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Nature of Suit Code: 350
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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13249-36853 JBS 584730.1 1 Case No. 1:08-cv-00856 OWW GSA

STIPULATION REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF BNSF SIGNAL ENGINEERING STANDARDS, STANDARD NO. SES 10.00, 

AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

B. CLYDE HUTCHINSON, State Bar No. 037526

bch@llcllp.com 

VINCENT CASTILLO, State Bar No. 209298 

vcastillo@llcllp.com 

JASON B. SHANE, State Bar No. 253908 

jshane@llcllp.com 

LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP 

Lake Merritt Plaza 

1999 Harrison Street, Suite 2600 

Oakland, CA 94612-3541 

Telephone: (510) 433-2600 

Facsimile: (510) 433-2699 

Attorneys for Defendants 

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER 

CORPORATION (erroneously sued herein as 

AMTRAK CALIFORNIA) and BNSF RAILWAY 

COMPANY (erroneously sued herein as 

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE 

RAILWAY) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – FRESNO DIVISION 

LUCIO CORRAL RODRIGUEZ, 

individually and as Successor in Interest to 

the decedents, MARICRUZ CORRAL, 

IVAN ALEXANDER CORRAL, and 

LUCIO ANTHONY CORRAL, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

COUNTY OF STANISLAUS; CITY OF 

MODESTO; CITY OF RIVERBANK; 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA; AMTRAK 

CALIFORNIA; BURLINGTON 

NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILWAY; and 

DOES 1 to 200, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 1:08-cv-00856 OWW GSA

[Consolidated with Case No. 1:08-cv-01496 OWW GSA]

STIPULATION REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIALITY OF BNSF SIGNAL 

ENGINEERING STANDARDS: 

CALCULATIONS FOR HIGHWAY GRADE 

CROSSING WARNING TIMES AND 

APPROACH LENGTHS (STANDARD NO. 

SES 10.00), AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 

GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; 

ORDER 

WHEREAS, at the May 6, 2010 deposition of Anthony Esparza in the above-entitled matter, 

Defendant BNSF Railway Company (“BNSF”) agreed to produce (1) BNSF Signal Engineering 

Standards, Calculations for Highway Grade Crossing Warning Times and Approach Lengths 

(Standard No. SES 10.00, and (2) Safetran Model 3000 GCP Application Guidelines (collectively 

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STIPULATION REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF BNSF SIGNAL ENGINEERING STANDARDS, STANDARD NO. SES 10.00, 

AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

referred to hereinafter as “Confidential Documents”); 

WHEREAS, the United States Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of 

Investigations have requested that BNSF take extra care to protect against the dissemination of 

information and documents concerning the design and operation of train-activated warning signals at 

railroad crossings; 

WHEREAS, in compliance with the United States Department of Homeland Security and 

Federal Bureau of Investigation’s request that that BNSF take extra care to protect against the 

dissemination of information and documents concerning the design and operation of train-activated 

warning signals at railroad crossings, BNSF wishes to maintain the confidentiality of the 

Confidential Documents; 

IT IS HEREBY stipulated by and between Plaintiffs Lucio Corral Rodriguez, Atilano 

Armenta Lopez, Brenda Figueroa Lopez, Jesus Villareal, Aida Lopez Verdugo, Roberto Lopez 

Valenzuela, Roberto Lopez, Rosario Verdugo, Araceli Armenta Lopez, and Julian Armenta 

Valenzuela, and Defendants Amtrak, BNSF Railway Company (“BNSF”), County of Stanislaus, 

City of Modesto, City of Riverbank, and State of California, Department of Transportation 

(collectively “Parties”), by and through their attorneys of records, as follows: 

1. The Confidential Documents shall not be used or shown, disseminated, copied, or in 

any way communicated, orally, in writing, or otherwise, by the Parties, their counsel, or any of their 

representatives, agents, expert witnesses, or consultants, to anyone for any purpose whatsoever, other 

than as required by the Parties and their counsel in connection with the instant litigation. Access to 

the Confidential Documents shall be limited to those persons designated as “Qualified Persons” in 

paragraph 2 below. 

