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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ANDREW ASHBY, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD’S, LONDON 

and DOES 1-50, 

 Defendants. 

Civil No. 07-CV-0119 JLS (CAB) 

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER CONCERNING 

CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL 

WHEREAS, Plaintiff and Defendant (the “Parties”) in the above-entitled action (“Action”) 

recognize that certain information, although potentially relevant to this lawsuit, may be 

confidential; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties agree that such information includes, but may not be limited to, 

copies of earnings histories, summaries thereof, medical records, and financial and other 

confidential or proprietary information relating to the Parties; and 

WHEREAS, one of the purposes of this Protective Order is to protect the confidentiality of 

such information and documents; and 

WHEREAS, third parties who are in possession of confidential information may be the 

subject of document and deposition discovery in this Action (“Third Parties”); and 

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WHEREAS, “Producing Party” as used hereinafter shall refer to any Party or Third Party 

that produces or intends to produce materials in connection with the Action; and 

WHEREAS, “Receiving Party” as used hereinafter shall refer to any Party furnished with 

Litigation Materials, as defined below in Paragraph 1, in the Action; and 

WHEREAS, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide for the issuance of protective 

orders limiting the disclosure of certain information in appropriate circumstances; and 

WHEREAS, the Parties have agreed to protect the confidentiality of such information in 

accordance with the following terms and conditions: 

1. Documents that contain non-public information may be designated as 

“Confidential” in the manner described below, so long as the materials concern the type of 

information described above or information for which the Producing Party believes in good faith it 

otherwise has a compelling need for confidentiality. This includes, without limitation: (a) 

documents, exhibits, answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions and 

deposition transcriptions and all original written, recorded, graphic or electronic materials (and all 

identical and non-identical copies thereof), (b) any copies, notes abstracts or summaries of such 

information, and the information itself, or (c) any pleading, affidavit, declaration, brief, motion, 

transcript or other writing containing such information (subsections (a) to (c) collectively referred 

to herein as “Litigation Materials”), all of which may be designated as Confidential under this 

Protective Order, as appropriate. 

2. Any Producing Party may designate as Confidential any Litigation Materials at the 

time of production, disclosure, receipt, service, copying, filing, or signing, by stamping copies of 

the document with the word “Confidential” or as otherwise provided herein. 

3 . If any Party or Third Party uses Litigation Materials designated as Confidential, or 

elicits Confidential testimony during the course of a deposition in this Action, that portion of the 

deposition record reflecting such Confidential information shall be stamped as “Confidential” and 

access thereto shall be limited pursuant to the other terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Counsel may invoke the provisions of this Protective Order by stating on the record during the 

deposition that the testimony given at the deposition is designated Confidential or by designating 

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the deposition transcript or portions thereof as Confidential before the time expires within which 

the witness may sign the deposition transcript. No person shall be present during portions of the 

depositions designated Confidential unless such person is authorized under the terms of this Order 

to receive designated Litigation Materials or unless the designating Producing Party consents to 

such person being present. All information disclosed during a deposition shall be deemed to have 

been designated Confidential until the time within which the witness may sign the transcript 

expires, whether or not any portion of the transcript has been so designated previously. 

4 . In exercising the right to designate any Litigation Materials Confidential, the 

Producing Party agrees to proceed in good faith. The Producing Party shall not designate any 

Litigation Materials as Confidential unless such Litigation Materials are of a private, confidential 

or proprietary nature deserving of such protection. Except as may be otherwise provided by this 

Order or by further order of the Court or further written agreement of the Parties, Litigation 

Materials designated as Confidential, as well as the matters contained therein, and extracts and 

summaries thereof containing Confidential information, shall be used for no purpose other than 

prosecuting, defending, or settling the claims raised in the instant Action. 

5 . Access to any Confidential Litigation Materials, or any part thereof, as well as to 

the matters contained therein, shall be limited to: (i) the Court, all Court personnel, any discovery 

referee or any settlement mediator; (ii) the Parties, including trustees, officers, directors, 

employees, agents, representatives and in-house counsel of the Parties for purposes of this 

litigation only; (iii) the attorneys and auditors for the Parties, their associates, assistants, and 

agents for purposes of this litigation only; (iv) consultants and experts involved in the preparation 

of this litigation for each party provided he or she executes the Agreement in Exhibit A; (v) court 

reporters, their transcribers, assistants and employees; (vi) authors, subjects, and original 

recipients of Confidential Records; (vii) witnesses in preparation for a deposition or at trial; and 

(viii) as otherwise required by law. 

