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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Breach of Contract

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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John M. Riestenberg 

Law Offices of John M. Riestenberg 

455 Capitol Mall, Suite 410 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone (916) 443-6300 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, JASVEER SINGH, JESUS MIER AND TOMMIE 

PRUITT 

James J. McDonald, Jr., Bar No. 150605 

Tamara Devitt Naughton, Bar No. 209683 

FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 

18400 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 400 

Irvine, California 92612 

Telephone (949) 851-2424 

Attorneys for Defendant, YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC. 

Mr. Joseph Scalia 

Law Offices of Joseph Scalia 

11335 Gold Express, Suite 105 

Gold River, CA 95670 

Telephone (916) 858-2286 

Attorneys for Defendant, ROGER PRICE AND DANIEL DRAKE 

Whitney F. Washburn, Attorney 

Law Offices of Whitney F. Washburn 

11341 Gold Express Drive, Suite 110 

Gold River, CA 95670 

Telephone (916) 638-8800 

Attorneys for Defendant, ROGER PRICE AND DANIEL DRAKE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

JASVEER SINGH; JESUS MIER; and 

TOMMIE PRUITT, 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC. DBA 

YELLOW FREIGHT; INTERNATIONAL 

BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, LOCAL 

UNION #439, DANIEL DRAKE, ROGER 

PRICE, FRANK VELLA and DOES 1 

through 20., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: 2:05-CV-00521-MCE-DAD

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER AND 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

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Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 26(c), Plaintiffs, Jasveer Singh, 

Jesus Mier and Tommie Pruitt, (“Plaintiffs”), through their 

attorney, and defendants Yellow Transportation, Inc. 

(“Yellow”), and individuals Roger Price and Daniel Drake 

(collectively “Defendants”) through their counsel, hereby 

stipulate to the following Protective Order to govern the 

disclosure of confidential discovery materials and testimony in 

the above-captioned action: 

1. In connection with discovery in this action, the 

parties may designate any materials including electronic files, 

documents, things, testimony, or other information derived from 

such materials, as “Confidential” under the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order (the “Order”). Confidential 

information is information that has not been made public and 

may include, but is not limited to, the following: (a) 

information and documents to be produced in this action that 

contain, disclose, or reflect confidential personnel 

information of current or former employees of Yellow; (b) the 

method of manufacture or provision of any past, present, or 

future product or service of a party; (c) the construction, 

development, function, or operation of any past, present, or 

future product or service of a party; (d) pricing, income, 

profits, losses, expenses, costs, overhead, royalty rates, or 

sales quantities relating to any past, present, or future 

product or service of a party; (e) business, financial, or 

marketing plans, projections, or data of a party; (f) the 

identity of customers or suppliers of a party; (g) research and 

development materials of a party, including both product and 

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market research; (h) trade secrets; (i) all or any portion of a 

party’s response to any interrogatory or request for admission 

propounded by any party that contains, discloses, or reflects 

confidential business, commercial, financial, or other 

similarly sensitive information of a non-public nature; (j) 

documents disclosed by any party that contains, discloses, or 

reflects confidential business, commercial, financial, or other 

similarly sensitive information of a non-public nature; (k) all 

or any portion of deposition testimony in this action that 

discloses or reflects confidential business, commercial, 

financial, or other sensitive information of a non-public 

nature; (l) all or any portion of any exhibits to depositions 

that contain or reflect confidential business, commercial, 

financial, or other similarly sensitive information of a nonpublic nature; (m) all summaries, extracts and abstracts of any 

information that discloses or reflects confidential business, 

commercial, financial, or other sensitive information of a nonpublic nature; and (n) any such information of a third party, 

the disclosure of which information may have the effect of 

causing harm to the third party. 

2. Materials designated as “Confidential” under the 

Order, the information contained therein, and any summaries, 

copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in 

part from material designated as “Confidential” (hereinafter 

“Confidential Material”) shall be used only for the purpose of 

the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, and for 

no other purpose. 

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3. Documents containing Confidential Material shall be 

so designated by stamping copies of the document produced to 

any other party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any multi-page document 

shall designate all pages of the document as containing 

Confidential Material and as subject to the terms of this 

Order, unless otherwise indicated by the producing party. 

4. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing, 

or trial may be designated as Confidential Material by making a 

statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or 

other proceeding. Arrangements shall be made with the court 

reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to bind 

separately such portions of the transcript containing 

information designated as Confidential Material and to label 

such portions appropriately. 

5. Confidential Material may only be disclosed to: (a) 

parties to this litigation and their spouses, the undersigned 

counsel for the parties hereto, their respective associates, 

clerks, legal assistants, stenographic personnel, and firms 

retained by counsel to provide litigation services and the 

employees of said firms; (b) the Court and it’s support staff; 

(c) other employees of a party for the purpose of working 

directly on this litigation at the request or at the direction 

of counsel; or (d) court reporters actually involved in 

transcribing depositions and proceedings in this litigation; or 

(e) witnesses and/or deponents; however, witnesses and 

deponents shall agree to be bound by this Agreement and its 

terms. In the event that Confidential Material is disclosed to 

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them in the course of their testimony or deposition, said 

witnesses and deponents shall not be entitled to maintain 

possession of confidential documents, and shall return them to 

counsel at the conclusion of either their testimony at trial or 

at deposition. 

