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Parties Involved:
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Defendant
Marcia Starr-Gordon
Plaintiff

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Second Stipulation For Order Re Authenticity and Foundation 

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Robert L. Sallander Jr., SBN 118352 

Dean C. Burnick, SBN 146914 

GREENAN, PEFFER, SALLANDER & LALLY LLP 

6111 Bollinger Canyon Road, Suite 500 

San Ramon, CA 94583 

Telephone: (925)866-1000 

Facsimile: (925)830-8787 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

MARCIA STARR-GORDON 

Robert R. Pohls, (California Bar #131021) 

POHLS AND ASSOCIATES 

One Walnut Creek Center 

100 Pringle Avenue Suite 235 

PHONE: (925) 937-1773 

FAX: (925) 937-1763 

Peter E. Romo, Jr., (California Bar #38925) 

Robin Hardy, (California Bar #192489) 

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 

560 Mission Street, Suite 3100 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

PHONE: (415) 397-2823 

FAX: (415) 397-8549 

John P. Hooper, Pro Hac Vice 

Stephen M. Prignano, Pro Hac Vice 

EDWARDS & ANGELL, LLP 

750 Lexington Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

Attorneys for Defendant 

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MARCIA STARR-GORDON, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY, a Massachusetts 

Corporation, and DOES 1-100, 

Defendants 

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Case No.: 03-CV-68 LKK (GGH) 

SECOND STIPULATION FOR ORDER 

ESTABLISHING AUTHENTICITY AND 

FOUNDATION OF DOCUMENTS 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT 

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY IN RESPONSE 

TO REQUESTS FOR THE PRODUCTION 

OF DOCUMENTS SETS 1, 5 AND 6, OR 

INTRODUCED AT SELECT 

DEPOSITIONS 

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1. Purpose: This stipulation is entered into by and between Plaintiff Marcia StarrGordon (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 

Company (“MassMutual”), sometimes collectively referred to as “the parties”, for 

the purpose of avoiding certain deposition discovery and to conserve trial time by 

stipulating to certain evidentiary issues regarding documents produced in this 

litigation by MassMutual. 

2. Applicability: Except as otherwise limited, this stipulation shall apply to all 

documents produced by MassMutual and introduced as exhibits at the October 

2004 depositions of Darci Stevens, Paul Montanari, Donald Hacker, D.C., Dennis 

Gordan, M.D., and David Feingold, M.D., and to all documents that MassMutual 

has produced, is in the process of producing or may hereafter produce, responsive 

to Plaintiff’s First Set of Requests for Production of Documents (Nos. 1-17), Fifth 

Set of Request for Production of Documents (Nos. 28-51), and Sixth Set of 

Requests for Production of Documents (Nos. 52-67). 

3. Authenticity: All documents to which this stipulation applies are stipulated to be 

authentic and the requirement for identification or authentication of all documents 

is satisfied under Rule 901 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. 

4. Hearsay: To the extent any of the documents to which this stipulation applies are 

offered into evidence to prove the truth of the matter(s) asserted in them, the 

parties stipulate that the documents fall within the exception to the hearsay rule 

set forth in Rule 803(6) of the Federal Rules of Evidence. 

5. Originals: Duplicates of the documents to which this stipulation applies are 

admissible to the same extent as their originals under Rule 1003 of the Federal 

Rules of Evidence. 

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6. Other Objections Preserved: Except with respect to the specific agreements 

referenced above concerning admissibility under Rules 901, 803(6) and 1003 of 

the Federal Rules of Evidence, all other objections by MassMutual with regard to 

the admissibility of said documents, including but not limited to objections based 

on relevance, compound or double hearsay, or based on the considerations set 

forth in Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, are preserved and retained, 

and nothing herein shall be construed to restrict or limit MassMutual’s ability to 

interpose such objections at the time of trial. 

7. Forbearance of Right to Depositions: In consideration of and in reliance upon 

the stipulations set forth herein, Plaintiff hereby waives its right to take the 

depositions of MassMutual’s witnesses pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure Rule 30(b)(6) responsive to Categories (1)(A) through (1)(J), and 

(1)(L) through (5), and hereby waives it right to obtain documents responsive to 

Categories 1 through 10 and 12 through 17 of the of the Amended Notice of 

Deposition attached hereto, marked Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by this 

reference. With respect to the categories of testimony and documents identified 

above, Plaintiff agrees not to seek depositions of any present or former 

MassMutual employee concerning their subject matter, or the authenticity or 

foundation of the documents which form the subject of the Stipulation for Order. 

The parties have entered into this stipulation in good faith, and not for reasons of delay or 

any other improper purpose. 

DATED: October __, 2005 EDWARDS & ANGELL LLP 

By /signature on original 

Stephen M. Prignano, Esq. 

Attorneys for Defendant 

MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE 

INSURANCE COMPANY

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DATED: October __, 2005 GREENAN, PEFFER, 

 SALLANDER & LALLY LLP 

By:_/signature on original

Dean C. Burnick, Esq. 

6111 Bollinger Canyon Rd., Ste. 500 

Post Office Box 10 

San Ramon, California 94583-0010 

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF MARCIA 

 STARR-GORDON 

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Date: October 4, 2005 /s/Lawrence K. Karlton

 Senior Judge 

 Eastern District of California 

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