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Parties Involved:
Almond Board of California
Defendant
Tim Birmingham
Defendant
Susi McFarland
Plaintiff

Document Text:

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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ATKINSON, ANDELSON, LOYA, RUUD & ROMO 

Howard A. Sagaser State Bar No. 72492 

HSagaser@aalrr.com

Marcia A. Ross State Bar No. 160489 

MRoss @aalrr.com

Ian B. Wieland State Bar No. 285721 

IWieland@aalrr.com

5260 North Palm Avenue, Suite 300 

Fresno, California 93704-2215 

Telephone: (559) 225-6700 

Facsimile: (559) 225-3416 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALMOND BOARD OF CALIFORNIA 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO 

SUSI McFARLAND,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ALMOND BOARD OF CALIFORNIA; TIM 

BIRMINGHAM, an individual, and DOES 1-

100, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:12-CV-02778-JAM-CKD

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

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. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The parties 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 

limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as 

confidential. 

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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 Disclosure or 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 California Law. 

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 means. 

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential - 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs and contractors). 

2.12 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 

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consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor 

of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party 

or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant 

retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.13 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. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 

(as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted there from, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to on settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

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 judge 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 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. 

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If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’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 mistaken designation. 

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

(see, e.g., second paragraph of 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 affix the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at 

the top of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify 

the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must 

specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has 

indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 

before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party 

has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must 

determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order, 

then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion 

or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must 

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clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

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

that the Party or non-party designating the testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” may identify on the record, before the 

close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further 

specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. When it is impractical to identify 

separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that 

substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that 

sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may take up to 20 days after the date the Party or 

non-party receives a copy of the deposition transcript or other transcript from the court 

reporter 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 20 days after the date the party 

receives a copy of the deposition transcript or other transcript from the court reporter shall 

be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court 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 or nonparty making the confidentiality designation. 

(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 

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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 conceded, 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, 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 with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must 

explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the 

Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 

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. 

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 with the Court that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for 

the challenge, in compliance with the requirements for such motion under Federal Rule of Civil 

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Procedure 7(a) and Eastern District Local Rule 230, which is based on Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 78. 

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. Such Protected Material may he 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

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees and agents of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation; 

(b) the parties to this action; 

(c) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) 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) 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); 

(e) the Court and its personnel; 

(f) those present during the trial of this matter, including all pre-trial and 

motion hearings, and during presentation/argument of this evidence unless the Court 

orders otherwise; 

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(g) Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(h) deponents and/or witnesses to whom counsel for the parties believe in 

good faith it is necessary, for assistance in their representation in the above-captioned 

matter, to disclose specific documents, and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); provided, however, that this execution 

requirement is waived where an individual is given Confidential Information in the 

presence of opposing counsel on the record while testifying as a deponent or in a court of 

law, so long as the Confidential Information is not retained by the individual after such 

testimony. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 

reveal Protected Material must he separately bound by the court reporter and may not be 

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; 

(i) the author of the document or the original source of the information; and 

(j) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. 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: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees and agents of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation; 

(b) the parties to this action; 

(c) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) who has no involvement in 

competitive decision-making or in patent prosecutions, (2) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) 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 

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Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 

7.4, below, have been followed; 

(e) the Court and its personnel; 

(f) those present during the trial of this matter, including all pre-trial and 

motion hearings, and during presentation/argument of this evidence unless the Court orders 

otherwise; 

(g) Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(h) deponents and/or witnesses to whom counsel for the parties believe in good 

faith it is necessary, for assistance in their representation in the above-captioned matter, to 

disclose specific documents, and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); provided, however, that this execution requirement is 

waived where an individual is given Confidential Information in the presence of opposing 

counsel on the record while testifying as a deponent or in a court of law, so long as the 

Confidential Information is not retained by the individual after such testimony; 

(i) the author of the document or the original source of the information; and 

(j) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts.”

(a) 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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must make a written communication to the 

Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information 

that the Receiving Party seeks to disclose to the Expert, and (2) sets forth the full name of 

the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence. 

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the 

preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert 

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unless, within seven (7) calendar days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written 

objection from the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the 

grounds on which it is based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with 

the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter 

by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure may 

disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within ten (10) 

calendar days of sending a written objection to the disclosure, the Designating Party file a 

motion with the Court seeking to prevent the disclosure to the identified expert. Any such 

motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons why 

the requested disclosure to the Expert should not be permitted, assess the risk of harm that 

the disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce 

that risk. In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the 

burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the 

safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party's need to disclose the Protected 

Material to its Expert. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION. 

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, if possible) immediately 

and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such 

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

The purpose of imposing these duties is to afford the Designating Party in this case an 

opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court in 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 

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authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from 

another court. 

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

All Confidential Information filed with the Court, and any pleadings, motions or other 

papers disclosing any Confidential Information shall be filed or lodged under seal pursuant to 

Eastern District Local Rule 141. Only portions of filings with the Court containing Confidential 

Information need be filed under seal. The parties agree to cooperate with each other in a good 

faith attempt to file the Confidential Information under seal, but will not be precluded from filing 

documents containing Confidential Information in the ordinary course after a good faith effort to 

file the document under seal is denied by the Court. To the extent that filing under seal is not 

permitted by the Court, no party will file any Confidential Information with the Court without 

providing at least 5 days advance notice to the other parties. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 75 days of termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and return 

to each other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated as Confidential 

Information and all copies of same in their possession or the possession of their employees and/or 

agents, as well as all documents created, produced, reproduced, and any notes, transcripts or other 

written documents derived from Confidential Documents or containing information derived from 

such Confidential Documents, or shall certify the destruction thereof. Notwithstanding this 

provision, Counsel is entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, 

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transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or 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 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the Court in the future or to compel discovery or seek sanctions from the 

Court. 

12.2 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 not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, 

no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material 

covered by this Protective Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: May 14, 2013 ATKINSON, ANDELSON, LOYA, RUUD & ROMO 

By: /s/

Howard A. Sagaser

Marcia A. Ross

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALMOND BOARD OF CALIFORNIA

Dated: May 14, 2013 PROUT - LEVANGIE 

By: /s/

Michael Baytosh

Attorneys for Defendant

TIM BIRMINGHAM

Dated: May 15, 2013 SHIMODA LAW CORPORATION 

By: /s/

Galen T. Shimoda

Attorneys for Plaintiff

SUSI McFARLAND

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Based on the above stipualtion of the parties, and for good cause shown, 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 15, 2013 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_______________________

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 

 

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011229.00014 

11247172.1 

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 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 United States District Court, Eastern District of the State of California on ______________, 

2013 in the case of Susi McFarland v. Almond Board Of California; et al., Case No. 2:12-CV02778-JAM-CKD. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order unless and until modified by further Order of the Court or agreement of the 

parties may result in an award of sanctions. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court, Eastern 

District of the State of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

 

Date: _____________________________ 

Printed Name: _____________________________ 

Signature: _____________________________

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