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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Breach of Contract

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& Epstein LLP

200 Pringle Ave. 

Suite 410 

Walnut Creek 

CA 94596 

Tel: 925.939.9880 

Fax: 925.939.9915 

THOMAS E. ALBORG (SBN 056425) 

MARK D. EPSTEIN (SBN 168221) 

ALBORG, VEILUVA & EPSTEIN LLP 

200 Pringle Avenue, Suite 410 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Tel: 925-939-9880 

Fax: 925-939-9915 

CHARLES W. STEESE, pro hac vice 

PHILLIP L. DOUGLASS, pro hac vice 

STEESE & EVANS, P.C. 

6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1820 

Denver, Colorado 80111 

Tel: 720-200-0676 

Fax: 720-200-0679 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, Qwest Communications Corporation 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

QWEST COMMUNICATIONS 

CORPORATION, 

a Delaware corporation 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

HERAKLES, LLC, a Delaware limited 

Liability corporation, d/b/a HERAKLES DATA, 

SANDY BEACHES I LP, a California limited 

partnership, RIPTIDE I LLP, a California 

limited partnership, CAPITAL LEASE 

FUNDING, INC., a Delaware corporation, 

CAPITAL LEASE FUNDING, LP, a Delaware 

limited partnership, 

 Defendants. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Disclosure and discovery in this action are likely to involve sensitive financial or 

business information or proprietary information that has not been disseminated to the public, is 

not readily discoverable by competitors, has been the subject of reasonable efforts by the 

respective parties to maintain its secrecy, and for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation is warranted. The parties 

therefore agree to and petition the Court to enter this Stipulated Protective Order. The parties 

acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protection on all disclosures or responses to 

discovery and that its protection extends only to the limited information that is entitled to 

confidential treatment. 

1. “Documents” means documents, portions of documents, answers to 

interrogatories, responses to requests for admission, depositions and other oral testimony, 

transcripts, affidavits, expert reports, legal briefs or memoranda, and information derived 

therefrom, and all material within the meaning of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34(a) and 

Federal Rules of Evidence 1001, but shall be limited to material produced or exchanged in this 

litigation. 

2. The term “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” means Documents that any party 

in good faith believes contain confidential research, development or commercial information 

subject to protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

3. The term “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” means Documents 

that any party in good faith believes contain “trade secrets” as defined by the Uniform Trade 

Secrets Act or other sensitive proprietary information subject to protection under Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 26(c). 

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4. The term “Trial Counsel” means the outside counsel on the signature pages below 

and employees of or vendors providing litigation support services to of their respective law 

firms, and the following designated in-house counsel or lawyer associated with the parties, who 

must sign an Exhibit A to this Protective Order before being deemed “Trial Counsel” for 

purposes of this Protective Order: (a) for Qwest, Kevin Lanoha, Qwest in-house counsel 

overseeing this litigation; (b) for the CapLease Defendants, Paul Hughes, General Counsel; and 

(c) for Beaches and Riptide, Chris White, the sole member of Sandcastle LLC, which is the 

managing member of Surferr I LLC, which owns 99% of Beaches and Riptide. In-house 

designees are prohibited by this Agreement from disclosing “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

INFORMATION” to anyone else within their respective company or organization. If any party 

seeks to substitute or add to any of the law firms listed on the signature pages of this Protective 

Order or substitute the in-house designee, it shall notify the opposing party(ies) of the intended 

substitution or addition. Prior to disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION,” the substitute law firm(s), in-house designee 

or additional law firm(s) shall acknowledge in writing that it or he or she is familiar with and 

agrees to comply with all provisions of this Protective Order. 

5. The term “Independent Expert” for a party excludes (for purposes of a receiving 

party disclosing its opponents’ material designated “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION”) individuals currently employed by any party 

to this proceeding. 

6. Each party may designate any Document it or a third party has provided as 

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” in accordance with Paragraphs 1, 2, 9, 10, 11 and 18 of 

this Protective Order. 

