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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER (C07-01109 CW) 

MELINDA S. RIECHERT, State Bar No. 65504 

MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 

2 Palo Alto Square 

3000 El Camino Real, Suite 700 

Palo Alto, CA 94306-2122 

Tel: 650.843.4000 

Fax: 650.843.4001 

mriechert@morganlewis.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST 

AND DANIEL CUSHING 

JASON J. CURLIANO, State Bar No. 167509 

ADAM M. KOSS, State Bar No. 245465 

BUTY & CURLIANO LLP 

555 City Center 

555 12th Street, Suite 1280 

Oakland, CA 94607 

Tel: 510.267.3000 

Fax: 510.267.0117 

jasonc@butycurliano.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOHN SUTTON 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOHN SUTTON, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST, 

DANIEL CUSHING, and 

DOES 1 through 20, 

Defendants. 

Case No. C07-01109 CW 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER (C07-01109 CW) 

In connection with the above-captioned action, the parties Plaintiff John Sutton 

(“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Brandywine Realty Trust and Daniel Cushing (“Defendants”) by and 

through their undersigned attorneys, stipulate that the following Confidentiality Agreement and 

Stipulation and Protective Order may be entered by the Court: 

1. Defendants shall have the right to designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” the September 

15, 2006 letters to Ms. Leanne Butterfield and Mr. Dan Cushing (“Letters”) on the grounds that 

these Letters contain information subject to a legally protected right of privacy. The designation 

shall be made by making each page of the Letters as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2. The Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and produced by Defendants in the 

instant matter shall be used by the party receiving or reviewing them (the “Receiving Party”) only 

for the purposes of preparing for and conducting the litigation or settlement of the instant action 

and shall not be used for any or other purpose whatsoever. 

3. The production or disclosure of the Letters by Defendants shall in no way 

constitute a waiver of any Defendants’ right to object to the production or disclosure of other 

additional confidential material or information and shall have no effect on any other dispute over 

the parties’ right to apply to the Court for a further protective order relating to any additional 

confidential material. 

4. This Protective Order is entered without prejudice to the right of any party to apply 

to the Court at any time for additional protection, or to relax or rescind the restrictions hereof. 

However, prior to any application to the Court to enlarge or reduce the restrictions of this 

Protective Order, the parties will confer in good faith in an effort to resolve such issues and 

determine by stipulation an appropriate modification of the original Protective Order. 

5. Unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed to in writing by the 

parties, the Letters designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be treated as such and shall not be 

disclosed except in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order. 

6. The Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL shall not be reproduced except as 

required in connection with the litigation of the instant case. Any person making, or causing to be 

made, photocopies, excerpts, blow-ups or demonstrative material reflecting any portions of the 

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Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL shall make certain that each such item bears the 

appropriate CONFIDENTIAL marking. 

7. All copies or derivations of those portions of the Letters designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL shall also constitute Confidential Material and shall be treated as such. 

8. Confidential Material may be referred to by a Receiving Party or Producing Party 

in papers filed with the Court in the instant action and/or in discovery papers. However, no such 

information shall be used for any of these purposes unless the papers, or the portion thereof 

containing Confidential Material, are appropriately designated and, if filed with the Court, filed 

under seal. 

9. If the Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and any Confidential Material 

derived therefrom are used at a deposition, those portions of deposition testimony must also be 

designated as Confidential Material. The party requesting the designation may state during the 

deposition which testimony should be treated as CONFIDENTIAL and request that the Court 

reporter print that portion of the transcript separately and mark it CONFIDENTIAL, as the case 

may be. 

10. The Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and all other Confidential Material 

derived therefrom, may only be disclosed or made available to “Qualified Persons,” who are 

defined to consist of: 

(a) The Court and employees of the Court 

(b) Counsel to the parties in the instant matter (both in-house and outside 

counsel), including clerical, secretarial and paralegal staff employed by such counsel; 

(c) Experts or consultants and their staff assisting in the prosecution or defense 

of the instant matter, provided that said experts and/or consultants are not (i) employed by, (ii) 

regular consultants for, or (iii) employees of firms or businesses that are regular consultants for 

any of the parties engaged in this lawsuit, provided that they sign Exhibit A; 

(d) Parties and representatives or employees of parties (officers, directors, 

employees, trustees, etc.) on a need-to-know basis; 

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(e) Any person who authored or previously received the Confidential Material, 

or who has knowledge of the specific facts identified in such materials; 

(f) Court reporters and other persons involved in recording deposition 

testimony in this action by any means; 

(g) Any other person to whom the Producing Party agrees in writing; 

(h) Commercial photocopying services ordinarily used by counsel for the 

purposes of photocopying, if such services are deemed reasonably necessary under the 

circumstances; and 

(i) Other witnesses when testifying or persons who a party reasonably believes 

may be called as a witness, provided that they sign Exhibit A. 

11. The Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and other Confidential Material 

derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to any persons other than Qualified Persons. In the 

event that any Qualified Person to whom the Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and other 

Confidential Material derived therefrom is disclosed ceases his or her involvement in the instant 

action, his or her access to the Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and other Confidential 

Material derived therefrom shall be terminated immediately. The provisions of this Protective 

Order shall remain in full force and effect as to any such person 

12. Counsel for the parties shall take reasonable precautions to prevent the 

unauthorized disclosure of the Letters designated as CONFIDENTIAL and other Confidential 

Material derived therefrom. 

13. Upon the written request of the Defendants made within sixty (60) days of the 

final disposition of this action, those portions of the Letters marked as CONFIDENTIAL and all 

Confidential Material derived therefrom as well as all copies or extracts thereof, shall be returned 

to the Defendants within thirty (30) days of such request or, at the Defendants’ option, shall 

promptly be destroyed, except that briefs and other court papers prepared for use in the instant 

matter need not be returned or destroyed but shall be kept confidential by all counsel for the 

parties. 

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14. The binding effect of this Protective Order shall survive termination of this action, 

and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the Protective Order. 

Dated: November _____, 2007 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 

By 

Melinda S. Riechert 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST 

AND DANIEL CUSHING 

Dated: November _____, 2007 BUTY & CURLIANO LLP 

By 

Jason Curliano 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOHN SUTTON 

 ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the foregoing Confidentiality Agreement and Stipulation 

is approved and adopted as an Order of the Court. But see Local Rule 79-5. 

 12/5/07 

Dated: 

Honorable Claudia Wilken 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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EXHIBIT A

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

I, the undersigned, hereby acknowledge that I have received a copy of the foregoing 

Confidentiality Agreement and Stipulation (the “Agreement”), have read same and agree to be 

bound by all provisions thereof. I irrevocably submit myself to the jurisdiction of the United 

States District Court, Northern District of California for enforcement of this Agreement. I 

understand that if I violate the terms of the Agreement, I may be subject to appropriate sanctions 

by the Court. 

DATED: 

 

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