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Parties Involved:
AMCO Insurance Co.
Defendant
Allied Insurance Co.
Defendant
Nationwide Insurance Co.
Defendant
Clifford Orloff
Plaintiff
Olga Shalygin Orloff
Plaintiff
Orloff Property Management, Inc.
Plaintiff

Document Text:

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MARC S. HINES (SBN 140065)

mhines@hinescarder.com

NICOLE M. HAMPTON (SBN 189024)

nhampton@hinescarder.com

HINES CARDER LLP

3090 Bristol Street, Suite 300

Costa Mesa, California 92626

Tel.: (714) 513-1122

Fax: (714) 242-9529

Attorneys for Defendants,

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, erroneously sued as 

Nationwide Insurance Co., AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY, and ALLIED 

PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, erroneously sued as 

Allied Insurance Co. 

DAVID SIMON (SBN 241501)

dsimon@simonlaw.com

SIMON LAW

3021 Citrus Circle, Suite 250

Walnut Creek, California 94598

Tel.: (415) 746-6652

Fax: (415) 746-6632

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

CLIFFORD ORLOFF, OLGA SHALYGIN ORLOFF, and ORLOFF PROPERTY 

MANAGEMENT INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CLIFFORD ORLOFF, OLGA 

SHALYGIN ORLOFF, and ORLOFF 

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC.,

Plaintiffs,

vs. 

NATIONWIDE INSURANCE CO., 

AMCO INSURANCE CO., ALLIED 

INSURANCE CO., and DOES 1 

through 50,

Defendants.

No: 2:14-cv-01017-MCE-DAD

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

TO THE COURT, ALL PARTIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEL 

OF RECORD: 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED to, by and between the parties 

to this action, through their respective attorneys of record, HINES CARDER, LLP for 

Defendants, NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, erroneously 

sued as Nationwide Insurance Co., AMCO INSURANCE COMPANY, and 

ALLIED PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, erroneously 

sued as Allied Insurance Co. (“Defendants”), and SIMON LAW for Plaintiffs

CLIFFORD ORLOFF, OLGA SHALYGIN ORLOFF, and ORLOFF PROPERTY 

MANAGEMENT INC. (“Plaintiffs”), that certain documents produced in connection 

with discovery proceedings in this action shall be subject to the following confidentiality 

agreement (“the Agreement”): 

1. The documents that are the subject of this Agreement include proprietary 

and confidential documents of Defendants containing trade secret, proprietary or other 

confidential research, development or commercial information, and which Defendants 

contend are protected by trade secret privileges under Civil Code § 3426 et seq. and 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 and which Defendants are producing to Plaintiffs

pursuant to discovery procedures while the above-referenced action is pending and 

marked by Defendants as “CONFIDENTIAL” (the “Confidential Documents”). 

Defendants may seek leave from the Court at any time to designate documents as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” that have been inadvertently produced without having been marked 

as such due to human error.

2. The Confidential Documents, and all copies or extracts therefrom, excerpts, 

summaries, compilations, testimony, conversations, presentations by parties or counsel to 

or in court, or in any other settings that might reveal said information, and information 

learned from the Confidential Documents, are confidential and proprietary in nature and 

protected by privacy rights and trade secret laws. It is the intent of the parties to preserve 

the confidentiality of the Confidential Documents and the information learned from them. 

The Confidential Documents and the information learned from them are not to be used in 

any fashion other than for the purposes of this litigation, and are not to be disclosed to 

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any persons or entities except as set forth herein, and are to be kept confidential to the 

greatest extent possible, even within the confines of this litigation. 

3. In the event Defendants mark any document or testimony 

“CONFIDENTIAL” which Plaintiffs believe is not protected by any trade secret privilege 

or is not confidential or proprietary in nature, the parties shall within thirty (30) days of 

Plaintiffs’ request, meet and confer in good faith regarding removal of the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” designation. In the event the parties are unable to reach an 

agreement regarding designation of the documents as Confidential Documents subject to 

this Protective Order or designation of testimony as subject to the restrictions of this

Protective Order, Defendants may or shall move the Court for a court-ordered protective 

order designating the subject documents as “CONFIDENTIAL,” and nothing within this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall preclude Defendants from making such motion. By 

proceeding in this order and fashion, Plaintiffs waive any claim or assertion that a motion 

for a court-ordered protective order brought pursuant to this section 3 is not timely sought 

or filed. The parties agree to continue to afford the material confidential protection until 

the Court rules on any such motion. 

