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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Other Contract

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

CARLETON L. BRIGGS, SBN 117361

Law Offices of Carleton L. Briggs

3510 Unocal Place, Suite 209

Santa Rosa, CA 95403-0918

Telephone: (707) 523-2251

Facsimile: (707) 523-2253

E-mail: clbriggs@sonic.net

Attorneys for Defendant

GREENSPRINGS BAPTIST 

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TRUST

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BARBARA MILLER, as guardian of

Molly Miller, an individual; and ANNE

MILLER, an individual,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

GREENSPRINGS BAPTIST

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TRUST, et

al.,

Defendants.

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Case No. C 07-04776 JL

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO

PROTECT CONFIDENTIAL

INFORMATION

Magistrate Judge: Hon. James Larson

Complaint filed: August 17, 2007

Trial date: None

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the following

protective order:

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties may

designate any document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived

therefrom, as “Confidential” under terms of this Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter

“Order”). Confidential information is information which has not been made public and

which concerns or relates to the processes, operations, type or work, or apparatus, or to

the production, sales, shipments, purchases, transfers, identification of customers,

inventories, amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures of any

persons, firm, partnership, corporation, or other organization, the disclosure of which

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information may have the effect of causing harm to the competitive position of the

person, firm, partnership, corporation, or to the organization from which the information

was obtained. By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information

derived therefrom as “confidential,” under the terms of this order, the party making the

designation is certifying to the court that there is a good faith basis both in law and in fact

for the designation within the meaning of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26(g). 

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping copies of the

document produced to a party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL”. Stamping the legend

“CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any multipage document shall designate all pages of

the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the producing party. 

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial may be designated

as confidential by making a statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or

other proceeding. Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter taking and

transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such portions of the transcript containing

information designated as confidential, and to label such portions appropriately. 

4. Material designated as confidential under this Order, the information contained

therein, and any summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in

part from material designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall

be used only for the purpose of the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, and

for no other purpose. 

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order may be disclosed or

made available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical,

and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated

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below:

(a) a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party deemed necessary by

counsel to aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(b) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such

counsel to assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(c) court reporter(s) employed in this action;

(d) a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action; and

(e) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each “qualified person” shall be provided

with a copy of this Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of

Attachment A, a copy of which shall be provided forthwith to counsel for each other party

and for the parties.

6. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of qualified persons. 

 7. The parties may further designate certain discovery material or testimony of a

highly confidential and/or proprietary nature as “CONFIDENTIAL--ATTORNEY’S

EYES ONLY” (hereinafter “Attorney’s Eyes Only Material”), in the manner described in

paragraphs 2 and 3 above. Attorney’s Eyes Only Material, and the information contained

therein, shall be disclosed only to the Court, to counsel for the parties (including the

paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified

persons” listed in subparagraphs 5(b) through (e) above, but shall not be disclosed to a

party, or to an officer, director or employee of a party, unless otherwise agreed or

ordered. If disclosure of Attorney’s Eyes Only Material is made pursuant to this

paragraph, all other provisions in this order with respect to confidentiality shall also

apply. 

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8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party

of material obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or 

not such material is also obtained through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its

own Confidential Material as it deems appropriate.

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript

designated as Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only, is included in any papers to be filed 

in Court, such papers shall be labeled “Confidential--Subject to Court Order” and filed

under seal until further order of this Court. 

10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in any court proceeding in

this action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and the party using

such shall take all reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (i) to bring

before the Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or

information is confidential or whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a

motion to the Court under FRCP Rule 26(c) for a separate protective order as to any

particular document or information, including restrictions differing from those as

specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to prejudice the parties in any way in

any future application for modification of this Order. 

12. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of

documents and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court

unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information

or document under the terms of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order

shall be deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party or of altering

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the confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such document or information or altering

any existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that

the information contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to

the public, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the

use of information disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the

parties shall assemble and return to each other all documents, material and deposition

transcripts designated as confidential and all copies of same, or shall certify the

destruction thereof. 

 

SO STIPULATED:

DATED: January 30, 2008 LAW OFFICES OF CARLETON L. BRIGGS

By: /s/ Carleton L. Briggs 

 CARLETON L. BRIGGS

Attorneys for Defendant Greensprings Baptist

Christian Fellowship Trust

DATED: January 30, 2008 TEMMERMAN & CILLEY, LLP

By: /s/ Mark Schmuck 

 MARK SCHMUCK, ESQ.

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Barbara Miller, as

guardian of Molly Miller, and Anne Miller

DATED: January 30, 2008 HARTNETT, SMITH & ASSOCIATES

By: /s/ James H. Hartnett 

 JAMES H. HARTNETT, ESQ.

Attorneys for Defendant Donald Bohn

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APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

 

DATED: ______________ 

 

 _____________________________________ United States District Judge 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Attachment A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, ........................................ do solemnly swear that I am fully familiar with the

terms of the Stipulated Protective Order entered in Miller, et al. v. Greensprings, et al.,

United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Civil Action No. C

07-04776 JL, and hereby agree to comply with and be bound by the terms and conditions

of said Order unless and until modified by further Order of this Court. I hereby consent

to the jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing this Order. 

 

DATED: ............................ 

 

/s/------------------------- 

 

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