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Nature of Suit Code: 355
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Motor Vehicle Product Liability

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WILSON PETTY KOSMO & TURNER LLP

VICKIE E. TURNER (106431) 

CHRISTIAN S. SCOTT (200218) 

550 West C Street, Suite 1050 

San Diego, California 92101 

Telephone: (619) 236-9600 

Facsimile: (619) 236-9669 

Attorneys for Defendant 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

 

MONIQUE GUERRERO, A Minor, by and 

through her Guardian ad Litem, ELIZABETH 

GUERRERO; ELIZABETH GUERRERO, 

Individually, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION; 

TAKATA SEAT BELTS, INC.; and DOES 1 

through 50, 

Defendants. 

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STIPULATION FOR ENTRY OF 

PROTECTIVE ORDER AND ORDER 

THEREON 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

The parties having stipulated to the entry of this Protective Order in order to facilitate 

discovery in the above-entitled action, and the court being duly advised, IT IS ORDERED that the 

following provisions and conditions shall govern the parties in this action: 

1. When used in this Stipulation and Protective Order, the word “information” means all 

written material, videotapes, live-action film and all other tangible items, whether produced as hard 

copy, website, computer diskette, CD-ROM or otherwise. 

2. In response to discovery in this matter, General Motors Corporation (“General 

Motors”) and Takata Seat Belts, Inc. (“Takata”) have identified materials that they consider 

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proprietary and competitively sensitive, and that they wish to protect from dissemination outside this 

litigation. Additionally, General Motors and Takata may produce information from their suppliers 

or affiliated companies which they have been authorized, on behalf of said suppliers or affiliated 

companies, to designate as confidential. This Order shall control the disclosure and dissemination of 

such documents and information, and shall apply to all parties in this action and to other persons as 

described herein. 

3. General Motors and Takata shall designate material as confidential only after 

determining that the material contains a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or 

commercial information or is otherwise considered confidential under applicable law, including 

California Civil Code § 3426.1, which provides: 

"Trade secret" means information, including a formula, pattern, 

compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that: 

(1) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, 

from not being generally known to the public or to other persons who 

can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and 

(2) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the 

circumstances to maintain its secrecy. 

This information includes confidential and proprietary information, and documents or things which 

concern, reflect, embody or constitute the foregoing and may include, but shall not be limited to, 

correspondence, memoranda, notes, deposition transcripts and exhibits, plans, specifications, 

blueprints, drawings, test reports, test procedures and test manuals. 

4. In responding to written discovery, General Motors and Takata (the party producing 

Confidential Information is referred to as the “Producing Party”) may designate any portion of their 

response which contains trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial 

information or information otherwise considered confidential under applicable law by marking the 

material, in a manner which will not interfere with its legibility, with the words “This document is 

subject to a Protective Order in “Monique Guerrero, a Minor et al. v. General Motors Corporation, 

et al.” or “Confidential” or similar designation. Said designation shall apply to all copies, prints or 

all documents marked confidential and shall make all such documents subject to this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

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5. To the extent that any Confidential Information is used in the taking of depositions, 

such portions of such depositions shall be taken only in the presence of those persons identified in 

paragraph 6 below and the court reporter and videographer, and all such Confidential Information 

shall remain subject to the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order, along with the 

transcript pages of the deposition testimony dealing with the Confidential Information. At the time 

any Confidential Information is used in any deposition, the reporter and videographer will be 

informed of this Stipulation and Protective Order and will be required to operate in a manner 

consistent with this Stipulation and Protective Order, and the reporter shall separately label the 

confidential portions of the deposition transcript. In any deposition, if the deponent’s testimony is 

deemed confidential, the Producing Party will notify all counsel in writing of the page and line 

numbers of the testimony deemed confidential within thirty (30) days of the deposition. Any 

testimony read from or directly referencing confidential documents is automatically deemed to be 

confidential, including any confidential documents that are used as deposition exhibits. 

6. Except as provided in paragraph 18, any information designated confidential 

(“Confidential Information”) that the Producing Party provides to a party may be disclosed only to 

parties and/or immediate employees of the parties’ counsels’ law firms, and other individuals 

legitimately assisting the parties in the preparation of this matter for trial, such as the parties’ 

consultants and experts. 

7. Except as provided in paragraph 18, any recipient of Confidential Information 

(“Receiving Party”) shall not disclose the Confidential Information to any other person to whom 

disclosure is not authorized by the terms of this Protective Order and shall not use such Confidential 

Information for purposes other than preparation of this action for trial. Any Receiving Party shall 

exercise reasonable and appropriate care with regard to the storage, custody, and/or use of 

Confidential Information in order to ensure that its confidential nature is maintained. 

