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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Case No. 1:05-CV-01104-OWW-LJO 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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Bingham McCutchen LLP 

JASON A. YURASEK (SBN 202131) 

DANIEL A. FELDSTEIN (SBN 209364) 

ABIGAIL RAMSDEN (SBN 239544) 

HODDY POTTER (SBN 238507) 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 393-2286 

Attorneys for Plaintiff BRENDA ALLEN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FRESNO DIVISION 

BRENDA ALLEN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

JEANNE WOODFORD, et al., 

Defendants. 

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ALL PARTIES HEREBY RECOGNIZE AND AGREE that following the 

hearing on Motion for Protective Order on July 7, 2006 before the Honorable Dennis L. Beck, 

the Court ordered that the following procedures shall govern the use and/or disclosure of 

confidential medical records: 

1. Any and all hospital and medical records obtained or disclosed in 

connection with the above-entitled litigation shall be designated “Confidential” prior to 

disclosure and shall be subject to this Protective Order (referred to hereafter as “Confidential 

Records”). The protections conferred by this Protective Order encompass any information 

copied or extracted from Confidential Records, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations thereof, including testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel 

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in any setting, including depositions, that might reveal information contained in any Confidential 

Records. 

2. Before any party produces Confidential Records pursuant to a valid 

discovery request or subpoena, the responding party shall conditionally produce for inspection 

("Conditional Production") a copy of the proposed production to all attorneys in this action for a 

conditional inspection. If any party contends that redaction is necessary or a portion of the 

Conditional Production should not be produced, that party must notify all other parties within 

fifteen (15) days of receipt of the Conditional Production. If there is no such notification, 

production of all records may proceed. In the event of such notification, Counsel shall meet and 

confer in good faith to resolve any disputes regarding the appropriateness of production or 

redactions of particularly sensitive and/or unrelated medical conditions, diagnosis, or treatments. 

If the parties cannot agree on the appropriateness for production or redaction of any particular 

document or portion thereof, the party whose right to privacy is asserted may file a Motion For a 

Supplemental Protective Order barring production of the disputed Confidential Records. Such a 

motion shall be filed within five (5) business days of the meet and confer session related to the

Conditional Production and disputed Confidential Records shall not be produced until the Court 

has decided the motion, but Confidential Records not in dispute may be produced. If no such 

motion is filed within five (5) business days of the meet and confer session related to the 

Conditional Production, any disputed Confidential Records may be produced pursuant to the 

terms of this Protective Order. 

3. Without waiving any objections regarding the admissibility of 

Confidential Records at trial or otherwise in this litigation, Confidential Records shall be treated 

as confidential and shall not be used for any purpose other than the prosecution or defense of this 

litigation, including discovery and pre-trial matters, trial, and any appeal taken herein. 

Confidential Records shall not be used party for any other purposes unless agreed to in writing 

by all parties to this Protective Order, except as required by a valid discovery request or as 

required by a lawful subpoena or as authorized by further order of the Court. 

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4. If any party receives a subpoena or order issued in conjunction with other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any Confidential Records, the subpoenaed party must 

notify all other parties in writing immediately. Such notice may be made by written notice to 

each party’s attorney of record herein and shall provide each party an opportunity to object to the 

disclosure. It is the obligation of the party receiving such notice to take action to protect his or 

her confidentiality interests. 

5. Confidential Records may be disclosed for purposes of this litigation to 

the parties, insurers, attorneys, experts and consultants, and their employees and agents, 

deponents during deposition, deposition notaries and staff, the Court and Court staff, and such 

other persons as may be designated by written stipulation or further order of the Court. 

6. Before the parties or their attorneys disclose Confidential Records to any 

person(s) identified in Paragraph 5 above (excluding the parties to this case and their attorneys 

and staff, the Court, and the Court’s staff), they must: (i) inform the person receiving such 

Confidential Records of its confidential nature and his or her duty to maintain that 

confidentiality; (ii) obtain his or her oral agreement to abide by the terms of this Protective 

Order; and (iii) inform him or her that disclosure of records or information in violation of the 

Protective Order is punishable by the Court. 

7. All Confidential Records of any party or third party filed with the Court 

for any purpose, other than at trial, shall be filed under seal according to the provisions of Local 

Rule 39-141(c). The party whose right to privacy is protected by a “Confidential” designation 

reserves the right to de-designate specific records, or portions thereof, at any time. Specific 

records that are de-designated will be produced, or remain in the production, but their use will 

not be subject to the terms of this Protective Order. 

8. With the exception of a named party’s medical condition placed at issue in 

this litigation, any reference to, description and/or summary of the information contained in 

Confidential Records made in pleadings or other documents filed with the Court, except for use 

at trial, shall be made in general terms and shall not specifically identify or specifically discuss in 

any way past or present medical conditions, treatment, history or diagnosis. 

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9. Any Confidential Records may be used by any party at the trial of this 

action, or in connection with any motion, pleading or hearing in this action, subject to the rules 

of evidence and the requirements of this Order, or such other Order as the Court may enter. No 

document introduced into evidence at the trial of this matter shall bear the designation 

“Confidential” unless so stipulated by the parties or ordered by the Court. 

Within ninety (90) days after the final disposition of this action, all copies of Confidential 

Records shall be destroyed by the party in possession; provided, however, that health care 

provider parties shall continuously retain possession of his/her/its original documents, and that 

counsel shall be entitled to preserve a litigation file in this matter, including Confidential 

Records. Any Confidential Records so retained remain subject to the terms of this Protective 

Order, except that counsel shall be entitled to use such Confidential Records in response to or 

defense of any administrative inquiry or proceeding arising from the above-entitled litigation. 

DATED: August 1, 2006 

BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

By: /s/ 

JASON A. YURASEK 

DANIEL A. FELDSTEIN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Brenda Allen 

DATED: August ___, 2006 

BILL LOCKYER 

Attorney General of the State of California 

By: /s/ 

THOMAS MCCRACKIN 

JOHN FESER 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Jeanne Woodford, Richard Rimmer, 

Rosanne Campbell, Gwendolyn Mitchell, 

Sampath Suryadevara, M.D. and 

Juan Jose Tur, M.D. 

DATED: August ___, 2006 

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MCCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD, 

WAYTE & CARRUTH 

By: /s/ 

MARIO L. BELTRAMO, JR. 

DANIEL WAINWRIGHT 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Madera Community Hospital 

DATED: August ___, 2006 

BAKER, MANOCK & JENSEN 

By: /s/ 

SUZANNE D. MCGUIRE 

SHERRIE M. FLYNN 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Muhammed Anwar, M.D. 

ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the terms and conditions of the above Stipulated 

Protective Order are hereby ordered. 

DATED: January 22, 2007 

By: /s/ Dennis L. Beck

Dennis L. Beck 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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