4. Except as provided herein, the parties agree Defendants need not file a 

motion for protective order pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26. 

5. Immediately following the conclusion of this litigation, either by 

settlement, judgment, dismissal or otherwise, counsel for the party or parties to which 

Confidential Documents were produced shall destroy the Confidential Documents, 

including any copies made of the Confidential Documents and including any extracts 

and/or summaries of the Confidential Documents containing information taken from the 

Confidential Documents. Each party shall provide written notice to the other side that 

the Confidential Documents have been destroyed or, in the alternative, return the 

Confidential Documents to the other side with a cover letter confirming all Confidential 

Documents have been returned. The parties and Counsel for the parties shall not discuss 

the Confidential Documents or information gleaned from the Confidential Documents at 

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all with any person or party at any time after conclusion of the litigation, other than with 

their respective counsel and clients in the above-captioned action, counsel for Plaintiff, 

counsel for Defendants, and the Court under seal.

6. The Confidential Documents shall be disclosed only to:

a. The Court and its officers in accordance with Paragraph 8 herein; 

b. The parties; Counsel of Record for the parties and the staff assigned to 

assist Counsel of Record in this matter; 

c. Any experts or consultants retained by any of the Parties; provided such 

expert or consultant complies with Paragraph 7 herein; 

d. Witnesses during depositions in accordance with Paragraph 9 herein; 

e. Persons recording testimony involving such Confidential information, 

including Court reporters, stenographers and audio and/or video technicians, and clerical 

staff employed by any of the foregoing; 

f. Mediators who may be authorized by the parties to mediate the case; and

g. Such other persons as hereafter may be designated by written stipulation 

of the parties, or by the Order of the Court.

To “disclose” the Confidential Documents means to provide the Confidential 

Documents, or any one of them, to provide any documents which discuss the 

Confidential Documents, or to discuss or refer to any of the contents of the Confidential 

Documents. 

7. The Confidential Documents may be disclosed to an expert or consultant 

under Paragraph 6 of the Agreement only upon the expert or consultant signing Exhibit 1 

to the Protective Order. Said expert or consultant witnesses shall not disclose the 

Confidential Documents to any person or entity other than staff and/or colleagues 

employed by the expert or consultant’s firm who assist them with their assignment. Said 

expert or consultant shall either (A) return the Confidential Documents and all copies 

thereof, including extracts and/or summaries of the Confidential Documents containing 

information taken from the Confidential Documents, to the party’s respective counsel at 

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the conclusion of the litigation, or (B) destroy the Confidential Documents and all copies 

thereof, including extracts and/or summaries of the Confidential Documents containing 

information taken from Confidential Documents at the conclusion of the litigation. The 

original of such signed Exhibit 1 shall be retained by counsel for each party who intends 

to or does provide such expert or consultant any such Confidential Documents, until the 

conclusion of the above-captioned action, including any appeals. If requested to do so by 

counsel for any party, counsel shall provide a copy of such declarations to counsel 

making the request, unless such disclosure would provide information not otherwise 

subject to discovery (e.g., identification of non-testifying consultant experts or retained 

experts prior to expert disclosure date or identification of potential witnesses in violation 

of work product protection or any privilege). The parties agree not to use these 

declarations for any purpose other than monitoring and enforcing compliance with this 

Protective Order. The parties further agree to treat the declarations as confidential. 

