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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Fraud

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

CHRIS CHAVEZ, an individual, on behalf of 

himself, the general public and those 

similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

BLUE SKY NATURAL BEVERAGE CO. a 

foreign corporation; HANSEN BEVERAGE 

COMPANY, a foreign corporation; 

HANSEN NATURAL CORP., a foreign 

corporation; and DOES 1 THROUGH 10, 

inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO. C 06-06609 SC

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Honorable: Samuel Conti

Complaint Filed: September 21, 2006

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not 

confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under 

the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, 

as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement 

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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.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

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

2.2 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.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how 

generated,stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under 

standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

2.4 “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 serious injury that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 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.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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

are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staffs).

2.12 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 and who is not a past or a current employee 

of a Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated 

to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a 

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

2.13 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

Each Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order 

must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only 

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those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify - so 

that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which 

protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose 

(e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties), expose the Designating Party to 

sanctions.

If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that 

it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level 

of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties 

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), 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” at the top of 

each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a 

page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each 

portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

To the extent that documents are produced in electronic, rather than hard copy, 

format, the Designating Party may identify protected documents on the basis of the 

collection in which the material appears.

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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. During the 

inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall 

be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting 

Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must 

determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order, 

then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or 

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must 

clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) 

and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

(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, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 non-party 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 30 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”). Only those 

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 30 days 

shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately 

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bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed 

by the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

(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.” If only 

portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as 

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

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, 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 timely notification of the designation, must make 

reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of 

this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 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 its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to 

mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 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 conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are 

not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party 

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must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and 

must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to 

reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis 

for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the 

challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party 

may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local 

Rule 79-5, 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 requirements imposed in 

the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the 

confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer 

dialogue.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford 

the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing 

Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party shall not, directly or indirectly, use, 

disseminate, publish or otherwise impart Protected Material that is disclosed or produced by 

another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case except only as necessary 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 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

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 

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under this Order.

7.2 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);

(c) experts (as defined in this Order) 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);

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(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);

(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), provided that the Protected Material is first disclosed to 

counsel for the Disclosing Party, who will then be afforded the opportunity to seek a 

protective order, suspending the deposition if necessary, to prevent the disclosure or use of 

the Protected Material with the witness. 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 or recipient of the document as disclosed on the face 

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of the document.

7.3 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” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A), [Optional: and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in 

paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed];

(c) the Court and its personnel;

(d) 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

(e) the author or recipient of the document as disclosed on the face 

of the document.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by 

the Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) 

any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY” first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the 

specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to 

disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or 

her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the 

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Expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has 

received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has 

provided professional services at any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies 

(by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in 

connection with which the Expert has provided any professional services during the 

preceding five years.

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information 

specified in the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the 

identified Expert unless, within seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives 

a written objection from the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail 

the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and 

confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve 

the matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the 

disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in 

compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to 

do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail 

the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert isreasonably necessary, assess the risk of 

harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means that might be used 

to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by 

agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets forth 

the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert 

shall bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under 

the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected 

Material to its Expert.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

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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 (by fax, if possible) 

immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or 

order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately 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. In addition, the Receiving 

Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the 

other action that caused the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence

of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try 

to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. 

The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that 

court of its confidential material - and nothing in these provisions should be construed as 

authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from 

another court.

9. 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 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from the 

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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 Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. 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. As used in this subdivision, 

“all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other 

form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing 

from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected 

Material instead of returning it. 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) all 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 any of 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 4 (DURATION), above.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 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: _________________________ __________________________________

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: April 10, 2007 /s/ Alison L. Pivonka

Attorneys for Defendant

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _________________________ __________________________________

Samuel Conti

United States District/Magistrate Judge

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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 Northern District of California on [date] in the case of 

___________ [insert formal name of the case and the number and initials assigned to it by 

the court]. 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.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this 

action.

I hereby appoint __________________________[print or type full name] of print or 

type full address and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in 

connection with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

Date: ________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: __________________________

Printed name: _________________________

[printed name]

Signature: _____________________________

[signature]

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