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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRONTIER MANAGEMENT LLC, et 

al.,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

NAVIGATORS SPECIALTY 

INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.,

Defendants.

 

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CASE NO.: 1:19-cv-01600-DAD-EPG

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

(ECF NO. 14)

Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties (ECF No. 14), the Court enters the parties’ 

stipulated protective order as follows:

1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or 

private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any

purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties have

stipulated to and petitioned the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The

parties acknowledge that this 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, b elow,

that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information

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under seal; Local Rule 141 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.

B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

This action is likely to involve trade secrets, customer and pricing lists, attorney work 

product, and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, technical, legal or

proprietary information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use

for any purpose other than litigation of this action is warranted. Information has already been 

requested that seeks trade secret, confidential or proprietary information from Plaintiffs. 

Specifically, the scope of information already requested from Plaintiffs encompasses 

work product or attorney-client privileged material related to Plaintiffs’ defense in currently 

pending underlying litigation. Additionally, the parties anticipate that discovery in the present 

case will likely include requests for matter from Plaintiffs or non-party persons or entities that do 

business with Plaintiffs that may include customer and vendor information, intellectual property 

pertaining to Plaintiffs’ business operations, material related to Plaintiffs’ defense in the 

underlying actions, personnel information, as well as other business records that contain 

confidential and proprietary information. The parties also anticipate that discovery may include 

confidential matter pertaining to Defendant’s claim handling or personnel that may reveal private 

or confidential or proprietary information regarding Defendant’s procedures for claim handling 

and risk assessment that could be misused by a business competitor.

Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution

of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the 

parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable

necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their

handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such

information is justified in this matter. Nothing herein shall be construed as agreement to produce 

the documents requested by either party without court order. It is the intent of the parties that

information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be

so designated without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, nonCase 1:19-cv-01600-DAD-EPG Document 15 Filed 02/11/20 Page 2 of 14
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public manner, and there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this 

case.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Action: Frontier Management LLC, et al. v. Navigators Specialty Insurance 

Company, Ltd., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. 1:19-cv-01600.

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

information or items under this Order.

2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: 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), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.

2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their

support staff).

2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.6 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 this matter.

2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent

to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or 

as a consultant in this Action.

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this 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 action.

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

this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have appeared in

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this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on 

behalf of that party, and includes support staff.

2.11 Party: any party to this 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 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.”

2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and 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 Stipulation and Order do not cover the 

following information: (a) any information that is 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 Order, including becoming part 

of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving 

Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source 

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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 litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by

this 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 Action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment

herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or

reviews of this Action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for 

extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. E ach

Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must

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

appropriate standards. To the extent it is practical to do so, 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 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 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 at all, that Designating Party must promptly notify

all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 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 Order must be clearly

so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this 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 at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter

“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).

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection n eed not

designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents it

would like copied and produced, with all such material being treated as though it was 

designated "CONFIDENTIAL" during the inspection and before identification of the materials 

for copying and producing. 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 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 depositions or in other pretrial or trial proceedings,

such designation shall be made on the record whenever possible, but a Designating Party may 

designate portions of testimony as containing “CONFIDENTIAL” information after transcription 

of the proceedings. The Designating Party shall have until fifteen (15) days after receipt of the 

transcript to inform the Receiving Party or parties to the action of the portions of the transcript

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designated “CONFIDENTIAL”, or that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

"CONFIDENTIAL."

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, 

hearing, or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can 

ensure that only authorized individuals who have signed the "Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound" (Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a 

document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any way affect its designation as 

"CONFIDENTIAL."

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title 

page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by 

a list of all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as 

Protected Material. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 15-day period for 

designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated 

"CONFIDENTIAL" in its entirety unless otherwise agreed. After expiration of that period, 

the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated.

(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 is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.”

If only a portion or portions of the information warrants protection, the Producing Party, to

the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

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 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 Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of

confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order. 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 litigation, 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 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process under Civil Local Rule 251. 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.

6.3 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 or withdrawn the

confidentiality designation, 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 Action only for

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may be

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disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order.

When the Action 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 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 in this Action, as

well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary

to disclose the information for this Action;

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

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff;

(f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional

Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

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

(h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses in the

Action, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party requests

that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they will not be permitted

to keep any confidential information unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement

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to Be Bound” (Exhibit 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 may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and

(i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,

mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN

OTHER LITIGATION

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

compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action 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 Stipulated 

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 action 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 Action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

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

THIS LITIGATION

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

Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced

by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief

provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a NonParty from seeking additional protections.

(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 NonParty that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement 

with a Non-Party;

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated

Protective Order in this Action, 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, if requested.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to 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 Non-Party

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 Stipulated Protective

Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of

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

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other 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. Pursuant to Federal Rule of

Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of

a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product

protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order

submitted to the court.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this 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 Stipulated 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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any

Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected

Material at issue. If a Party's request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the

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court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise 

instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 days of a

written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected

Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “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) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material

that was returned or destroyed 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 an

archival copy 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).

14. Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate measures

including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 11, 2020 /s/

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT 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 that was issued by the United 

States District Court for the Central District of California on [date] in the case of Frontier 

Management LLC, et al. v. Navigators Specialty Insurance Company, Ltd., U.S. District Court, 

Eastern District of California, Case No. 1:19-cv-01600 (filed 11-08-2019). I agree to comply 

with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated 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 Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 

compliance with the provisions of this Order. I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the 

United States District Court for the Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the 

terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 

termination of this action. 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 action or any 

proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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