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Parties Involved:
Theodore Casey
Counter Claimant
Michael Casid
Counter Claimant
CytoSport, Inc.
Counter Defendant
Dymatize Enterprises, Inc.
Counter Claimant
Supplementmarket.com, Inc.
Counter Claimant

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Glenn W. Peterson (CA SBN 126173) 

MILLSTONE PETERSON & WATTS, LLP

2267 Lava Ridge Court, Suite 210 

Roseville, CA 95661 

Telephone: (916) 780-8222 

Facsimile: (916) 780-8775 

Peter M. de Jonge (UT Bar Assn. No. 7185) 

Gordon K. Hill (CA Bar Assn. No. 218999) 

THORPE NORTH & WESTERN, LLP 

8180 South 700 East, Suite 200 

Sandy, Utah 84070 

Telephone: (801) 566-6633 

Fax No: (801) 566-0750 

Mark M. Bettilyon (UT Bar Assn. No. 4798) 

Samuel C. Straight (UT SBN 7638) 

RAY QUINNEY & NEBEKER, PC 

36 South State Street, Suite 1400 

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 

Telephone: (801) 532-1500 

Fax No: (801) 532-7543 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, CytoSport, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CYTOSPORT, INC., a California corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

DYMATIZE ENTERPRISES, INC., a Texas 

Corporation, SUPPLEMENTMARKET.COM, 

INC., a Nevada Corporation, MICHAEL 

CASID, an Individual, and THEODORE 

CASEY, an Individual, 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. 2:07-CV-00746-GEB-KJM 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

TRIAL JUDGE: Garland E. Burrell, Jr. 

(Order approved with annotations, shown 

below in strikeout/underline format)

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Pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and based upon the 

Stipulated Motion for Entry of Protective Order of Plaintiff Cytosport, Inc. (“Plaintiff”), and 

Defendants Dymatize Enterprises, Inc., Supplementmarket.com, Inc., Michael Casid, and 

Theodore Casey (collectively “Defendants”), and good cause appearing, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that a party or a non-party disclosing or producing 

information, documents, or things in this matter (“producing party”) may designate such 

information, documents, or things as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

(collectively, Protected Material) under the following terms and conditions: 

1. Any document, information, or thing may be designated Confidential if it is in 

good faith determined by the producing party to contain confidential or proprietary information, 

including information in written, oral, electronic, graphic, pictorial, audiovisual, or other form, 

whether it is a document,1information contained in a document, item produced for inspection, 

information revealed during a deposition, information revealed in an interrogatory answer, or 

otherwise. 

2. Any document, information, or thing may be designated Confidential—Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only if it is in good faith determined by the producing party to contain confidential, 

commercially sensitive, or proprietary information related to any of the following: technical 

data, research and development information, marketing or other business plans, product or 

service information, customer information, trade secrets, competitive information, or financial 

information of the party, or any other information of such sensitivity to warrant Confidential—

Attorneys’ Eyes Only treatment, including information in written, oral, electronic, graphic, 

 

 

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The term “document” shall be synonymous in meaning and equal in scope to the usage of that term in Rule 

34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and shall include every writing and recording within the meaning given 

those terms in Rule 1001 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

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pictorial, audiovisual, or other form, whether it is a document, information contained in a 

document, item produced for inspection, information revealed during a deposition, information 

revealed in an interrogatory answer, or otherwise. 

3. A producing party may designate any document or other tangible information or 

thing as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only by stamping some conspicuous 

place thereof with the legend CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY, respectively. For example, in the case of a document, a producing party may so mark 

the first page of a multipage document or each applicable page. In the case of other tangible 

items, a producing party may so mark any appropriate location. For example, in the case of a 

computer disk, a producing party may so mark the disk cover. 

4. A non-producing party may also designate any document, information, or thing 

produced during the course of this litigation, not already designated Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only, as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only, as 

if it were a producing party. The non-producing party shall accomplish such designation by 

notifying all parties in writing of the specific item so designated, within five business days of the 

production of such document, information, or thing, during which period said items shall be 

presumed Confidential. At the end of this five business day period, such documents, 

information, or things not designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

shall automatically revert to non-Confidential status. 

5. A producing party may designate documents, information, or things disclosed at a 

deposition of a producing party or one of its present or former officers, directors, employees, 

agents, or independent experts retained for purposes of this litigation as Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only on the record during the deposition or by notifying all 

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parties in writing of the specific item so designated, within five business days of receiving a copy 

of the deposition transcript, of the specific exhibits or lines and pages of the transcript that are 

Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only. 

a. If a producing party designates such materials as Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only on the record, the court reporter shall indicate on the 

cover page of the transcript that the transcript includes Confidential or Confidential—

Attorneys’ Eyes Only information, shall list the pages and lines numbers and/or exhibits 

of the transcript on or in which such information is contained, and shall bind the 

transcript in separate portions containing Confidential, Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only, and non-Confidential material. Further, during the period in which such 

Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only information is discussed during the 

deposition, any person present during the deposition who is not a Qualified Person, as 

defined below, or the court reporter, shall be excluded from that portion of the deposition. 

b. A deposition transcript, the exhibits thereto, and any information disclosed 

during the course of a deposition shall be presumed Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

in their entirety until five business days after receipt of the transcript by the producing 

party. If, after the deposition is taken, the producing party designates any portion of the 

deposition transcript or exhibits as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only 

by giving written notice as described above, all persons receiving notice of such 

designation shall affix the same to the face of their copy or copies of the transcript. At 

the expiration of the five business day period, the transcript and exhibits shall 

automatically revert to non-Confidential status, except those portions that have been 

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designated on the record or in writing as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only. 

c. A non-producing party may designate documents, information, or things 

disclosed at a deposition as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only in the 

same manner as a producing party. 

