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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Declaratory Judgement

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Joint Stipulation for Protective Order 

 CASE NO. 2:13-cv-02639-MCE-EFB 

Gary R. Selvin, State Bar No. 112030 

E-mail: gselvin@selvinwraith.com 

Robin D. Korte, State Bar No. 182553 

E-mail: rkorte@selvinwraith.com 

SELVIN WRAITH HALMAN LLP 

505 14th Street, Suite 1200 

Oakland, CA 94612 

Telephone: (510) 874-1811 

Facsimile: (510) 465-8976 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PRAETORIAN INSURANCE COMPANY 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

PRAETORIAN INSURANCE COMPANY, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

A R BUSINESS GROUP, INC. dba U S 

TIRE & WHEEL; MARSHAUN TATE; S. T., 

by and through his guardian ad litem, 

KENNETH TATE; ELISEO QUINTERO, 

SR.; AIDA QUINTERO; FORD MOTOR 

COMPANY; BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS, 

INC., 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:13-cv-02639-MCE-EFB 

JOINT STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

Complaint Filed: December 20, 2013 

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 would be 

warranted. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 

all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to 

the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to 

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treatment as confidential. 

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 generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things reflecting confidential or personal 

information that counsel or any of the stipulating parties have in good faith designated as 

“Confidential”. 

2.3 COUNSEL: Outside Counsel and (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 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 (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an 

expert witness or consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or 

of a Party’s competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

employee of a Party or of a Party’s competitor. This definition includes a professional jury or 

trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.7 NON-PARTY: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

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

2.8 OUTSIDE COUNSEL: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but are 

retained to represent or advise a Party 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. 

2.9 PARTY: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel (and their support staff). 

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2.10 PRODUCING PARTY: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.11 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. 

2.12 PROTECTED MATERIAL: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential”. 

2.13 RECEIVING PARTY: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

 The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material (as defined 

above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

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

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 or arbitrator’s order otherwise directs. 

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. A Designating Party must take care to 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 

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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 designated for 

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

initially asserted, then the 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 designated as such before the 

material is disclosed or produced. 

Designation in Conformity with this Order Requires: 

 (a) for information in documentary form (apart from 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). 

 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pre-trial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party or Non-Party offering or sponsoring the testimony 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 testimony that is entitled to protection, and 

when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the 

Party or Non-Party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record 

(before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 

twenty (20) days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for 

protection within the twenty (20) days shall be covered by the provisions of this Protective 

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Order. Alternatively, a Party or Non-Party offering or sponsoring the testimony may specify, 

at the deposition or up to twenty (20) days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that 

the entire transcript shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL”. 

 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”. 

 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. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. 

 (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 

as “Confidential” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure 

protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as 

“Confidential” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely 

notification of the designation, 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 

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 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. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin 

the process by conferring directly (in writing or voice-to-voice dialogue). 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 

 A Challenging Party, after considering the justification offered by the Designating 

Party, may file and serve a motion consistent with this Protective Order that identifies the 

challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion 

must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms 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. Until the Court rules on the challenge, 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. 

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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 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 to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation; 

 (b) the officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party to whom 

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

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound,” attached hereto as 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 Judge, the Court, and its personnel; 

 (e) 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); 

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 (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 Protective Order. 

 (g) the author or recipient of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

7.3 Filing of "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items with the Court 

 Documents containing confidential information shall not be filed with the Court 

absent: (a) consent from the party designating the materials as confidential; or (b) the 

issuance of a sealing order from the Court addressing such confidential information. If the 

designating party does not consent, the party seeking to file documents containing 

confidential information with the Court shall file a motion or an application for an order 

sealing the document, pursuant to Rule 2.551 of the California Rules of Court Local Rule 

141. 

8. 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 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 an 

acknowledgment and agreement to be bound by this protective order. 

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 

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“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 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.1

 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. 

10. 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 NonParties 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 protection. 

 (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 

 

1 The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this Protective 

Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests 

in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. 

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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 NonParty; 

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

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

fourteen (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.2

 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. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty 

(60) days after the final disposition of this action, each Receiving Party must return all 

Protected Material to the Producing Party. Alternatively, the Receiving Party may destroy 

some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. As used in this subdivision, “all 

Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other 

form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected 

 

2

 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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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, 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. 

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 entering in to 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 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. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED AND AGREED. 

Dated: March 10, 2015 SELVIN WRAITH HALMAN LLP 

By: 

Gary R. Selvin 

Robin D. Korte 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PRAETORIAN INSURANCE COMPANY 

Dated: March ___, 2015 MARSHAUN TATE and SHAUN TATE, by and 

through his Guardian ad Litem, KENNETH TATE 

By: 

John D. Barr 

Estee Lewis 

Attorneys for Defendant 

MARSHAUN TATE and SHAUN TATE, by and 

through his Guardian ad Litem, KENNETH 

TATE 

Dated: March ___, 2015 KAUFMAN LAW OFFICES 

By: 

James J. Kaufman 

Attorney for Defendant 

A R BUSINESS GROUP, INC. dba U S TIRE & 

WHEEL 

Dated: March ___, 2015 ROSENTHAL LAW

By: 

S. David Rosenthal 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ELISEO QUINTERO, SR. and 

AIDA QUINTERO 

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Dated: March 10, 2015 SNELL & WILMER L.L.P. 

By: /s/ Jonathan R. Murphy (as authorized on 3/10/2015)

Daniel Rodman 

Jonathan R. Murphy 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY 

Dated: March ___, 2015 LARSON, GARRICK & LIGHTFOOT, LLP

By: 

Arnold D. Larson 

Mary P. Lightfoot 

Attorneys for Defendant 

BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS, INC. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 16, 2015. 

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