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Parties Involved:
Copart Inc.
Counter-defendant
Crum & Forster Indemnity Company
Counter-claimant
United States Fire Insurance Company
Counter-claimant

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CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. C 07 2684 CW 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

Philip L. Pillsbury, Jr. (SBN 72261) 

Vedica Puri (SBN 176252) 

Eric K. Larson (SBN 142791) 

PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 433-8000 

Facsimile: (415) 433-4816 

E-mail: ppillsbury@pillsburylevinson.com

 vpuri@pillsburylevinson.com

 rlarson@pillsburylevinson.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

COPART INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

COPART INC., 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

CRUM & FORSTER INDEMNITY 

COMPANY, UNITED STATES FIRE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, and DOES 1-10, 

Inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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Case No. C 07 2684 CW 

E-FILING

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

AND PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND RELATED CROSS-ACTION 

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Action Filed: March 20, 2007 

Trial Date: November 10, 2008 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 This Confidentiality Agreement and Proposed Protective Order (the “Agreement”) is 

entered into by and between the parties to this action, namely, plaintiff Copart, Inc. (“Copart”) 

and defendant Unites States Fire Insurance Company (“USFIC”) by their respective attorneys, 

for the purpose of facilitating mutual discovery, and it is without prejudice to or waiver of any 

rights any party may have to obtain information, in addition to that information to be supplied 

pursuant hereto, with respect to documentary material or any other right of any party. 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

Whereas the Parties will and have exchanged certain documents and also intend to have 

served notices of depositions, and similar discovery requests, the responses to which the 

respective attorneys reasonably contend will include the disclosures of trade secrets, 

proprietary financial information and other data, and/or confidential business information; and 

Whereas the Parties, by and through their respective counsel, have agreed to produce 

such information for inspection, copying and use in the present action, subject to the terms of 

and provisions of this Agreement. 

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED THAT: 

1. The inspection, copying and use of the documents or portions thereof which are 

produced by any of the Parties, the answers to interrogatories which are made by any of the 

Parties, and any deposition testimony taken herein which any party designates as containing 

confidential information shall be subject to the provisions of the following paragraphs hereof 

and shall be limited to: 

(a) The attorneys for the Parties herein, including in-house counsel, and such other 

attorneys who shall enter an appearance in this action; 

(b) Such other personnel employed by said attorneys for the purposes of the 

prosecution, defense, or settlement of this litigation; 

(c) Any current officer or employee of a party or its insurance carriers to the extent 

deemed necessary by counsel for the prosecution, defense or settlement of this 

litigation; 

(d) Witnesses, including former employees, and consultants to the extent deemed 

necessary by counsel for the prosecution, defense or settlement of this litigation; 

(e) Court reporters, their transcribers and assistants; and 

(f) The judiciary, its employees, and its agents. 

2. As to all information obtained during discovery, including but not limited to 

documents, deposition testimony, interrogatory answers, and responses to requests for 

admission, any party hereto claiming that such information is confidential shall be required to 

designate those materials which are considered to be confidential and are covered by this 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

Agreement in writing or on the stenographic record to the other party and its attorney at or 

prior to the disclosure of any such materials. Any documents, response, pleading or 

interrogatory answer to be covered by this Agreement which is delivered to any opposing party 

shall be stamped “CONFIDENTIAL” by the originating party on or before the time of said 

delivery. As to deposition testimony, such designation shall be made on the record no later 

than the conclusion, termination, or suspension of said deposition, whichever shall occur first, 

or in writing and delivered to all Parties, as well as the court reporter, within seven days from 

the conclusion of that deposition. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where a Party contends that 

confidential information or documents have been inadvertently disclosed, that Party shall 

promptly provide written notice to the other signatories identifying the documents or other 

information which that party contends should have been made subject to this agreement. Upon 

receipt of such notice, the other Parties shall treat the documents or information at issue as 

though they were identified as confidential at the time of disclosure. However, any Party who 

contends that it has or will suffer any prejudice as a result of the late designation may make 

application to the Court for an order rescinding the designation as untimely and prejudicial. 

The Court, for good cause shown, may rescind the designation on that basis. 

3. As to any information that has already been produced by any of the Parties over 

the course of this litigation prior to entry of this Agreement, that party that produced said 

documents, interrogatory answers, deposition testimony, or responses to requests for admission 

may now retroactively designate those materials as confidential and covered by this Agreement 

by sending each of the other Parties a letter indicating which documents (by Bates Number 

ranges), interrogatory answers, deposition testimony, or responses to requests for admission 

are confidential and subject to this Agreement within 20 days of the execution of this 

Agreement. 

4. Each of the persons identified as within the categories expressed in Paragraph 1 

shall be prohibited from disclosing the contents of any documents, transcripts, exhibits, 

pleadings, or interrogatory answers which are designated as confidential except as provided 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

herein, or except as otherwise agreed upon by the party producing the document or providing 

the answer, or except as permitted by order of the Court. 

