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Parties Involved:
Emerson Electric Company
Defendant
State Farm General Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Whirlpool Corporation
Defendant

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER

HENNELLY & GROSSFELD LLP

Kenneth B. Grossfeld (SBN 110641) 

Brian M. Englund (SBN 070753) 

3600 American River Drive, Suite 145 

Sacramento, California 95864-5997 

Telephone: (916) 488-1000/Facsimile: (916) 488-3269 

E-mail: hgsac@aol.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION and 

EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STATE FARM GENERAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, 

 Plaintiff, 

-vsWHIRLPOOL CORPORATION; 

EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY; and 

DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

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CASE NO. 2:07-CV-00630-FCD-GGH 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

THE PARTIES STIPULATE AS FOLLOWS: 

1. The parties may produce documents in disclosure or in response to requests 

for production of documents which may be considered by the party producing them to 

contain information that is confidential, proprietary, sensitive, and/or trade secret. 

2. Any documents produced in this action which contain engineering, testing or 

other technical data pertaining to the accident dishwasher and its components which are 

not publicly available may be stamped “Confidential” at the time of production. 

3. The parties and their attorneys of record shall use any documents marked 

“Confidential” only in connection with this action. 

4. The parties and their attorneys of record shall not provide, distribute or, in 

any way, divulge any such documents marked as “Confidential” or any copies, or their 

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contents, to any person. Notwithstanding the above prohibition, counsel for a party may 

provide the document and/or the contents thereof, to other attorneys for that party or their 

staff, and any consultant or expert retained in connection with this litigation. All 

consultants and experts as well as any person provided access to documents marked 

“Confidential”, or the information therein, aside from attorneys of record and their staff, 

must first agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order. 

5. Upon the conclusion of this action, the parties shall return to the producing 

party all documents in their custody, possession or control which are marked 

“Confidential”, including all copies thereof. Moreover, the parties shall destroy at the 

conclusion of this matter any compilation or extracts of information created for or used in 

the litigation which contains “Confidential” information. 

6. For motions or other filings with the Court in which any party intends to 

submit documents or other information that has been designated as confidential, the 

designating party shall be provided an opportunity to file a motion pursuant to Local Rule 

39-141 to have such documents or information, in whole or in part, filed under seal, upon a 

showing of good cause. 

7. Any party desiring to challenge a designation that a document or information 

should be considered Confidential, shall confer with the designating party’s counsel and 

identify the specific documents or other information to which the challenging party object s 

to and provide an articulable basis for each objection. If the parties are then unable to 

reach agreement as to the Confidential designation, counsel for the designating party 

must, within ten (10) days of receipt of the notice of the challenge, apply to the Court for a 

determination. In any such proceeding, the designating party shall have the burden of 

establishing that the disputed documents or other information are Confidential as the case 

may be. The status of the disputed documents or other information shall continue unless 

and until such time as the Court rules otherwise. Upon a determination by the Court that 

the documents or other information was not properly designated, the designating party 

shall provide a substitute of the document or other information without any designation. 

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8. The improper disclosure of any Confidential documents, material or 

information obtained under this Protective Order, or any other violation of this Order by any 

person or entity, shall render the offending person or entity subject to such sanctions as 

the Court deems an appropriate penalty, or deterrent for future violations, including without 

limitation, civil fines, attorneys’ fees and costs incurred as a consequence of any such 

violation, whether filed in this action or such separate action as permitted by law. 

9. Nothing in this Order shall be construed as a waiver of any party’s right to 

object to the admissibility at trial of any documents covered by this Order. 

10. The parties and their attorneys of record agree that obligations under this 

Order may only be modified by Order of the Court or signed stipulation by all counsel of 

record, and no acts of any party can constitute a waiver or release of any obligations or 

rights created by this Order.

 HENNELLY & GROSSFELD LLP 

Dated: June _____, 2007 By: ______________________________ 

 BRIAN M. ENGLUND 

Attorneys for Defendants 

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION and 

EMERSON ELECTRIC CO. 

HUBERT & YASUTAKE 

Dated: June ______, 2007 By: _______________________ 

 Darrel K. Yasutake 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

STATE FARM GENERAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

ORDER

Pursuant to Stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 6/13/07 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

The Honorable Gregory G. Hollows 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

Statefarm.ord 

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