2. The Confidential Documents may be disclosed only to the following persons 

(“Qualified Persons”): 

A. Counsel of record for the Parties and employees and agents of such counsel 

who are assisting such counsel in the conduct of the instant litigation; 

B. Experts and consultants retained by the Parties whose assistance is necessary 

for the conduct of this litigation; provided, however, that, (i) before disclosing the 

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Confidential Documents to any such expert or consultant, counsel of record for the party 

intending to make that disclosure shall obtain from the expert or consultant a written 

statement, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, signed by the expert or consultant, 

stating that no disclosure of the Confidential Documents shall be made to any person who 

has not provided such a signed statement, which statement shall be retained by counsel of 

record for the party making the disclosure to the expert or consultant. 

C. Any person expressly named and agreed to in writing by the Parties. 

3. Before being given access to the Confidential Documents, each Qualified Person 

(other than counsel of record, and the officers, directors, employees, and agents of the party that 

produced the Confidential Documents) shall be advised of the terms of this Stipulation, shall be 

given a copy of this Stipulation, and shall agree in writing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, 

to be bound by the terms of this Stipulation and to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California—Fresno Division, for the purposes of any 

proceeding relating to the performance under, compliance with, or violation of this Stipulation. 

Counsel for each party shall maintain a list of all Qualified Persons to whom they or their client have 

provided the Confidential Documents, and that list shall be available for in camera inspection by the 

United States District Court for the Eastern District of California—Fresno Division. In addition, 

each of the Parties and their attorneys expressly stipulates to be subject to the personal jurisdiction of 

the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California—Fresno Division for purposes 

of any proceeding brought by a party to this action to enforce this Stipulation. 

4. Except to the extent otherwise permitted by this Stipulation, every Qualified Person 

provided copies of or access to the Confidential Documents pursuant to this Stipulation shall keep all 

such materials and information, and any copies, notes, extracts, summaries, or descriptions of such 

material, within their exclusive possession and control, shall treat all such copies, notes, extracts, 

summaries, or descriptions of the Confidential Documents or any portion thereof as Confidential, 

shall take all necessary and prudent measures to maintain the confidentiality of all such materials or 

information, and shall not disseminate the Confidential Documents. 

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AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

5. If any counsel of record distributes copies of the Confidential Documents to one or 

more Qualified Persons, all such copies, notes, extracts, summaries, or descriptions of the 

Confidential Documents shall be returned to that counsel of record at the completion of the Qualified 

Person’s consultation or representation in this case. Counsel of record shall, upon request by 

opposing counsel or the Court, execute a declaration stating that to the best of counsel’s knowledge 

the Confidential Documents, and all copies, notes, extracts, summaries, or descriptions of the 

Confidential Documents have been returned as required. If a Qualified Person destroys such 

material, rather than returning it to that counsel of record, the Qualified Person shall promptly 

provide to that counsel of record a declaration stating that the Confidential Documents, and all 

copies, notes, extracts, summaries, or descriptions of the Confidential Documents, have been 

destroyed. That counsel of record shall, upon request by opposing counsel or the Court, provide to 

opposing counsel (a) an affidavit stating that the Confidential Documents, and all copies, notes, 

extracts, summaries, or descriptions of any such material, have, to the best of that counsel of record’s 

knowledge, been returned as required, and (b) all declarations of Qualified Persons who provided 

that counsel of record with declarations pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph. 

6. All documents which may be filed with the Court which relate to the Confidential 

Documents or portions thereof shall be filed under seal, in a sealed manila envelope and that the 

envelope must have on its back (on the unsealed side) the warning: “CONFIDENTIAL: SUBJECT 

TO STIPULATION,” the case number and caption, and the title(s) of the paper(s) enclosed; and in 

parenthesis beneath the title(s) of the paper(s) as they appear on the envelope, there must be a 

reference to the confidentiality Stipulation, by file date and title [as, for example, (FILED UNDER 

SEAL PURSUANT TO STIPULATION DATED JANUARY 1, 2010)], under which the papers are 

submitted. These papers must then be maintained in the Court’s regular public file but in their sealed 

envelopes. If the papers are exhibits to a motion or other paper, the manila envelope, with the stated 

identifying features, must not be attached to the principal paper, but there must be reference made in 

the motion, memorandum of points and authorities, or declaration, as appropriate, to the confidential 

materials filed under seal. 

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AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

7. No electronic copies of the Confidential Documents shall be made by the Parties, 

with the exception of Amtrak and BNSF, for any purpose. 

8. Promptly after the instant litigation is completed, all materials containing the 

Confidential Documents shall be returned to counsel for Amtrak. If material containing the 

Confidential Documents is destroyed, rather than returned, counsel of record shall promptly provide 

to opposing counsel of record written confirmation that all materials containing the Confidential 

Documents have been destroyed. 

