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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. C 05-03473 EMC MED

Sara A. Simmons, Esq. (SB# 087029)

LAW OFFICES OF SARA A. SIMMONS, APC

221 Main Street, Sixteenth Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-1936

Telephone: (415) 344-0244

Facsimile: (415) 348-8720

E-mail: sara@simmlaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant

US Airways, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

 REBECCA HANNAHS,

Plaintiff,

v.

US AIRWAYS, INC.

Defendants.

 

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Case No. C 05-03473 EMC MED

 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

 

Complaint filed: August 26, 2005

Trial Date: January 8, 2007

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the following protective

order:

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties may designate any

document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom, “Confidential” under

the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter “order”). Confidential information is

information which has not been made public and which concerns or relates to (including but not

limited to) the processes, operations, type of work, or apparatus, or to the production, sales,

shipments, purchases, transfers, identification of customers, inventories, amount or source of any

income, profits, losses, or expenditures of any persons, firm, partnership, corporation, or other

organization, the disclosure of which information may have the effect of causing harm to the

competitive position of the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or to the organization from which

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the information was obtained.

By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived

therefrom as “confidential,” under the terms of this order, the party making the designation is

certifying to the court that there is good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation within

the meaning of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(g).

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping copies of the document

produced to a party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”

on the cover of any multipage document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential,

unless otherwise indicated by the producing party.

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial may be designated as

confidential by making a statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or other proceeding. 

Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to

separately bind such portions of the transcript containing information designated as confidential, and

to label such portions appropriately.

4. Material designated as confidential under this order, the information contained therein,

and any summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from material

designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall be used only for the purpose of

the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose.

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order may be disclosed or made

available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial

staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated below:

(a) a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party deemed necessary by counsel to

aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

(b) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such counsel to

assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

(c) court reporter(s) employed in this action;

(d) a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action;

(e) appointed mediator, arbitrator, or other qualified Alternative Dispute Resolution

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provider (together with their clerical staff); and

(f) any other persons as to whom the parties in writing agree.

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each “qualified person” shall be provided with

a copy of this Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment A, a

copy of which shall be provided forthwith to counsel for each other party and for the parties.

6. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of qualified persons.

7. The parties may further designate certain discovery material or testimony of a highly

confidential and/or proprietary nature as ‘CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY”

(hereinafter “Attorney’s Eyes Only Material’), in the manner described in paragraphs 2 and 3 above. 

Attorney’s Eyes Only Material, and the information contained therein, shall be disclosed only to the

Court, to counsel for the parties (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by

such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” listed in subparagraphs 5(b) through (e) above, but

shall not be disclosed to a party, or to an officer, director or employee of a party, unless otherwise

agreed or ordered. If disclosure of Attorney’s Eyes Only Material is made pursuant to this

paragraph, all other provisions in this order with respect to confidentiality shall also apply.

8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by party of

material obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such material

is also obtained through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its own Confidential Material as

it deems appropriate.

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript designated as

Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only, is to be included in any papers to be filed in Court, such

papers shall be labeled “Confidential-Subject to Court Order” and shall be submitted to the Court

pursuant to Local Rule 79-5 (b), or in the alternative, shall be not be lodged with the Court only in

connection with and subject to a motion pursuant to Local Rule 79-5 (d), requesting the Court to

issue an order that authorizes the sealing of the particular document or portion thereof. 

10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in an court proceeding in this

action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use.

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (i) to bring before the

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Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or information is confidential or

whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to the Court under FRCP 26(c) for a

separate protective order as to any particular document or information, including restrictions

differing from those as specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to prejudice the parties in

any way in any future application for modification of this Order.

12. This order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of documents

and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court unnecessarily in the

process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information or document under the terms

of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be deemed to have the effect of an

admission or waiver by either party or of altering the confidentiality or non-confidentiality of any

such document or information or altering any existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof.

13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the

information contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the public, and

the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information disclosed

hereunder. 

14. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and return to

each other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated as confidential and all

copies of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof.

Date: January 30, 2006 STERNS & WALKER

By: /s/ 

Brenda D. Posada

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Rebecca Hannahs

Date: February 1, 2006 LAW OFFICES OF SARA A. SIMMONS, APC

By: /s/ 

Sara A. Simmons

Attorneys for Defendant

US Airways, Inc.

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APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

Dated: 

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THE HONORABLE EDWARD M. CHEN

United States District Court Judge

February 3, 2006 Magistrate Judge

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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