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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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CONF. AGREEMENT/PROTECTIVE ORDER 

U.S.D.C., N.D. Cal., No. C-05-03698-SI 

JEFFREY D. WOHL (Cal. State Bar No. 96838) 

DANIEL E. WALDMAN (Cal. State Bar No. 223034) 

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 

55 Second Street, 24th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 856-7000 

Facsimile: (415) 856-7100 

E-mail: jeffwohl@paulhastings.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

International Business Machines Corporation 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

LOUIS I. BRAUNSTEIN, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

MACHINES CORPORATION, a New 

York corporation, and DOES 1 through 10, 

inclusive 

Defendants. 

No. C-05-03698-SI 

STIPULATED CONFIDENTIALITY 

AGREEMENT AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION 

AND DOCUMENTS 

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CONF. AGREEMENT/PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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Plaintiff Louis I. Braunstein and defendant International Business Machines Corporation 

(“IBM”), through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate as follows: 

1. The parties anticipate that in the course of discovery in this action, they will be asked to 

produce documents protected from disclosure under various principles of law, including but not limited 

to article I, section 1, of the California Constitution; the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Cal. Civ. 

Code § 3426 et seq., and related case law; and IBM’s right to confidentiality in its business affairs. 

2. To protect these legitimate privacy interests, the parties have agreed that the production 

and use of certain documents and information in this action will be subject to the following terms and 

conditions. 

3. Any party involved in this action, or counsel for such party, may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” any document, testimony, information or material disclosed, or to be disclosed by 

that party, through formal or informal discovery or otherwise in the course of this litigation in the 

manner hereinafter set forth. Counsel are permitted to designate as "CONFIDENTIAL" only those 

documents as to which counsel entertains a good faith belief that such document is entitled to 

confidentiality. Such designation shall, without more, subject the information produced or provided 

under said designation to the provisions of this Protective Order. 

4. Any writing, document, or other information produced by any party or person in this 

litigation may be designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” by stamping the word “CONFIDENTIAL” on the 

face of the writing, document or other information by the producing party. 

5. Any party to this litigation, or counsel for such party, may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” its responses to interrogatories or to requests for admission by labeling each 

response “CONFIDENTIAL.” Any inadvertently omitted “CONFIDENTIAL” designation may be 

corrected by written notification to counsel of record for the other party(ies) so long as the correction is 

made promptly after discovery of the omission. 

6. Unless both parties stipulate otherwise in writing or on the record at deposition, all 

deposition testimony will hereby be deemed confidential and subject to this Order. Depositions 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” are to be marked as such by the court reporter and are also to bear 

substantially the following designation: “This deposition was taken subject to the Protective Order of 

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the Court. This deposition shall remain confidential and shall be treated according to the requirements 

of the Court’s Order.” Whenever any writing designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” is identified as an 

exhibit in connection with testimony given in this litigation, it shall be so marked and it shall be subject 

to all of the requirements of the Court’s Order. 

7. “CONFIDENTIAL” material includes all material designated “CONFIDENTIAL” 

pursuant to the terms of this Order, as well as summaries and compilations derived from such materials, 

including but not limited to charts, tables, graphs and models. 

8. Except upon prior written consent of the party or counsel for the party asserting 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or upon further order of this Court, documents, testimony, information or material 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be held in strictest confidence, shall be kept securely, and shall 

be used solely for the purpose of prosecution or defense of this litigation and not for any business or 

other purpose whatsoever. Documents, testimony, information or material designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” shall be disclosed only to those persons identified in ¶ 9 below. No party including 

any individuals mentioned in ¶ 9(a) shall, for itself or any other person or persons acting on its behalf, 

make more copies of any “CONFIDENTIAL” information or material than are reasonably necessary to 

conduct this litigation. 