9. After this litigation is completed, the provisions of this Stipulation shall continue to 

be binding. The terms of this Stipulation constitute, and shall be deemed to be, an enforceable 

agreement between the Parties (and their agents and attorneys, to the extent permitted by the Rules of 

Professional Conduct in this jurisdiction), and the terms of this Stipulation may be enforced by 

specific performance in any court of competent jurisdiction. 

10. This Stipulation shall be binding on the Parties, their attorneys, and the Parties’ and 

their attorneys’ successors, executors, personal representatives, administrators, heirs, legal 

representatives, assigns, subsidiaries, divisions, employees, agents, independent contractors, and 

other persons or organizations over whom or which the Parties have control. 

11. This Stipulation does not constitute a waiver of any party’s right to object to 

discovery on any ground, including the ground that information sought contains confidential 

information. 

12. By producing the Confidential Documents for review and inspection, the Parties do 

not waive any evidentiary objections such as to relevance for summary judgment or other purposes 

or to the admissibility at trial of the Confidential Documents. 

13. By stipulating herein, no party waives any right it may have to withhold or redact 

information protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or other applicable privilege, 

the work-product doctrine, or any other protection, law, or regulation, or to seek appropriate 

protective Stipulations respecting documents asserted to be subject to any such privilege, doctrine, 

protection, law or regulation. 

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AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

14. The Stipulation shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties, or any one of 

them, or of any non-party, to assert or apply for additional or different protection or relief from this 

Stipulation and Order. 

15. This Stipulation shall not be construed as an admission or agreement that the 

Confidential Documents, in fact, is confidential or contains proprietary information or otherwise is 

entitled to any protective relief whatsoever. 

16. This Stipulation does not apply to and shall have no effect upon evidence offered at 

trial. 

17. Nothing in this Stipulation shall limit any party’s right to disclose to any person, or 

use for any purpose, its own information and documents. 

Dated: June 8, 2010 CARCIONE, CATTERMOLE, ET AL. 

By: /s/ Aaron B. Markowitz 

JOSEPH W. CARCIONE 

AARON B. MARKOWITZ 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

LUCIO CORRAL RODRIGUEZ, 

individually and as Successor-in-Interest to 

the decedents MARICRUZ CORRAL, 

IVAN ALEXANDER CORRAL, and 

LUCIO ANTHONY CORRAL 

Dated: June 17, 2010 MORENO, BECERRA & CASILLAS 

By: /s/ Danilo Becerra 

DANILO BECERRA 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

ATILANO ARMENTA LOPEZ, 

BRENDA FIGUEROA LOPEZ, JESUS 

VILLAREAL, AIDA LOPEZ VERDUGO, 

ROBERTO LOPEZ VALENZUELA, 

ROBERTO LOPEZ, ROSARIO 

VERDUGO, ARACELI ARMENTA 

LOPEZ, and JULIAN ARMENTA 

VALENZUELA 

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Dated: May 26, 2010 LOMBARDI, LOPER & CONANT, LLP 

By: /s/ Jason B. Shane 

B. CLYDE HUTCHINSON 

VINCENT CASTILLO 

JASON B. SHANE 

Attorneys for Defendants 

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER 

CORPORATION and 

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY 

Dated: June 17, 2010 

By: /s/ Dan Farrar 

DAN FARRAR 

Attorneys for Defendant 

COUNTY OF STANISLAUS 

Dated: May 28, 2010 

By: /s/ Richard Evans 

RICHARD EVANS 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY OF MODESTO 

Dated: May 26, 2010 BORTON PETRINI, LLP 

By: /s/ Cornelius J. Callahan 

CORNELIUS J. CALLAHAN 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CITY OF RIVERBANK 

Dated: May 26, 2010 

By: /s/ Jason B. Shane (for DLJ) 

DOUGLAS L. JOHNSON 

Attorneys for Defendant 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

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STIPULATION REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF BNSF SIGNAL ENGINEERING STANDARDS, STANDARD NO. SES 10.00, 

AND SAFETRAN MODEL 3000 GCP APPLICATION GUIDELINES; ORDER 

The Stipulation Regarding Confidentiality of BNSF Signal Engineering Standards filed 

June 17, 2010 (Doc. 153) is ADOPTED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 18, 2010 

 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

HONORABLE GARY S. AUSTIN 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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