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Parties Involved:
Combs Development, Inc.
Defendant
Energy House
Defendant
Intermatic Incorporated
Defendant
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Plaintiff

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{00007538.DOC} 

 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

SHELDON J. WARREN, No. 096668 

LAW OFFICES OF SHELDON J. WARREN, 

a Professional Law Corporation 

P. O. Box 30220 

Long Beach, California 90853 

Telephone: 562.433.9688 

Facsimile: 562.433.9711 

Attorneys for Defendants 

INTERMATIC INCORPORATED and COMBS 

DEVELOPMENT, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

INTERMATIC, INC., ENERGY 

HOUSE, and DOES 1 through 25, 

Defendants. 

NO. 06-CV-01127-LJO-DLB 

[Action Filed 07/17/2006] 

[DENNIS L. BECK, U.S. MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE] 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

TRIAL DATE: OCTOBER 22, 2007 

The parties, recognizing that defendant INTERMATIC 

INCORPORATED (“INTERMATIC”) possesses valuable trade secrets and other 

confidential information which may be the subject of appropriate discovery 

pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in this proceeding, but which 

should not be made available to the public generally, hereby stipulate that: 

I. All documents produced by INTERMATIC, or information 

disclosed by INTERMATIC and designated as “confidential” by INTERMATIC, 

shall be revealed, except as provided below, only to counsel in this case. Such 

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information may include confidential, proprietary and/or trade secret information 

supplied by INTERMATIC in response to discovery demands or requests. 

II. Any party to the action, at any time after receipt of any document 

marked “confidential,” may apply upon noticed motion to the Court for a ruling that 

such document is not entitled to “confidential” status or protection from disclosure 

to the public or certain individuals. This agreement does not change the burden of 

proof of the parties regarding whether or not any information is entitled to 

protection from disclosure as being confidential. 

III. Any information provided to any party by INTERMATIC and 

marked by INTERMATIC as “confidential” shall not be disclosed to any person or 

persons except counsel and retained experts and only as provided for below. 

IV. If counsel for any party determines that any documents or 

information produced by INTERMATIC in this action and designated by 

INTERMATIC as “confidential” needs to be revealed to a prospective or actual 

witness, including any expert witness, counsel may reveal the designated 

documents or information to such person, but only after complying with the 

following: 

(a) Counsel for the party shall have the prospective or actual 

witness (including any expert) read this order and shall explain the contents thereof 

to such witness who shall, before receiving any documents which are the subject of 

this order, agree not to reveal the data contained in such documents and to be bound 

by this Order. If said witness is compelled to testify in any other action or 

proceeding concerning this data, he or she will assert the privilege with respect 

thereto and shall produce a copy of this order and his or her declaration under 

penalty of perjury; 

(b) During any deposition, a deponent may be shown and 

questioned about the confidential documents which are the subject of this order. 

However, prior to showing a deponent any such confidential documents, the 

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witness will be informed that the documents are confidential and subject to this 

Protective Order and that the documents and information contained therein cannot 

be shown to anyone or otherwise used by that witness. Any such confidential 

information which appears or is otherwise referenced in the deposition transcripts 

shall be designated as such by underlining those portions of the transcript which 

concern the confidential information and stamping the pages upon which the 

reference or excerpt appears as “confidential.” Thereafter, all parties, witnesses 

and/or the court reporting firm maintaining any copies of the deposition transcript 

marked “confidential” shall honor the confidentiality of these portions of the 

transcript and refrain from producing same outside the confines of this litigation. 

V. Confidential information reached by this order and developed, 

revealed by or included in any discovery proceedings, whether in the form of 

deposition transcripts, interrogatory answers, or document production, shall only be 

filed with the Court under seal. 

VI. Documents marked “confidential” and other confidential 

information may be offered in evidence at any court hearing by counsel for any 

party only after INTERMATIC has had an opportunity to request the evidence first 

be received in camera or in some other manner which prevents unnecessary 

disclosure. Additionally, any party shall advise INTERMATIC of its intention to 

use any confidential information at trial in advance of its use, so that 

INTERMATIC may first request an in camera hearing with respect to such 

confidential information and a court order regulating the use of such information so 

as to protect its confidentiality. 

VII.Counsel for any party, and any experts retained by any party, shall 

be responsible for the security of any documents reached by this order and shall not 

show or reveal the contents of any such documents to any parties, including 

associates and employees, whose involvement in this case is not required. In the 

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event disclosure is required, it may be made only after such associate, employee or 

other party has seen this order, understands its terms and agrees to abide by them. 

VIII. The provisions of this order shall not terminate at the 

conclusion of this action. Unless the Court orders otherwise, within 90 days of the 

conclusion of the proceedings in this litigation, counsel for all parties shall certify 

compliance with all terms and conditions of this order and shall deliver all 

documents and other information produced by INTERMATIC that are the subject 

of this order, including any copies, extracts or summaries thereof, and the signed 

declarations from prospective or actual witnesses (including any experts) as 

referenced in paragraph IV.(a) of this Protective Order, to counsel for 

INTERMATIC. Counsel for INTERMATIC shall maintain copies of all documents 

produced to any party pursuant to this Protective Order for five years following the 

conclusion of this action. In the event an action is commenced against counsel for 

any party arising out of this action, wherein such documents are relevant, counsel 

for INTERMATIC will make such documents available to counsel for any party 

subject to the terms of this order. 

IX. Violation of the terms of this Order by any person shall be 

punishable as a contempt of court. 

X. This Protective Order may be executed in counterpart and a faxed 

signature will be deemed valid for all purposes. 

Dated: April 26, 2007 

LAW OFFICES OF SHELDON J. WARREN 

By /s/ 

SHELDON J. WARREN 

Attorneys for Defendants 

INTERMATIC INCORPORATED and COMBS 

DEVELOPMENT, INC. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER [PROPOSED] 

Dated: April 25, 2007 

CHOLAKIAN & ASSOCIATES 

By /s/ 

DAVID L. HART 

Attorneys for Plaintiff NATIONWIDE 

MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 

ORDER

Documents may be filed with the Court under seal only upon Order of 

Court pertaining to the particular documents, otherwise, GOOD CAUSE 

APPEARING for this Protective Order, it is so ordered. 

DATED: April 26, 2007 __/s/ Dennis L. Beck________________ 

THE HONORABLE DENNIS L. BECK 

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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