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Nature of Suit Code: 470
Nature of Suit: Civil (Rico)
Cause of Action: 18:1962 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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Case No. C-04-03932 MMC 

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BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

THOMAS E. KUHNLE (SBN 178055) 

AARON SCHUR (SBN 229566) 

1900 University Avenue 

East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2223 

Telephone: (650) 849-4400 

Facsimile: (650) 849-4800 

Attorneys for Defendant Mitsubishi Motors North 

America, Inc. and Defendant, Counterclaimant, and 

Cross-claimant Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, 

Inc.

SEVERSON & WERSON, P.C. 

DUANE M. GECK (State Bar No. 114823) 

DAVID E. PINCH (State Bar No. 124851) 

A Professional Corporation 

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 398-3344 

Facsimile: (415) 956-0439 

Attorneys for Defendant, Counterclaimant, and Crossclaimant Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

UKIAH AUTOMOTIVE INVESTMENTS, d.b.a. 

UKIAH MITSUBISHI, a California corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v.

MITSUBISHI MOTORS OF NORTH 

AMERICA, INC. AND MITSUBISHI MOTORS 

CREDIT OF NORTH AMERICA, INC., and 

DOES 1 through 33, inclusive, 

Defendants.

No. C-04-03932 MMC 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND RELATED ACTIONS 

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Ukiah Automotive Investments, Thomas Cogliano, Mitsubishi Motors of North 

America, Inc. and Mitsubishi Credit of North America, Inc. (collectively, the “Parties”) stipulate 

and agree as follows: 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

WHEREAS, the Parties believe that certain information that may be divulged in 

this litigation may contain non-public financial, private, research, development, or commercial 

information, as contemplated by Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 

WHEREAS, the Parties believe that such information may be relevant to the 

subject matter involved in the pending action within the meaning of Rule 26(b) of the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties believe that it would serve both their interests and the 

public interest to conduct discovery under a protective order pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

ORDER

In accordance with the stipulation of the Parties, and good cause appearing 

therefore, the Court enters the following protective order: 

1. MATERIALS SUBJECT TO THIS ORDER 

This Order allows designation of any information or material produced, formally 

or informally, in response to a discovery request, including, without limitation, all depositions, 

documents, information or things produced in response to requests for production of documents, 

response to a subpoena, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, all other 

discovery taken pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and any information or 

material produced pursuant to any disclosure obligations imposed by the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure or the Court’s local rules, any information or material disclosed or produced on an 

informal basis, or any material filed with the Court (“Case Materials”). The person or entity 

producing, filing, providing or disclosing such materials is referred to in this Order as the 

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“Designating Person.” 

a. As a general guideline, most Case Materials need not be specially 

designated under this Order. Certain material, however, may be designated “CONFIDENTIAL” 

if it constitutes non-public, private or personal information, or confidential research, 

development or commercial information. See Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. Before designating all or any portions of any document or information 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” counsel for the Designating Party shall make a good faith determination 

that protection is warranted under Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

b. As a general guideline, the following material may not be designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under this Order: 

 (i) information that was, is or becomes public knowledge, not in 

violation of this Order; 

 (ii) information that is acquired by the non-Designating Party from a 

third party having the right to disclose such information or material; or 

 (iii) information that was lawfully possessed by the non-Designating 

Party prior to entry by the Court of this Order. 

2. ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS 

Case Materials shall not be used or disclosed for any purposes other than the 

litigation of this action. Material designated “CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed only to: 

a. Officers, directors, members and/or employees of Parties to this action 

provided that any such person has signed an Undertaking in the form of Exhibit A attached 

hereto.

b. Outside counsel of record for Parties to this action, their legal associates, 

their regularly employed office staffs, and outside vendors retained to copy documents, 

excluding, however, individuals who are officers or directors of a named party or owners of 

more than a two-percent interest in a named party. 

