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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Declaratory Judgement

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Paul F. Donsbach #174129 

Sybil L. Renick #213149 

KUTAK ROCK LLP 

18201 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 1100 

Irvine, CA 92612-1077 

Telephone: (949) 417-0999 

Facsimile: (949) 417-5394 

paul.donsbach@kutakrock.com

Patrick W. Kennison (pro hac vice) 

KUTAK ROCK LLP 

1650 Farnam Street 

Omaha, NE 68102-2186 

Telephone: (402) 346-6000 

Facsimile: (402) 346-1148 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Counter-Defendants 

STEADFAST INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

Delaware corporation; and AMERICAN 

GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a New York corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STEADFAST INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

Delaware corporation; and AMERICAN 

GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY INSURANCE 

COMPANY, a New York corporation, 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

JAMES DOBBAS, an individual; PAMELA 

DOBBAS, an individual; DONALD DOBBAS, an 

individual; PETER MANCINI and LISA 

MANCINI, husband and wife; PETER MANCINI 

as Special Administrator of the ESTATE OF 

CLAUDETTE MANCINI, deceased; LISA 

MANCINI as the Guardian Ad Litem for NASYA 

MANCINI, a minor; FALLON TURNER, an 

individual; MERRICK TURNER, an individual, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:05-CV-00632-FCD-JFM 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY 

MATERIALS AND INFORMATION 

Judge: Hon. Frank C. Damrell, Jr. 

Date of Filing: March 30, 2005 

Trial Date: January 9, 2007 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIMS. 

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Plaintiffs and Counter-Defendants STEADFAST INSURANCE COMPANY 

(“Steadfast”) and AMERICAN GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY 

(“American Gurantee”), and Defendants JAMES DOBBAS, PAMELA DOBBAS, DONALD 

DOBBAS, (“Dobbas”), Defendants and Counter-Claimants PETER MANCINI, LISA 

MANCINI, NASYA MANCINI (“Mancinis”), and Defendants and Counter-Claimants FALLON 

TURNER, MERRICK TURNER, (“Turners”), (Plaintiffs/Counter-Defendants, Steadfast and 

American Guarantee and Defendants Dobbas, Defendants/Counter-Claimants Mancinis and 

Defendants/Counter-Claimants Turners are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Parties”), 

by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate to the following Protective 

Order: 

1. Scope: This Stipulation and Order governs the use of all produced documents, 

responses to Interrogatories, and Requests for Admissions, Requests for Production of 

Documents, deposition transcripts and any other information, documents, objects or things which 

have been or will be produced or received by any party during the proceedings in this action as 

well as any copies, abstracts, digests, notes and summaries thereof. These materials are 

collectively referred to as “Discovery Materials.” 

2. Use of Discovery Materials: All Discovery Materials shall be used solely for the 

purposes of prosecuting and/or defending the action and shall not be used for any other purpose 

whatsoever. 

3. Confidential Materials: Any Discovery Materials produced by any party or third-party 

witness which are deemed in good faith to contain confidential information may be designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” in the manner set forth below. Confidential information is information 

which has not been made public and which concerns or relates to the processes, operations, sales, 

amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures of party, the disclosure of which 

information may have the effect of causing harm to the competitive position of the person, firm, 

partnership, corporation, or to the organization from which the information was obtained. All 

such materials so designated are hereafter collectively referred to as “Confidential Materials.” 

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4. Designating Confidential Materials: By designating a document, thing, material, 

testimony or other information derived therefrom as “CONFIDENTIAL” under the terms of this 

Stipulation and Order, the party making the designation is certifying to the Court that there is a 

good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation within the meaning of Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 26(g). A party producing documents considered of a confidential nature shall 

cause each part of such document to be stamped or labeled “CONFIDENTIAL.” The requesting 

party shall treat such documents as confidential pursuant to the terms set forth below. With 

respect to answers or interrogatories or responses to Requests for Admissions, a party may 

designate all or any portion of such responses as “CONFIDENTIAL” by clearly labeling them as 

such in the body of the response. 

5. Designating Confidential Materials at Depositions: If at any deposition a witness is 

asked for information considered confidential by one of the parties, counsel for said party may 

indicate that the information sought from the witness is designated “CONFIDENTIAL,” and the 

reporter transcribing the proceeding shall be instructed to so designate that portion of the record. 

Any such portions of a transcript shall be separately bound, sealed and appropriately labeled by 

the reporter and shall be treated by the parties as provided below. In addition, the party may by 

letter to all counsel of record designate any portion of the deposition testimony as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” at any time up to five (5) business days after actual receipt of the transcript 

of the deposition, and such portions shall be treated by the parties as provided below. 

