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Parties Involved:
Donald Conti
Defendant
Conti Materials Service
Defendant
David Fuson
Plaintiff

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. CV 06-00769 LJO SMS

Jerry N. Budin

State Bar #88539

Law Office of Jerry Budin

2401 E. Orangeburg Ave., Ste. 675-309

Modesto, California 95355

Telephone: (209) 544-3030

Facsimile: (209) 544-3144

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

DAVID FUSON, et al.

Geoffrey D. DeBoskey, Esquire

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON

501 West Broadway, 19th Floor

San Diego, California 92101-3598

Telephone: (619) 338-6500

Facsimile: (619) 234-3815

Attorneys for Defendants,

CONTI MATERIALS SERVICE and DONALD CONTI

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(Fresno Division)

DAVID FUSON, individually ) CASE NO. 1:06-cv-00769 LJO SMS

and on behalf of all others )

similarly-situated, ) STIPULATED and PROTECTIVE ORDER

)

Plaintiff, )

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vs. )

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CONTI MATERIALS SERVICE )

and DOES 1 through 100, )

)

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

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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; Local Rule 39-141 sets forth

the procedures that must be followed 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.C.P. 26(c).

2.4 “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information

Or Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items”

whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would create a

substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by

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less restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or

Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces

Disclosure or Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates

information or items that it produces in disclosures or in response

to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’

Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material

that is designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential -

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a

Party but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this

action.

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House

Counsel (as well as their support staffs).

2.12 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 and who is not a past or a current

employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the

time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a

Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with

this litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide

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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

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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 (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” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the bottom 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 level of protection being asserted (either

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or

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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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” 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”

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the bottom 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 level of protection being

asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

(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, and further specify any portions of the

testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” 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

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the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days after

receipt of the transcript to identify the specific portions of the

testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level

of protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 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

or bottom of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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” or as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected,

an inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items

as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only”

does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to

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secure protection under this Order for such material. If material

is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 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 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-andconfer process first.

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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 Local Rule 37-251 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 meetand-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).

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 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

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under this Stipulated Protective Order; and

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

of the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” 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 “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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) Experts (as defined in this Order)(1) to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who

have signed the “Agreement To Be Bound By Protective Order”

(Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in

Paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed;

(c) the Court and its personnel;

(d) 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); and

(e) the author of the documents or the original source

of the information.

7.4 Procedures For Approving Disclosure Of “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information Or Items to

“Experts.” A Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as

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defined in this Order) any information or item that has been

designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must

take all adequate and reasonable steps to ensure that the proposed

“Expert” does not have any conflict of interest.

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” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 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

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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 circumstances 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.

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 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

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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 material contains 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.

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 Protected Order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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LAW OFFICE OF JERRY BUDIN

 

 

 /s/ Jerry Budin

Dated: June 19, 2007 _____________________________

JERRY BUDIN

Attorney for Plaintiff,

DAVID FUSON, et al.

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER &

HAMPTON

 /s/ Geoffrey D. DeBoskey

Dated: June 19, 2007 _____________________________

Geoffrey D. DeBoskey, Esquire

Attorney for Defendants,

CONTI MATERIALS and DONALD CONTI

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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 ____________, 2007 in the case of David Fuson, et al.

v. Cont Material Services, et al., CV 06-00769 AWI TAG. I do 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

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. CV 06-00769 LJO SMS

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the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination

of this action.

I hereby appoint ___________________________[print or type

full name] of ____________________________________[print or type

full address and telephone number] as my California agent for

service of process in connection with this action or any

proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective

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Order.

Date: _____________________

City and State where sworn and signed: __________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 19, 2007 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

icido3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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