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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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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

MICHAEL W. FOSTER (State Bar No. 127691) 

DANIELLE OCHS TILLOTSON (State Bar No. 178677) 

DAVID J. CARDIFF (State Bar No. 184246) 

FOSTER & ASSOCIATES 

610- 16th Street, Suite 310 

Oakland, California 94612 

Tel: (510) 763-1900 

Fax: (510) 763-5952 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SARA LEE BAKERY GROUP, INC. 

and GORDON MAYBERRY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

IN AND FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOHN GREENLY, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

SARA LEE; GORDON MAYBERRY; 

DOES 1 thru 10, 

 Defendant. 

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Case No. 2:06-CV- 01775-WBS-EFB 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Date: 

Time: 

Ctrm: 

Judge: 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED between counsel for Plaintiff John Greenly (“Plaintiff”) 

and counsel for Defendants Sara Lee and Gordon Mayberry (“Defendants”) (collectively “the 

Parties”) in the above-captioned matter (“the Litigation”), as follows: 

1. Scope. This Confidentiality Agreement and Stipulated Protective Order 

(hereinafter “this Agreement and Order”) governs any document which a Party or a nonparty 

produces in the Litigation and designates as “Confidential” (defined herein) pursuant to the 

following procedures because producing party contends that it contains or comprises information 

that is or may be privileged or protected under a provision of the California Evidence Code or 

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other law, or which could, if disclosed, violate a personal privacy, proprietary, trade secret, 

copyright, financial or other interest protected by law. “Document” as used in this Agreement 

and Order includes all writings as the term is defined by the California Evidence Code, including 

but not limited to documents, videotapes, exhibits, answers to interrogatories, responses to 

requests for admission and deposition transcripts, but only to those portions of them that actually 

contain claimed confidential information. 

2. This Agreement and Order shall be effective as to the Parties from the date 

executed by their attorneys. 

3. The Parties to this case agree that this Agreement and Order with respect to 

maintaining the confidentiality of all material designated as “Confidential” pursuant to this 

Agreement and Order survives the termination of the Litigation. 

4. Designation of “Confidential” Documents and Depositions. Any Party may 

designate any document as “Confidential” if that Party or Party’s counsel of record has a good 

faith opinion that the document is within the scope of Paragraph 1 above. Once a Party has made 

this designation, then the Parties shall use the document solely for the purposes of the Litigation, 

and not for any business, competitive, governmental, or other purpose or function, or for any 

other proceeding, action or claim, and shall not copy or disclose such document to anyone except 

as provided in this Agreement and Order, absent a specific order by this Court or further 

stipulation of the Parties. The Parties also agree not to violate trademark, copyright or other 

intellectual property protections as to any documents, including videotapes, designated as 

“Confidential” provided the Parties are specifically given notice, in writing that the confidential 

document is trademarked, copyrighted or otherwise protected under legislation. 

5. Procedure for Documents. To come within this Agreement and Order, the 

producing party must mark each page of documents deemed “Confidential” but only the page 

or pages deemed “Confidential” at the time such documents are produced, or by designating the 

documents by Bates-stamp or page number in a letter accompanying the production. If the 

receiving Party contends that portions of a document are not confidential, as designated, the 

receiving party will initiate a “Meet and Confer” procedure. 

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6. Procedure for Deposition Testimony. In the instance of deposition testimony, 

the deponent or counsel may invoke the provisions of this Protective Order for any Party or 

non-party by giving notice to counsel for the other Parties either in writing or on the record. 

All designations or changes in designation of the deposition transcript shall be telecopied or 

delivered to all other parties on or before the tenth day of service by the reporter of the 

transcript and shall identify the deponent, page and line numbers of the portion sought to be 

designated as “Confidential.” 

7. Procedure for Use of “Confidential” Documents at Deposition. If a Party has 

designated a document as “Confidential” pursuant to this Agreement and Order, and that 

document is used during a deposition, then the procedures in Paragraph 4 apply, and the Parties 

and the court reporter must treat the portion or portions of the deposition transcript and exhibits 

that refer to confidential documents as “Confidential” under the terms of this Agreement and 

Order. Both parties bear equal responsibility for notifying the court reporter who transcribes 

such testimony of the terms of this Agreement and Order. 

8. Disclosure of “Confidential” Documents and Depositions. Documents 

marked “Confidential” (or copies or extracts there from and the information therein) can be 

shown only to: 

(a) those individuals who are attorneys of record in the Litigation; 

(b) employees of such attorneys to whom it is necessary that the 

material be shown for purposes of the Litigation; 

(c) third-party consultants and independent experts to whom it is 

necessary that the material be shown for purposes of the 

Litigation; 

(d) those persons providing sworn testimony in this action, either at 

deposition or trial, to the extent that it is necessary the material 

be shown for the purposes of the Litigation, and only at the time 

such testimony is taken; 

(e) persons who appear as an author, addressee or recipient on the 

face of the document or who are mentioned in the document in 

connection with their employment at Sara Lee; and 

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(g) the United States District Court for the Eastern District or California and its 

employees, as necessitated by the filing of any “Confidential” documents as 

exhibits to any pleading filed in this Litigation. 

