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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Fiduciary Duty

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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ANDREW K. GORDON (SBN 99714) 

akgordon@duanemorris.com 

ALLEGRA A. JONES (SBN 236518) 

aajones@duanemorris.com

DUANE MORRIS LLP

One Market, Spear Tower, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, CA 94105-1104 

Telephone: 415.957.3000 

Facsimile: 415.957.3001 

DAVID L. SWIDER (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 

dswider@boselaw.com

SANDRA PERRY (Admitted Pro Hac Vice) 

sperry@boselaw.com

BOSE MCKINNEY & EVANS, LLP 

2700 First Indiana Plaza 

135 North Pennsylvania Street 

Indianapolis, IN 46204 

Telephone: 317.684.5000 

Facsimile: 317.684.5173 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant 

CORNERSTONE INDUSTRIES CORPORATION 

and Counter-Defendant DAN HESS 

C. RUSSELL GEORGESON (SBN 53589) 

GRGDANELAW@aol.com

RICHARD A. BELARDINELLI (SBN 065168) 

GEORGESON AND BELARDINELLI

Attorneys at Law 

The Atrium Building 

1111 West Hernon Avenue, Suite 217 

Fresno, CA 93720 

Telephone: 559.447.8800 

Facsimile: 559.447.0747 

Attorneys for Defendants BYRON COOPER, 

IRONCLAD INDUSTRIES, INC. dba IRONCLAD 

INDUSTRIAL COATINGS, and DOES 1 through 20, 

Inclusive 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CORNERSTONE INDUSTRIES CORP., 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BYRON COOPER, IRONCLAD INDUSTRIES, 

INC. dba IRONCLAD INDUSTRIAL COATINGS, 

and DOES 1 through 20, Inclusive 

Defendants. 

Case No.: 1:06 CV-00608-OWW-SMS 

Assigned for all purposes to the 

Honorable Oliver W. Wanger 

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BYRON COOPER, IRONCLAD INDUSTRIES, 

INC. dba IRONCLAD INDUSTRIAL COATINGS, 

and DOES 1 through 20, Inclusive 

Counter-Claimant, 

v. 

CORNERSTONE INDUSTRIES CORP., 

 

Counter-Defendant. 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, trade secret, or private information for which special protection from 

public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be 

warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, managing agents, and outside counsel (and their support 

staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter. 

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: "Confidential" Information or Items 

means: (1) information in which the Designating Party has a cognizable interest as a trade secret, as 

that term is defined by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 3426.1(d); and (2) other 

information that the Designating Party believes in good faith is private, confidential or proprietary 

such that disclosures would likely cause harm to the Designating Party, its employees, or its 

customers. 

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

a Producing Party. 

2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.6. Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items 

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

2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “Confidential.” 

2.8 Counsel: attorneys retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.10 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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a 

competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee 

of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant 

retained in connection with this litigation.

2.11 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; 

organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all 

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations 

by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination 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 

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order otherwise directs. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Mistake in Designations: If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention 

that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do 

not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-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 

Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

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 (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Designating Party affix the legend 

“Confidential” at the top or bottom of each page that contains protected material. 

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 Order, then, before 

producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “Confidential” legend at the 

top or bottom of each page that contains Protected Material. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, 

before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it 

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party 

that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or 

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proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the 

testimony as to which protection is sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this 

Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top or bottom of each such page the legend “Confidential,” as 

instructed by the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony. 

(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.” 

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

failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” does not, standing alone, waive 

the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as “Confidential” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving 

Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the 

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

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later 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. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating 

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

directly with counsel for the Designating Party. The challenging Party must explain the basis for its 

belief that the 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 seek judicial 

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intervention only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may 

file and serve a motion that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the 

challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the 

movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and 

that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by 

the Designating Party during the meet and confer process. 

Until the Court rules on the challenge, 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. 

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 litigation. Such Protected Material may be 

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

the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, 

below. 

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) Receiving Party’s Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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(c) Experts of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) professional vendors, including but not limited to court reporters and 

document reproduction and imaging vendors, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A). 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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION. 

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation 

that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “Confidential,” 

the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such 

notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused 

the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence 

of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to 

protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The 

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Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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. 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 the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all 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” (Exhibit A). 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

All Protected Material that is submitted to the Court shall be provisionally lodged 

with the Court in appropriately sealed containers on which shall be endorsed the title of the action to 

which it pertains, and indication of the nature of the contents of the sealed container, and the 

appropriate designation of the documents. The party seeking to seal provisionally lodged Protected 

Material shall bring a noticed motion pursuant to California Rule of Court 243.1 for a court order to 

seal all information so designated. It is agreed that the parties’ respective motions to seal records 

shall not be opposed be either party absent a good faith belief on the part of the party opposing the 

motion that documents or records should not be sealed under California Rule of Court 243.1. A 

copy of this Stipulated Protective Order shall be submitted with the lodged materials. Any decision 

not to oppose a motion to seal information shall not operate as an admission that the information 

requested to be filed under seal contains or reflects trade secrets, proprietary or commercially 

sensitive information, or any type of private or confidential information. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty 

days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected 

Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all 

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copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may 

destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 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 sixty day deadline that 

identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, 

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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, above. 

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 Order. Similarly, no Party 

waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this 

Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

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Dated: September 19, 2006 By: /s/ Andrew K. Gordon 

Andrew K. Gordon 

Eden E. Anderson 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-Defendant 

CORNERSTONE INDUSTRIES CORPORATION and 

Counter-Defendant DAN HESS 

Dated: January 23, 2007 By: /s/ C. Russell Georgeson 

C. Russell Georgeson 

Attorney for Defendants and Counter-Claimants 

BYRON COOPER and IRONCLAD INDUSTRIES, 

INC. d.b.a. IRONCLAD INDUSTRIAL COATINGS 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

DATED: 2/9/2007 

 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

 

 The Honorable SANDRA M. SNYDER 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, ____________________ [print or type full name], of ________________________ [print 

or type company name], 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 

Eastern District of California in the case of Cornerstone Industries Corp. v. Byron Cooper, Ironclad 

Industries, Inc. dba Ironclad Industrial Coatings, and Does 1 through 20, Inclusive, Case No. 1:06 

CV-00608-OWW-SMS. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of the 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 promise that I will not disclose in any manner 

any information or item that is subject to the Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity 

except in strict compliance with the provisions of the Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: ________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: ______________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

Signature: _________________________________ 

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