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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. 305-cv-03484

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Gregory Alan Rutchik, Esq. (SBN: 195423)

Joshua S Levenberg, Esq. (SBN: 203504)

LINER YANKELEVITZ SUNSHINE & 

REGENSTREIFF LLP

199 Fremont Street, 20th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counter-defendants

TONIC WEAR, INC. and KIRK THORNBY

Julia Molander, Esq. (SBN: 83839)

Laura Goodman, Esq. (SBN: 142689)

SEDGWICK, DETERT MORAN & ARNOLD LLP

One Market Plaza

Steuart Tower, 8th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105

Attorneys for Defendant and Counter-complainant

RLI Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TONIC WEAR, INC., a California corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

RLI INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois 

corporation, ,

Defendant.

AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIMS.

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STIPULATED AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may involve the production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private business information for which special protection from 

public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting or defending this action 

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would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter 

the following Stipulated Protective Order (the “Order”). The parties acknowledge that this Order 

does not confer blanket protection to any material and that the protection afforded extends only 

to the limited material properly designated as confidential under applicable legal principles. 

The parties further acknowledge that this Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

information under seal. Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed 

and reflects the standards that will be applied when a Party seeks permission from the Court to 

file material under seal.

TERMS OF PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. As hereinafter used, the term “CONFIDENTIAL” refers to any information that is 

proprietary, trade secret or confidential business information and that is designated by a party as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” Material designated for protection shall be designated so as to make it clear 

what is being designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” The term “CONFIDENTIAL” shall not 

include any information that is or becomes public knowledge, was disclosed by a third-party, or 

was obtained independent of this action. Nothing in this Order precludes the parties from 

disclosing “CONFIDENTIAL” information to the Court in compliance with the terms of this 

Order.

2. All materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” and any copies of any document that 

has been designated as CONFIDENTIAL as specified herein, any excerpt, quotation, paraphrase, 

summary, or other description thereof that conveys the contents thereof, may be used by the 

receiving party only for the purposes of this action, and are subject to the terms of this Order.

3. A party may designate material as “CONFIDENTIAL” only when the designating 

party contends, in good faith, that the material is proprietary, trade secret or confidential business 

information warranting protection under the law. The “CONFIDENTIAL” designation shall be 

made at or prior to the time of production or receipt of documents (or the giving of testimony or 

other information) or as soon thereafter as practicable, but in no event more than five (5) 

business days after production or receipt of “CONFIDENTIAL” material, and shall clearly 

appear on the material, or portion thereof, designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Upon receipt of a 

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deposition transcript, the party representing the deponent has five (5) business days to provide

written notice to the party that took the deposition of any alterations relating to prior designation 

of any portion of the deposition transcript as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Any notice of a change in 

designation of a portion of a deposition transcript previously marked as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

must be accompanied by a disclosure of the exact pages and lines that are to be designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” Any party has the right to object to any “CONFIDENTIAL” designation 

as set forth in this Order

4. Responses to interrogatories, requests for admission, documents and videotapes 

are subject to this Order if prominently marked “CONFIDENTIAL.” In the case of responses to 

interrogatories and responses to requests for admissions, only the specific material that the 

disclosing party asserts is confidential shall be marked as such. In the case of deposition answers 

embodying confidential information, counsel for the party from whom confidential information 

is sought shall designate the confidential portions of a witness's testimony by a statement on the 

record, either before the beginning of the confidential portion, at the end of the confidential 

portion, at the beginning of the deposition, or at the end of the deposition. As to any transcript 

containing testimony designated “CONFIDENTIAL”, the private certified shorthand reporter 

shall prominently indicate on the cover of the transcript that the transcript contains 

“CONFIDENTIAL” testimony. The shorthand reporter shall also create a separate page 

immediately before any portion of the deposition transcript designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

that reads “BEGINNING OF ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ TESTIMONY” and a separate page 

immediately after any portion of the deposition transcript designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” that 

reads “END OF ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ TESTIMONY,” such that all “CONFIDENTIAL” 

testimony appearing in the transcript is clearly identifiable in advance. To the extent possible, 

the shorthand reporter shall also clearly identify portions of the transcript that contain 

“CONFIDENTIAL” testimony in the table of contents of the transcript. With regard to 

videotape(s), CD(s) or DVD(s) of depositions in which any testimony therein is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”, the videographer shall clearly and prominently mark any tapes, CDs or 

DVDs that contain material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” by indicating that “THIS [TAPE, 

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CD or DVD] CONTAINS ‘CONFIDENTIAL’ TESTIMONY” and shall also indicate the 

location of such material on the media to the greatest extent possible, for example by labeling the 

tape, CD or DVD with the times at which “CONFIDENTIAL” testimony appears.

5. All “CONFIDENTIAL” material shall be retained by counsel and shall not be 

disclosed by counsel to anyone except to the following persons:

A. Current officers and former employees of the parties to whom it is 

necessary that the designated material be shown for purposes of this action. To the extent that 

either party intends to disclose CONFIDENTIAL material to a former employee, that party will 

provide advance notice to the designating party and will seek approval before disclosing 

“CONFIDENTIAL” material;

B. Attorneys of record, their partners and associates and other counsel 

employed in connection with this action;

C. Independent experts and/or consultants engaged by counsel to furnish 

technical or expert services or to give testimony with respect to the subject matter of this action;

D. Persons engaged by the parties’ attorneys to assist in this action, including 

any certified shorthand reporters, professional photocopy or microfilm services, secretaries, 

paralegals, law clerks, file clerks or other office personnel or temporary office personnel;

E. Any witness; and

F. Any judicial officer, discovery referee, arbitrator, mediator, court 

employee or juror assigned to work on this case in connection with this action.

