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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Breach of Contract

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AMENDED STIPULATION & ORDER FOR THE PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: CIV 

F045930 REC DLB 

MARTIN H. MYERS (Bar No. 130218) 

DAVID M. CHAIKEN (Bar No. 230619) 

NATHANIEL R. SPENCER-MORK (Bar No. 226886) 

HELLER EHRMAN LLP

333 Bush Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104-2878 

Telephone: (415) 772-6000 

Facsimile: (415) 772-6268 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS and 

FOSTER DAIRY FARMS 

JAMES P. WAGONER (Bar No. 058553) 

ANTHONY L. OSBORN (Bar No. 216611) 

McCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD, 

WAYTE & CARRUTH LLP

5 River Park Place East 

Fresno, CA 93720-1501 

Telephone: (559) 433-1300 

Facsimile: (559) 433-2300 

Attorneys for Defendants 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY and AIG TECHNICAL SERVICES 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, a California 

Corporation, and FOSTER DAIRY FARMS, a 

California Corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY, an Alaska 

Corporation, and AIG TECHNICAL 

SERVICES, a Delaware Corporation, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 1: 04 CV 5930 REC DLB 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND 

ORDER FOR THE PROTECTION 

OF CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

Trial Date: May 9, 2006 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

The Honorable Dennis L. Beck 

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Pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the parties hereby 

stipulate to the following to facilitate discovery and protect the confidentiality of and rights 

to information and documents disclosed in connection with this litigation: 

1. Applicability of This Protective Order. All information, things, and 

documents filed with the Court or produced by any party or non-party in discovery or made 

available for inspection by any party or non-party in this action shall be governed by this 

Protective Order. 

2. Use of Information Produced Pursuant to This Order. Information and 

material produced or exchanged in discovery or otherwise made available for inspection and 

copying in this case and designated by a party or non-party as “Confidential” pursuant to 

the terms of this Protective Order (hereafter, “Confidential Material”) shall not be made 

available to any person or entity except as authorized under this Protective Order. 

Confidential Material shall be used by the party or parties to whom the information is 

produced solely for the purpose of litigating this case. Such information and material shall 

not be used or disclosed to any other person or entity for any other use or purpose, unless 

otherwise agreed in writing by the Designating Party or so ordered by a court. For purposes 

of this Protective Order, the party or non-party designating information or material as 

Confidential Material is defined as the “Designating Party.” Nothing contained in this 

Protective Order shall affect the right of a Designating Party to disclose or use its own 

Confidential Material for any purpose. 

3. Inspection of Documents Pursuant to Initial Disclosures under Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 26(a). All documents and other materials made available by a party for inspection by an 

opposing party pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(a) shall be deemed to be Confidential 

Material subject to the provisions of this Protective Order. Inspection of such documents 

and/or materials prior to the marking of such documents and/or materials as Confidential 

shall not constitute a waiver of the right to designate such documents as Confidential 

Material pursuant to this Protective Order. 

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4. Confidential Information Designation. A party or non-party may designate 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” any document, material, item, deposition testimony or information 

that is filed with the Court or produced or made available in discovery in this action and is 

or contains information confidential to the Designating Party. In addition, any document, 

material, item, deposition testimony or information that is filed with the Court or produced 

in discovery in this action and that was marked or designated confidential pursuant to 

protective order and/or filed under seal in Parker et al. v. Foster Farms Dairy et al., No. 02 

CE CG 00815 (Fresno Co. Super. Ct. ) (the “Parker Action”) shall be treated as confidential 

by the parties and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” in this action in accordance with the 

procedures set forth in paragraph 5 below. 

5. Designating and Marking Confidential Material. Confidential Material shall 

be designated and marked as follows: 

 a. A document is to be designated as Confidential Material by 

stamping or writing on it the following legend: “CONFIDENTIAL.” This legend 

shall be placed on the first page of the document and on each page that the 

Designating Party claims to contain Confidential Material. If the first page or front 

cover of a document bears the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend, the parties shall treat the 

entire document as Confidential Material pursuant to this Protective Order. 

 b. Information or material produced in a magnetic medium (such 

as floppy diskette or tape) is to be designated as Confidential Material by marking or 

labeling the medium container with the legend specified in subsection 5(a) above. If 

any person or entity who receives such a designated magnetic medium prints or 

otherwise transfers to another medium any of the information contained on the 

magnetic medium, any resulting document or other medium shall be marked by that 

person or entity as Confidential Material in accordance with subsection 5(a) above or 

this subsection. 

 c. A physical exhibit is to be designated as Confidential Material 

by affixing to it a label with the legend specified in section 5(a) above. 