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c. Third-party consultants provided that any such person has signed an 

Undertaking in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. Before disclosing any materials marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to a consultant, counsel shall provide to the other Parties a copy of a resume 

or curriculum vitae describing in detail: (1) the expert or consultant’s employment history; and 

(2) every consulting relationship in which such expert or consultant is currently engaged or has 

been engaged in the past four years. The notified Parties shall have ten (10) business days from 

receipt of the notice to deliver to the notifying party written objections, if any, setting forth in 

detail the reasons therefor. Upon timely objection, disclosure of materials marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to the consultant shall not be made, subject to a successful motion for relief 

brought by the party seeking disclosure. Absent timely objection, the consultant shall be deemed 

approved.

d. The Court, appropriate Court personnel, and Court reporters as necessary 

without the need of further order of this Court. 

e. Any person who appears as an author or addressee on the face of the 

document. 

f. Any deponent and the deponent questioned accordingly. The deponent 

will be advised of the existence of the confidentiality order before deposition and the order shall 

provide that every person who is examined in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure shall be subject to the terms of this confidentiality order and shall take no action to 

disclose such materials deemed confidential by the parties outside the scope of these judicial 

proceedings. 

3. MARKING MATERIALS 

Material shall be designated “CONFIDENTIAL” by placing an appropriate 

legend on each page prior to production or service. Material not reduced to documentary, 

tangible or physical form or which cannot be conveniently designated in the manner set forth 

herein shall be designated by the producing party by informing the receiving party in writing. 

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4. DESIGNATING DEPOSITIONS 

a. Deposition transcripts or portions thereof may be designated either: 

(i) when or before the testimony is recorded, in which case the transcript of the designated 

testimony shall be bound in a separate volume and marked by the reporter, as the Designating 

Person may direct; or (ii) by captioned, written notice to the reporter and all counsel of record, 

given within thirty (30) business days after the reporter sends written notice that the transcript is 

available for review, in which case all counsel receiving such notice shall be responsible for 

marking the copies of the designated transcript or portion thereof in their possession or control as 

directed by the Designating Person. Pending expiration of the thirty (30) business days, the 

deposition transcript shall be treated as if it had been designated “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

b. Where testimony is designated at a deposition, the Designating Person 

may exclude from the deposition all persons other than those to whom materials marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed under paragraph 2 of this Order. 

c. Any party may mark materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL” as a 

deposition exhibit and examine any witness thereon, provided that the deposition witness is one 

to whom the exhibit may be disclosed under paragraph 2 of this Order and the exhibit and related 

transcript pages receive the same confidentiality designation as the original material. 

5. COURT PROCEDURES 

a. Applicability. When this Order, a statute, a federal or local rule or any 

other order of the Court permits documents or other things to be filed under seal, the procedures 

set forth in this paragraph shall apply.

b. Lodging Matter With Request To File Under Seal. A party authorized by 

this Order, statute, rule or other Court order to file a document under seal must lodge the 

document with the Clerk in accordance with this paragraph. The Clerk shall refer the matter to 

the assigned Judge pursuant to paragraph 5(d) below. No document shall be filed under seal 

except pursuant to a Court order that authorizes the sealing of the particular document or portion 

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thereof and is narrowly tailored to seal only that material for which good cause to seal has been 

established. 

c. Format. Documents lodged with the Court must be contained in an 8 1⁄2 

inch by 11 inch sealed envelope or other suitable container. The party must affix a cover sheet to 

the envelope or container, which must: 

 (i) set out the information required by Civil L.R. 3-4(1); 

 (ii) set forth the name, address and telephone number of the submitting 

party;

 (iii) if filed pursuant to a previous Court order, state the date and name 

of the judge ordering the matter filed under seal and attach a copy of the order; if filed pursuant 

to statute or rule, state the authorizing statute or rule and good cause for filing the submitted 

matter under seal; and 

 (iv) prominently display the notation: “DOCUMENT FILED UNDER 

SEAL.” When permitted by the Court order, the notation may also include: “NOT TO APPEAR 

ON THE PUBLIC DOCKET.” 

d. Motion To File Under Seal.