5. Any person to whom the designated documents or answers are disclosed 

pursuant to Paragraph 1 subsection d or in accordance with the exceptions provided in 

Paragraph 4 shall be provided a copy of this Agreement and shall acknowledge his other 

agreement to be bound by its terms by executing a document in the form attached hereto as 

Addendum A. The original of the fully executed version of Addendum A signed by each 

person who has been shown designated documents or other designated material shall be 

maintained by counsel for the party who disclosed the designated documents or material and a 

copy shall be served on counsel for the party who designated the documents or material 

confidential pursuant to this Agreement. 

6. All documents, information, pleadings, exhibits, testimony, and other material 

which is designated “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to this Agreement as well as all duplicates, 

notes, memoranda, and other documents referring in whole or in part to the confidential 

material or information shall be maintained in strictest confidence between these Parties and 

their respective counsel, shall not be disclosed to, or discussed with, any other person, and 

shall be maintained in a safe and secure area which is not accessible to persons other than 

those designated herein. 

7. If the parties wish to file documents or other information (or portions thereof) 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or pleadings referring to such information, with the Court 

under seal, they shall follow the procedures set forth in Northern District Local Rule 79-5. 

Prior to following those procedures, the parties shall meet and confer regarding whether 

seeking a seal order is necessary. 

8. The use of the documents and answers designated as confidential pursuant to 

Paragraph 1, and the contents thereof, for any purpose other than the preparation, trial and 

appeal of this case is prohibited, except as modified by subsequent order of the Court or 

written agreement of the Parties. 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

9. The restrictions set forth in any of the preceding paragraphs shall not apply to 

information that is acquired from a third party lawfully possessing such information and/or 

having no obligation to the designating party. 

10. The Agreement shall be without prejudice to any of the Parties to bring before 

the Court at any time the question of whether any particular information is or is not 

confidential. 

11. In any separate action based upon a claimed improper use of 

“CONFIDENTIAL” information, any party claiming possession of such information prior to 

disclosure thereof shall have the burden of establishing such prior possession as an affirmative 

defense in such an action. 

12. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any party’s right 

to oppose production of any information or documents lack of timeliness or relevance or 

materiality, or as a privileged communication, or as work product of counsel, or as not 

calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Nothing in this Agreement shall be 

deemed a waiver of any party’s right to oppose the introduction into evidence at trial or in 

connection with any motion of documents or information, whether subject to this Agreement 

or not, on any appropriate grounds. 

13. Any party receiving a subpoena or other request under legal compulsion for 

production of documents or information falling within the protection of this Agreement shall: 

(a) immediately notify all Parties; (b) advise the party serving the subpoena or request that the 

documents or information sought are subject to this Agreement; and (c) in the event that one or 

more interested Parties takes prompt and reasonable steps after receipt of written notification 

to protect the confidentiality of the documents or information at issue from disclosure, shall 

not produce any documents or information subject to the protection of this Agreement unless 

ordered to do so by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction. 

14. Upon final termination of this action, the Parties, or other person(s) subject to 

the terms hereof shall be under an obligation to assemble and return to the originating source 

all materials and documents marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and all copies, summaries and 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

abstracts thereof to the extent they disclose such confidential information, and to return or 

destroy all other material, memoranda or documents embodying such confidential information 

within 45 days from the final termination of this action with written confirmation of the return 

and/or destruction provided to the producing party. 

15. It is contemplated by this Agreement that the materials or information covered 

by this Agreement shall remain confidential and shall be treated as confidential even after the 

termination of this action. It is further contemplated by the Parties that this Agreement will not 

be modified or amended after the termination of this action. 

IT IS HEREBY AGREED TO BY COUNSEL FOR ALL PARTIES: 

Dated: May 19, 2008 PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

By: /s/ Eric K. Larson 

Vedica Puri 

Eric K. Larson 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

COPART INC. 

Dated: May 19, 2008 BULLIVANT HOUSER BAILEY PC 

By: /s/ Judith A. Whitehouse 

Samuel H. Ruby 

Judith A. Whitehouse 

Attorneys for Defendant and Counterclaimant 

UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

ORDER 

This Court, having found that good cause exists to enter a Protective Order according 

to the terms of the parties’ Confidentiality Agreement, it is so ordered. 

DATED:___6/11/08_____________ BY:____________________________ 

 United States District Judge 

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PILLSBURY & LEVINSON, LLP 

The Transamerica Pyramid 

600 Montgomery Street, 31st Floor ⋅ San Francisco, CA 94111 

ADDENDUM A 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY 

STIPULATED CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

I, the undersigned, hereby acknowledge that I have received a copy of the 

Confidentiality Agreement entered into by the Parties in the action entitled Copart, Inc. v. 

USFIC, U.S.D.C., Northern District of California Case No. C 07 2684 CW and that I have 

read and understand the terms thereof. I agree to be bound by, and to comply with, all of the 

provisions of this Agreement. I will hold in confidence any information designated as 

“Confidential,” and will not disclose such information to anyone other than those persons 

specifically authorized by the Agreement to receive such information. I will not copy or use 

such information except for purposes of the above-entitled action. By signing, I agree to 

submit to the jurisdiction of the San Francisco County Superior Court in the State of 

California, for the sole purpose of enforcing this Agreement. 

Signature: _____________________ 

Print Name: _____________________ 

Company: _____________________ 

Date: _____________________ 

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