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Parties Involved:
AMCO Insurance Company
Defendant
Great American Assurance Company
Defendant
Pacatte Construction Company, Inc.
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PACATTE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, 

INC., 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY, a 

corporation, GREAT AMERICAN 

ASSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation; and 

DOES 1 through V, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

CASE NO. C 12-01472 JSW 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Courtroom: Courtroom 11 

 Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White 

 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 may 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 from 

public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to 

confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as 

set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file 

LAFAYETTE & KUMAGAI LLP

GARY T. LAFAYETTE (State Bar No. 088666) 

REBECCA K. KIMURA (State Bar No. 220420) 

100 Spear Street, Suite 600 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 357-4600 

Facsimile: (415) 357-4605 

glafayette@lkclaw.com

rkimura@lkclaw.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY 

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confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 and General Order 62 set forth the 

procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks 

permission from the court to file material under seal. The parties further acknowledge that this 

Order does not compel or require any party to produce information that is protected from 

disclosure by statute or law. 

 2. DEFINITIONS

 2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

 2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how 

it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff). 

 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other 

things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures 

or responses to discovery in this matter. 

 2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party or of a 

Party’s competitor, and (3) at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a 

Party or of a Party’s competitor. 

 2.7 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

Information or Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of 

which to another Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not 

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be avoided by less restrictive means. 

 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to 

this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this 

action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of 

that party. 

 2.11 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support 

staffs). 

 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and 

organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY.” 

 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

 3. SCOPE

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 

(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

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conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as 

a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party 

prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who 

obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

 4. DURATION

 Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after 

the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this 

action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 

pursuant to applicable law. 

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 5. 1 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. To the extent it is practical to do so, the Designating Party must 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 Designating 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 Designating 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, 

Disclosure or Discovery 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 (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the 

Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to 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. 

 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 “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”) to each page that contains Protected 

Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

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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. 

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

proceedings, that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, 

hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being 

asserted. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the 

Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding 

is concluded) a right to have up to 21 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to 

which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those 

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall 

be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating 

Party may specify, at the deposition or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly 

invoked, that the entire transcript shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing 

or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all 

pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material 

and the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall 

inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the 

expiration of a 21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been 

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designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless 

otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as 

actually designated. 

 (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 a 

portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the 

extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s) and specify the level of protection being 

asserted. 

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

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely 

correction of a designation, the Receiving Party 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. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality and/or level of protection by providing written notice of each 

designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each challenge within 45 days of the 

Challenging Party's receipt of the information designated as "Confidential." To avoid ambiguity 

as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to 

confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. 

 6.2 Meet and Confer. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in 

good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In 

conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality 

designation and/or level of 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 

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in designation or level of designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation or 

level of 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 or establishes that the Designating 

Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality 

and/or level of designation under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-

5 and General Order 62, if applicable) within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 

14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, 

whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

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

preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the 

required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the 

confidentiality designation and/or level of designation for each challenged designation and/or 

level of designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a 

confidentiality designation or a level of designation if there is good cause for doing so, including 

a challenge to the designation or level of designation of a deposition transcript or any portions 

thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass 

or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party 

to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation or level of 

designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality or the level of designation as 

described above, 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 until the court rules on the 

challenge.

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 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 13 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. 

 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” 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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (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 “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

 (d) the court and its personnel; 

 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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

is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

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Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 

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 or recipient of a document containing the information or 

a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

 (b) Experts of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 

7.4(a)(2), below, have been followed; 

 (c) the court and its personnel; 

 (d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and 

 (e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or 

a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

 7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to Experts. 

 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an Expert (as defined in this Order) any 

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information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY pursuant to paragraph 7.2(c) first must make a written request to the Designating 

Party that (1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, 

(2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) 

attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) 

identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received compensation or funding for 

work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services, 

including in connection with a litigation, at any time during the preceding five years,1 and (6) 

identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in 

connection with which the Expert has offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, 

report, or testimony at a deposition or trial, during the preceding five years.2

 (b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified 

in the preceding respective paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the 

identified Expert unless, within 14 days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written 

objection from the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on 

which it is based. 

 (c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and 

confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the 

matter by agreement within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the 

Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil Local 

Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking permission from the 

court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in 

 

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Expert should provide whatever information the Expert believes can be disclosed without violating any 

confidentiality agreements, and the Party seeking to disclose to the Expert shall be available to meet and confer with 

the Designating Party regarding any such engagement. 

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the termination of the litigation that could foreseeably result in an improper use of the Designating Party’s 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information. 

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detail the reasons why the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm 

that the disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce 

that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content 

of the meet and confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the Designating 

Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

 In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall 

bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the 

safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its 

Expert. 

 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” that Party must: 

 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall 

include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to 

issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is 

subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated 

Protective Order; and 

 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by 

the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the 

subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” before a 

determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 

obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 

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expense 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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED 

IN THIS LITIGATION

 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with 

this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these 

provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an 

agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the 

Party shall: 

 1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 

that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a NonParty; 

 2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 

Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific 

description of the information requested; and 

 3. make the information requested available for inspection by the 

Non-Party. 

 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may 

produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the NonParty timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its 

possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 

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 10. 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 unauthorized 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. 

 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery 

order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product 

protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order 

submitted to the court. 

 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. 

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 12.3 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 79-5 and General 

Order 62. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing 

the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5 and 

General Order 62, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected 

Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection 

under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) and General Order 62 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party 

may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless 

otherwise instructed by the court. 

 13. FINAL DISPOSITION

 Counsel shall keep a record of all copies of Protected Material distributed, in whole or in 

part, to any Qualified Person. Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined 

in paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or 

destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. 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 60 day deadline that 

(1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 

destroyed, and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and 

consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such 

archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective 

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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 Northern District of California on _________________ in the case of Pacatte Construction 

Company, Inc. v. AMCO Insurance Company, et al., Case No. 3:12-cv-01472-JSW. 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 

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. 

 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 Order. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

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Signature: __________________________________ 

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