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Parties Involved:
Michael David LLC
Counter Defendant
Oak Ridge Winery LLC
Counter Claimant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:15-CV-01874-WBS-AC 

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RODARAKIS & SOUSA, APC 

ERIC J. SOUSA (SBN 232541) 

Email: esousa@rodsoulaw.com 

1301 L Street, Suite 4 

Modesto, California 95354 

Telephone: (209) 554-5232 

Facsimile: (209) 544-1085 

HARVEY SISKIND LLP 

IAN K. BOYD (SBN 191434) 

Email: iboyd@harveysiskind.com 

Four Embarcadero Center, 39th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 354-0100 

Facsimile: (415) 391-7124 

Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaimant 

OAK RIDGE WINERY, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FRESNO DIVISION 

MICHAEL DAVID LLC, a California limited 

liability company, 

 Plaintiff/Counterdefendant 

v. 

OAK RIDGE WINERY LLC, a California 

limited liability company, 

 Defendant/Counterclaimant

Case No. 2:15-CV-01874-WBS-AC 

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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 may be warranted. Such 

information includes, but it is not limited to, confidential business plans and private financial 

information associated with the sales of certain wines at issue in this litigation. 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 confidential information under seal; General 

Local Rule 141 sets 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. 

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” and “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY” 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) of a Party. 

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,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY” or “TRADE SECRET.” 

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, 

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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 has been retained by a Party or its Counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action. 

2.7 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. 

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

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

2.9 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 and 

who do not have a duty or an obligation to disclose to the represented party any information 

designated as Highly Confidential or Trade Secret.

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

employees, consultants, and retained experts (and their support staffs). 

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.12 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. 

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY” or 

“TRADE SECRET.” 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

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2.15 Trade Secret: information which is normally the subject of reasonable efforts 

under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy and which has independent economic value, actual or 

potential, from not being generally known or ascertainable through appropriate means by third parties 

or the other party, as determined by applicable trade secret law and may for example include (i) 

confidential forward looking business, marketing, advertising or promotional plans undisclosed to the 

public, (ii) confidential inventions, (iii) confidential processes and recipes of wine making, (iv) 

confidential methods, and (v) proprietary customer information." 

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, 

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. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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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. 

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 

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 it has 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, 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,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY” or “TRADE SECRET” 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). 

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 

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designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY,” or 

“TRADE SECRET.” 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 “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES 

ONLY” or “TRADE SECRET” legend 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). 

(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. 

(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 information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL: OUTSIDE COUNSEL’S EYES ONLY” or “TRADE SECRET.” 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). 

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 at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidential 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, 

or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a 

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confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original 

designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 

for each challenge. 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. 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 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 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 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 for each challenged designation. In addition, 

the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if 

there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the 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. 

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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 by failing to file a 

motion to retain confidentiality 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. 

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 or defending 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; 

(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 “Acknowledgement 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 “Acknowledgement and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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(d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

who have signed the “Acknowledgement 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 “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 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; and 

(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” 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: OUTSIDE 

COUNSEL’S 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; 

 (b) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

who have signed the “Acknowledgement 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. 

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7.4 Disclosure of “TRADE SECRET” 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 “TRADE SECRET” 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; 

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

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

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

who have signed the “Acknowledgement 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. 

7.5 Disclosure to Experts. Any party who seeks to disclose any information or 

item designated “CONFIDENTIAL,” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL,” or “TRADE SECRET” to an 

Expert (as defined in this Order) must first notify the Party that so designated the information or 

item. Notification shall include the proposed Expert’s name, occupation, and professional 

background. The Party receiving such notification will then have ten (10) days to serve a written 

objection to disclosure to the Expert. If objection is made, the Parties will meet and confer in good 

faith to resolve the dispute. If the Parties are unable to resolve the dispute despite making a 

reasonable effort to do so, the Party objecting to disclosure may file a motion with the Court to 

prevent disclosure. If the objecting Party fails to file such a motion within fourteen (14) days of 

service of its written objection, however, the other Party may proceed to disclose the information or 

item to the Expert. 

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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,” “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” or “TRADE SECRET,” 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” or “TRADE SECRET” 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 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 Non-Party in 

this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” or “TRADE 

SECRET.” 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. 

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 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a NonParty’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the NonParty 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 Non-Party; 

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 Non-Party 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 

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 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of 

seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

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 “Acknowledgement and 

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

 

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 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of confidentiality 

rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality 

interests in this court.

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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. 

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 General Local Rule 141. 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 General Local Rule 141, 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 General Local Rule 141 is denied by the Court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the Court. 

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13. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

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. 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 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 Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION). 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

 

Dated: May 23, 2016 VEDDER PRICE, LLP 

 ROBERT S. BEISER 

 ALAIN VILLENUEVE 

 LUCKY MEINZ 

 

 By: /s/ Alain Villenueve (as authorized on May 23, 2016)

 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff/Counterdefendant 

MICHAEL DAVID LLC 

 

Dated: May 23, 2016 RODARKIS & SOUSA, APC 

ERIC J. SOUSA 

 

HARVEY SISKIND LLP 

 IAN K. BOYD 

 

 By: /s/ Ian K. Boyd 

 

 Attorneys for Defendant/Counterclaimant 

OAK RIDGE WINERY LLC 

 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: June 2, 2016 

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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 Eastern District of California on 

________________[date] in the case of Michael David LLC v. Oak Ridge Winery LLC., Case No. 

2:15-CV-01874-WBS-AC. 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 Eastern 

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: __________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: _____________________________ 

 [signature]

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