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 d. A discovery response is to be designated as Confidential 

Material pursuant to the procedure specified in subsection 5(a) above. 

 e. Portions or the entirety of a deposition transcript (including 

exhibits) are to be designated as Confidential Material (i) by making a statement to 

that effect on the record, during the deposition or (ii) by sending to all other parties, 

the court reporter for the deposition, and all other persons known to the Designating 

Party to have received a copy of the deposition transcript, within thirty days after 

counsel for the Designating Party receives the deposition transcript, a letter or other 

written notice designating the portions or entirety of the transcript as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” The letter or other notice shall cite this Protective Order and 

identify the pages and lines, and/or exhibits designated as Confidential Material. 

Each copy of the transcript and portions thereof so designated shall be marked by the 

person receiving the letter or other notice with the legend specified in subsection 5(a) 

above and shall be governed by the terms of this Protective Order. 

 If a deposition or portion thereof is designated on the record during the 

deposition as “CONFIDENTIAL,” the deposition shall continue in the absence of all 

persons to whom access to Confidential Material is not permitted under this 

Protective Order. The court reporter or videographer shall separately bind any 

portion of the transcript of the deposition or hearing that has been designated to 

contain Confidential Material. Copies of the separately bound portions of the 

transcript containing Confidential Material may be provided only to persons 

permitted by the other provisions of this Protective Order to receive such 

Confidential Material. When any such separately bound portion of the transcript is 

provided by the court reporter or videographer, it shall be provided in a separate, 

sealed envelope. 

6. Inadvertent Misdesignation. A Designating Party that inadvertently fails to 

mark an item as “CONFIDENTIAL” or marks an item with an incorrect designation of 

confidentiality at or near the time of production shall have thirty days after discovery of the 

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inadvertent failure or mistake to correct such failure or mistake. The correction shall be 

made in writing and shall be accompanied by substitute copies of each item, appropriately 

marked as Confidential Material. Within thirty days of receipt of the substitute copies, the 

receiving party shall return or destroy the previously unmarked, or incorrectly marked, 

items and all copies thereof. Likewise, where a receiving party or person discovers that 

another party or person seeks to produce or has produced documents containing material or 

information confidential to the receiving party or person, and yet such material or 

information has not been marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” the receiving party shall be entitled 

to invoke the procedure for inadvertent misdesignation set forth in this section. 

7. Disclosure of Confidential Materials. Information and material designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed only to the following persons unless the Designating 

Party first otherwise agrees in writing or the Court first otherwise orders: 

a. Counsel for the parties to this litigation, including necessary secretarial, 

clerical, and litigation support or copy service personnel assisting such counsel so 

long as such counsel and support personnel are apprised of and agree to be bound by 

the provisions of this Stipulation and Order; 

b. Consultants or expert witnesses performing services in connection with 

the prosecution or defense of this litigation provided that each such person is not an 

officer, director or employee of any party, and provided that each such person 

executes a copy of the Certification attached to this Order. Counsel disclosing 

Confidential Material to consultants or expert witnesses pursuant to this section shall 

provide a copy of each executed Certification to opposing counsel no later than the 

time at which expert information is exchanged by the parties; 

c. The Court, Court personnel and court reporters; 

d. Representatives of any named party to the litigation, provided that each 

representative understands and agrees to be bound by the terms of this Order; and 

e. Deposition witnesses, where at least one of the following conditions 

applies: 

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 i. The witness is an employee or former employee of the 

Designating Party when the disclosure is made; 

 ii. the attorney taking the deposition and showing the witness 

the Confidential Material represents the Designating Party; 

 iii. the witness’s name appears on the Confidential Material as a 

person who has previously seen or received the Confidential Material, or it is 

otherwise established that the witness has previously seen or received the 

Confidential Material or knows the information contained within it; 

 iv. the Designating Party has consented on the record of the 

deposition to the showing of the Confidential Material to the witness; or 

 v. the witness executes the Certification annexed to this Order 

before being shown the Confidential Material. 

