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Parties Involved:
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Defendant
Centocor Research and Development, Inc.
Defendant
Nelvin McDermott
Plaintiff

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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TUCKER ELLIS & WEST LLP

515 South Flower Street 

Forty-Second Floor 

Los Angeles, CA 90071-2223 

TUCKER ELLIS & WEST LLP 

MICHAEL C. ZELLERS - STATE BAR NO. 146904 

PETER E. SCHNAITMAN - STATE BAR NO. 218982 

SARAH C. TRANKIEM - STATE BAR NO. 235031 

515 SOUTH FLOWER STREET

FORTY-SECOND FLOOR

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90071-2223 

TELEPHONE: (213) 430-3400 

FACSIMILE: (213) 430-3409 

MICHAEL.ZELLERS@TUCKERELLIS.COM

PETER.SCHNAITMAN@TUCKERELLIS.COM

SARAH.TRANKIEM@TUCKERELLIS.COM

ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT

CENTOCOR, INC. (erroneously sued as 

CENTOCOR RESEARCH AND 

DEVELOPMENT, INC.) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NELVIN MCDERMOTT, personally 

and as guardian ad litem for Anna Marie, Irena 

and Christopher McDermott, 

 Plaintiff, 

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CENTOCOR RESEARCH AND 

DEVELOPMENT, INC., a Pennsylvania 

Corporation, AVENTIS 

PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION, a 

Delaware Corporation, DOES 2 through 10 

and ROE Corporations 1 through 10, 

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Case No. 2:07-CV-00586-LKK-DAD 

(Assigned to Judge Lawrence K. Karlton) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND ORDER 

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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. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

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

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 39-141 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 

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 standards developed 

under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

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

Producing Party. 

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

Material in this action. 

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

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.” 

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

“Confidential.” 

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

to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

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

support staffs). 

2.11 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 

consultant in this action. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained 

in connection with this litigation. 

2.12 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 therefrom, as well as all copies, 

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

parties or 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 a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a Court 

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 

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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. 

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, 

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” 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 protection being asserted. 

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

that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the 

record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all 

protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of 

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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 invoke on the record (before the 

deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify 

the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought. Only those 

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within 

the 20 days 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” as instructed by the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring 

the witness or presenting the testimony. 

(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.” If only portions of the information or item 

warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify 

the protected portions. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” 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” 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 

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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 directly 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 under Civil Local Rules 37-251 and 78-230 (and in compliance with Civil Local 

Rule 39-141, if applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis 

for the challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that 

affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the 

preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality 

designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in 

question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation. 

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 be 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). 

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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 of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound 

by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) 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); 

(c) 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); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 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. 

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

7.3 Agreements to be Bound by Protective Order. The original of each Exhibit A 

executed by a recipient of protected information shall be furnished to counsel for the Receiving 

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Party. The Exhibits A executed by the retained experts and/or consultants shall be maintained by 

the Receiving Party’s counsel. When the case is resolved, the Receiving Party’s counsel shall 

disclose the Exhibits A to the Designating Party. The Receiving Party’s counsel shall return to 

the Designating Party’s counsel all confidential information provided to the Receiving Party’s 

experts and consultants. As set forth in Section 11 below, with permission in writing from the 

Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy all of the Protected Material instead of 

returning it. 

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,” 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 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. 

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

this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to 

protect its confidentiality interests in the court from 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 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 

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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 

Without written permission from the Designating 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 Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply 

with Civil Local Rule 39-141. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

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 return all Protected Material 

to 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. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party 

may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected 

Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the 

Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day 

deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was 

returned or 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. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival 

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, 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. 

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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. 

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: October __, 2007 TUCKER ELLIS & WEST LLP 

 January 10, 2008 By: 

 /s/ 

Peter E. Schnaitman 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Centocor, Inc. 

DATED: October __, 2007 LAW OFFICE OF DONALD D. BEURY 

By: 

 /s/ 

Donald D. Beury 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Nelvin 

McDermott, Anna Marie McDermott, 

Irena McDermott, and Christopher 

McDermott 

DATED: October 22, 2007 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON LLP 

By: 

 /s/ 

 Sara Tropea 

Attorneys for Defendant Aventis 

Pharmaceuticals Inc. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: January 11, 2008. 

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

BY PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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 for 

the Eastern District of California on ________[date] in the case of McDermott, et al., v. 

Centocor Research and Development, Inc. et al., No. 2:07-CV-00586. I agree to comply with 

and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and 

acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the 

nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or 

item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 

compliance with the provisions of this Order. 

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

Eastern District 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. 

DATED:____________ ___________________________________ 

 [Name] 

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PROOF OF SERVICE 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Maria Valdez, declare as follows: 

I am employed with the law firm of Tucker Ellis & West LLP, whose 515 S. 

Flower Street, 42nd Floor, Los Angeles, California 90071. I am over the age of eighteen years, and am not a party to the within action. 

On January 10, 2008, I served the following: STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER OF CONFIDENTIALITY AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER on the interested parties in this action by: 

 X ELECTRONICALLY VIA ECF the above-entitled 

document to be served electronically through the United States District 

Court, Eastern Division ECF website on January 10, 2008 addressed to 

all parties appearing on the Court’s ECF service list. The file 

transmission was reported as complete and a copy of the “Filing Receipt” 

page will be maintained with the original document in our office. 

 X (FEDERAL): I declare that I am employed in the office of a 

member of the bar of this court at whose direction the service was made. 

Executed at Los Angeles, California on January 10, 2008. 

 /S/ 

 Maria Valdez 

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