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Nature of Suit Code: 410
Nature of Suit: Antitrust
Cause of Action: 15:2 Antitrust Litigation

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Laurence D. King (SBN 206423) 

Linda M. Fong (SBN 124232) 

KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP 

350 Sansome Street, Suite 400 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 772-4700 

Fax: (415) 772-4707 

Email: lking@kaplanfox.com

lfong@kaplanfox.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MEIJER, INC. 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

Nicole M. Norris (SBN 222785) 

101 California Street, Suite 3900 

San Francisco, CA 94111-5894 

Telephone: (415) 591-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 591-1400 

Email: nnorris@winston.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ABBOTT LABORATORIES 

[Additional Attorneys and Parties listed on Signature Page] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION

MEIJER, INC., on behalf of itself and all 

others similarly situated, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, 

 Defendant. 

Case No. C 07-5985 CW 

Related per Order to 

Case No. C-04-1511 CW 

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1. PURPOSES 

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

of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted; 

 WHEREAS, such confidential information must be protected in order to preserve the 

legitimate business or privacy interests of the parties or other persons; 

 WHEREAS, the parties, through counsel, have stipulated to the entry of this Protective Order 

for the purpose of advancing the progress of this case and to prevent unnecessary dissemination or 

disclosure of such confidential information; 

 WHEREAS, the parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 

all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection that it affords extends only to the 

limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as 

confidential; 

 WHEREAS, the parties have established good cause for entry of this Order; 

 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 2. DEFINITIONS 

 2.1 This Stipulation and Order do not extend to documents and/or information voluntarily 

provided by third parties who were not under the compulsions of a subpoena at the time they 

provided such documents and/or information. 

 2.2 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

 2.3 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or 

tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this 

matter. 

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 2.4 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, stored 

or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 26(c). 

 2.5 “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or nonparty would 

create a substantial risk of serious or competitive injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive 

means. 

 2.6 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

 2.7 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material 

in this action. 

 2.8 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information or item that it produces in disclosures or in 

responses to discovery. 

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 2.10 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

 2.11 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

 2.12 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

 2.13 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of 

a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a party or a 

competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

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 2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, 

retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

 3. SCOPE 

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. This 

Stipulation and Order do not extend to documents and/or information voluntarily provided by third 

parties who were not under the compulsion of a subpoena at the time they provided such documents 

and/or information. 

 4. DURATION 

 The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect after the 

termination of this litigation until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. 

 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. A 

Designating Party must take care to 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 routine designations are prohibited. If it comes to a Party’s or a nonparty’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qua1ify for 

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protection at all, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing 

the mistaken designation. 

 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, 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 (apart from transcripts of depositions or other 

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only” at the top or bottom of each page that contains protected 

material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify only the protected portion(s) (e.g., by 

making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of 

protection being asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). 

 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 “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” After 

the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copies 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 appropriate legend 

(“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only”) at the top or bottom of each page 

that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 

protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify only the protected portion(s) 

(e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level 

of protection being asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only”). 

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 (b) for testimony given in depositions or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of 

the testimony that qualify as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of the testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, 

the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before 

the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 30 days to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being 

asserted (“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). Only those portions of 

the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 30 days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Pending such designation, the entire deposition 

transcript, including exhibits, shall be deemed “Highly Confidential — Attorney’s Eyes Only” 

information. If no designation is made within thirty (30) days after receipt of the transcript, the 

transcript shall be considered not to contain any “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information. 

 Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each page the legend “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential 

— Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” as instructed by the Party of non-party offering or sponsoring the witness 

or presenting the testimony. 

 (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” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” If only portions of the information or item warrant 

protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — Attorneys 

Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under 

this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party 

on timely notification of the designation, 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. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s, 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later 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. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

directly (in voice-to-voice dialogue) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, 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 the 

confidentiality designation. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing, or the urgency of the case 

requires a shorter period of time, the Designating Party must respond within fourteen (14) days. In 

the absence of a timely written response from the Designating Party addressing each challenge, a 

Challenging Party shall be deemed to have satisfied its meet and confer obligations. A challenging 

party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and 

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confer process first. The Designating Party has the burden to demonstrate to the court the 

appropriateness of the confidentiality designation. 

 6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a 

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that 

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such 

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied 

with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with 

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating 

Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 

 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 11, 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 their 

associated attorneys, paralegals, clerical staff, and professional vendors; 

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 (b) the Receiving Party House Counsel to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

this litigation, and who have agreed to be bound by the Protective Order; 

 (c) Experts, as defined in this Order, and including their employees and support 

personnel, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and who have signed the 

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

 (d) the Parties, for the sole purpose of assisting in, or consulting with respect to, the 

prosecution or defense of this litigation, and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

 (e) the Court and its personnel; 

 (f) Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have agreed to be bound by the Protective Order; 

 (g) the author of the document or original source of the information; 

 (h) Deponents, trial or hearing witnesses, and their counsel, in preparation for and/or 

during depositions, trial or pretrial hearings in this Proceeding, provided that counsel for the party 

intending to disclose Confidential Information has a good-faith and reasonable basis for believing 

that such Confidential Information is relevant to specific events, transactions, discussion, 

communications or data about which the deponent or witness is expected to testify, and the deponent 

or witness has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A. 

