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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE 

ORDER REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY

CASE NO. 3:05-CV-2042 CRB

NINA F. LOCKER, State Bar No. 123838 

STEVEN D. GUGGENHEIM, State Bar No. 201386 

CAZ HASHEMI, State Bar No. 210239 

CAMERON P. HOFFMAN, State Bar No. 229316 

MARK T. OAKES, State Bar No. 234598 

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 

Telephone: (650) 493-9300 

Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 

Email: moakes@wsgr.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS 

SYSTEMS, INC., NEAL DEMPSEY, SETH 

NEIMAN and LARRY SONSINI 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

PRENA SMAJLAJ, Individually and On Behalf 

of All Other Persons Similarly Situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, 

INC., GREGORY L. REYES, ANTONIO 

CANOVA, LARRY W. SONSINI, SETH D. 

NEIMAN and NEAL DEMPSEY, 

Defendants. 

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CASE NO.: 3:05-cv-2042 CRB 

CLASS ACTION

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE 

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STIPULATION 

WHEREAS, disclosure and discovery in this action are likely to involve the production 

of confidential, proprietary, or private information (“Confidential Information”) for which 

special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than the limited 

purposes of prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation would be warranted. 

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

Stipulation and [Proposed] Protective Order Regarding Confidentiality (“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 extends only to 

information or items entitled to treatment as confidential under the applicable legal principles. 

The parties further acknowledge that Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the applicable procedures 

and standards when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal. 

IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED THAT: 

1. Documents or discovery responses containing Confidential Information disclosed 

or produced by any party in this litigation are referred to as “Protected Documents.” Except as 

otherwise indicated below, all documents or discovery responses designated by the producing 

party as “Confidential” and which are disclosed or produced to the attorneys for the other parties 

to this litigation are Protected Documents and are entitled to confidential treatment as described 

below. In addition, all documents that were previously produced to any government agency with 

a request for confidential treatment shall be deemed to have been designated "Confidential" as 

provided in this paragraph. 

2. Protected Documents shall not include (a) advertising materials, (b) materials that 

on their face show that they have been published to the general public, or (c) documents that 

have been submitted to any governmental entity without request for confidential treatment. 

3. At any time after the delivery of Protected Documents, counsel for the party or 

parties receiving the Protected Documents may challenge the Confidential designation of all or 

any portion thereof by providing written notice thereof to counsel for the party disclosing or 

producing the Protected Documents. If the parties are unable to agree as to whether the 

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confidential designation of discovery material is appropriate, the party or parties receiving the 

Protected Documents shall certify to the Court that the parties cannot reach an agreement as to 

the confidential nature of all or a portion of the Protected Documents. Thereafter, the party or 

parties disclosing or producing the Protected Documents shall have thirty (30) days from the date 

of certification to file a motion for protective order with regard to any Protected Documents in 

dispute. The party or parties producing the Protected Documents shall have the burden of 

establishing that the disputed Protected Documents are entitled to confidential treatment. If the 

party or parties producing the Protected Documents do not timely file a motion for protective 

order, then the Protected Documents in dispute shall no longer be subject to confidential 

treatment as provided in this Protective Order. All Protected Documents are entitled to 

confidential treatment pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order until and unless the parties 

formally agree in writing to the contrary, a party fails to timely move for a protective order, or a 

contrary determination is made by the Court as to whether all or a portion of a Protected 

Document is entitled to confidential treatment. 

4. Confidential Treatment. Protected Documents and any information contained 

therein shall not be used or shown, disseminated, copied, or in any way communicated to anyone 

for any purpose whatsoever, except as provided for below. 

5. Protected Documents and any information contained therein shall be disclosed 

only to the following persons (“Qualified Persons”): 

a. Counsel of record, or counsel assisting counsel of record, in this action for the 

party or party receiving Protected Documents or any information contained 

therein; 

b. Employees of such counsel (including experts and investigators who agree to be 

bound by this Protective Order and who are not competitors or customers of 

Brocade) assigned to and necessary to assist such counsel in the preparation and 

trial of this action; and 

c. The Court. 

Protected Documents and any information contained therein shall be used solely for the 

prosecution of this litigation. 

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6. Filing Confidential Information. The parties shall comply with Civil Local Rule 

79-5, which states that a party authorized by statute, rule or Court order to file a document under 

seal must lodge the document with the Clerk in accordance with that Rule. The Clerk shall refer 

the matter to the assigned judge pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d). No document shall be 

filed under seal except pursuant to a Court order that authorizes the sealing of the particular 

document or portion thereof and is narrowly tailored to seal only that material for which good 

cause to seal has been established. Any order sealing any documents shall direct the sealing of 

only those documents, pages or, if practicable, those portions of documents or pages that contain 

the information requiring confidentiality. All other portions of such documents shall be included 

in the public file. The parties shall further comply with the format requirements of Civil Local 

Rule 79-5(c). The parties shall also comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) and Civil Local Rule 

79-5(e). Copies of any pleading, brief or other document containing Protected Material that is 

served on opposing counsel shall be delivered in a sealed envelope stamped: 

CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER 

and shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of this Protective Order. 