 (i) Except as set forth in 5(d)(ii) below, counsel seeking to file 

material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” under seal, which is not authorized by statute or rule to be 

so filed, may file an ex parte motion in accordance with this Court’s Civil Local Rules and lodge 

the document or thing with the Clerk in a manner which conforms with paragraph 5(c) above. If, 

pursuant to referral by the Clerk or motion of a party, the Court orders that a lodged document be 

filed under seal, the Clerk shall file the lodged document under seal. Documents may not be 

filed under seal solely based upon this Protective Order. Each particular document or portion 

thereof that a party wishes to file under seal must be submitted to the assigned Judge with a 

narrowly tailored proposed order. The Court will only entertain requests to seal that establish 

good cause and are narrowly tailored to seal only the particular information that is genuinely 

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privileged or protectable as trade secret or otherwise has a compelling need for confidentiality. 

Counsel should not attempt to seal entire pleadings or memoranda required to be filed pursuant 

to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Court’s Civil Local Rules. 

 (ii) If a pleading, memorandum of points and authorities, affidavit or 

declaration contains or discloses a different party’s material marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” the 

party may lodge the document or thing with the clerk in a manner which conforms with 

paragraph 5(c) above. The party wishing to file material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” must give 

written notice to the Designating Person that the records have been lodged and will be placed in 

the public file unless within ten (10) business days of receipt of written notice, the Designating 

Person files a motion for a sealing order in compliance with paragraph 5(d)(i) above and the 

provisions of Local Rule 79-5. If the Designating Person does not file a motion to seal within 

ten (10) business days (unless extended by stipulation or by Court order), the Designating Person 

shall be deemed to have consented to the public filing of the material marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” and the Clerk shall remove the originals from the envelope labeled 

“DOCUMENT FILED UNDER SEAL” and shall file the complete pleading, memorandum of 

points and authorities, affidavit or declaration in the public file. If the Designating Person files a 

motion to seal within ten (10) days (or longer pursuant to stipulation or Court order), the 

originals shall remain conditionally under seal until the Court rules on the motion, and thereafter 

shall be filed in the manner directed by the Court. 

 e. Effect of Seal. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, any 

material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” filed under seal shall be kept from public inspection, 

including inspection by attorneys and Parties to the action during the pendency of the case. Once 

this case is closed, any material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” filed under seal in a case shall be 

open to public inspection without further action by the Court ten (10) years from the date the 

case is transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration or other Courtdesignated depository. However, a party that submitted material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” 

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which the Court placed under seal in a case may, upon a showing of good cause at the conclusion 

of the case, seek an order which would continue the seal until a specific date beyond the 10 years 

provided by this rule. Nothing in this paragraph is intended to affect the normal records 

destruction policy of the United States Courts. 

 f. In the event any material designated “CONFIDENTIAL” is used in 

any hearing or other Court proceeding, the party proffering the material may request that the 

Court close the courtroom, but the decision of whether to do so rests with the judge presiding at 

the hearing or proceeding. 

6. OBJECTIONS 

A party or any interested member of the public may challenge any designation 

under this Order at any time. A challenge may be made by the party serving on affected Parties a 

captioned notice of objection, which shall identify with particularity the items as to which the 

designation is challenged and propose a new designation for each item. If the Designating Party 

fails to redesignate the material within ten business days (or thirteen business days if service is 

by mail) and after good faith meet and confer, the objecting party or interested member of the 

public may file and serve a motion for an order of the Court redesignating the material. The 

Designating Party shall have the burden of showing why the material marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL” warrants protection pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. The original designation shall remain effective until five business days after entry of 

an order redesignating the materials. 

7. THIRD PARTIES 

a. Third Party Confidentiality. Where a discovery request, subpoena or 

deposition question calls for otherwise discoverable information that is subject to an obligation 

of confidentiality owed to another, the person to whom the discovery request, subpoena or 

deposition question is directed shall promptly, and in no event later than ten (10) calendar days 

after determining that the discoverable information is subject to an obligation of confidentiality 

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owed to another: 

 (1) identify to the party seeking the information the name and address 

of each person whose confidentiality interests are implicated by the discovery request, subpoena 

or deposition question, or, if the identity of the third party itself is confidential, the existence of 

third party confidentiality obligations, and 

 (2) provide to each such person whose confidentiality interests are 

implicated: 

 (a) notice of such discovery request, subpoena or question 

seeking disclosure of materials or information held under obligations of confidentiality; and, 

 (b) a copy of this Protective Order. 

