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

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

258205.1 

WOOLLS 

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PEER

A Professional Corporation 

One Wilshire Boulevard, 22nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90017

JOHN E. PEER (SBN 95978)

JEFFREY A. DOLLINGER (SBN 146582) 

CAITLIN R. ZAPF (SBN 255450) 

WOOLLS & PEER

A Professional Corporation 

One Wilshire Boulevard, 22nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90017 

Telephone: (213) 629-1600 

Facsimile: (212) 629-1660 

Email: jpeer@woollspeer.com 

 jdollinger@woollspeer.com czapf@woollspeer.com Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY 

G. EDWARD RUDLOFF, JR. (SBN 56058) 

KATHLEEN M. DELANEY (SBN 196376) 

DIANNE J. MECONIS (SBN 120895) 

FORAN GLENNON PALANDECH PONZI 

& RUDLOFF PC 

2000 Powell Street, Suite 900 

Emeryville, California 94608 

Email: erudloff@fgppr.com 

 kdelaney@fgppr.com dmeconis@fgppr.com 

Attorneys for Defendant ST. PAUL 

SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE COMPANY

GEORGE J. STEPHAN (SBN 67692)

BUCHALTER NEMER 

A Professional Corporation 

1000 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1500 

Los Angeles, California 90017-2457 

Telephone: (213) 891-0700 

Facsimile: (213) 896-0400 

Email: gstephan@buchalter.com 

Attorneys for Nonparty 

CROWN EQUIPMENT 

 CORPORATION 

CHARLES J. FARUKI (Ohio Bar No. 

0010417)

MELINDA K. BURTON (Ohio Bar No. 

0064618)

FARUKI IRELAND & COX P.L.L. 

500 Courthouse Plaza, S.W. 

10 North Ludlow Street 

Dayton, Ohio 45402 

Telephone: (937) 227-3705 

Facsimile: (937) 227-3717 

Email: cfaruki@ficlaw.com 

 mburton@ficlaw.com 

Attorneys for Nonparty 

CROWN EQUIPMENT 

CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

CONTINENTAL CASUALTY 

COMPANY, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ST. PAUL SURPLUS LINES 

INSURANCE COMPANY and DOES 1 - 

100, inclusive, 

 Defendants.

CASE NO.2:07-CV-01744-MCE-EFB 

(Hon. Judge Morrison C. England, Jr.) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

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A Professional Corporation 

One Wilshire Boulevard, 22nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90017

Plaintiff Continental Casualty Company ("Plaintiff"), Defendant St. Paul 

Surplus Lines Insurance Company ("St. Paul"), and nonparty Crown Equipment 

Corporation ("Crown"), by their respective counsel of record, agree and stipulate to 

the following protective order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c): 

1. The above-referenced lawsuit may involve the discovery and exchange of 

information deemed confidential and/or proprietary by Plaintiff, Defendants or 

nonparty Crown; and the parties desire to expedite the flow of discovery materials, 

facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes of confidentiality, and adequately protect 

material entitled to be kept confidential. At this time, nonparty Crown is in the 

process of producing documents it deems confidential and/or proprietary in 

accordance with Crown's response to Plaintiff's July 5, 2011 Subpoena to Crown. 

2. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed as limiting 

in any way the right of any party or person, including nonparty Crown, to object to 

furnishing information sought by any other party. It is also understood that this 

agreement is not intended to and, therefore, should not be construed as affecting the 

right of any party or person, including nonparty Crown, to withhold information based 

on a claim of privilege or attorney work product or other proper objection. 

3. Any party and nonparty Crown may designate documents (as defined by 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(a)) or any summaries or compilations derived there from, including 

but not limited to productions of documents, answers to interrogatories, responses to 

requests for admissions, deposition testimony, exhibits, and all other discovery, 

regardless of format, that it deems confidential and/or proprietary by physically 

stamping the word "CONFIDENTIAL" on such documents and/or by specifically 

designating such documents as confidential in the letter or pleading transmitting or 

producing such documents. The "CONFIDENTIAL" stamp shall be large enough and 

conspicuously placed so as to allow ready and easy observation. 

4. All documents that Crown designated as "Confidential" in Coupe v. 

Crown Lift Trucks, et al., Yolo County Superior Court Case No. P002-1064, in 

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258205.1 

WOOLLS 

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A Professional Corporation 

One Wilshire Boulevard, 22nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90017

accordance with the Stipulation for Protective Order and Order entered in that case, 

and any other information, including written discovery or responses thereto, 

deposition transcripts and exhibits, pleadings, motions, affidavits, briefs, and expert 

reports in that case that quote, summarize, or contain confidential Crown material 

shall remain confidential and shall be deemed designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" for 

purposes of this lawsuit in accordance with this Stipulated Protective Order and shall 

be entitled to all protections afforded by this Stipulated Protective Order. 

5. The documents produced pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order 

shall not be disclosed, disseminated, or in any manner shared with any person or 

entity, other than as specifically provided for herein. 

6. The documents produced pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order 

many only be disclosed to: 

A. The attorneys of record actively involved in the litigation in this lawsuit, 

and employees of such attorneys to the extent reasonably necessary to render 

professional services in this litigation. 