9. Before a Party or attorney allows any person (other than attorneys of record and 

their employees, the Court, or witnesses who are under oath at deposition, as discussed below) to 

have access to documents marked “Confidential,” the other Party or attorney shall first show that 

person a copy of this Agreement and Order and shall obtain that person’s signature on an 

agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. Only persons listed in Paragraph 8 above 

may be shown such documents. Attorneys shall maintain a record of all written agreements 

signed by persons to whom they have given such documents. 

Prior to filing with the Court a document designated as Confidential by the other Party, the 

Party or attorney shall make an application to the Court to file the document under seal. See L.R. 

39-141. The court shall make an independent determination as to the appropriateness of a sealing 

order, regardless of the parties’ definition of “confidential” documents provided herein. 

If a deponent is allowed to have access during their deposition to documents marked 

“Confidential”, they are not required to sign an agreement in the form attached as Exhibit A. 

However, they must be provided a copy of this Agreement and Order during the deposition and 

they may not retain copies of confidential documents or view them outside of their deposition or 

during breaks in the deposition. Confidential documents used as exhibits will be separately bound 

and marked as “Confidential Exhibits.” 

10. If a Party or attorney for a Party desires to disclose any document marked 

“Confidential” to any person who is not specifically authorized to have access to such 

document pursuant to Paragraph 8 above or contended that the document has been improperly 

designated as confidential, the Party or attorney shall not make such a disclosure until the 

attorney has first met and conferred with the attorney for the Party who designated the 

document as “Confidential.” The attorneys will then have ten (10) days to negotiate, and if 

they cannot agree, the Party seeking to disclose or remove a confidential designation will have 

10 days to file a motion for protective order with the Court. While such a motion is pending 

before the Court, the attorneys shall not disclose the document except as authorized in this 

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Agreement and Order. The Party claiming confidentiality shall bear the burden of supporting 

the designation. The Court may make any orders it deems fair and equitable including 

conditioning disclosure upon execution of this Agreement. 

11. Use of “Confidential” Material at Trial. This Agreement and Order is not 

intended to govern the use of “Confidential” material at the trial of this action. Procedures 

governing the use of “Confidential” material at trial, if necessary, will be established by the 

Trial Court. 

12. Return of “Confidential” Documents. Upon termination of the Litigation, the 

Parties shall destroy the originals and copies of “Confidential” documents, unless a Party or 

non-party requests in writing, return of any Confidential documents within ten (10) days of the 

termination of the litigation. Returning of documents shall be at requesting party’s expense. 

13. Objection to Designation of Confidentiality. If any party, or such party’s 

counsel, objects to the designation of any document, testimony, information or material as 

“Confidential” the parties shall meet and confer in an effort to resolve any such dispute. If the 

parties are unable to resolve such dispute, the objecting party may bring a motion to have the 

contested information declared non-Confidential. Unless and until an Agreement and Order is 

entered to the contrary, the documents, testimony or material shall be given the “Confidential” 

treatment initially assigned to it and provided for in this Protective Order. 

14. Modification and Survival. The restrictions imposed by this Agreement and 

Order may only be modified or terminated by written stipulation of all parties or by order of this 

Court. This Agreement and Order shall survive termination of this action except that (i) there 

shall be no restriction on documents that have been used as exhibits in open court, and (ii) any 

Party may seek the written permission of all other parties or further order of this Court, after 

notice to the other parties and opportunity to be heard, to modify or dissolve this Protective 

Order. 

15. Copying of Confidential Documents. No Party receiving confidential 

documents may copy them except as Exhibits for archive, depositions, declarations or trial and 

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for each co-counsel. No Party shall give the confidential documents to anyone not covered by 

this Order. 

16. Violations. Violations of this Agreement shall subject the violating Party to 

sanctions permitted by the Discovery Act for discovery abuses as well as any other remedies 

available in law or equity.

15. Request for Entry of Order. The attorneys of record for the undersigned Parties 

are in accord with the above terms of this Agreement and Order as acknowledged hereafter by 

their signatures, and request the Court enter this Agreement and Order. 

So Stipulated. 

Dated: _______________ FOSTER & ASSOCIATES 

 

MICHAEL W. FOSTER 

DANIEL OCHS-TILLOTSON 

DAVID J. CARDIFF 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SARA LEE and GORDON MAYBERRY 

Dated: _______________ 

 

 NATHANIAL POTRATZ 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 JOHN GREENLY 

 Nothing in this order shall be construed as modifying the district judge’s pre-trial 

scheduling order. Subject to the foregoing modifications, the order is approved. 

SO ORDERED. 

Date: January 30, 2008 

 ___________________________________ 

 U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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EXHIBIT A 

I hereby certify that I have carefully read the Confidentiality Agreement and Stipulated 

Protective Order in the action entitled JOHN GREENLY v. SARA LEE. and GORDON 

MAYBERRY, Case No. 2:06-CV- 01775-WBS-PAN (JFM) (the “Litigation”), and that I fully 

understand the terms of the Court’s Order, a copy of which is attached. I recognize that I am 

bound by the terms of that Order, and I agree to comply with those terms. I agree not to disclose 

Confidential Material to anyone who has not signed a copy of this Certificate. I agree to use 

Confidential Material only in connection with the Litigation, and not for any other purpose, 

including without limitation, business, competitive, or governmental purpose or function. I 

hereby consent to be subject to the personal jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern 

District of California with respect to any proceedings concerning the enforcement of that Order, 

including without limitation any proceeding related to contempt of court. 

Dated: ___________ By:____________________________________ 

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