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Parties Involved:
Gerber Products Company
Defendant
Karen Rose
Plaintiff

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JEFFREY M. TANENBAUM, State Bar No. 104951 

JOSHUA M. HENDERSON, State Bar No. 197435 

NIXON PEABODY LLP

One Embarcadero Center, 18th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-3600 

Telephone: (415) 984-8200 

Fax: (415) 984-8300 

jtanenbaum@nixonpeabody.com

jhenderson@nixonpeabody.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

GERBER PRODUCTS COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

KAREN ROSE, an individual, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

GERBER PRODUCTS COMPANY, a Michigan 

corporation; and DOES 1 through 10, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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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 79-5 sets forth the procedures 

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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). This includes material which constitutes or contains, in whole or 

in part, information which the Producing Party reasonably believes will harm its competitive position 

if it becomes known to a party other than the Producing Party. 

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. 

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. Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel as well as their support staffs. 

2.10. 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 

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

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

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

retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.11. 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 

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 

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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 (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” 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). 

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 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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”) 

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). 

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(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 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 non party 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 waive its 

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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 (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) 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 

pursue the matter further in accordance with the Civil Standing Order of this Court (and in 

compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable), identifying the challenged material in a letter 

brief (if necessary) and setting forth in detail the basis for the challenge. 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 12, 

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. 

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7.2. Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

ordered by a Court, required by law, 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, employees and agents 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 and/or in preparation for their testimony at depositions, hearings or 

trials, 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. 

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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 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. 

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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 that can be filed under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5. A Party that seeks 

to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. EFFECT OF THIS STIPULATION

This Stipulated Protective Order shall not abrogate or diminish any pre-existing 

contractual, statutory, or other legal rights or obligations of any Party or person with respect to the 

Protected Material. The fact that items or information are designated as Protected Material shall not 

determine or affect what the Court or trier of fact may find to be confidential or proprietary. In the 

absence of a stipulation by the Parties or an order by the Court, the fact of the designation of 

Protected Material by a Party shall not be admissible nor shall the trier of fact (absent waiver of a jury 

trial) be advised of such designation during the trial of this action. 

12. 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. 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 

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that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Stipulated Protective Order as set 

forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS

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

to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

13.2. 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. 

 

NIXON PEABODY LLP 

 

DATED: 1/9/2008 /s/ Joshua Henderson 

Attorney for Defendant 

GERBER PRODUCTS COMPANY 

 

MINAMI TAMAKI, LLP 

 

DATED: 1/9/2008 /s/ John Ota 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KAREN ROSE 

I attest under penalty of perjury that concurrence in the filing of this document has been 

obtained from John Ota. 

DATED: 1/9/2008 /s/ Joshua Henderson 

Attorney for Defendant 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

Hon. JEFFREY S. WHITE 

United States Distrit Judge 

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EXHIBIT A 

Karen Rose v. Gerber Products Company, et al, 

Case No. C07-4183 JSW 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I hereby acknowledge that I, [name], [position of employment], am about to receive 

documents and/or information supplied in connection with the litigation styled: Karen Rose v. Gerber 

Products Company, et al., Northern District of California Case No. C07-4183 JSW which may be 

confidential. I certify my understanding that such information is to be provided to me pursuant to the 

terms and restrictions of the Stipulated Protective Order of [date] in this action, and that I have been 

given a copy of and have read this Order and agree to be bound by its terms. I understand that such 

information and any copies that I make of any Confidential Materials as defined in that Order, or any 

notes or other records that may be made regarding any of such matter, shall not be disclosed to any 

persons except as defined in that Order. 

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

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. 

Date: 

 

City and State 

 

Printed name: 

[printed name] 

 

Signature: 

[signature] 

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