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Parties Involved:
West Central Produce, Inc.
Defendant
West Coast Vegetable Co., Inc.
Plaintiff

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DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP

ALLAN GABRIEL, SBN: 76477 

333 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2100 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 457-1800 

Facsimile: (213) 457-1850 

Attorneys for Defendant: 

WEST CENTRAL PRODUCE, INC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

WEST COAST VEGETABLE CO., 

INC., a California Corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

WEST CENTRAL PRODUCE, INC., a 

California corporation, and DOES 1 

through 50, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:09-CV-03096

STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

TO THE HONORABLE COURT AND ALL PARTIES AND THEIR 

COUNSELORS OF RECORD, IF ANY: 

Plaintiff West Coast Vegetable, Inc. by and through its attorney, Parish & 

Small LCP, hereby enter into this Stipulation to for Protective Order with Defendant 

West Central Produce, Inc. (“WCP”), by and through its attorneys, Dykema Gossett 

LLP. Plaintiff and WCP may hereinafter be collectively referred to as the “Parties” 

or individually as the “Party”. 

WHEREAS the Parties stipulate and agree as follows: 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

1.1 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of material that a 

producing party contends is 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, including but not limited to (1) 

proprietary procedures, manuals, and policies, (2) proprietary and confidential 

operations information, including agreements or specifications; (3) internal business 

or financial information; and (4) any other similar proprietary, confidential, or private 

information, including but not limited to trade secrets. As used herein, the term "trade 

secrets" shall have the meaning set forth in California Civil Code § 3426.1. 

1.2 Good cause exists to protect each of the categories of documents identified 

above, as prejudice or harm to a Party or third party may result if no protective order 

is granted. In particular, business competitors of a Party could obtain an unfair 

advantage, the Party could be economically prejudiced and customers of a Party 

could be economically prejudiced if any of the confidential information identified 

above is published for purposes outside those permitted in this Stipulated Protective 

Order. The Parties seek to avoid undue economic harm to the Parties and third parties 

resulting from complying with their discovery. The purpose of this Stipulated 

Protective Order is to protect the legitimately designated confidential business and 

privacy protected information to be produced in this action from public disclosure. 

1.3 Accordingly, the Parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter 

the following Stipulated Protective Order. The Parties, and third parties designating 

documents for protection under this Order, 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 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 to file confidential information under seal. 

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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. 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 

provisions of Paragraph 1. 

2.4. "Highly Confidential -Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive "Confidential Information or Items" whose disclosure to another 

Party or nonparty would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be 

avoided by less restrictive produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

"Confidential" or "Highly Confidential–Attorney’s Eyes Only." 

2.5. Protected Material: any Discovery Material that is designated as 

"Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential -Attorneys' Eyes Only" or that contains any 

Private Material. 

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

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.7. 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 (1) who is not a past or a 

current employee of an adverse Party or of a competitor of an adverse Party's (2) 

who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of an adverse 

Party or a competitor of an adverse Party's, (3) who has not provided any services to 

any Party or third party, and (4) is not a person or entity to whom disclosure of 

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Protected Material would conflict with the need for any party to not disclose its 

protected material to a competitor or any person or entity that would obtain economic 

value from its use or disclosure. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.8. 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. 

2.9. Private Material: any document or other Discovery Material that contains 

the names and addresses of any current or former employees of a Party. 

3. SCOPE 

3.1 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 actually reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

4.1 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 those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written 

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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 nonparty'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 original designation. 

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

Order (see 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 

affixes the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" conspicuously on each page that contains 

Protected Material or on the label for a CD or other electronic storage medium 

containing the same. 

 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings. that Designating Party, or if the Designating Party is not present 

the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony, identify on the 

record before the completion 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 

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to protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of' the testimony 

may qualify for protection, any Party may invoke on the record (before the 

deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 5 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 5 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately 

bound by the deposition 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. 

 (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, 

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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 or by e-mail) with 

counsel for the Designating Party followed by a written identification of what 

Protected Material is subject to a designation challenge and the reasons therefore. For 

any designation of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," the 

Designating Party shall, within five (5) court days following receipt of said written 

statement, provide the Party challenging the designation with a written statement 

supporting its contention why disclosure to another Party or nonparty could not be 

avoided by less restrictive means including a designation as "CONFIDENTIAL." If 

such statement is not timely provided, the material will be automatically reclassified 

as "CONFIDENTIAL." In conferring regarding "CONFIDENTIAL" designations, the 

Designating Party must explain in writing, within ten (10) days following a request to 

justify a designation, the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was 

proper or whether it will reconsider the circumstances and change the .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. 

