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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Contract Dispute

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Case No. 3:15-cv-01160-JST 

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ROBERT D. EASSA (SBN 107970) 

robert.eassa@sedgwicklaw.com 

MARC A. KOONIN (SBN 166210) 

marc.koonin@sedgwicklaw.com 

TARA K. CLANCY (SBN 253321) 

tara.clancy@sedgwicklaw.com 

SEDGWICK LLP 

333 Bush Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94104-2834 

Telephone: (415) 781-7900 

Facsimile: (415) 781-2635 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

FCE BENEFIT ADMINISTRATORS, INC. 

GRACE A. CARTER (SB# 101610) 

gracecarter@paulhastings.com 

STEPHEN H. HARRIS (SB# 184608) 

stephenharris@paulhastings.com 

LAWRENCE A. LEVENDOSKY (SB# 254903) 

larrylevendosky@paulhastings.com 

PAUL HASTINGS LLP 

55 Second Street, 24th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 856-7000 

Facsimile: (415) 856-7100 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRAINING, REHABILITATION & 

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FCE BENEFIT ADMINISTRATORS, INC.,

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

TRAINING, REHABILITATION & 

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC., and 

DOES 1 through 10 inclusive, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 3:15-CV-01160-JST

STIPULATED [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Complaint filed: January 30, 2015 

Removal: March 11, 2015 

AND RELATED CROSS-ACTION. 

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To facilitate the production of Confidential Information through the discovery process in 

both this Federal Litigation and the related State Action, Plaintiff and Cross-defendant FCE 

Benefit Administrators, Inc. (“FCE”), by and through its attorneys of record, Sedgwick LLP, and 

Defendant and Cross-complainant Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc. 

(“TRDI”), by and through its attorneys of record, Paul Hastings LLP, (collectively the “Parties”), 

enter into the following Stipulated [Proposed] Protective Order (“Protective Order”) regarding the 

production and exchange of documents in this Federal Litigation as follows. 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

1.1 Disclosure and discovery activity in the Related Actions is likely to involve 

production of confidential, proprietary, or private information and/or documents for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting and 

defending the Related Actions may be warranted, such as information and/or documents 

involving trade secrets, and/or confidential business or financial information of the Parties or 

Non-Parties, and/or private personal information, including medical, personnel, and financial 

information, for the employees and related beneficiaries of the Parties or any Non-Party, and any 

similar information regarding any Party or Non-Party which may be subject to legal protection 

from disclosure and which is not otherwise available to the public. Accordingly, the Parties 

hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Protective Order. The Parties 

acknowledge that this Protective Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or 

responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 

only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the 

applicable legal principles. The Parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, 

that this Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal in this 

Federal Litigation; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the 

standards that will be applied when a Party seeks permission from the court to file material under 

seal in this Federal Litigation. 

1.2 Both Parties anticipate that many (if not most) of the documents and much (if not 

most) of the information produced in one or both of the Related Actions will be relevant to and 

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used by the Parties in both Related Actions, and that the Parties may designate certain documents 

and/or other information as being produced or disclosed for use in both Related Actions. 

Accordingly, to the extent that any documents, discovery responses (including deposition 

transcripts) and/or other information are produced in discovery and designated as qualifying for 

protection as a form of confidential information under an applicable protective order issued by a 

California State court in the State Action, such materials are also entitled to protection as 

Protected Material and/or Confidential Information under this Protective Order to the extent that 

they are also produced in, used by any Party in, and/or proffered as evidence this Federal 

Litigation. This does not, however, relieve any Party or Non-Party covered by an applicable 

protective order issued in the State Action from obeying the relevant terms of such an order 

relevant in the State Action. For example, a document designated as containing “Confidential 

Information” subject to protection under this Protective Order and a protective order in the State 

Action could only be filed in each respective court consistent with the terms of the relevant 

protective order. To the extent that any provision of a protective order issued in the State Action 

contradicts or is inconsistent with a requirement of this Protective Order, the Parties shall follow 

the terms of this Protective Order in motions, hearings, and discovery or other similar 

proceedings in the Federal Litigation, and shall follow the terms of the protective order issued in 

the State Action in motions, hearings, and discovery or other similar proceedings in the State 

Action. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Protective Order. 

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items (also referenced as “Confidential 

Information”): information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible 

things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) in this Federal 

Litigation or which is entitled to similar protection under California and/or federal law in the 

State Action. 

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2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (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 in this Federal Litigation as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” A Designating Party may also be a Party that designates information or 

items that a non-party produces as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner in which it is 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 the Federal Litigation and/or the State Action. 

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the Federal Litigation and/or the State Action who has been retained by a Party or its 

Counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this Federal Litigation and/or the State 

Action. 

