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Parties Involved:
County of Sacramento
Plaintiff
Everest National Insurance Company
Defendant

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JAMES R. TENERO (SBN 201023)

MATTHEW K. TELFORD (SBN 310125)

SELMAN BREITMAN LLP

33 New Montgomery, Sixth Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105-4537

Telephone : 415.979.0400

Facsimile : 415.979.2099

Email : jtenero@selmanlaw.com

mtelford@selmanlaw.com

SHERYL W. LEICHENGER (SBN 161688)

SELMAN BREITMAN LLP

11766 Wilshire Boulevard, Sixth Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90025-6538

Telephone : 310.445.0822

Facsimile : 310.473.2525

Email : sleichenger@selmanlaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant

EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY

CRAIG E. FARMER (SBN 61086))

DAWN D. CURTIS (SBN 227076)

FARMER CURTIS, LLP

3620 American River Drive, Suite 218

Sacramento, CA 95864

Telephone : 916-679-6565

Facsimile : 916-679-6575

Email : cfarmer@farmercurtislaw.com dcurtis@farmercurtislaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO,

Plaintiff,

v.

EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY,

Defendants.

No. 2:19-cv-00263 MCE DB

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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In the interest of ensuring an efficient and prompt resolution of this action and of 

protecting confidential information from improper disclosure, the undersigned hereby stipulate, 

subject to approval and entry by the Court, to the following Protective Order issued pursuant to 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c): 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

privileged, 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. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

11, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

information under seal; Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file 

material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS 

As used herein: 

a. "Party" shall mean any party to this action, including all of its officers, 

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel 

(and their support staff).

b. "This action" means the above-captioned action pending in this Court, 

including any related discovery, pretrial, trial, post-trial, or appellate 

proceedings. 

c. "Disclosure" or "Discovery Material" shall mean any and all items or 

information, regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored, or 

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maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or 

tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses 

to discovery in this matter.

d. “Confidential Information" or "Confidential Items" shall mean 

information (regardless of how generated, stored or maintained) or 

tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed 

under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Section 26(c) and Federal Rule of 

Evidence Section 502.

e. "Receiving Party" shall mean a party that receives disclosure or disclosure 

material from the Producing Party. 

f. "Producing Party" shall mean a Party, or a subpoenaed third party, that 

designates information or items that it produces in discovery disclosures 

or in response to subpoenas for documents in the above-entitled action.

g. "Protected Material" shall mean any Disclosure or Discovery Material 

that is designated as “Confidential" and/or “Confidential/Privileged.” 

h. "Outside Counsel" shall mean attorneys who are not employees of a Party

but who are retained to represent or advise either the County of 

Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company as well as their 

support staffs. 

i. "House Counsel" shall mean attorneys who are employees of either the 

County of Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company as well as 

their support staffs.

j. "Expert" shall mean a person with specialized knowledge or experience 

in a matter pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by the County 

of Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company or its counsel to 

serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this action and who is not 

a past or a current employee of the County of Sacramento or Everest 

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National Insurance Company or a competitor of the County of 

Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company and who, at the time 

of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of the County of 

Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company nor a competitor of 

the County of Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company. This 

definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation.

k. "Professional Vendors" shall mean 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 therefrom, as well as all copies, 

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

County of Sacramento or Everest National Insurance Company or its counsel to or in court or in 

other 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 the Producing Party agrees otherwise in writing or a Court 

order otherwise directs.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

a. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. The 

Producing Party will designate information or items for protection under 

this Order and will limit any such designation to specific material that 

qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Producing Party will 

designate, for protection only, those parts of material, documents, items, 

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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.

b. 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 Producing Party to sanctions.

c. If it comes to the Producing 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, the Producing Party 

must promptly notify the Receiving Parties that it is withdrawing the 

mistaken designation.

d. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that qualify for 

protection under this Order must be clearly designated before the material 

is disclosed, copied and produced. The Producing Party must determine 

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

Order. Before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party

must affix "CONFIDENTIAL" and/or 

“CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED” on 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 

"CONFIDENTIAL" and/or “CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED.”

e. For information produced in some form other than documentary, and for 

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any other tangible items, the Producing Party must affix in a prominent 

place on the exterior of the container or containers, in which the 

information or item is stored the term "CONFIDENTIAL" and/or 

“CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED.” 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" and/or “CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED.” 

f. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” 

and/or “CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED” does not, standing alone, 

waive the Producing Party’s right to secure protection under this Order 

for such material. If material is appropriately designated as 

“Confidential” and/or “CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED” 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. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

a. Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by the Disclosing Party in connection with this case 

only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this 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, the Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of Section 12, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

b. 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.

