original designation is disclosed.

The Challenging Party shall initiate the challenge process by providing written 

notice of each designation it is challenging (making specific reference therein to this 

section of the Order) and describing the basis for each challenge. The Designating Party 

shall respond to each challenge in writing within ten (10) days, stating with particularity 

the bases for asserting that the material is properly designated. If no timely written 

response is made to a challenge, the challenged designation is deemed void. If a timely 

written response is made to a challenge, counsel for the Parties shall, within five (5) 

days of the Designating Party's written response, confer in good faith in an effort to 

resolve the dispute.

If the Parties are unable to resolve a challenge without court intervention, the 

Designating Party shall file and serve a motion for a further protective order within 

twenty-one (21) days of the initial notice of challenge. Failure of the Designating Party 

to timely make such a motion 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.

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

Designating Party. 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 

A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is produced by another 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 

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and under the conditions described in this Order.

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the 

Designated Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information designated 

"CONFIDENTIAL" only to:

(a) any Party;

(b) counsel for any Party, including their paralegals and clerical staff, consultants, 

and in-house counsel;

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have first signed the 

"Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters (and their staff) engaged for depositions, hearings or trial;

(f) Professional Vendors who have first signed the "Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(g) Reinsurance companies and their employees who have first signed the 

"Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(h) witnesses in this action to the extent necessary for the conduct of this 

litigation who have first signed the "Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound" 

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(i) the author(s) or any recipient of the document or the original source of the 

information in any document or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed 

or knew the information; and

(j) third-party claim monitoring companies who have first signed the 

"Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

8. Filing Protected Material

Unless written permission is received from the Designating Party, a Party 

desiring to file Protected Material with the Court in this action must first seek, after 

appropriate notice to the Designating Party, an order from the Court allowing the filing 

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of the specific Protected Material at issue under seal, in accordance with Local Rule 

141. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the 

Court in whole or in part, then the Receiving Party may file in the public record all of 

such Protected Material, or such portion thereof as to which a sealing order was not 

granted. 

9. 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 shall (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating 

Party, which notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or order; and (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, which notification shall include a copy of this 

Stipulated Protective Order. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 

of seeking protection in the court that issued the subpoena or order 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. 

10. Right to Further Relief

Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any Party to seek its modification by 

the Court in the future. This Order and Agreement may be enforced by an Order of 

specific performance, as well as any claim for damages. 

11. 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 

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covered by this Protective Order. 

12. Showing That Protection Should Be Addressed By Court Order

A court order should be used to protect the parties’ Confidential Information 

than a private agreement for the following reasons: 

1) A court order provides a more efficient enforcement mechanism for both 

parties and non-parties to the litigation should confidential documents be used in 

contravention of this agreement; 

2) A court order better controls document dissemination, particularly if 

non-parties receive the information without agreeing to the terms of the protective 

order; 

3) The protective order also provides a procedure for the Court to rule on 

disputes concerning designations of Confidential Information; and 

4) The protective order will also serve the interests of judicial economy because 

it will minimize the need for the parties to bring discovery motions concerning 

documents designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

DATED: January 23, 2012 OSBORNE & NESBITT LLP

 By: /s/ Gary W. Osborne (as authorized on January 22, 2012)

Gary W. Osborne 

Attorney for Defendant and 

Counterclaim Plaintiff BEL AIR MART 

DATED: January 23, 2012 SEDGWICK LLP

 By: /s/ Eryk R. Gettell 

Bruce D. Celebrezze 

Alexander E. Potente 

Eryk R. Gettell 

Attorney for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

ARROWOOD INDEMNITY COMPANY, 

formerly known as ROYAL INDEMNITY 

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COMPANY, as successor to GLOBE 

INDEMNITY COMPANY 

DATED: January 23, 2012 WAGNER KIRKMAN BLAINE 

KLOMPARENS & YOUMANS LLP

 By: /s/ Carl P. Blaine (as authorized on January 20, 2012)

Carl P. Blaine

Attorney for Defendants R. GERN NAGLER, 

Trustee of the Estate of John W. Burns, and 

ROBERT GERN NAGLER, individually 

ATTESTATION OF FILING

Pursuant to Local Rule 131, I attest that I have obtained concurrence in the filing 

of this document from the counsel listed above. 

 /s/ Eryk R. Gettell

 Eryk R.Gettell 

 

Based upon the Stipulation of the Parties, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 23, 2012 /s/ John A. Mendez________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

 

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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, Sacramento Division, on ________ [date] in the case entitled 

Arrowood Indemnity Co. v. Bel Air Mart, et al., Case No. 2:11-CV-00976-JAM-DAD. I agree to 

comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. 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, Sacramento Division, for the purpose of enforcing the terms of 

this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of 

this action. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: __________________________ 

Signature: _____________________________ 

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