6 . Any Receiving Party may object to the designation of Confidential by sending the 

designating Producing Party a letter by facsimile or e-mail setting forth the basis for such 

objections. The Producing Party must agree to meet and confer in a good faith attempt to resolve 

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the objections within ten business days from the date the letter is sent. Any objections not 

resolved by the meet and confer shall be the subject of a regularly-noticed motion filed by the 

objecting Party. 

7 . Individuals and entities, other than the Parties, their officers, directors, employees, 

attorneys, agents and representatives, permitted access by the Parties’ attorneys, pursuant to 

paragraph 5 above, to Confidential Litigation Materials, or parts thereof, are hereby ordered not to 

show, convey, communicate, or reproduce any such documents, or any parts thereof, or any 

matters contained therein, or any extracts or summaries thereof, to any individual or entity who 

would not otherwise have access to Confidential Litigation Materials under the provisions of this 

Order. 

8 . Counsel for the Parties shall insure that any person otherwise eligible to receive 

Confidential Litigation Materials under the terms of this Order, shall have access to such 

Litigation Materials only after being informed of the provisions of this Order and only after 

agreeing in writing to be bound by it by executing the Agreement in Exhibit A attached hereto or 

agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order on the record at a deposition or hearing 

in this Action. The provisions of this paragraph, however, shall not apply to the Court, Court 

personnel, any discovery referee, any settlement mediator, court reporters and videographers and 

copying, imaging and computer service employees. 

9 . Subject to public policy, and further court order, nothing shall be filed under seal, 

and the Court shall not be required to take any action, without separate prior order by the Judge 

before whom the hearing or proceeding will take place, after application by the affected party with 

appropriate notice to opposing counsel. If the Court grants a party permission to file an item 

under seal, a duplicate disclosing all non-confidential information shall be filed and made part of 

the public record. The item may be redacted to eliminate confidential material from the document. 

The document shall be titled to show that it corresponds to an item filed under seal, e.g., 

“Redacted Copy of Sealed Declaration of John Smith in Support of Motion for Summary 

Judgment.” The sealed and redacted documents shall be filed simultaneously. 

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10 . The execution of this Order, and the entry of a protective order pursuant hereto, 

shall not, in itself: 

a. constitute a waiver of any Producing Party’s right to seek at a future time relief 

from the Court for an order restricting access to specific documents designated as Confidential to a 

more limited group of individuals or entities than defined in paragraph 5 above, or the right to 

seek broader disclosure than defined above, or granting access to specific documents designated as 

Confidential to specific individuals; or 

b. constitute a waiver of any objection to any discovery request; or 

c. be construed as an admission or agreement that any document designated as 

Confidential, in fact, is confidential, or comprises a trade secret, or otherwise is entitled to any 

protective relief whatsoever; or 

d. control the disclosure of Confidential information at trial (a matter which the 

Parties will resolve, if necessary, through a pre-trial order). 

11 . Where the designation of any Litigation Material as Confidential is subject to 

challenge by a Receiving Party, that Litigation Material shall be treated as Confidential pending 

resolution of the dispute by this Court. 

12 . Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a Party of 

material obtained by such Party independent of 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. 

13 . At the conclusion of litigation between the Parties, including the exhaustion of the 

appellate rights of any Party, within thirty (30) days after receipt of a request by any Producing 

Party, Litigation Materials disclosed and designated as Confidential by that Producing Party in this 

Action, whether or not filed, or identified as an exhibit in the proceeding, including all copies, 

shall be returned to the requesting Producing Party or shall be destroyed and a written itemization 

of the destroyed Litigation Materials provided to the requesting Producing Party. 

14. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any Producing Party (i) to 

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

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is confidential or whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to the Court under 

Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 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 future application for modification of this Order. 