7. Each party may designate any Document it or a third party has provided as 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” in accordance with Paragraphs 1, 3, 9, 10, 11 

and 18 of this Protective Order. 

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8. The designation of a Document as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” shall be accomplished by placing the notation “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” on every page of each Document so designated or by bulk designation for 

voluminous materials. For confidential discovery materials produced in a non-paper medium 

(e.g., videotape, audio tape, computer disks, etc.), the notation “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” shall be affixed to the outside of the medium or its container to 

give notice of the designation. 

9. If the producing party elects to produce Documents for inspection rather than 

produce copies of Documents, no marking need be made by the producing party in advance of 

the initial inspection by the receiving party’s Trial Counsel or Independent Expert. For 

Documents specified for copying by the receiving party’s Trial Counsel or Independent Expert, 

the producing party shall mark the copies of Documents that contain protected information with 

the appropriate confidentiality marking at the time the copies are produced to the receiving 

party’s Trial Counsel or Independent Expert. Any information obtained by the receiving party’s 

Trial Counsel or Independent Expert from an initial review of Documents, whether in written 

form or not, shall be maintained as “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” until the 

Documents have been designated, copied and delivered to the receiving party by the producing 

party. 

10. When a deposition taken on behalf of any party involves a disclosure of 

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” 

of any party: 

(a) The deposition or portions thereof shall be designated as containing 

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” 

subject to the provisions of this Protective Order at the time the deposition is taken whenever 

possible; however, any party shall have 20 days after receipt of the deposition transcript in which 

to designate in writing to the other party(ies) those portions of the transcript the party in good 

faith believes contain “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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within the 20 day period, subject to the provisions of Paragraph 14 of this Protective Order; 

(b) The original of any deposition transcript that contains “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall be designated 

by the Court Reporter with the applicable legend, and shall be sealed, identified as being subject 

to this Protective Order and not opened except by order of the Court or agreement of the parties. 

The entirety of any original videotape that contains “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall be treated in the same manner. 

11. Subject to Paragraphs 14 and 23 of this Protective Order, Documents designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” may be disclosed only to Trial Counsel, Independent 

Experts retained for this litigation, and employees who do not have competitive decision-making 

responsibilities. Any person other than Trial Counsel (who by signing this Protective Order 

agree to be bound by its terms) to whom “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” may be 

disclosed shall read this Protective Order in advance of any disclosure and agree in writing to be 

bound by its terms in the form attached as Exhibit A. “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” 

shall not be used for any purpose other than as is set forth in Paragraph 23 of this Protective 

Order until that designation is removed either by agreement of Trial Counsel or by order of the 

Court. 

12. Subject to Paragraphs 14 and 23 of this Protective Order, Documents designated 

as “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” may be disclosed only to Trial Counsel and 

Independent Experts retained for this litigation. Any person other than Trial Counsel (who by 

signing this Protective Order agree to be bound by its terms) to whom “ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY INFORMATION” may be disclosed shall read this Protective Order in advance of any 

disclosure and agree in writing to be bound by its terms in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall not be used for any purpose other than 

set forth in Paragraph 23 of this Protective Order until that designation is removed either by 

agreement of Trial Counsel or by order of the Court. 

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 12(a). Trial Counsel shall retain all signed Exhibit A agreements and at the 

request of any other Trial Counsel at the conclusion of this action, including the final termination 

of any appeals, shall (a) certify that all persons to whom “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMAITON” 

or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” has been made available have signed an 

Exhibit A agreement and (b) make the Exhibit A agreements available for inspection by the 

requesting Trial Counsel, who agrees to maintain as confidential the identities the persons 

signing such Exhibit A agreements unless Trial Counsel believes it is necessary to disclose the 

identity of any signatory to an Exhibit A agreement in order to enforce the provisions of this 

Protective Order. 

13. Nothing in this Protective Order shall bar or restrict any attorney from rendering 

legal advice to the attorney’s party-client with respect to this action, and in the course thereof, 

relying on an examination of “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY INFORMATION”; provided, however, that in rendering legal advice and in 

communicating with the party-client, the attorney shall not disclose any “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” to anyone not 

authorized to receive that information pursuant to this Protective Order. 