9. Access to “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, testimony, information or materials, as well as 

written or oral summaries or accounts thereof, shall be limited to: 

a. Counsel for the respective parties (including in-house counsel and co-counsel) 

and employees or other clerical assistants of said counsel who are assisting in the prosecution or defense 

of this litigation, including the following copy service: Williams Lea; provided, however, that counsel 

using an outside copy service is responsible for ensuring that the service does not violate the terms of 

this Protective Order; 

b. Experts and consultants (including independent experts and consultants and 

employees or clerical assistants of said experts) who are employed, retained or otherwise consulted by 

counsel or a party for the purpose of analyzing data, conducting studies or providing opinions to assist in 

such litigation; 

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c. Officers, Directors, or employees of any of the Parties to this lawsuit who are 

assisting counsel in the prosecution or defense of this lawsuit; 

d. Parties to the litigation; 

e. The Court and officers of the Court; and 

f. Any other individual or entity as to whom counsel for the producing party and 

counsel for the party seeking to disclose the documents(s) identified above agree in writing. 

10. Documents, testimony, information or materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL” shall not be 

disclosed by any party to an expert or consultant, unless and until such person has signed and returned to 

counsel for that party the written acknowledgment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. The party 

disclosing any "CONFIDENTIAL" material pursuant to this paragraph shall be required to maintain 

such written acknowledgments, but shall not be required to disclose the identities of persons having 

reviewed the "CONFIDENTIAL" material. 

11. 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 

order is entered to the contrary, the documents, testimony, information or material shall be given the 

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

12. Whenever any writing, testimony, information or material designated as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" is used or submitted to the court in conjunction with any filing or proceeding in this 

litigation, it shall be so marked and shall be filed separately pursuant to Local Rule 79-5. 

13. Upon termination of this litigation, all originals and copies of “CONFIDENTIAL” 

documents, testimony, information or material (and all summaries thereof) shall be returned to counsel 

for the producing party without a written request unless otherwise ordered by the Court for good cause 

shown. 

14. The foregoing is without prejudice to the right of any party to apply to the Court for (a) a 

further protective order relating to any writing whether or not it is identified above; (b) an order 

amending or modifying this Protective Order; (c) an order protecting against other discovery, or other 

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use of the documents identified above; or (d) an order permitting further production, discovery, 

disclosure or use of any documents, including those identified above. 

15. Nothing in this Protective Order shall be deemed to be a waiver of (a) any party’s right to 

object to any discovery requests on any ground; (b) any party’s right to seek an order compelling 

discovery with respect to any discovery requests; (c) any party’s right to object to the admission of any 

evidence on any grounds in any proceeding herein. 

16. In the event the Court does not approve this Protective Order, the parties agree to enter 

into a revised Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement and [Proposed] Protective Order consistent with the 

purpose of this Protective Order, subject to any modifications required by the Court or by applicable 

law, and to remain bound by the terms of this Stipulation pending approval by the Court of the revised 

Protective Order. Once approved by the Court, this (or the revised) Protective Order shall remain in full 

force and effect until modified, superseded or terminated by further order of this Court, and shall survive 

the termination of this lawsuit. 

17. All persons who are granted access to “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, including any 

party to this action, their attorneys, or others who acknowledge their consent to be bound by this 

protective order but fail to comply with its provisions may be held in contempt for violation of this 

Court’s order. 

Dated: January ___, 2006. MARK E. ELLIS 

ROBERT W. LUCAS 

MURPHY, PEARSON, BRADLEY & FEENEY 

PAUL NICHOLAS BOYLAN 

By: /s/ 

Robert W. Lucas 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Louis I. Braunstein 

Dated: January ___, 2006. JEFFREY D. WOHL 

DANIEL E. WALDMAN 

PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLP 

By: _/s/_________________________________________ 

Jeffrey D. Wohl 

Attorneys for Defendant 

International Business Machines Corporation 

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ORDER 

On the stipulation of the parties, and for good cause shown, 

IT IS ORDERED that the parties’ stipulation is adopted as the order of the Court.

Dated: __________________, 2005 

________________________________________________ 

Susan Ilston 

United States District Judge 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

GRANTED

Judge Susan Illston

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EXHIBIT A 

I have read the Protective Order (“Order”) entered by the Court on ________________ in Louis 

I. Braunstein v. International Business Machines Corporation, U.S.D.C., N.D. Cal., No. 05-03698-SI. I 

understand the responsibilities and obligations the Order imposes on persons viewing the material 

encompassed by the Order. I agree to be bound by all of the provisions of the Order, so as to enable me 

to view the material encompassed by the Order. 

Dated: ____________________________ 

By: ______________________________ 

Signature 

By: ______________________________ 

 Printed Name 

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