The party or third party to whom the discovery request, document or deposition 

subpoena, or deposition question has been directed shall produce responsive information (or in 

the case of a deposition question, answer the deposition question) if the person whose 

confidentiality interests are implicated does not formally object in writing to counsel for the 

requesting party within fifteen (15) calendar days of being notified of the request, or unless the 

party or third party from whom the information is requested seeks a protective order from the 

Court preventing such disclosure. If the third party objects on the basis that the party must 

review the requested documents before production, the party or third party to whom the 

discovery request, document or deposition subpoena, or deposition question has been directed 

shall provide the requested documents to the third party within ten (10) business days. After 

receipt of the requested documents, the third party shall have ten (10) business days to object or 

move for a protective order. There shall be no disclosure until the Court rules on such a motion, 

and then only in accordance with such ruling, or, if no motion is made, until the period for 

objecting or making such a motion expires, at which time the person receiving the discovery 

request, subpoena or deposition question shall be entitled to comply with it provided such person 

has complied with the terms of this paragraph. 

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b. Requests From Third Parties. In the event any party having possession, 

custody or control of any material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” receives a subpoena or other 

process or order to produce such information in another, unrelated legal proceeding, from a nonparty to this action, such party shall immediately notify counsel for the Designating Person of the 

subpoena or other process or order, furnish counsel for the Designating Person with a copy of 

said subpoena or other process or order in sufficient time within which the Designating Person 

may take the necessary steps to quash or otherwise object to the subpoena, and cooperate with 

respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the Designating Person whose 

interests may be affected. 

8. NO PREJUDICE 

a. Nothing in this Order shall preclude any party from seeking and obtaining 

additional or different protection with respect to the confidentiality of discovery. 

b. This Order shall not diminish any existing obligation or right with respect 

to material marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” nor shall it prevent a disclosure to which the 

Designating Person consents in writing before the disclosure takes place. 

c. Unless the Parties stipulate otherwise, evidence of the existence or 

nonexistence of a designation under this Order shall not be admissible for any purpose during 

any proceeding on the merits of this action or any other action. 

d. A party may seek by written agreement or court order to make late 

designations of material otherwise entitled to protection under this Order if the party failed to 

make a timely designation through mistake or inadvertence and failed to correct such error 

within a reasonable time in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 13. 

e. Nothing in this Order shall preclude any party to the lawsuit or their 

attorneys from disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information or 

documents which the party itself has designated and which are confidential only to that party 

itself. 

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9. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Upon final termination of this action and at the written request of the person 

designating or producing the material, all material marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” all copies and all 

translations shall be returned to counsel of record for the person that produced the material or, in 

the case of deposition testimony regarding designated exhibits, the counsel of record for the 

Designating Person, or in the alternative, the receiving party shall provide to the Designating 

Person a certification that all such materials have been destroyed within thirty (30) calendar days 

of the written request. However, counsel of record may retain pleadings, attorney and consultant 

work product, depositions, transcripts and exhibits for archival purposes. Any tangible things 

produced, including but not limited to product exemplars, other than commercially available 

products purchased by the receiving party, shall be returned to the producing party upon final 

termination of this action. 

10. ERROR IN DESIGNATION 

The inadvertent or unintentional production of documents containing, or 

otherwise disclosing, private, proprietary or secret information without being designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” at the time of production or disclosure shall not be deemed a waiver in 

whole or in part of a Designating Person’s claim of confidentiality or secrecy under any 

applicable law, either as to the specific information disclosed or as to any other information 

relating thereto or on the same or related subject matter. Any error in designation shall be 

corrected within a reasonable time after the Designating Person becomes aware of the error. If 

the information has been disclosed prior to the corrected designation, that disclosure shall be 

treated under paragraph 13 of this Order. 

11. MODIFICATIONS AND SURVIVAL 

The restrictions imposed by this Order may only be modified or terminated by 

written stipulation of all Parties or by order of this Court. This Order shall survive termination of 

this action. 