8. Any Receiving Party, by accepting its receipt, agrees to be subject to the jurisdiction 

of this court in connection with any proceeding or hearing relating to the Confidential Information 

and/or this Protective Order, including, but not limited to, any proceeding relating to the 

enforcement of this Protective Order. 

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9. The Receiving Party of Confidential Information, prior to its receipt, shall be 

furnished with a copy of this Protective Order, and shall execute a written assurance of the type 

attached as Exhibit “A,” certifying that the Receiving Party will not disclose Confidential 

Information to any person to whom disclosure is not authorized by the terms of this Protective 

Order, that the Receiving Party will not use any Confidential Information in any way whatsoever 

other than for purposes of this action or substantially similar litigation, and that the Receiving Party 

has read this Protective Order and agrees to be bound by its terms. The original of each written 

assurance shall be maintained by counsel for the Receiving Party disclosing the material and 

furnished to counsel for Producing Party upon the conclusion of this litigation. The Receiving Party 

disclosing the material shall also maintain and furnish to counsel for the Producing Party at the 

conclusion of the litigation a list or description of which Confidential Information has been disclosed 

to each recipient. 

10. There shall be no reproduction or copying of Confidential Information except for 

those people authorized to receive information pursuant to this Order after execution of a written 

assurance. 

11. Because this case is subject to electronic filing, the filing of any documents and 

materials that contain Confidential Information shall be filed in accordance with Local Rule 39-

140(d) and Local Rule 39-141(a)-(g). 

12. If a Receiving Party intends to introduce into evidence any information designated as 

Confidential at the time of trial, they shall give timely notice of such intention to counsel for the 

Producing Party at the time of, or prior to, the exchange of Pretrial Disclosures that are required 

pursuant to FRCP 26(a)(3), and counsel for the Producing Party shall then have the burden to obtain 

a ruling regarding sealing of the record within seven court days. Until such ruling is obtained from 

the court, the Confidential Information shall be lodged with the court conditionally under seal. In 

any event, a Receiving Party intending to introduce Confidential Information must allow sufficient 

time to address the issue of preserving confidentiality with the court. The closure of trial 

proceedings and sealing of the record of a trial involve considerations not presently before the Court. 

These issues may be taken up as a separate matter upon the motion of any of the parties at or before 

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the trial. 

13. After the conclusion of this action, this Order shall continue to apply to all 

Confidential Information provided by the Producing Party and the court shall retain jurisdiction over 

all recipients of such Confidential Information for purposes of enforcing the provisions of this Order. 

14. At the conclusion of this case, all documents and copies designated as Confidential 

shall be returned to the Producing Party’s counsel at the Producing Party’s expense. This paragraph 

shall require the return of the original materials produced, together with all photocopies, duplicates, 

or reproductions or abstracts of such materials. All persons, including counsel, who have received 

documents subject to this Stipulation and Protective Order, shall execute a declaration (Exhibit “B,” 

annexed hereto) acknowledging that they have complied with the Stipulation and Protective Order 

and that no copies of documents containing Confidential Information have been retained. The 

Receiving Party’s counsel shall forward the declarations signed by the Receiving Party’s retained 

experts and consultants who were designated or disclosed during this case to the Producing Party’s 

counsel. In the case of consultants retained by the Receiving Party’s counsel who were not disclosed 

or designated to the Producing Party, the Receiving Party’s counsel will execute and deliver to the 

Producing Party’s counsel a declaration acknowledging that the Receiving Party’s retained experts’ 

and consultants’ have signed Exhibit “B” declaring that they have complied with the Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

15. In the event that any Receiving Party disagrees with the Producing Party’s 

designation of any item as Confidential and subject to this Protective Order, that party shall, up until 

the time of trial, send a written notice to the Producing Party’s counsel specifying the items in 

question. In the event that the parties cannot reach an agreement concerning the confidentiality of 

the item, the party supporting continued confidentiality shall proceed to file a motion with this court 

seeking a determination of whether the items are properly subject to this Protective Order. Any such 

items shall continue to be treated as confidential and subject to this Order until such time as the court 

rules that the items are not entitled to confidential treatment. 

16. No party or their respective counsel, experts or other persons retained by them to 

assist in the preparation of this action shall under any circumstances sell, offer for sale, advertise or 

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publicize either the contents of Confidential Information or the fact that the Producing Party may 

have produced Confidential Information in connection with this litigation. 