8. Use of Confidential Material by Designating Party. Nothing in this 

Protective Order limits a party’s ability to show materials which that party has designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to whomever the Designating Party may deem appropriate. Further, 

nothing in this Protective Order limits a party’s ability to show materials designated by 

another party as “CONFIDENTIAL” to that Designating Party, including any present 

officer, director, employee, or representative thereof. 

9. Jurisdiction. Each person receiving Confidential Material under the terms of 

this Protective Order, including persons signing the Certification attached hereto, agrees to 

subject himself or herself to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of any proceedings 

relating to the performance under, compliance with, or asserted violation of this Protective 

Order. 

10. Protecting Confidential Materials. Each person who receives any 

Confidential Material shall exercise due and proper care, in connection with the storage, 

custody, use and dissemination of such material, to avoid any intentional or inadvertent 

disclosure to persons to whom disclosure is not permitted under this Protective Order. 

 

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11. Challenging Designation of Materials as Confidential. A party may 

challenge the designation of Confidential Material only as follows: 

 a. If a party believes that material designated by another party as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” has not properly been so designated or should be reclassified or 

revealed to an individual not otherwise authorized to have access to such material 

under the terms of this Protective Order, that party (defined as the “Challenging 

Party” for purposes of this section) shall provide to the Designating Party written 

notice of this disagreement. The parties shall then attempt in good faith to resolve 

such dispute informally. 

 b. If the parties cannot resolve their dispute informally, the 

Challenging Party may request appropriate relief from the Court. The Designating 

Party bears the burden to establish that the contested material is confidential and is 

entitled to the level of confidentiality selected by the Designating Party. The 

material involved shall be treated according to its original designation during the 

pendency of the challenge. 

12. Submitting Confidential Materials to the Court. 

a. Where a party or person seeks to submit documents to the Court which 

have been designated as Confidential Material by a party, or which quote or refer to 

the substance of any such materials designated as Confidential Material, the 

submitting party or person shall meet-and-confer with the Designating Party to 

determine whether such documents should be filed under seal. If the parties cannot 

agree on whether or which portions or pages of any such materials should be filed 

under seal, the submitting party or person shall file the materials under seal, and the 

burden of showing good cause for the filing of such materials under seal shall rest 

with the Designating Party. 

b. Documents to be filed under seal shall be marked pursuant to the 

procedure specified in subsection 5(a), above, and submitted to the Court in sealed 

envelopes attaching to the outside cover of the envelope(s) a copy of the first page of 

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the document contained therein or other cover page or title page indicating its 

contents. 

c. Where a party or person seeks to submit documents to the Court which 

have been designated as Confidential Material by the submitting party, the 

submitting party may, in its discretion, file such documents under seal. Where a 

submitting party declines to file under seal documents submitted to the Court 

containing its own Confidential Material, the submitted material will no longer 

qualify for protection as Confidential Material under this Protective Order, except as 

set forth in section 6 of this Protective Order. 

13. Information Protected by Privilege, Work Product or Other Doctrine. The 

production of any information governed by this Stipulation and Order shall be without 

prejudice to any claim by the producing party or non-party that any such information is 

privileged or work product within the meaning of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26, and no party or nonparty shall be held to have waived any such privilege or work-product rights by such 

production. If, after documents have been produced, a claim of privilege or work-product 

protection is made in writing to each party to which the documents were produced, each 

such receiving party shall take reasonable steps to ensure that all copies of those documents 

are returned promptly to the producing party. If data or information has been extracted or 

copied from a document that is thus subsequently returned, that information and/or data 

shall be expunged and not used. To the extent, however, that, before being notified of the 

inadvertent production, the receiving party has in good faith used such information and/or 

data in documents filed with the Court or at depositions, the receiving party shall have no 

obligation to expunge such information and/or data from, or otherwise to alter, any such 

document filed with the Court or the transcript of any such deposition. 

14. Conclusion of Litigation. All provisions of this Protective Order restricting 

the communication or use of Confidential Material shall continue to be binding after the 

conclusion of this action, unless otherwise agreed by all the parties or ordered by the Court. 

Upon conclusion of the litigation, including the running of any time to appeal or to move 

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for relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(B)(1)-(3), a party in possession of Confidential Material, 

other than that which is contained in pleadings, correspondence, and deposition transcripts, 

shall either (a) return such documents, no later than 30 days after conclusion of this action, 

to counsel for the party or non-party who provided such information, or, upon consent of 

the Designating Party, (b) destroy the documents within that time period and certify in 

writing within that time period that the documents have been destroyed. 