6. Nothing in this Order shall prohibit a party from 

seeking additional, modified or further protection of 

Confidential Material during or before the trial of this Action 

by stipulation among all the parties, approved by the Court; by 

application to the Court, or by the Court’s Order. Further, 

nothing in this Order shall prohibit a party from bringing 

before the Court the question of whether a particular document 

or information is confidential or whether its use should be 

restricted. 

7. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the 

use or disclosure by a party of material obtained by such party 

independent of activities pertaining to this action, or from 

disclosing its own Confidential Material as he, she, or it 

deems appropriate. 

8. The provisions of this Stipulation and Order are 

intended solely to facilitate the preparation and trial of this 

Action, and shall not be construed in any way as an admission 

or agreement by any party that any document, or any information 

contained therein, does or does not constitute or contain 

private, trade-secret, or confidential information. 

9. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to preclude 

any party to this Action from objecting to any discovery 

requested in this action on any proper ground or withholding 

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production on any proper ground, or from applying to the Court 

for a modification of this Order, or for additional protection 

for specific materials or information sought during the course 

of discovery in this Action. 

10. In the event that a party seeks to file Confidential 

Material with the Court, notice shall be given at least ten 

(10) days prior to the filing of any Confidential Material and 

the parties shall meet and confer in order to determine whether 

a request to file Confidential Material under seal should be 

made to the District Judge. 

11. This Order shall survive the final termination of 

this action to the extent that the information contained in 

Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the 

public, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any 

dispute concerning the use of information disclosed hereunder. 

However, any and all retained materials that have remained 

protected up to the final termination of the litigation shall 

be treated as protected in accordance with this Order. 

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12. This Order shall be binding on the parties when 

signed regardless of whether or when the Court endorses this 

Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: December 2, 2005 LAW OFFICE OF JOHN RIESTENBERG 

 By: __/s/______________________ 

 JOHN RIESTENBERG 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

DATED: December 6, 2005 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP 

 By: __/s/_______________________ 

JAMES J. McDONALD, JR. 

TAMARA DEVITT NAUGHTON 

Attorney for Defendant 

YELLOW TRANSPORTATION, INC. 

DATED: December 5, 2005 LAW OFFICES OF JOSEPH SCALIA 

 By: __/s/_______________________ 

JOSEPH SCALIA 

Attorney for Defendant 

ROGER PRICE AND DANIEL DRAKE 

DATED: December 5, 2005 WHITNEY F. WASHBURN 

 By: __/s/_______________________ 

WHITNEY F. WASHBURN 

Attorney for Defendant 

ROGER PRICE AND DANIEL DRAKE 

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IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: December 13, 2005

Ddad1/orders.civil/singh0521.stipord 

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PROOF OF SERVICE

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PROOF OF SERVICE

(CCP § 1013(a) and 2015.5) 

I, the undersigned, am employed in the County of Orange, 

State of California. I am over the age of 18 and not a party 

to the within action; am employed with the law offices of 

Fisher & Phillips LLP and my business address is 18400 Von 

Karman Avenue, Suite 400, Irvine, California 92612. 

On December 6, 2005, I served the foregoing document 

entitled [PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER AND 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT, on all the appearing and/or 

interested parties in this action by placing the original

a true copy thereof enclosed in sealed envelope(s) addressed as 

follows: 

John M. Riestenberg 

Law Offices of John M. Riestenberg 

455 Capitol Mall, Suite 410 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Tel: (916) 443-6300 

Fax: (916) 329-3435 

Attorney for Plaintiffs,

Jasveer Singh, Jesus Mier 

and Tommie Pruitt 

Mr. Joseph Scalia 

Law Offices of Joseph Scalia 

11335 Gold Express, Suite 105 

Gold River, CA 95670 

Tel: (916) 858-2286 

Fax: (916) 852-7777 

Attorney for Roger Price 

and Daniel Drake 

Whitney F. Washburn, Attorney 

Law Offices of Whitney F. Washburn 

11341 Gold Express Dr., Suite 110 

Gold River, CA 95670 

Tel: (916) 638-8800 

Fax: (916) 638-7068 

Attorney for Roger Price 

and Daniel Drake

[by MAIL] I am readily familiar with the firm’s practice 

of collection and processing correspondence for mailing. 

Under that practice it would be deposited with the U.S. 

Postal Service on that same day with postage thereon fully 

prepaid at Irvine, California in the ordinary course of 

business. I am aware that on motion of the party served, 

service is presumed invalid if postage cancellation date 

or postage meter date is more than one day after date of 

deposit for mailing this affidavit. 

FEDERAL - I declare that I am employed in the office 

of a member of the bar of this Court at whose 

direction the service was made.

Executed on December 6, 2005, at Irvine California. 

Paula Sanchez By:

Print Name Signature 

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