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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, consistent with the requirements of 

Section 10 of this Protective Order, that identities 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 establishing the 

existence of confidentiality 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 may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case 

only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation, and not for any 

business purposes or in connection with any other 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 under this 

Order. 

7.2. Disclosure of "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items. As detailed 

below, the Court and its personnel are not subject to this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating 

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Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

 (a) 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; 

 (b) no greater than five (5) officers, directors, and employees of West 

Coast Vegetable Co., Inc. and no greater than ten (10) officers, directors, and 

employees of West Central Produce Inc 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) deposition reporters (court reporters employed by the Court are not 

subject to this Stipulated Protective Order), their staffs, and professional 

vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have been informed that the information is subject to a Protective Order and 

must remain confidential; and 

 (f) the author of the document, or the original source of the information 

or Private Material and who has previously been shown the document by 

Producing Party. 

7.3. Disclosure of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY" Information or Items. As detailed below, the Court and its personnel are not 

subject to this Stipulated Protective Order. 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: 

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 (a) the Receiving Party's 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); 

 (c) the Court and its personnel; 

 (d) deposition reporters (court reporters employed by the Court are not 

subject to this Stipulated Protective Order), 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 of the document or the original source of the information. 

7.4. Procedures for Disclosure of Protected Material to "Experts": 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 Protected Material first must provide the Designating Party 

with the CV of the proposed Expert. The Designating Party shall have seven (7) days 

to object to the Expert as not within the definition in Paragraph 2.10. If there is no 

such objection, the Party seeking disclosure to the Expert must confirm in writing to 

the Designating Party, (1) that the Expert has executed Exhibit "A", (2) that the 

Receiving Party of the Protected Material information has the Expert's executed 

Exhibit "A" in its possession prior to the release of any Protected Material 

information to the Expert; (3) and that the Expert has agreed not to disclose the 

Protected Material to anyone who has not agreed to be bound by Exhibit "A." This 

Paragraph 7.4 shall not affect any duty to disclose experts contained in applicable 

rules, by stipulation of the parties or order of the Court. 

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION 

8.1 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 or e-mail, if possible) as soon as practicable, and each party will use its best 

efforts to provide this notice within five court days after receiving the subpoena or 

order and at a minimum before compliance with the subpoena or order. Such 

notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The Receiving Party 

also must make reasonable efforts to inform in writing promptly 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 

9.1 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; 

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(b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material; and 

(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 

10.1 A Receiving Party may not file in the public record in this action any 

Protected Material designated as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY" without complying with F.R.C.P. Rule 5.2 regarding lodging or filing 

material under seal. Each Party agrees not to oppose any motion to seal Protected 

Material, except and only to the extent that a Party has previously challenged, in any 

manner. the designation of the Protected Material which is the subject of the motion 

to seal. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

11.1 Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, 

within sixty days after the final termination of this action and upon demand, 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. 

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Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence and 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. Counsel agree to maintain a file of all Certifications (Exhibit A) required 

by this Agreement. The file containing the Certifications (Exhibit A) and the specific 

Certifications therein shall not be available for review by opposing counsel absent 

agreement of the parties or an order of the Court in this action determining that there 

is a good faith basis for the Certifications, or any part of them, to be reviewed. 

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

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

12.3. 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. 

12.4. This stipulated Protective Order shall become effective upon entry of this 

Order by the Court. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: July 27, 2010 DYKEMA GOSSETT LLP

By: /s/ Allan Gabriel

Allan Gabriel 

Attorneys for Defendant 

West Central Produce, Inc

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Dated: July 27, 2010 JAMES M. MORRIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW

By: /s/ James M. Morris

James M. Morris 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

West Coast Vegetable Co., Inc

ORDER 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _July 29, 2010 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_______________ 

 U. S. DISTRICT COURT 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 Eastern District of California -Sacramento Division, 

WEST COAST VEGETABLE CO., INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff, vs. 

WEST CENTRAL PRODUCE, INC., a California corporation, Defendants, Case No. 

2:09-CV-03096-JAM-EFB. 

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 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 Eastern District of California (Sacramento Division) 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 

PAS01\147921.1A 

ID\AG - 099247/0009

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