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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1346 Tort Claim

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Jeffrey L. Fazio (SBN 146043) (jlf@fazmiclaw.com) 

Dina E. Micheletti (SBN 184141) (dem@fazmiclaw.com) 

FAZIO | MICHELETTI LLP

2410 Camino Ramon, Suite 315 

San Ramon, CA 94583 

T: 925-543-2555 

F: 925-369-0344 

Thomas J. Misny, (pro hac vice) (misnynt@netscape.net) 

THOMAS J. MISNY, M.D., INC. 

7319 Eagle Mills Road 

Waite Hill, OH 44094 

T: 440-256-1950 

F: 440-256-1950. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Jeffrey Johnson, individually and 

on behalf of all others similarly situated. 

Katherine M. Schon (SBN 288804) (katherine.schon@lw.com) 

Latham & Watkins LLP 

140 Scott Drive 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

T: 650-328-4600 

F: 650-463-2600 

Mark S. Mester (pro hac vice) (mark.mester@lw.com) 

Kathleen Lally (pro hac vice) (kathleen.lally@lw.com) 

Latham & Watkins LLP 

330 North Wabash Ave., Suite 2800 

Chicago, IL 60611 

T: 312-876-7700 

F: 312.993.9767 

Attorneys for Defendant Schiff Nutrition International, et al. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JEFFERY JOHNSTON, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SCHIFF NUTRITION INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., a Delaware corporation, and RECKITT 

BENCKISER LLC, a Delaware limited liability 

company, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. 4:15-cv-03669-PH 

CLASS ACTION 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

applicable law regards as 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 hereby stipulate to and petition 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, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not 

entitle them to file confidential information under seal; 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

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

information or items under this Order. 

 2.2 “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). 

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

well as their support staff, including contract attorneys and independent contractors). 

 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 

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

 2.5 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 this matter. 

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

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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. 

 2.7 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. 

 2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

 2.9 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 this action 

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

 2.10 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). 

 2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

 2.12 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. 

 2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

 2.14 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 

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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 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. Each 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. 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 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. 

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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 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). 

 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 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 may either (1) identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, 

hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony or (2) serve a Notice of Designation on the 

Receiving Party identifying all Confidential Information no later than fourteen (14) days after 

receipt of the deposition transcript. Unless all parties agree otherwise on the record at time the 

deposition testimony is taken, all deposition testimony taken in this case shall be treated as 

Confidential Information for a period of fourteen days after receipt of the deposition transcript. 

The party seeking to designate testimony as Confidential after receipt of a deposition transcript 

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shall bear any additional expenses imposed by the court reporter as a result of any changes that 

must be made to the transcript. 

 (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). 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If a Party to this litigation, through inadvertence, 

fails to designate any Document as Confidential Information in accordance with the provisions of 

this Protective Order (“Incorrectly-Labeled Document”), the Designating Party may give written 

notice to the other parties that the Incorrectly-Labeled Document(s) should have been designated as 

Confidential Information and should be treated as such in accordance with the provisions of this 

Protective Order. The parties to this litigation must treat Incorrectly-Labeled Document(s) as 

Confidential Information from the date such notice is received. 

 Within a reasonable time after receipt of such written notice as described in the paragraph 

above, the Receiving Party shall make a good-faith effort to provide any third-parties to whom the 

Incorrectly-Labeled Document(s) were disclosed with written notice (a) that identifies the 

Incorrectly-Labeled Document(s); (b) that states that the Designating Party has asserted that they 

contain Confidential Information; (c) that requests that the Incorrectly-Labeled Document(s) be 

returned or that such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; and (d) that they not be further distributed or disclosed 

to the public. In no event shall this provision be read to require the Receiving Party to identify the 

names of any third-party to whom the Receiving Party provided any Incorrectly-Labeled 

Documents and/or obligate the Receiving Party to ensure that third party complies with the 

Designating Party’s request, provided that the Receiving Party has otherwise complied with this 

subsection. 