14. Any Document designated as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or 

“ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” may be shown to any person indicated on the 

face of the Document to be its originator, author, or recipient. 

15. Any party that submits to the Court any document designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or any document containing information 

from discovery materials bearing that designation shall file the document under seal in 

accordance with the Eastern District of California Civil Local Rule 39-141. 

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16. Nothing in this Protective Order, or the taking of any action in accordance with 

the provisions of this Protective Order, or the failure to object thereto, shall be construed as a 

waiver or admission of any claim or defense of this action. The failure to designate a Document 

as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or “ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY INFORMATION” 

in accordance with this Order and the failure to object to a designation at a given time shall not 

preclude the filing of a motion at a later date, for good cause shown, seeking to impose such 

designation or challenging the propriety thereof. The entry of this Protective Order shall not be 

construed as a waiver of any right to object to the furnishing of Documents in response to 

discovery or to object to a requested inspection of Documents, and, except as expressly provided, 

shall not relieve any party of the obligation of producing Documents in discovery. This 

Protective Order shall not limit what the producing party may do with its own Documents or 

information. 

17. If anyone violates or threatens to violate the terms of this Protective Order, the 

aggrieved party may apply to the Court for injunctive relief to prevent a violation of this 

Protective Order. The parties agree that there is no adequate legal remedy for a violation or 

threatened violation of this Protective Order. The parties and any other person subject to the 

terms of this Protective Order further agree that the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce this 

Protective Order. Any person who moves to enforce this Protective Order and prevails shall be 

entitled to the costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in doing so. 

18. If any party disagrees at any stage of these proceedings with the designation of 

any Document as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

INFORMATION,” the parties shall try first to resolve their dispute in good faith. If the dispute 

cannot be resolved, the party objecting to such designation shall seek appropriate relief from the 

Court. Until such time as the issue is resolved by the Court, any Document in issue shall be 

treated according to its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or “ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY INFORMATION.” 

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The party seeking to maintain the Document’s confidentiality bears the burden of demonstrating 

that it is entitled to protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

19. Upon final judgment, including after any appeals, or a dismissal of this action, all 

Documents and copies that have been designated as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” 

and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall be returned to the respective 

party by which they were produced, or shredded and disposed of no later than 30 days after the 

entry of final judgment or dismissal. If Documents are shredded, the shredding party shall 

certify in writing to the producing party that the Documents have been shredded and disposed of. 

20. The termination of this action shall not relieve any person to whom 

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” 

has been disclosed from the obligation of maintaining the confidentiality of information 

protected by this Protective Order. 

21. The parties may by written stipulation provide for exceptions to this Protective 

Order and any party may seek an order of the Court modifying or interpreting this Protective 

Order. 

22. Nothing in this Protective Order shall preclude any party from seeking additional 

protection with respect to the confidentiality or relief from this Protective Order regarding 

Documents designated as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY INFORMATION.” 

23. “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

INFORMATION” subject to this Protective Order shall be used by the party to which it is 

produced solely for purposes of this litigation. Each person to whom “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” is disclosed is 

hereby enjoined from using that information for any other purpose or for any other case, 

proceeding, or dispute. Further, no person receiving or reviewing “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” shall disclose it or 

its contents to any person other than as provided in this Protective Order. 

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Nothing in this Protective Order shall be deemed to restrict a party’s ability to use its own 

Documents, or Documents obtained outside this litigation, for any purpose. 

24. Subject to the rules of evidence, a Document designated “CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY INFORMATION” may be offered in 

evidence at any hearing or trial of this case upon at least one day’s written notice (provided by email or next day delivery service) of the intention to do so or, if that is not possible, on shorter 

notice as the circumstances permit. Any party may move the Court orally or in writing for an 

order that the evidence be received in camera at the hearing or under other conditions to prevent 

disclosure. The Court then will determine whether the proffered evidence should be treated as 

confidential and, if so, what protections shall be afforded to any such Document at the hearing. 