B. The Court, including court personnel, any court exercising appellate 

jurisdiction over this lawsuit, and stenographers transcribing a deposition. 

C. Experts or consultants retained by the parties for the purpose of assisting 

counsel in this litigation, but only after such experts or consultants have 

executed a declaration in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, which 

declaration shall be maintained by counsel for the party retaining the expert or 

consultant. 

D. The parties to this litigation, including representatives of such parties, 

and then only to the extent deemed reasonably necessary by counsel for such 

party, but only after such party representative has executed a declaration in the 

form attached hereto as Exhibit A, which declaration shall be maintained by 

counsel for that party. 

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Los Angeles, California 90017

7. Written discovery and responses thereto, deposition transcripts and 

exhibits, pleadings, motions, affidavits, briefs, and expert reports that quote, 

summarize or contain material entitled to protection, to the extent feasible, shall be 

prepared in such a manner that the confidential information is bound separately from 

that not entitled to protection. 

8. Unless otherwise required by the Court, whenever any document 

designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or any pleading containing "CONFIDENTIAL" 

information is filed with the Court, the party submitting such document or pleading 

shall file a motion for leave to file under seal in accordance with E.D. Local Rule 141. 

9. The inadvertent production or disclosure of any document (including but 

not limited to e-mail or other electronic documents) or thing otherwise protected by 

attorney-client privilege or work-product protection (as defined by Fed. R. Evid. 

502(g)) ("Disclosed Protected Information") shall not constitute or be deemed a 

waiver or forfeiture of any claim of privilege or work product protection that the 

producing party would otherwise be entitled to assert with respect to the Disclosed 

Protected Information or its subject matter. The producing party shall assert in writing 

the attorney-client or work product protection with respect to the Disclosed Protected 

Information. The receiving party shall, within five (5) business days of receipt of that 

writing, return or destroy the Disclosed Protected Information and any and all copies 

thereof or references thereto and provide a certification of counsel that all such 

Disclosed Protected Information has been returned or destroyed. 

A. If the receiving party disputes and wishes to contest any such Disclosed 

Protected Information was inadvertently produced or is protected by the 

attorney-client privilege or by work-product immunity, the receiving party shall 

so notify the producing party in writing when the Disclosed Protected 

Information (and all copies) are returned to the producing party. 

B. Within fifteen (15) days after receiving such notification, the producing 

party shall provide to the receiving parties a list identifying all such returned 

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Los Angeles, California 90017

Disclosed Protected Information and stating the basis for the claim of privilege 

or immunity. 

C. Within fourteen (14) days of receiving such a list, the receiving party or 

parties may file a motion to compel production of such Disclosed Protected 

Information, the protection of which is still disputed (a "Privilege Motion"). 

The Privilege Motion shall not assert as a ground for compelling production the 

fact or circumstances of inadvertent production. 

D. With respect to Disclosed Protected Information subsequently generated 

by a receiving party, which derivative Disclosed Protected Information contains 

information derived from such inadvertently produced Disclosed Protected 

Information, if the receiving party does not obtain an order compelling 

production pursuant to a timely filed Privilege Motion, the receiving party shall, 

within five (5) business days after learning of the denial of the Privilege 

Motion, either destroy the derivative Disclosed Protected Information or redact 

from them all such derivative privileged or work-product information in a 

manner such that the derivative privileged or work-product information cannot 

in any way be retrieved, inferred or reproduced. 

E. Nothing in this paragraph shall limit a party's ability to assert to the Court 

that a disclosing party's affirmative use of Disclosed Protected Information in 

this litigation in fairness requires disclosure of privileged or work product 

protected information pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 106 or 502(a). 

10. Within thirty (30) days following the final determination of the subject 

lawsuit, each party, party representative, and their attorneys and their agents, experts 

and consultants shall destroy or return all copies of documents designated herein as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" to the attorney for the party or nonparty (such as Crown) which 

produced the documents. 

11. The documents produced pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order 

shall be used solely for the purpose of preparing for and conducting this litigation. 

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258205.1 

WOOLLS 

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A Professional Corporation 

One Wilshire Boulevard, 22nd Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90017

The parties, their attorneys, agents, experts and consultants understand and agree that 

the documents designated as confidential and/or proprietary shall not be used for any 

other purpose and shall not be shared with persons or entities other than as provided 

for herein. 

12. The counsel of record for the parties are responsible for employing 

reasonable measures to control, consistent with this Stipulated Protective Order, the 

duplication of, access to, and distribution of the documents produced pursuant to this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

13. If a person who has obtained a document under the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order receives a subpoena or other similar request for such 

document, that person shall promptly notify in writing the party or other person who 

designated the document as confidential of the pendency of such subpoena or similar 

request. 

14. Unless the parties stipulate otherwise, evidence of the existence or 

nonexistence of a designation under this Stipulated Protective Order shall not be 

admissible for any purpose. 

15. Notwithstanding the termination of the instant litigation, the court shall 

retain jurisdiction over the parties and persons receiving information pursuant to the 

terms of this Stipulated Protective Order for the purpose of enforcing all obligations 

arising hereunder. 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the 

Stipulated Protective Order is approved. 

DATED: August 22, 2011. 

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