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 

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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

 6.1 Timing of Challenges. 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 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 

by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each 

challenge. The challenge to the designation need not be any more specific than the designation 

itself; that is, if the Designating Party designates a Document or other material as Confidential 

Information without explaining the factual or legal basis for that designation, the Receiving Party’s 

objection need not provide the factual or legal basis for the objection or provide any more detail 

than the designation itself. Conversely, if the Designating Party provides a specific legal and/or 

factual basis for the designation of a particular Document or set of Documents as Confidential 

Information, the Receiving Party shall provide a specific legal and/or factual basis for the 

objection(s) as well. 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, once the Designating Party has provided the basis for its Confidential Information 

designation(s), 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 retaining the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next 

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

intervention, the Designating Party shall 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 (1) 30 days 

of the initial notice of challenge or (2) at such other time upon agreement of the Parties or order of 

the Court, provided that, if the Parties cannot agree on a revised schedule and a Court order to 

enlarge time is not sought by the Designating Party within the time period set forth in 6.3(1), any 

motion to retain confidentiality must be filed within the 30-day timeframe set forth in 6.3(1). 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 to make such a motion including the required declaration within the 

applicable time shall 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. 

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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 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 litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as 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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), provided that in no event shall this Protective Order be read or 

construed to require that the Parties reveal the identities of their Experts before such Experts are 

required to be disclosed (if at all) under applicable law; 

 (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 litigation and who 

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

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 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 must be 

separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted 

under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

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

or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

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 

 9.1 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 

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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 Non-Party from seeking 

additional protections. 

 9.2 In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a NonParty’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: 

 (a) 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 Non-Party; 

 (b) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order 

in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the 

information requested; and 

 (c) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

 9.3 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 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 (i.e., material bearing the “Confidential” designation) 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 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. 

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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 (other than Confidential 

Information), the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). Inadvertent or unintentional production of documents or information 

containing information that should have been designated as privileged shall not be deemed a 

waiver in whole or in part of the Party’s claims of privilege. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(b)-(d), 

if a Party has inadvertently or unintentionally produced information subject to a claim of 

immunity or privilege, upon written request made by the Producing Party within twenty-one (21) 

days of discovery, all copies of such information shall be returned to the Producing Party within 

seven (7) days of such request unless the Receiving Party intends to challenge the Producing 

Party’s assertion of privilege or immunity. If a Receiving Party objects to the return of such 

information within the seven (7) day period described above, the Producing Party may move the 

Court for an order compelling the return of such information. Pending the Court’s ruling, a 

Receiving Party may retain the inadvertently or unintentionally produced documents in a sealed 

envelope and shall not make any use of such information. 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. 

 In the event the Receiving Party has disclosed the inadvertently produced material to 

third-parties prior to being advised of the inadvertent production, the Receiving Party shall, 

within a reasonable time after receipt of such written notice as described in the paragraph above, 

make a good-faith effort to provide any third-parties to whom such inadvertently produced 

documents were disclosed with written notice (a) that identifies the documents; (b) that states 

that the Designating Party has asserted that they contain privileged or other protected material; 

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(c) that requests that the documents be returned; and (d) that they not be further distributed or 

disclosed to the public. In no event shall this provision be read to require the Receiving Party to 

identify the names of any third-party to whom the Receiving Party provided any inadvertently 

disclosed documents and/or obligate the Receiving Party to ensure that third party complies with 

the Designating Party’s request, provided that the Receiving Party has otherwise complied with 

this subsection. In no event shall the Receiving Party be permit to argue that its disclosure of the 

inadvertently produced documents has waived the Disclosing Party’s privilege or other 

protections. 

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. 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 action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material 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. 

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13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, 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). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: December 11, 2015 FAZIO | MICHELETTI LLP

 by /s/ Dina E. Micheletti Dina E. Micheletti Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 Jeffrey Johnston, on behalf of himself 

and all others similarly situated 

DATED: December 11, 2015 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

 by /s/ Kathleen Lally 

 Kathleen Lally 

 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

 Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., and 

 Reckitt Benckiser LLC 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED:________________________ _____________________________________ 

 Hon. Phyllis J. Hamilton 

 United States District/Magistrate Judge 

 

December 14, 2015 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton

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