15 . If any Party receiving documents pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order (a) is 

subpoenaed in another action, or (b) is served with a demand in another action to which he or it is 

a party, or (c) is served with any other legal process by one not a Party to this Action, seeking 

Confidential Litigation Materials, that Party shall give written notice, by hand, e-mail or facsimile 

transmission within three business days after receipt of such subpoena, demand or legal process, to 

the Producing Party who designated the Confidential materials. The Party shall not produce any 

of the other Producing Party’s Confidential Litigation Materials, unless otherwise Court-ordered, 

if the Producing Party who designated the documents files with a Court of competent jurisdiction a 

motion or other application to prevent compliance with the subpoena, demand or other legal 

process. The Producing Party who designated the Litigation Materials Confidential shall be solely 

responsible for seeking relief with respect to the requested production. Nothing herein shall be 

construed as requiring the Party who received the subpoena, demand or other legal process or 

anyone else covered by this Stipulated Protective Order to challenge or appeal any order requiring 

production of the Confidential Litigation Materials covered by this Stipulated Protective Order or 

to subject itself to any penalties for non-compliance with any legal process or order, or to seek 

relief from this Court or any other Court. The designating Producing Party seeking the motion 

must file within 5 business days of receiving notice or be barred from further objection. 

16 . If information subject to attorney-client privilege, attorney work product or any 

other applicable privilege or immunity from discovery is nevertheless inadvertently produced, 

such production shall in no way prejudice or otherwise constitute a waiver of, or estoppel as to, 

any claim of privilege, work product or other ground for withholding production to which the 

Producing Party would otherwise be entitled. If a claim of inadvertent production is made 

pursuant to this paragraph with respect to information then in the custody of another Party, such 

Receiving Party shall promptly return to the claiming Producing Party that material as to which 

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the claim of inadvertent production has been made, and the Receiving Party shall not use such 

information for any purpose other than in connection with an application or other motion to the 

Court for production of the returned material. The Producing Party raising the inadvertent 

disclosure defense shall give notice thereof within 30 days of the date of the disclosure or be 

barred from further objection to the use of the information. 

17 . Any Third Party that produces documents or provides testimony in the Action, 

either voluntarily or by compulsory process, shall have the full benefits and protections of this 

Protective Order and may designate documents or deposition testimony as Confidential Litigation 

materials in the manner, and subject to the same protections, set forth above. Further, the Parties 

can designate any documents or testimony produced by a Third Party as Confidential within 30 

days of the production or testimony by the Third Party, and in the interim, the documents or 

testimony by the Third Party shall be deemed Confidential. Nothing in this Order shall be 

construed to allow any Third Party to obtain access to any Confidential materials produced by any 

Party or other Third Party. 

DATED: May 21, 2008 LUCE, FORWARD, HAMILTON & SCRIPPS LLP

By: /s/Edward Patrick Swan, Jr. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff ANDREW ASHBY 

DATED: May 21, 2008 ALLEN, MATKINS, LECK, GAMBLE MALLORY & 

NATSIS LLP 

By: /s/ Michael J. Holmes 

Attorneys for Defendant UNDERWRITERS AT 

LLOYD’S, LONDON 

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ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation of the parties for entry of the protective order to protect confidential 

information, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, subject to public policy and further court order, nothing 

shall be filed under seal, and the court shall not be required to take any action, without separate 

prior order by the Judge before whom the hearing or proceeding will take place, after application 

by the affected party with appropriate notice to opposing counsel. 

Dated: May 22, 2008_________ 

 ___________________________ 

 CATHY ANN BENCIVENGO 

United States Magistrate Judge

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EXHIBIT A

I, ______________________, declare and state as follows: 

1. I have read and been provided with a copy of the Joint Motion Regarding 

Stipulation And [Proposed] Protective Order Concerning Confidential Material (“Protective 

Order”) and I understand the requirements of the Protective Order and agree to be bound by its 

terms. 

2. I understand that the documents which are disclosed or provided to me pursuant to 

the Protective Order are confidential, and I further understand and agree that I may not use such 

documents for any purpose other than the analysis and evaluation of information produced in the 

above-captioned action, and that I may not divulge any copies or the identity or substance of any 

of the documents disclosed to me. 

3. I further understand and agree that I must return all documents disclosed pursuant 

to this Protective Order and all copies thereof to counsel for the providing party after my review of 

the documents is complete. 

Dated: 

[Name] 

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