17. No inadvertent production of documents or other physical objects shall constitute a 

waiver of the attorney-client privilege or work product immunity, if the Producing Party: (1) notifies 

the Receiving Party that such documents or things were inadvertently produced and are subject to 

attorney-client privilege or work product immunity; and (2) requests that the Receiving Party return 

any such documents or things. Upon such a request, the Receiving Party shall immediately return to 

the producing Party all originals and all copies of the documents or things for which the producing 

Party claims attorney-client privilege or work product protection pursuant to this paragraph. 

Nothing herein shall prevent the Receiving Party, after returning the documents or things, from 

challenging the claim of attorney-client privilege or work product immunity by filing a motion to 

compel, PROVIDED HOWEVER, that the Receiving Party may not claim as grounds for such a 

motion that the Producing Party has waived attorney-client privilege or work product protection by 

producing the documents and things in this case. Nothing in this paragraph circumvents applicable 

case law pertaining to attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. 

18. This Stipulation shall become effective immediately upon execution and may be 

executed in counterpart and/or by duplicate original. 

Dated: February 20, 2007 MILES, SEARS & FANNI

 By: /s/ Douglas L. Gordon 

 Richard C. Watters 

 Douglas L. Gordon 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

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Dated: February 20, 2007 WILSON PETTY KOSMO & TURNER LLP

 By: /s/ Christian S. Scott 

 Vickie E. Turner 

 Christian S. Scott 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION 

Dated: February 20, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF EUGENE M. GENSON

 By: /s/ Eugene M. Genson 

 Eugene M. Genson 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 TAKATA SEAT BELTS, INC. 

O R D E R 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 2/27/2007 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

 SANDRA M. SNYDER 

 

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EXHIBIT "A" 

WRITTEN ASSURANCE 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA 

COUNTY OF _____________ 

I, _______________________________, hereby attest to my understanding that information 

or documents designated confidential are provided to me pursuant to the terms and conditions and 

restrictions of the Protective Order of ________________________, 2007, in Monique Guerrero et 

al. v. General Motors Corporation, et al., that I have been given a copy of and have read the 

Protective Order and understand its terms. I further agree that I shall not disclose to others, except in 

accordance with that Protective Order, such information or documents including notes or other 

memorandum or writings regarding information contained in them, and that such information or 

documents shall be used only for the purposes of the legal proceeding in which they are produced. I 

further agree and attest to my understanding that my obligations to honor the confidentiality of such 

information or documents will continue even after the termination of the legal proceeding. I further 

agree and attest to my understanding that, in the event that I fail to abide by the terms of the 

Protective Order, I may be subject to sanctions, including sanctions by way of contempt of court, 

imposed by the court for such a failure. Further, I agree to subject myself to the jurisdiction of the 

United States District Court, Eastern District of California in and for any contempt proceeding or 

other appropriate sanctions as the court may deem proper for a violation of the Court’s Protective 

Order. 

Dated: ____________ 

 

 Signature 

 

 Address 

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EXHIBIT "B" 

I, __________________________________, have been provided copies of, or access to, 

Confidential Information produced pursuant to a Stipulation and Protective Order in the abovecaptioned action and attest to the following facts: 

1. I have read and complied with all the provisions of the Stipulation and Protective 

Order regarding the Confidential Information. 

2. In formulating my opinions or in preparing for trial in the above-captioned action, I 

have provided the following individuals copies or access to the Confidential Information: 

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________. 

3. The individuals listed in Paragraph 2 are the only individuals to whom I provided 

copies of, or access to, the Confidential Information. 

4. Before providing the individual listed in Paragraph 2 copies of, or access to, the 

Confidential Information, I required said individuals to read a copy of the Stipulation and Protective 

Order and they executed the Agreement annexed thereto as Exhibit “A” to the Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

5. The individuals listed in Paragraph 2 have returned all copies of documents 

containing Confidential Information and have executed declarations stating that they have complied 

with the terms of the Stipulation and Protective Order. 

6. I have made no other copies of the Confidential Information provided pursuant to the 

Stipulation and Protective Order, other than that which has been returned. 

7. With this Declaration I have returned all copies of Confidential Information provided 

to me pursuant to the Stipulation and Protective Order in the above-captioned action and have 

returned all declarations of those individuals to whom I provided copies of, or access to, the 

Confidential Information. 

8. After submitting this Declaration and the attached Confidential Information to 

counsel by whom I have been retained and pursuant to the requirements set forth in the Stipulation 

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and Protective Order, I will not retain any copies of documents containing any Confidential 

Information. 

9. I have otherwise complied with all the terms of the Stipulation and Protective Order 

covering Confidential Information produced in the above-captioned action. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing 

is true and correct. 

Executed this _________ day of ___________________,200_, at ________________, 

California. 

 _________________________ 

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