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Nature of Suit Code: 320
Nature of Suit: Assault, Libel, and Slander
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Tort/Non-Motor Vehicle

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Stipulation for Stipulated Protective Order for 1 Case No. 02:07-CV-02147-FCD-KJM 

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JERRALD K. PICKERING, II, SBN: 105253 

MICHAEL L. PICKERING SBN: 109384

PICKERING LAW CORPORATION 

1915 Placer Street, Redding, CA 96001 

P.O. Box 992200, Redding, CA 96099-2200 

(530) 241-5811 

(530) 241-3145 (Facsimile) 

E-Mail: jerry.plc@sbcglobal.net

 mike.plc@sbcglobal.net 

Attorneys for Defendant 

DANIEL C. DORSEY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHRISTOPHER JUDE RICCI, 

Plaintiff(s), 

v. 

DANIEL C. DORSEY, 

Defendant(s). 

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CASE NO: 2:08-CV-00060-FCD-KJM 

STIPULATION FOR STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR 

CONFIDENTIALITY OF DOCUMENTS 

AND INFORMATION TO BE PRODUCED 

IN DISCOVERY 

Assigned Judge: 

Honorable Frank C. Damrell, Jr. 

 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIM 

/

(With court modifications shown in strikeout/

 underline format)

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties by and through their respective counsel 

hereby stipulate to the following protective order: 

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties may designate 

any document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom, as 

“Confidential” under the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”). 

Confidential information is information which has not been made public and which concerns or 

relates to the processes, operations, type or work, or apparatus, or to the production, sales, 

shipments, purchases, transfers, identification of customers, inventories, amount or source of any 

income, profits, losses, or expenditures of any persons, firm, partnership, corporation, or other 

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organization, the disclosure of which information may have the effect of causing harm to the 

competitive position of the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or to the organization from 

which the information was obtained. The parties contemplate that confidential documents to be 

produced in this case include financial and medical records. 

By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived 

therefrom as “confidential,” under the terms of this order, the party making the designation is 

certifying to the court that 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). 

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping or writing on the copies 

of the documents produced to a party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping or writing 

the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any multiple document shall designate all pages of 

the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the producing party. 

3. Testimony taken at a deposition or conference during discovery, hearing or trial

may be designated as confidential by making a statement to that effect on the record at the 

deposition or other discovery proceeding. Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter 

taking and transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such portions of the transcript 

containing information designated as confidential, and to label such portions appropriately. 

4. Material designated as confidential under this Order, the information contained 

therein, and any summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from 

material designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall be used only for the 

purpose of the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose. 

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order may be disclosed or made 

available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial 

staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated below: 

(a) a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party deemed necessary by counsel 

to aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(b) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such counsel to 

assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

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(c) court reporter(s) employed in this action; 

(d) a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action, and 

(e) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each “qualified person” shall be provided 

with a copy of this Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment 

A, a copy of which shall be provided forthwith to counsel for each other party and for the parties. 

6. Confidential depositions or deposition testimony shall be taken only in the presence 

of qualified persons. 

7. The parties may further designate certain discovery material or deposition 

testimony of a highly confidential and/or proprietary nature as “CONFIDENTIAL—

ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” (hereinafter “Attorney’s Eyes Only Material”), in the manner 

described in paragraphs 2 and 3 above. Attorney’s Eyes Only Material, and the information 

contained therein, shall be disclosed only to the Court, to counsel for the parties (including the 

paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” 

listed in subparagraphs 5 (b) through (e) above, but shall not be disclosed to a party, or to an 

officer, director or employee of a party, unless otherwise agreed or ordered. If disclosure of 

Attorney’s Eyes Only Material is made pursuant to this paragraph, all other provisions in this 

Order with respect to confidentiality shall also apply. 

8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of 

material obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such 

material is also obtained through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its own Confidential 

Material as it deems appropriate. 

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript designated 

as Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only, is included in any papers to be filed in Court, the party 

wishing to file the papers shall seek to file such material such papers shall be labeled 

“Confidential—Subject to Court Order” and filed under seal in accordance with the applicable 

Local Rules until further order of this Court. 

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10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in any court proceeding in this 

action, it shall not lose its confidential status for all other purposes through such use, and the party 

using such shall take all reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties: (i) to bring before 

the Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or information is 

confidential or whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to the Court under 

FRCP 26 (c) for a separate protective order as to any particular document or information, 

including restrictions differing from those as specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to 

prejudice the parties in any way in any future application for modification of this Order. 

12. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of 

documents and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court 

unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information or 

document under the terms of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be 

deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party or of altering the 

confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such document or information or altering any existing 

obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the 

information contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the public, and 

the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information 

disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and 

return to each other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated as confidential 

and all copies of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof. 

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SO STIPULATED:

DATED: June ___, 2008 PICKERING LAW CORPORATION 

 

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 JERRALD K. PICKERING, II 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 DANIEL C. DORSEY 

DATED: June ___, 2008 LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM M. DUNCAN 

 

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WILLIAM M. DUNCAN 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 CHRISTOPHER JUDE RICCI 

APPROVED AS MODIFIED, AND SO ORDERED:

DATED: July 22, 2008. 

 

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 The court acknowledges receipt of a stipulation bearing the signatures of counsel for 

both parties. 

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Attachment A 

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, _____________________, do solemnly swear that I am fully familiar with the terms of 

the Stipulation for Stipulated Protective Order for Confidentiality of Documents and Information 

to be Produced in Discovery entered in Christopher Ricci vs. Daniel Dorsey, United States Eastern 

District Court Case No. 02:08-CV-00060-FCD-KJM, and hereby agree to comply with and be 

bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until modified by further Order of this 

Court. I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing this Order. 

DATED: June ___, 2008 

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