6. Unless modified by written agreement of counsel or court order, only those 

persons authorized by this order to receive “CONFIDENTIAL” information and certified 

shorthand reporters and video operators may be present during portions of depositions designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” All persons given access by counsel to confidential information under 

Paragraph 6 (C) or (E), shall complete and sign a copy of the form agreement attached hereto as 

Exhibit “A.” Such restrictions, however, shall not apply to information which at or prior, to 

disclosure thereof in this action is or was public knowledge or was otherwise disclosed by a 

third-party, or which, after disclosure thereof, becomes public knowledge or is disclosed by a 

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third-party, or which was or becomes known to the receiving party from a source other than the 

disclosing party. This paragraph does not apply to the Court, its employees, or court reporters 

employed or contracted by the Court.

7. A party that seeks to file under seal any “CONFIDENTIAL” information must 

comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

8. Any party may challenge a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation by serving a written 

objection in good faith that the material is not properly designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

Within 5 court days of this objection, the party asserting confidentiality shall identify in writing 

the basis for the asserting confidentiality, which may include an applicable privilege, statute, law 

or any other justification or basis for its designation. If the designating party does not respond, 

the material will not be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL”, despite any marking on the material. If the 

parties cannot, despite a good faith meet and confer effort, resolve their differences concerning 

the protection to be afforded to the material, the designating party may bring a noticed motion 

before the Court requesting that the “CONFIDENTIAL” designation remain in place. If no such 

motion is made within 25 days of service of the original objection, the material will be deemed to 

not be “CONFIDENTIAL” despite any marking on the material. If such a motion is brought, the 

restrictions of this Order and the “CONFIDENTIAL” status of the material will remain in place 

until the Court decides the matter. 

9. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed a waiver of the right of any party to oppose 

production of any information or documents for any reason whatsoever.

10. Nothing contained herein shall restrict any party from introducing material 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” at trial; however, the designating party may seek a protective 

order prior to trial with respect to specific CONFIDENTIAL documents that may be marked as 

exhibits at trial. 

11. Should either party receive a subpoena or other legal process, or service requiring 

disclosure of another party’s “CONFIDENTIAL” material, the receiving party will immediately

notify the designating party in writing of said subpoena, legal process or service, in order to 

provide the designating party an opportunity to seek and secure a protective order or other 

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appropriate order or stipulation precluding the disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” material, and 

the party who has been requested to disclose such information will reasonably cooperate with the 

party seeking to preclude disclosure. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to prohibit any 

person subject to its terms from complying with lawful process or other legal obligations.

12. Within thirty (30) days after the final determination of this action (including all 

appeals), all persons subject to the terms hereof shall destroy all material designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” in addition to all copies thereof, and shall also destroy all other outlines, 

summaries, abstracts, compilations, memoranda and other documents, embodying or concerning 

“CONFIDENTIAL” information or materials, except that each party may retain one (1) copy of 

all “CONFIDENTIAL” materials, including all hearing exhibits, deposition exhibits, and papers 

submitted to the Court, solely for reference or use in case a dispute arises over the use of 

“CONFIDENTIAL” material that is subject to this Order or over compliance with a decision of 

the Court in this action. After thirty (30) days have passed, upon the written request of either 

party, the other party must provide written confirmation within five (5) business days that it has 

complied with the terms and obligations of this paragraph.

13. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to preclude any party from seeking, on an 

appropriate showing, additional protection with respect to the confidentiality of any information 

or documents.

14. Nothing in this Order shall limit any party in the use of its own documents or 

from disclosing its own CONFIDENTIAL documents and information, although any such use or 

disclosure not in compliance with the provisions of this Order will waive the protection provided 

by this Order.

15. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to preclude or limit in any way the use 

during the trial of this action of material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL”.

16. The provisions of this Order regarding the use of “CONFIDENTIAL” information 

shall survive the termination of this action, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties or ordered 

by the Court.

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17. This Order may only be amended by a written stipulation executed by counsel of 

record for each party, or by an Order of the Court.

18. This Order may be executed in two or more counterparts, including facsimile 

counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original and all of which shall constitute the 

Stipulation among the parties.

IT IS SO STIPULATED THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Date: November 8, 2006 LINER YANKELEVITZ

SUNSHINE & REGENSTREIF LLP

By: /S/

Gregory A. Rutchik

Joshua S Levenberg

Attorneys for Plaintiff TONIC WEAR, INC. 

and Counter-defendants TONIC WEAR, INC. 

and KIRK THORNBY

Date: November 8, 2006 SEDGWICK, DETERT, MORAN & ARNOLD LLP

By: _________/S/________________________

Laura L. Goodman

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant

RLI INSURANCE COMPANY

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ORDER

GOOD CAUSE appearing therefore, it is so ordered.

Dated: ________________

The Honorable Elizabeth LaPorte

Magistrate Judge

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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EXHIBIT A

1. The person who signs below acknowledges that he or she has read and 

understands this Stipulated Protective Order (“Order”) and agrees to be bound by the terms and 

conditions of this Order.

2. The person who signs below agrees not to disclose, and to use the documents or 

materials marked CONFIDENTIAL, and the information contained therein, solely for purposes 

of this action and in compliance with this Order, and acknowledges that the Court issuing this 

Order has personal jurisdiction of such matters and will enforce the terms and conditions of this 

Order.

Dated: ________________ _______________________________

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