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

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CASE NO. 2:06-cv-02694-WBS-DAD 

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WILLIAM L. STERN (BAR NO. 96105) 

wstern@mofo.com 

JAMES R. McGUIRE (BAR NO. 189275) 

jmcguire@mofo.com 

ELIZABETH O. GILL (BAR NO. 218311) 

egill@mofo.com 

SARAH E. GRISWOLD (BAR NO. 240326) 

sgriswold@mofo.com 

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

425 Market Street 

San Francisco, California 94105-2482 

Telephone: 415.268.7000 

Attorneys for Defendant 

USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JANE MARIE FILITI, Individually and on Behalf 

of All Others Similarly Situated, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, 

a Foreign Corporation, and DOES 1-50, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:06-cv-02694-WBS-DAD 

REVISED STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

The Honorable William B. Shubb 

Complaint filed: November 27, 2006 

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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. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

1. DEFINITIONS 

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

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

1.2 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. 

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

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed 

under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

1.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or non-party 

would create a substantial risk of injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

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

Producing Party. 

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

Material in this action. 

1.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

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

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

to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

1.11 Counsel: Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their support staffs). 

1.12 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. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

1.13 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. 

2. 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. 

3. DURATION 

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. 

4. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

4.1 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, 

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” to each 

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page that contains protected material. 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. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition 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. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when 

it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or nonparty 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 20 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”). 

(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.” 

4.2 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. 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 

notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated 

in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

5.1 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 

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its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly 

after the original designation is disclosed. 

5.2 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 meeting 

and conferring with counsel for the Designating Party. 

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

designation may file and serve a motion (in compliance with General Local Rule 39-141, 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 requirement imposed in the preceding. 

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

6.1 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 8 below. 

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. 

6.2 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 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached 

hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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(c) Experts to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 

who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A), except PJ’s Auto Body, as provided in section 6.5 below. Pages of transcribed 

deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

6.3 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 designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

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

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

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

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in 

competitive decision-making involving auto body repair labor rates, (2) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

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

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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(e) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

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

6.4 No Disclosure of Protected Material to PJ’s Auto Body Shop. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party must not 

disclose Protected Material to PJ’s Auto Body Shop, or its officers, directors, employees, 

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

6.5 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 no more than three court days after receiving the subpoena 

or order. The Receiving Party also must 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 the subject of this Protective Order. 

6.6 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 “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 

7. 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 General Local Rule 39-141. 

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8. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to 

the Producing Party or confirm in a signed writing that it has destroyed all copies of the Protected 

Material. As used in this section, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. 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 identifies (by category, where appropriate) 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 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 3 above. 

9. RIGHT TO ASSERT OTHER OBJECTIONS 

By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order no Party waives any right it 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 of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: February 11, 2008 THE QUISENBERRY LAW FIRM 

By: /s/ Robert J. Drexler 

Robert J. Drexler 

Attorneys For Plaintiff 

JANE MARIE FILITI 

Dated: February 11, 2008 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

By: /s/ James R. McGuire 

James R. McGuire 

Attorneys for Defendant 

USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

I, James R. McGuire, am the ECF user whose ID and password are being used to file this 

Revised Stipulated Protective Order. I hereby attest that Robert J. Drexler has concurred in this 

filing. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 12, 2008. 

Ddad1/orders.civil/filiti2694.protectord

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, __________________________ [print or type full name], of _____________________ 

_____________ [print or type 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 Eastern District of California on _________ in the case of JANE MARIE 

FILITI, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. USAA CASUALTY 

INSURANCE COMPANY, a Foreign Corporation, and DOES 1-50, 

No. 2:06-cv-02694-WBS-DAD. 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 subject to this Stipulated Protective 

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

Date: __________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: __________________________________ 

Printed Name: __________________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

 [signature] 

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