2.7 Federal Litigation: Case No. 3:15-cv-01160-JST, in which the Complaint is 

captioned FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc. v. Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., 

et al., and the Cross-complaint is captioned Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., 

on Behalf of Itself and the Health and Welfare Plan of Training, Rehabilitation & Development 

Institute, Inc. v. FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc., which was removed to the United States District 

Court for the Northern District of California, and for which TRDI alleges claims against FCE under 

the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) (29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq.), 

specifically (i) breach of fiduciary duty, (ii) prohibited transactions, and (iii) equitable relief. 

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party to this Federal 

Litigation and/or the State Action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or 

any other outside counsel. 

2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this Federal Litigation or the State Action. 

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2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a Party to 

this Federal Litigation but are retained to represent or advise a Party to this Federal Litigation 

(and/or the State Action) and have appeared in this Federal Litigation (and/or the State Action) on 

behalf of that Party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that Party. 

2.11 Party: any Party to this Federal Litigation (and/or the State Action), 

including all of its officers, directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside 

Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this Federal Litigation (and/or the State Action). 

2.13 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. 

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” in this Federal Litigation and/or the State Action. 

2.15 Related Actions: both the Federal Litigation and the State Action. 

2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party in this Litigation and/or the State Action. 

2.17 State Action: the related litigation, as reflected in the Complaint, captioned 

FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc. v. Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., et al., and 

the related Cross-complaint, captioned Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., on 

Behalf of Itself and the Health and Welfare Plan of Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, 

Inc. v. FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc., originally filed in Superior Court of California, County of 

San Mateo, Civil Case Number 532317. Following removal and partial remand, in the State 

Action, FCE alleges causes of action for (i) breach of contract, (ii) breach of the covenant of good 

faith and fair dealing, (iii) unjust enrichment, and (iv) quantum meruit. In the State Action, TRDI 

alleges causes of action for (i) breach of contract, (ii) breach of the implied covenant of good faith 

and fair dealing, (iii) unjust enrichment, and (iv) accounting. 

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3. SCOPE 

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

defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all 

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

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

However, the protections conferred by this Protective Order do not cover the following 

information and documents: (a) any information that is in the public domain and/or any 

documents that are in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes 

part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not 

involving a violation of this Protective Order, including becoming part of the public record 

through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to and/or documents in the possession 

of the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the 

disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of 

confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed 

by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

Even after final disposition of this Federal Litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise 

in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of 

(1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this Federal Litigation, with or without prejudice; and 

(2) final judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, 

trials, or reviews of this Federal Litigation, including the time limits for filing any motions or 

applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. Similarly, final disposition of the 

State Action shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in the State 

Action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of the State Action, including the 

time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. 

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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 Protective Order 

must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

appropriate standards. The Designating Party must 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 Protective Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 

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 that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that 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 

Protective 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 Protective 

Order must be clearly so designated by the Producing Party before the material is disclosed or 

produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Protective Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, 

but excluding 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). 

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A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and 

produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for 

protection under this Protective Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend 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 pretrial or trial proceedings, 

that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or 

other proceeding, all protected testimony. In addition, a Party may designate in writing, within 

thirty (30) days after receipt of the deposition transcript for which the designation is proposed, 

that specific pages of the transcript and/or specific responses be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

(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). 

(d) A party may also designate as “Confidential Information” documents or 

discovery materials produced by a non-party (such as in response to a subpoena) by providing 

written notice to all Parties (and any effected Non-parties) of the relevant document numbers or 

other identification within thirty (30) days after receiving such documents or discovery materials. 

(e) Any Party or Non-party may voluntarily disclose to others without 

restriction any information designated by that Party or Non-party only as Confidential 

Information, although a document may lose its confidential status if it is made public. 

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5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating 

Party’s right to secure protection under this Protective Order for such material. Upon timely 

correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the 

material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Protective Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. So long as the resolution of a previous challenge to 

the same Protected Materials is not already pending or complete in this Federal Litigation or the 

State Action, 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 Federal Litigation and/or the State Action, 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 Effect of Previous Challenge (Including Challenge in Related State Court 

Action). If a Party or a Non-Party challenges the designation of Protected Materials which are 

also subject to and designated as confidential information under a protective order issued by a 

California court in the State Action, and the Designating Party has sought review before a 

California court consistent with that order, this Court shall decline to hear a later filed parallel 

hearing and shall treat the determination of the California court as binding in the Federal 

Litigation. Similarly, if a Party or a Non-Party challenges the designation of Protected Materials 

and the Designating Party has sought review in this Court, the Designating Party need not (and 

should not) seek parallel review in the State Action. Additionally, once this Court has ruled on 

the challenge to any designation of Protective Materials as CONFIDENTIAL Information, the 

Parties and Non-parties should not bring additional challenges and/or seek additional review 

without a good faith basis for doing so, such as new information about the scope of disclosure or 

a change in the law. A Designating Party who sought previous review of a designation of 

particular Protected Materials before a California court should not seek additional and/or 

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subsequent review of the designation for the same Protected Materials in this Court and a 

Designating Party who sought previous review of a designation of particular Protected Materials 

before this Court should not seek additional and/or subsequent review of the designation for the 

same Protected Materials in a California court. 