6. Should any party object to a designation of any information, documents, or things 

as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only, the parties and/or the producing party 

shall attempt to resolve such objection in good faith on an expedited and informal basis. If the 

objection is not thereby resolved, the objecting party may apply for a ruling from the Court 

determining whether the materials in question are properly designated under the terms of this 

Protective Order. The person or entity seeking the protected status shall bear the burden of 

proof. Until the Court makes such determination, all material designated as Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only shall be treated as such. 

7. All information, documents, or things produced, exchanged, or inspected in the 

course of this litigation shall be used solely for the purposes of this litigation and disclosure 

thereof shall be solely for the purpose of resolving disputes between the parties. 

8. All documents, information, or things designated as Confidential shall be made 

available only to the following Qualified Persons: 

a. the parties to the litigation, and the employees of the parties; 

 b. counsel of record in this action, the employees of such counsel, outside 

vendors employed by such counsel for purposes of scanning, reproducing, or numbering 

documents, information, or things, and independent testifying or non-testifying experts or 

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trial consultants retained by such counsel or by the parties in connection with this 

litigation; 

c. the person producing such materials; 

d. the person who is the proprietor or source of such materials; and 

e. the Court. 

9. All documents, information, or things designated as Confidential—Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only shall be made available only to the following Qualified Persons: 

a. counsel to the parties, the employees of such counsel, outside vendors 

employed by such counsel for purposes of scanning, reproducing, or numbering 

documents, information, or things, and independent testifying or non-testifying experts or 

trial consultants retained by such counsel or by the parties in connection with this 

litigation; 

b. the person producing such materials; 

c. the person who is the proprietor or source of such materials; 

d. the Court. 

10. Materials designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only shall 

not be made available to persons other than those enumerated in paragraphs 8 and 9 above, 

respectively, even if attached to or contained within otherwise non-Confidential materials, such 

as transcripts, memoranda, declarations, or affidavits; the Confidential and Confidential—

Attorneys’ Eyes Only information must be removed before the remaining materials may be made 

available to those other persons. 

11. With the exception of counsel of record in this action, the employees of such 

counsel, outside vendors employed by such counsel for purposes of scanning, reproducing, or 

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numbering documents, information, or things, persons to whom information, documents, or 

things designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only may be provided 

pursuant to the terms of paragraphs 8 and 9 above shall not be provided access to materials 

designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only unless and until they have 

been supplied and have read a copy of this Order and have executed an Undertaking in the form 

annexed hereto prior to receipt of any materials designated as Confidential or Confidential—

Attorneys’ Eyes Only. Counsel for the party obtaining an Undertaking signed by any person 

shall retain the original of the signed Undertaking in counsel’s files. 

12. Without written permission from the producing party or a court order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a party may not file in the public record in this 

action any information, documents, or things designated as Confidential or Confidential—

Attorneys’ Eyes Only. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply 

with Local Rule 39-141. 

13. Nothing in this Order shall preclude any party to the lawsuit or their attorneys 

from: 

a. Showing materials designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only to an individual who either prepared or reviewed the document prior to the 

filing of this action, or is shown by the document to have received the document. 

b. Disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information, 

documents, or things from the party’s own files that the party itself designated as 

Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only. 

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c. Disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information, 

documents, or things obtained from a source other than discovery or to which a party has 

a right of access independent of discovery. 

d. Disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information, 

document, or thing that is at the time of production or disclosure, or subsequently 

becomes, through no wrongful act or failure to act on the part of the receiving party, 

generally available to the relevant public through publication or otherwise, or is already 

rightfully in the possession of the receiving party at the time of production. 

e. Disclosing or using, in any manner or for any purpose, any information, 

document, or thing at the trial of this matter. However, if a party intends to use or offer 

into evidence at such trial or arbitration any materials designated as Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only, that party shall, unless otherwise ordered by the 

Court, so inform the producing party in a reasonable time in advance in order that the 

producing party may take such steps reasonably necessary to seek from the Court 

preservation of preserve the confidentiality of such information or documents. 

14. If any party is served with a subpoena or similar process, from any person or 

entity whatsoever, directing that party to produce any materials designated as Confidential or 

Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only not so designated by that party, counsel for that party shall 

immediately give counsel for the designating party written notice of the fact of such service so 

that the designating party may seek a protective order or otherwise act to protect the 

confidentiality of the designated materials. 

15. Within sixty days of the conclusion of this action, including any appeals, all 

originals and reproductions of any materials designated as Confidential and Confidential—

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Attorneys’ Eyes Only shall be returned to the producing party or destroyed. Counsel for the 

receiving party shall provide written verification to the producing party that all copies of such 

materials produced to the receiving party have been returned or destroyed. Materials designated 

as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only that are in the custody of the Court are 

excepted from the terms of this paragraph. 

16. The terms of this Order shall remain in effect after the action and any related 

appeals are concluded, except that there shall be no longer be any restriction on use of 

materials designated as Confidential or Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only that are used as 

exhibits at trial (unless such exhibits were used under seal or protective order at trial). 

DATED: October 25, 2007. 

 

 

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