8. If Plaintiffs wish to submit to the Court any “Confidential” material, 

Plaintiffs shall provide Defendants’ counsel thirty (30) days advance notice of the intent 

to so submit so that Defendants can file with the Court a Notice of Request and Request 

to Seal Documents pursuant to Local Rule 141. Defendants shall file such Notice of 

Request and Request to Seal Documents no later than seven (7) business days from 

receipt of written notice by Plaintiffs and shall advise the Court therein of any filing 

deadlines affecting Plaintiffs’ intended submission to the Court. During any deposition in 

which any of the Confidential Documents or confidential material subject to this 

Protective Order are offered as an exhibit, or a witness is questioned about the specific 

contents of same, whether or not offered as an exhibit, all persons present at the 

deposition shall agree to observe the confidentiality of the Confidential Documents and 

the material terms of this Protective Order. Said agreement shall be placed on the record 

at the deposition, and this Protective Order shall be made an exhibit to the deposition. No 

witness shall be permitted to take any of the Confidential Documents, or any copies of 

same, from the deposition, nor shall they be permitted to retain any of the Confidential 

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Documents, nor shall they be permitted to disclose any of the Confidential Documents. 

Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the original or a certified copy of the deposition 

transcript, if Defendants contend testimony pertaining to any document marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL” is subject to this Protective Order, counsel for Defendants shall 

provide written notice to counsel for Plaintiffs of the page and line numbers so 

designated. If a document designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” is used as an exhibit at a 

deposition, that document and the deposition testimony concerning it shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL” matter regardless of whether a party makes any formal designation 

thereof in connection with the deposition. If any portion of a deposition transcript is 

designated and/or deemed a “CONFIDENTIAL” matter, including exhibits, any 

production or lodging of the transcript in its entirety shall be produced and/or lodged 

under seal pursuant to Paragraph 8, above.

9. The parties reserve the right to seek an order from the Court, on noticed 

motion, to modify or change this Protective Order, including the right to have documents 

designated as confidential deemed not confidential. This Protective Order and the 

Confidential Documents governed hereby can only be deemed not confidential by an 

order of the Court upon motion or by stipulation. 

10. Notwithstanding the termination of this action by settlement, judgment, 

dismissal or otherwise, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 

California shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the Agreement. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: January 23, 2015 HINES CARDER, LLP

/s/ Nicole M. Hampton

Nicole M. Hampton

Attorneys for Defendants

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY, AMCO INSURANCE 

COMPANY AND ALLIED PROPERTY & 

CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 

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Dated: January 23, 2015 SIMON LAW

/s/ David Simon

David Simon

Attorney for Plaintiffs

CLIFFORD ORLOFF, OLGA SHALYGIN 

ORLOFF, and ORLOFF PROPERTY 

MANAGEMENT, INC.

ATTESTATION OF CONCURRENCE IN FILING

I hereby attest and certify that on January 23, 2015, I received concurrence from 

Plaintiffs’ counsel, David Simon, to file this document with his signature attached.

I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America 

that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on January 23, 2015.

/s/ Nicole M. Hampton

Nicole M. Hampton 

EXHIBIT 1

I, ________________________________________, declare: 

1. I hereby acknowledge that I have read the Stipulated Protective Order 

regarding the Confidential Documents (hereinafter “Order”) in the case of Clifford Orloff, 

et al. v. Nationwide Insurance Company, et al, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District 

of California, Case No. 2:14-cv-01017-MCE-DAD (the “Lawsuit”) and I understand 

the terms of the Order and agree to abide by and be bound by the terms of the Order. 

2. I further acknowledge that I understand that the Confidential Documents 

may not be disclosed to anyone, except as authorized by this Order.

3. I further acknowledge that the Confidential Documents may not be used for 

any purpose other than as required for my work in the Lawsuit. I further understand and 

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acknowledge that any dissemination or use of such Confidential Documents or 

information in a manner inconsistent with the Protective Order may subject me to 

contempt proceedings. 

4. I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing 

this Protective Order. 

5. Upon final resolution of the Lawsuit, I shall either (A) return all copies of 

the Confidential Documents to the attorney, entity or person that retained me or my firm 

in the Lawsuit, or that provided me with the Confidential Documents, or (B) destroy all 

copies of those Confidential Documents in my possession, custody or control.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the 

foregoing is true and correct. 

Dated: _________________ By: ____________________________

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

 Dated: January 26, 2015

Ddad1\orders.civil

 orloff1017.stip.prot.ord.doc

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