7. To the extent that Protected Documents or information contained therein are used 

in depositions, at hearings, or at trial, such documents or information shall remain subject to the 

provisions of this Protective Order, along with the transcript pages of the deposition testimony 

and/or trial testimony referring to the Protected Documents or information contained therein. 

8. In addition, a party or non-party may designate information disclosed during a 

deposition or in response to written discovery as “confidential” by so indicating in said responses 

or on the record at the deposition and requesting the preparation of a separate transcript of such 

material. Additionally, a party or non-party may designate in writing, within twenty (20) days 

after receipt of said responses or of the deposition transcript for which the designation is 

proposed, that specific pages of the transcript and/or specific responses be treated as 

"confidential" information. 

9. Any court reporter or transcriber who reports or transcribes testimony in this 

action shall agree that all “confidential” information designated as such under this Protective 

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Order shall remain “confidential” and shall not be disclosed by them, except pursuant to the 

terms of this Protective Order, and that any notes or transcriptions of such testimony (and any 

accompanying exhibits) will be retained by the reporter or delivered to counsel of record. 

10. Inadvertent or unintentional production of documents or information containing 

Confidential Information which are not designated “confidential” shall not be deemed a waiver 

in whole or in part of a claim for confidential treatment. 

11. The party or parties receiving Protected Documents shall not under any 

circumstances sell, offer for sale, advertise, or publicize Protected Documents or any information 

contained therein. 

12. After termination of this litigation, the provisions of this Protective Order shall 

continue to be binding, except with respect to those documents and information that become a 

matter of public record. This Court retains and shall have continuing jurisdiction over the parties 

and recipients of the Protected Documents for enforcement of the provisions of this Protective 

Order following termination of this litigation. 

13. Upon termination of this action by dismissal, judgment, or settlement, counsel for 

the party or parties receiving Protected Documents shall return the Protected Documents to the 

counsel for the party or parties disclosing or producing the Protected Documents. The party or 

parties receiving the Protected Documents shall keep their attorney work product that refers or 

relates to any Protected Documents. Attorney work product may be used in subsequent litigation 

provided that such use does not disclose Protected Documents or any information contained 

therein. 

14. This Protective Order shall be binding upon the parties and their attorneys, 

successors, executors, personal representatives, administrators, heirs, legal representatives, 

assigns, subsidiaries, divisions, employees, agents, independent contractors, or other persons or 

organizations over which they have control. 

15. The parties anticipate modifying the terms hereof with respect to the sharing of 

Protected Documents with experts and consultants and other persons not identified in this 

Protective Order. 

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WHEREAS, the respective parties agree to the foregoing terms, IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: January 4, 2007 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ Steven D. Guggenheim 

 Steven D. Guggenheim 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., Neal 

Dempsey, Seth Neiman and Larry Sonsini 

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Dated: January 4, 2007 NIX, PATTERSON & ROACH, L.L.P. 

 205 Linda Drive 

 Daingerfield, TX 75638 

 Telephone: (903) 645-7333 

 Facsimile: (903) 645-4415 

By: /s/ Bradley E. Beckworth 

Bradley E. Beckworth 

Co-Lead Counsel for Lead Plaintiff and the 

Proposed Class 

 PATTON, ROBERTS, MCWILLIAMS 

 & CAPSHAW, LLP 

 Century Bank Plaza 

 2900 St. Michael Drive, Suite 400 

 Texarkana, TX 75505-6128 

 Telephone: 903-334-7000 

 Facsimile: 903-330-7007 

Co-Lead Counsel for Lead Plaintiff and the 

Proposed Class 

 KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP 

 555 Montgomery Street, Suite 1501 

 San Francisco, CA 94111 

 Telephone: 415-772-4700 

 Facsimile: 415-772-4707 

Liaison Counsel for Lead Plaintiff and the 

Proposed Class 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

For good cause appearing, the foregoing stipulation regarding confidentiality is approved. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _______________________ 

THE HONORABLE CHARLES R. BREYER 

 United States District Judge 

January 5, 2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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I, Mark T. Oakes, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to 

file this STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIALITY. In compliance with General Order 45.X.B, I hereby attest that Bradley 

E. Beckworth has concurred in this filing. 

Dated: January 4, 2007 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ Mark T. Oakes 

Mark T. Oakes 

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