6.3 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. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the 

written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with 

this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The Parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge 

in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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. 

6.4 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, the Designating Party shall either seek relief under any applicable protective 

order issued in the State Action or file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Civil 

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days of the 

initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the Parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 

and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party 

either to seek relief pursuant to a protective order issued in the State Action or to make such a 

motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

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automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, 

the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if 

there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition 

transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that 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. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass 

or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party 

to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge. 

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 Federal Litigation and/or the State Action. 

Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 

conditions described in this Protective Order. When the Federal Litigation has been terminated, a 

Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 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 

Protective 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 and House Counsel in 

this Federal Litigation and/or the State Action, as well as employees of said Outside Counsel of 

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Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this Federal Litigation 

and/or the State Action; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (excluding House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Federal Litigation and/or the 

State Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Addendum A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Protective Order) of the Receiving Party to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Federal Litigation and/or the State Action and 

who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Addendum A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock 

jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Federal 

Litigation and/or the State Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” (Addendum A); 

(f) during their depositions (and in later reviewing their transcripts), witnesses 

in the Federal Litigation and/or the State Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and 

who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Addendum 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 a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; and 

(h) mediators or other Alternative Dispute Resolution neutrals (including their 

employees, agents, and contractors), to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for resolving 

this Federal Litigation and/or the State Action and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound 

by Protective Order” (Addendum A). 

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in litigation other than the 

Related Actions that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Federal 

Litigation as “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. 

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 Federal Litigation 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 Federal Litigation to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED 

IN THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Protective Order are applicable to information produced 

by a Non-Party in this Federal Litigation and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such 

information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this Federal Litigation is protected by 

the remedies and relief provided by this Protective Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

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(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 

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 

Federal 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 Non-Party. 

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

within 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 NonParty 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. 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. 

10. 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 unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 

Protective Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Addendum A. 

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11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL 

11.1 Basic Principles. When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties 

that certain inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 

other than the attorney-client privilege or work-product protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery 

order that provides for production without prior privilege review. 

11.2 Protection and Clawback of Information and Documents Based on the 

Attorney-Client Privilege and/or the Work-Product Doctrine. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d) and (e), the production of attorney-client privileged or work-product protected 

information or documents, including but not limited to electronically stored information (“ESI”), 

and whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of the attorney-client privilege or workproduct doctrine protection in this Federal Litigation or in any other federal or state proceeding, 

including but not limited to the State Action. This Protective Order shall be interpreted to provide 

the maximum protection allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d). A Producing Party which 

becomes aware of a disclosure of information or documents protected by the attorney-client 

privilege and/or the work product doctrine shall take the following steps: 

(a) The Producing Party must notify the Receiving Party promptly, in writing, upon 

discovery that a privileged or otherwise protected document has been produced. Upon receiving 

written notice from the Producing Party that privileged and/or work product material has been 

produced (the “Identified Materials”), all such information, and all copies thereof, shall be 

returned to the Producing Party or destroyed or deleted within ten (10) business days of receipt of 

such notice . The Receiving Party shall also attempt, in good faith, to retrieve and return or 

destroy all copies of the documents in electronic format in databases or other locations used to 

store the documents. The Receiving Party may make no use of the Identified Materials during 

any aspect of this Federal Litigation or any other matter, including in depositions or at trial, 

unless the documents are later designated by a court as not privileged or protected. The 

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Producing Party will provide a privilege log providing information required, as appropriate, by 

the California Discovery Act, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or both, and applicable case law 

to the Receiving Party when the Producing Party provides the Receiving Party notice of the 

Identified Materials. 

(b) In situations other than when a Party is requesting the return of attorney-client 

privileged or work-product doctrine protected information or documents produced in discovery, 

communications exclusively between a Party and its Outside Counsel of Record after the 

commencement of one or both of the Related Actions need not be included on a privilege log and 

work product created by Outside Counsel of Record after the commencement of one or both of 

the Related Actions also need not be included on a privilege log; 

 (c) The specific contents of the Identified Materials shall not be disclosed by the 

Receiving Party to anyone who was not already aware of the contents before the notice was made. 

(d) The Party returning the Identified Materials may move the Court for an order 

compelling production of some or all of the material returned or destroyed, but the basis for such 

a motion may not be the fact or circumstances of the production. 

(e) If the Receiving Party has any notes or other work product reflecting the specific 

contents of the Identified Materials, the Receiving Party will not review or use those materials 

unless a court later designates the Identified Materials as not privileged or protected. 