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7. DISCLOSURE OF “CONFIDENTIAL” INFORMATION OR ITEMS

a. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the 

Producing Party, the Receiving Party may only disclose any information 

or item designated CONFIDENTIAL and/or 

CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED to:

b. The 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;

c. The officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation;

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. Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom the 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this;

g. During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the 

designating party or ordered by the Court. Pages of transcribed deposition 

testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must 

be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to 

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order.

h. The author of the document or the original source of the information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 

IN OTHER LITIGATION.

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a. 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” and/or 

“CONFIDENTIAL/PRIVILEGED” 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.

b. The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing 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.

c. The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to 

the existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Producing Party in 

this case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the 

court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Producing 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

a. 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:

1. Notify in writing the Producing Party of the unauthorized 

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disclosures;

2. Use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material

3. Inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures 

were made of all the terms of this Order; and 

4. 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

a. For Protected Materials that will be included in public records, the parties 

will meet and confer in good faith regarding the use of the protected 

documents. Additionally, the parties may stipulate to use of confidential 

and/or privileged materials in public records, so long as the materials are 

under seal. Should agreement not be reached, the Parties may avail 

themselves of the process and procedure set forth in Local Rule 141.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

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

within sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving 

Party must destroy all copies of Protected Material made available by 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. The Receiving 

Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party by the 

sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the 

Protected Material that was 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.

12. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

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

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.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: 02/13/2020 SELMAN BREITMAN LLP

/s/James R. Tenero

JAMES R. TENERO

Attorney for Defendant 

EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY

DATED: 02/12/2020 FARMER CURTIS, LLP

/s/Craig E. Farmer

CRAIG E. FARMER

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT:

1. Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who will 

decide the matter related to that request to seal.

2. The designation of documents (including transcripts of testimony) as confidential 

pursuant to this order does not automatically entitle the parties to file such a document with the 

court under seal. Parties are advised that any request to seal documents in this district is 

governed by Local Rule 141. In brief, Local Rule 141 provides that documents may only be 

sealed by a written order of the court after a specific request to seal has been made. L.R. 141(a). 

However, a mere request to seal is not enough under the local rules. In particular, Local Rule 

141(b) requires that “[t]he ‘Request to Seal Documents’ shall set forth the statutory or other 

authority for sealing, the requested duration, the identity, by name or category, of persons to be 

permitted access to the document, and all relevant information.” L.R. 141(b).

3. A request to seal material must normally meet the high threshold of showing that 

“compelling reasons” support secrecy; however, where the material is, at most, “tangentially 

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related” to the merits of a case, the request to seal may be granted on a showing of “good cause.” 

Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096-1102 (9th Cir. 2016); 

Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-80 (9th Cir. 2006).

4. Nothing in this order shall limit the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of 

certain documents, at any court hearing or trial – such determinations will only be made by the 

court at the hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion.

5. With respect to motions regarding any disputes concerning this protective order which 

the parties cannot informally resolve, the parties shall follow the procedures outlined in Local 

Rule 251. Absent a showing of good cause, the court will not hear discovery disputes on an ex 

parte basis or on shortened time.

6. The parties may not modify the terms of this Protective Order without the court’s 

approval. If the parties agree to a potential modification, they shall submit a stipulation and 

proposed order for the court’s consideration.

7. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement 

of the terms of this Protective Order after the action is terminated.

8. Any provision in the parties’ stipulation that is in conflict with anything in this order is 

hereby DISAPPROVED.

DATED: February 24, 2020 /s/ DEBORAH BARNES 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I hereby certify my understanding that Confidential Information is being provided to me 

pursuant to the terms and restrictions of the Stipulation and Protective Order Re: Confidential 

Information filed on February 13, 2020, in County of Sacramento v. Everest National Insurance 

Company, United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. . 2:19-cv00263 MCE DB and have been given a copy of that Order and read it.

I agree to be bound by the Order. I will not reveal the Confidential Information to 

anyone, except as allowed by the Order. I will maintain all such Confidential Information, 

including copies, notes, or other transcriptions made therefrom, in a secure manner to prevent 

unauthorized access to it. No later than thirty (30) days after the conclusion of this action, I will 

return the Confidential Information, including copies, notes, or other transcription made 

therefrom, to the counsel who provided me with the Confidential Information. I hereby consent 

to the jurisdiction of the Arbitrator for the purpose of enforcing the Order.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this 

certificate is executed this ___ day of ____________________, 2020, at 

___________________, California.

By: __________________________

Address:_______________________

Phone: ________________________

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