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12. IMPROPER DISCLOSURES 

If materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL” are disclosed to any person other than in 

the manner authorized by this Order, the party, third party or person responsible for this 

disclosure must immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure to the attention 

of all interested Parties, without prejudice to other rights and remedies of the Designating Person, 

and shall make every effort to prevent further improper disclosure. 

13. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION 

Counsel shall exert their best efforts to identify materials protected by the 

attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine prior to the disclosure of any such 

materials or information. The inadvertent production of any document or thing shall be without 

prejudice to any claim that such material is protected by the attorney-client privilege or protected 

from discovery as work product, and no Producing Party shall be held to have waived any rights 

thereunder by inadvertent production. If a Producing Party discovers that materials protected by 

the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine have been inadvertently produced, counsel 

for the Producing Party shall promptly give notice to counsel for the Receiving Party. If the 

Producing Party provides prompt notice, the Receiving Party shall take prompt steps to ensure 

that all known copies of such material are returned promptly to the Producing Party. The cost, if 

any, for excising such materials by the Receiving Party shall be borne by the Producing Party. 

The Parties may afterwards contest such claims of privilege or work product as if the materials 

had not been produced but shall not assert that a waiver occurred as a result of the production.

14. LIMITATIONS 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Order to the contrary, the 

confidentiality obligations of this Order shall not apply or shall cease to apply to any information 

that:

a. at the time of disclosure, was already in the public domain by publication 

or otherwise; 

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b. since the time of disclosure, has become, through no act, omission or 

failure to act on the part of the receiving party, part of the public domain by publication or 

otherwise;

c. at the time of disclosure, was already in the possession of the receiving 

party, and was not acquired directly or indirectly from the designating party or from any third 

party under obligation of confidence to the designating party; 

d. after disclosure, was acquired by the receiving party from a third party 

lawfully possessing the same and having no obligation of confidence to the designating party 

hereunder; or, 

e. the designating party agrees in writing that the material may be disclosed 

to a third party under no obligation of confidentiality. 

15. DISCOVERY ONLY 

This Order governs only discovery. At trial, the Parties will redesignate or redact 

confidential designations as deemed appropriate. 

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DATED: June 27, 2005 

BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/ 

Thomas E. Kuhnle 

Attorneys for Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. 

and Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, Inc. 

DATED: June 27, 2005 

SEVERSON & WERSON, P.C. 

By: /s/ 

Duane M. Geck 

Attorneys for Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, 

Inc.

DATED: June 27, 2005 

DENNIS C. BIRKHIMER 

By: /s/ 

Dennis C. Birkhimer 

Attorney for Ukiah Automotive Investments and 

Thomas C. Cogliano 

DATED: June 27, 2005 

MYERS & FULLER, P.A. 

By: /s/ 

R. Craig Spickard 

Attorney for Ukiah Automotive Investments and 

Thomas C. Cogliano 

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IT IS SO ORDERED: 

 ____________________________________ 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Dated: July 15, 2005 /s/ Maxine M. Chesney

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EXHIBIT A

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

UKIAH AUTOMOTIVE INVESTMENTS, d.b.a. 

UKIAH MITSUBISHI ET AL. 

Plaintiff, 

v.

MITSUBISHI MOTORS OF NORTH 

AMERICA, INC. ET AL., 

Defendants.

No. C-04-03932 MMC 

UNDERTAKING CONCERNING 

MATERIAL COVERED BY 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

I hereby acknowledge that I have read the Stipulated Protective Order dated 

May __ 2005, entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 

in the action entitled Ukiah Automotive Investments et al. v. Mitsubishi Motors of North America, 

Inc. et al., Case No. C0-04003932 MMC, and I agree to be bound by it and to treat material 

marked “CONFIDENTIAL” as required by that Order. I also agree to use information 

designated under the Stipulated Protective Order solely for purposes of this litigation. 

Dated: ________________ 

Signature

 Name: ______________________________ 

 Title: 

 Employer: 

 Address: 

 __________________________________ 

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