 7.3 Disclosure of “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 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 designed “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” only to: 

 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as their 

associated attorneys, paralegals, clerical staff, and professional vendors; 

 (b) the Receiving Party House Counsel to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

this litigation, and who have agreed to be bound by the Protective Order; 

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 (c) Experts, as defined in this Order, and including their employees and support 

personnel, (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, necessary for this 

litigation (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and 

(3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed; 

 (d) the Court and its personnel; 

 (e) Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have agreed to be bound by the Protective Order; 

and 

 (f) the author of the document or original source of the information. 

 7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “Highly Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only” Information or Items to “Experts” 

 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined by this Order) any information or item that has 

been designated “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” first must make a written request to 

the Designating party that identifies the expert and enclosing a copy of the Expert’s curriculum vitae 

(which includes at least the full name of the Expert, the city and state of his or her primary residence, 

the Expert’s current or former employers during the preceding five years, and any litigation in 

connection with which the Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding five 

years). 

 (b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the preceding 

paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within five 

court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the Designating 

Party. Any such objection must set forth the grounds on which it is based. 

 (c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by agreement. 

If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion 

as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

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seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with 

specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably 

necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means 

that might be used to reduce the risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by 

agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth the 

reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

 In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden of 

proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards provided) 

outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

 If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that 

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential-Attorneys’ Eyes Only” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating 

Party, in writing (by facsimile, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days 

after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or 

court order. 

 The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the 

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a 

copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the 

subpoena or order to issue. 

 The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this 

Protective Order and to afford the Designating party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its 

confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party 

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shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material 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 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. 

 10. 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. 

 11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days after 

the final termination of this action, including but not limited to a final judgment entered herein, a 

settlement, or the date when all appeals are resolved, each Receiving Party must return all Protected 

Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all 

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may 

destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 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 sixty day deadline that 

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identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected material. 

 Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), above. 

 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 its right or 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 any of the material covered by this 

Protective Order. 

 12.3 Trial Procedures. Counsel shall attempt in good faith to agree upon procedures to 

protect the confidentiality of Protected Material at any hearing or trial. Prior to such hearing or trial, 

counsel shall submit proposed procedures, including any disputes relating thereto, to the Court for its 

approval or modification. 

 12.4 Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Information. The inadvertent production of 

documents or information subject to the attorney-client privilege, work-product immunity, or other 

privilege (despite the Parties’ reasonable efforts to prescreen such documents and information prior 

to production) shall be without prejudice to any claim that such material is privileged or protected 

from discovery. No Party will be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent production if, 

before the close of fact discovery, the Producing Party gives prompt notice to the other side that it is 

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asserting a claim of privilege or other objection with respect to such document or other information 

upon learning of the inadvertent production. 

 The undersigned counsel of record for the parties hereby stipulate and consent to entry of the 

foregoing stipulated Protective Order. 

 (signature page to follow) 

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Dated: December 18, 2007 KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP 

 By: /s/ Laurence D. King 

 Laurence D. King (SBN 206423) 

Linda M. Fong (SBN 124232) 

KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER 

LLP 

350 Sansome Street, Suite 400 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

Telephone: (415) 772-4700 

Fax: (415) 772-4707 

Email: lking@kaplanfox.com

lfong@kaplanfox.com

Dated: December 18, 2007 KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP 

 By: /s/ Robert N. Kaplan 

 Robert N. Kaplan 

Linda P. Nussbaum 

KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER 

LLP 

850 Third Avenue, 14th Floor 

New York, NY 10022 

Telephone: (212) 687-1980 

Fax: (212) 687-7714 

Email: rkaplan@kaplanfox.com

lnussbaum@kaplanfox.com

Dated: December 18, 2007 VANEK, VICKERS, & MASINI, P.C. 

 By: /s/ Joseph M. Vanek 

 Joseph M. Vanek 

David P. Germaine 

VANEK, VICKERS & MASINI, 

P.C. 

111 South Wacker Drive, Suite 4050 

Chicago, IL 60606 

Telephone: (312) 224-1500 

Fax: (312) 224-1510 

Emails: jvanek@vaneklaw.com

dgermaine@vaneklaw.com

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Dated: December 18, 2007 SPERLING & SLATER 

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SPERLING & SLATER 

55 West Monroe Street, Suite 3200 

Chicago, Illinois 60603 

Telephone: (312) 641-3200 

Fax: (312) 641-6492 

E mail: pes@sperling-law.com

 Attorneys for Individual and Representative Plaintiff 

Meijer, Inc. 

Dated: December 18, 2007 WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

 By: /s/ Nicole M. Norris 

 Nicole M. Norris 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ABBOTT LABORATORIES 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 12/27/07 

 

 Judge Claudia Wilken 

 United States District Court 

 Northern District of California 

GENERAL ORDER 45 ATTESTATION

I, Nicole M. Norris, am the ECF User whose ID and password was used to file this Stipulated 

Protective Order. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that counsel for 

Meijer, Inc. concurred in this filing. 

Dated: ___December 27, 2007___ By: _/s/ Nicole M. Norris_________ 

Nicole M. Norris 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

Counsel for Defendant 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

BY STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 I, _________________________________ [name],of ______________________________ 

[company, full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California on ___________________[date] in the case of Meijer, Inc v. Abbott 

Laboratories, Case No. 07-5985. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could 

expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not 

disclose in any manner any information or item that is subjection to this Stipulated Protective Order 

to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. 

 I further agree to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

 I hereby appoint _______________________________________________________[Name] 

 of _________________________________________[address and telephone number] as my 

California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to 

enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Printed Name: ___________________________________________ 

Date:___________________________________________________ 

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