25. If any party or other person authorized under this Protective Order to receive 

Documents designated as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and/or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY INFORMATION” receives a subpoena from a nonparty to this Protective Order seeking 

production or other disclosure of that information, that party or person shall refuse to produce 

any such Documents and shall immediately give written notice (by e-mail and next day delivery 

service) to counsel for the party who produced those Documents identifying the Documents 

requested and enclosing a copy of the subpoena. If the party that produced the Documents 

objects to disclosure, that party shall communicate its objection in writing to the party that 

propounded the subpoena and file an appropriate motion with the Court within five days of the 

date it received notice of the subpoena. If such a motion is filed, the party who received the 

subpoena shall not produce the Documents in issue until the matter is decided by the Court. 

Absent a timely objection and the filing of a timely and appropriate motion, the party who 

receives the subpoena may comply in full with its terms. 

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26. In the event of any inadvertent disclosure of any information protected by a 

privilege or as work product, the party making such inadvertent disclosure, immediately after 

learning of such disclosure, shall notify (by e-mail and next day delivery service) the party to 

whom the disclosure was made; the party to whom the inadvertent disclosure was made shall 

then promptly return such information and all copies. If any party receives any Document from 

another party that on its face is subject to the attorney-client privilege, attorney work product 

doctrine or other privilege, that party shall promptly return the Document and all copies to the 

party that produced the Document. 

27. This Protective Order may be executed in counterparts and by facsimile or “pdf” 

file, with all counterpart and facsimile signatures deemed to be one document. 

SO STIPULATED: 

DATED: July 25, 2007 STEESE & EVANS, P.C. 

 /s/ Phillip L. Douglas 

 _________________________________ 

Charles W. Steese 

Phillip L. Douglass 

Attorneys for Plaintiff QWEST 

COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 

DATED: July 25, 2007 WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

 /s/ Stacey N. Knox (as authorized on 7/25/07) 

 _________________________________ 

Steven D. Atlee 

Stacey N. Knox 

Attorneys for Defendant HERAKLES, LLC 

DATED: July 25, 2007 QUINN EMANEUL URQUHART OLIVER & 

 HEDGES, LLP 

 /s/ Loren Kieve (as authorized on 7/25/07) 

 _________________________________ 

Harry A. Olivar, Jr. 

Loren Kieve 

Attorneys for Defendants SANDY BEACHES I LP 

and RIPTIDE I LP 

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DATED: July 25, 2007 HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP 

 /s/ Catherine A. Allen (as authorized on 7/25/07) 

 _________________________________ Shawn P. Regan 

Catherine A. Allen 

Attorneys for Defendants CAPITAL LEASE 

FUNDING, INC. and CAPITAL LEASE 

FUNDING LP 

IT IS SO ORDERED in accordance with the Stipulation. IT IS FURTHER 

ORDERED that this Court’s jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this Stipulation shall terminate 

upon without further action upon the termination of this case. 

DATED: July 31, 2007 

__________________________________ 

MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

The undersigned (a) has been provided with and read the Stipulation and Protective Order 

Governing Confidentiality in Qwest Communications Corporation v. Herakles, LLC, et al., Case 

No. 2:07-CV-00393-MCE-KJM, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 

California, entered on __________, (b) fully understands and agrees to be bound by the terms of 

the Protective Order, (c) will use any "CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" and "ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY INFORMATION" provided in this case consistent with the terms of the Protective 

Order, (d) will not disclose or otherwise disseminate that information in any manner inconsistent 

with the terms of the Protective Order, (e) understands that violation of the terms of the 

Protective Order may result in being held in contempt of Court and subject to sanctions, (f) 

agrees to the jurisdiction of the Court to enforce the terms of the Protective Order and (g) 

understands that the obligation to continue to obey the terms of the Protective Order will 

continue following the termination of the litigation. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that I have read and understand and agree to these 

terms. 

 Signature: _____________________________ 

 Print Name: ____________________________ 

 Date: __________________________________ 

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