(f) The fact that the Parties have stipulated to the entry of this Protective Order does 

not constitute a concession by any Party that any documents are subject to protection by the 

attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or any other potentially applicable privilege 

or doctrine. This agreement also is not intended to waive or limit in any way any Party’s right to 

contest any privilege claims that may be asserted with respect to any of the documents produced 

except to the extent expressly stated in this Protective Order. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS 

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12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Protective 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 stipulating to the entry of 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. 

12.3 Filing Protected Material in this Federal Litigation. Without written 

permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all 

interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this Federal Litigation any 

Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material in this Federal 

Litigation must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under 

seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. 

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that 

the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to 

protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal 

pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed 

by the court. 

12.4 Filing Protected Material in the State Action. The lodging and filing of 

documents and information under seal in the State Action shall be governed by applicable 

California state law, including but not limited to the provisions of any protective order issued by a 

California court in the State Action. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

After the final disposition of both of the Related Actions,, as defined in paragraph 4, 

within 60 days after receiving notice of the same accompanied by a request to return or certify the 

destruction of Protected Material, except as set forth below, each Receiving Party must return all 

Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, 

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

format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected 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) certifies that all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed (or identifies any that 

was not) 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 archival copies of all 

pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing 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 as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). Similarly, vendors, consultants and/or expert 

witnesses who are required to maintain any Protected Material they have received in one or both 

Related Actions due to legal, ethical and/or professional standards requirements (including 

standards imposed by insurers or regulators) may do so on the condition that any such retained 

Protected Material shall remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION). Finally, court reporters and/or videographers as well as mediators and other 

alternative dispute resolution providers (as well as their employers, if any), may maintain copies 

or originals of any Protected Material they have received in one or both Related Actions 

consistent with their regular business practices on the condition that any such retained Protected 

Material shall remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 

Any person who, consistent with this Section 13, retains Protected Material after the disposition 

of one or both Related Actions shall, consistent with Section 8, provide notice to the Designating 

Party of any effort to request, subpoena, or order production of Protected Material, and shall 

ensure the destruction of any retained Protected Material if and when it eventually destroys its 

related files. 

14. INTENTION TO BE BOUND 

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1 It is the intention of the Parties that the provisions of this Protective Order shall govern 

2 Discovery, Disclosures, and other pretrial and trial proceedings in the Federal Litigation. The 

3 Pmties are, however, entitled to seek modification of this Protective Order by application to the 

4 Court on notice to all other Parties hereto for good cause. To the maximum extent possible, the 

5 Parties agree to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order pending its entry by the Court, or 

6 pending the entry of an alternative order thereto. 

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8 lT IS SO STIPULATED BY AND THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

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SEDGWICK LLP 

By~· ROBERTD:lfASSA 

MARC A. KOONTN 

TARA K. CLANCY 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

FCE BENEFIT ADMINISTRATORS, INC. 

PAUL HASTINGS LLP 

By:c 

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GRACEliART 

STEPHENH. S 

LAWRENCE A. LEVENDOSKY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRAINING, REHABILITATION & 

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC. 

[Proposed] ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

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September 4, 2015

Hon. Jon S. Tigar 

United States District Court Judge

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ADDENDUM A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of 

______________________________________________ [print or type full address], declare 

under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective 

Order (the “Protective Order”) that was issued by the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California in the case of FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc. v. Training, 

Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., et al., and the related cross-complaint, Training, 

Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc., on Behalf of Itself and the Health and Welfare Plan 

of Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc. v. FCE Benefit Administrators, Inc , 

Case No. 3:15-cv-01160-JST (the “Federal Litigation ”). I am also aware of a related state case 

pending before the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Mateo, Civil Case 

Number 532317 (the “State Action”), and that the State Action and Federal Litigation are referred 

to together as the “Related Actions.” 

I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of the Protective Order and I 

understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 

punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner 

any information or item that is subject to this Protective Order to any person or entity except in 

strict compliance with the provisions of the Protective Order, along with, to the extent that I am 

involved in the related State Action, any similar protective order issued in that case. Unless the 

Protective Order specifically provides otherwise, within 60 days of any request to do so, after 

receiving notice of the entry of orders, judgments or decrees finally disposing of both of the 

Related Actions, I will return the Confidential Information — including any copies, notes, 

summaries, excerpts, and compilations made from it — or certify its destruction to the counsel 

who provided me with the Confidential Information. 

I further agree to submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District 

Court for the Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of the 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of the Federal 

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Litigation. Furthermore, I have provided accurate information below about my address and 

telephone number, as well as any agent for service of process. 

 

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as 

my California agent for service of process in connection with this Federal Litigation or any 

proceedings related to enforcement of this Protective Order. 

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 _______________, ________ at 

_________________________, _________________________. 

 

(Signature) 

Printed name: _______________________________

Address: Telephone: 

 

81355360v1 

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