15. Use of Confidential Material During Court Proceedings. If any Confidential 

Material is used in any Court pretrial proceeding in this litigation (including, but not limited 

to, conferences, oral arguments, and hearings), the Confidential Material shall not lose its 

status as Confidential Material through such use. The parties shall take all steps reasonably 

necessary to protect the confidentiality of the Confidential Material during any such use, 

including, but not limited to, requesting in camera proceedings. The terms of this 

Protective Order do not preclude, limit, restrict or otherwise apply to the use of documents 

at trial. The parties agree to meet and confer in good faith prior to trial to establish 

procedures for the use of Confidential Material at trial. 

16. Improper Disclosure of Confidential Materials. If any Confidential Material 

is disclosed to any person to whom such disclosure is not authorized by this Protective 

Order, or other than in a manner authorized by this Protective Order, the party responsible 

for the disclosure shall, upon discovery of the disclosure, immediately notify the 

Designating Party in writing of all facts pertinent to the disclosure that, after due diligence 

and prompt investigation, are known to the party responsible for the disclosure (including 

the name, address, telephone number and employer of the person to whom the disclosure 

was made), shall immediately take all reasonable efforts to prevent further disclosure by 

each unauthorized person who received such information, and shall immediately require 

each unauthorized person to return all Confidential Material that was improperly disclosed 

to that person, all copies made of the improperly disclosed Confidential Material, and all 

documents containing excerpts from or references to the improperly disclosed Confidential 

Material. 

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17. No Admissions. Compliance with this Protective Order in no way constitutes 

an admission by any party that any information designated pursuant to this Protective Order 

is or is not proprietary, confidential, or a trade secret. 

18. Modification of Protective Order. Each party reserves the right to request 

that the Court modify the terms of this Protective Order in the event that the party believes 

that a modification is necessary. If such an application is made, all signatories of copies of 

the Certification, as well as persons described herein, shall remain bound by this Protective 

Order unless and until it is modified by the Court. 

SO STIPULATED: 

DATED: September 7, 2005 HELLER EHRMAN LLP

By /s/David M. Chaiken______________ 

DAVID M. CHAIKEN 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs FOSTER POULTRY 

FARMS and FOSTER DAIRY FARMS. 

DATED: September 7, 2005 McCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD, 

WAYTE & CARRUTH LLP

By /s/Anthony L. Osborn (authorized on 9/7/05)

ANTHONY L. OSBORN 

Attorneys for Defendants 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

SPECIALTY LINES INSURANCE 

COMPANY and AIG TECHNICAL 

SERVICES 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, a California 

Corporation, and FOSTER DAIRY FARMS, a 

California Corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY 

LINES INSURANCE COMPANY, an Alaska 

Corporation, and AIG TECHNICAL 

SERVICES, a Delaware Corporation, 

Defendants. 

Case No.: CIV F045930 REC DLB 

ORDER APPROVING AMENDED 

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR 

THE PROTECTION OF 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

Trial Date: May 9, 2006 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

The Honorable Dennis L. Beck 

Upon stipulation of the parties, the parties’ Amended Stipulation and Order for the 

Protection of Confidential Information is hereby APPROVED and ADOPTED as the 

Order of this Court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED, this 8th day of September, 2005. 

 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

 The Honorable Dennis L. Beck 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

 

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EXHIBIT 1 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FOSTER POULTRY FARMS, a California 

Corporation, and FOSTER DAIRY FARMS, a 

California Corporation, 

Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

SPECIALTY LINES INSURANCE 

COMPANY, an Alaska Corporation, and AIG 

TECHNICAL SERVICES, a Delaware 

Corporation, 

Defendants. 

Case No.: CIV F045930 REC DLB 

CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY 

AMENDED STIPULATION AND 

ORDER FOR THE PROTECTION 

OF CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

Trial Date: May 9, 2006 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

The Honorable Dennis L. Beck 

I hereby acknowledge that I have read the Amended Stipulation and Order for the 

Protection of Confidential Information in this case, understand its terms, agree to be bound 

by them, and consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court of the Eastern 

District of California to enforce them. I acknowledge that I will treat any Confidential 

Material I receive in this action strictly according to the terms of the Protective Order, and I 

understand that any unauthorized use of the Confidential Material I receive constitutes 

contempt of court. 

Dated: /s/ 

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