6. Use of Confidential Material: Confidential Materials shall be used only in the 

prosecution and/or defense of this action and shall not be used or employed for any other lawsuit, 

business purpose, or other purpose whatsoever. In the event that any Confidential Material is 

used in any court proceeding in this action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such 

use, and the party using such shall take all reasonable steps to protect its confidentiality during 

such use. 

Except as otherwise provided herein, materials designated “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be 

disclosed only to counsel, to counsel’s legal and clerical staff, court reporter(s) employed in the 

action, to those officers, directors and employees of the parties who, in counsel’s good-faith 

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judgment, have a legitimate need to see such materials and to any other person as to whom the 

parties in writing agree. 

a) Use of Confidential Materials by Independent Experts: 

Confidential Materials may be disclosed to independent experts (who are not employed, 

retained or affiliated by or with a competitor of the producing party) whom counsel deems 

reasonably necessary for the preparation and trial of the case. Before any Confidential Materials 

are disclosed to any such independent experts or third-party witness, he or she shall be required to 

read the Stipulation and Order in its entirety and sign an appropriate statement signifying his or 

her agreement to abide by its terms, shown by the form attached as Exhibit “A” hereto. Copies of 

any such statements shall be maintained by counsel and shall be delivered to counsel for the 

producing party upon request at the conclusion of litigation. 

7. Disposition of Confidential Materials: The ultimate disposition of any Confidential 

Materials filed with the Court shall be subject to final order of the Court upon completion of the 

litigation. All other Confidential Materials, and all copies thereof, shall be returned to the 

producing party at the termination of this action, or shall be destroyed, at the option of the 

producing party. 

8. Rights of Parties: This Stipulation and Order shall be without prejudice to the parties: 

(i) to bring before the Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or 

information is confidential or whether its use should be restricted; or (ii) to present a motion to 

the Court under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) for a separate protective order as to any 

particular document or information, including restrictions differing from those as specified herein. 

This Stipulation and Order shall not preclude any party from applying to the Court for relief from 

a provision thereof or from asserting that certain Confidential Materials should receive different, 

greater or less confidentiality protection than provided for herein. The Stipulation and Order shall 

not be construed to limit the right of any party to a protective order pursuant to other statutory 

common laws or to assert any additional right or privilege to withhold the production of any 

documents or testimony. It is acknowledged that any party may claim work-product privilege, 

attorney/client privilege, rights of financial privacy, or other applicable privilege for certain 

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documents requested by discovery demands or produced in response thereto. 

9. Effective Upon Execution: This Stipulation and Order shall become effective as a 

stipulation among the parties immediately upon its execution by counsel for all parties, 

notwithstanding the pendency of approval by the Court. If approval by the Court is ultimately 

withheld or made confidential, no party shall treat any Confidential Materials produced prior to 

that time, other than that provided in this Stipulation and Order, without giving the producing 

party sufficient advance notice to allow for application to the Court for additional relief. 

10. Prior Production of Discovery Materials: If any Discovery Materials, including 

deposition testimony, have been produced in anticipation of the finalization and execution of this 

Stipulation and Order, all such previously produced Discovery Materials shall be governed by the 

terms hereof, and the producing party shall have five (5) days from the date this Stipulation and 

Order is executed for all counsel for all parties to designate such materials or portions thereof as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

11. Responsibility of Attorneys: The attorneys of record are responsible for employing 

reasonable measures to control, consistently with this Stipulation and Order, duplication of, 

access to, and distribution of copies of stamped, confidential documents. If Confidential 

Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript designated “CONFIDENTIAL,” is 

included in any papers to be filed in Court, such papers shall be labeled “Confidential – Subject to 

Court Order” and filed under seal until further order of this Court. Parties shall not duplicate any 

stamped, confidential documents except working copies and for filing with the Court under seal. 

12. Modifications and Amendments: Nothing herein shall prevent any party, on notice to 

the other party, from applying to the Court for a modification of the Stipulation and Order. 

13. No Waiver: This Stipulation and Order is made solely for the purpose of facilitating 

the exchange of documents and information between the parties to this action without involving 

the Court unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Stipulation and Order nor the production 

of any information or document under the terms of this Stipulation and Order nor any proceedings 

pursuant to this Order shall be deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either 

party or of altering the confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such document or information 

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or altering any existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

14. Jurisdiction: This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent 

that the information contained in the 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. 

15. Termination of the Case: Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall 

assemble and return to each other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated as 

confidential and all copies of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof. 

SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: April 12, 2006 KUTAK ROCK LLP 

By: /s/ Paul F. Donsbach (with permission)

Paul F. Donsbach 

Sybil L. Renick 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Counter-Defendants 

STEADFAST INSURANCE COMPANY and 

AMERICAN GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY 

INSURANCE COMPANY 

Dated: April 12, 2006 NEAL, HAUSHALTER & RAY LLP 

By: /s/ Michael E. Neal (with permission)

Michael E. Neal 

Thomas Smurro 

Counsel for Defendants 

JAMES DOBBAS, PAMELA DOBBAS, and 

DONALD DOBBAS 

Dated: April 12, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF PETER CHASE NEUMANN 

By: [signed by] Peter Neumann 

Peter Neumann 

Counsel for Defendants/Counter-Claimants: PETER 

MANCINI, LISA MANCINI, NASYA MANCINI, a 

minor by LISA MANCINI 

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Dated: April 12, 2006 PORTER SIMON 

By: /s/ Peter H. Cuttitta (with permission)

Peter H. Cuttitta 

James E. Simon 

Counsel for Defendant/Counter-Claimants: 

FALLON TURNER and MERRICK TURNER 

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ORDER

Good cause appearing therefor, 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: April 18, 2006 /s/ Frank C. Damrell Jr.

 

 HON. FRANK C. DAMRELL, JR. 

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EXHIBIT A 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

The undersigned hereby acknowledges that he/she has read the attached Stipulated 

Protective Order dated _______________, 2006, entered in the action entitled Steadfast 

Insurance Company et al. v. James Dobbas et al., United States District Court for the Central 

District of California, Civil Action No. 2:05-CV-00632-FCD-JFM and understands and hereby 

agrees to comply with and be bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until 

modified by further Order of this Court. The undersigned hereby consents to the jurisdiction of 

said Court for purposes of enforcing this Order. 

Dated this ______ day of _________________, 2006. 

 

[Printed Name] 

 

[Signature] 

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PROOF OF SERVICE

I, Kathy Powell, declare: 

I am a citizen of the United States and employed in Orange County, California. I am over 

the age of eighteen years and not a party to the within-entitled action. My business address is 

Suite 1100, 18201 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, California 92612-1077. On April 17, 2006, I 

served a copy of the within document(s): 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIALS AND INFORMATION 

 ̈ by transmitting via facsimile the document(s) listed above to the fax number(s) set 

forth below on this date before 5:00 p.m. 

ý by placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope with postage thereon 

fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Irvine, California addressed as set forth 

below. 

ý by Notice of Electronic Filing. Counsel who have consented to electronic service 

have been automatically served by the Notice of Electronic Filing, which is 

automatically generated by CM/ECF at the time said document was filed, and 

which constitutes service pursuant to FRCP 5(b)(2)(D). 

 ̈ by placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed Federal Express envelope and 

affixing a pre-paid air bill, and causing the envelope to be delivered to a Federal 

Express agent for delivery. 

 ̈ by personally delivering the document(s) listed above to the person(s) at the 

address(es) set forth below. 

(Electronic Service) 

Michael E. Neal, Esq. 

NEAL, HAUSHALTER & RAY LLP 

200 E. Sandpointe Avenue 

Suite 750 

Santa Ana, CA 92707-5777 

Tele: (714) 825-8000 

Fax: (714) 825-8020 

Counsel for Defendants: JAMES DOBBAS, 

PAMELA DOBBAS, and DONALD DOBBAS

(Electronic Service) 

Peter Neumann, Esq. 

LAW OFFICES OF PETER CHASE 

NEUMANN 

136 Ridge Street 

Reno, NV 89501 

Tele: (775) 786-3750 

Fax: (775) 786-8791 

Counsel for Defendants and CounterClaimants: PETER MANCINI, LISA 

MANCINI, NASYA MANCINI, a minor by 

LISA MANCINI 

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(Mail Service)

Peter H. Cuttitta, Esq. 

James E. Simon, Esq. 

PORTER SIMON 

40200 Truckee Airport Road 

Suite One 

Truckee, CA 96161 

Tele: (530) 587-2002 

Fax: 

Counsel for Defendant and Counter-Claimants: 

FALLON TURNER and MERRICK TURNER 

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 in the ordinary course of business. I am aware that on 

motion of the party served, service is presumed invalid if postal cancellation date or postage 

meter date is more than one day after date of deposit for mailing in affidavit. 

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 April 17, 2006, at Irvine, California. 

 /s/ Kathy Powell 

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