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Parties Involved:
Clarendon America Insurance Company
Defendant
Sierra Foothills Public Utility District
Plaintiff

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STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR THE PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

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James P. Wagoner, # 058553 

Patrick Fredette, # 207284 

Anthony L. Osborn, # 216611 

McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard 

Wayte & Carruth LLP 

P.O. Box 28912 

5 River Park Place East 

Fresno, CA 93720-1501 

Telephone: (559) 433-1300 

Facsimile: (559) 433-2300 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC UTILITY 

DISTRICT 

(SPACE BELOW FOR FILING STAMP ONLY) 

Alyson A. Berg, # 184795 

Wilkins, Drolshagen & Czeshinski, LLP 

7050 N. Fresno Street, Suite 204 

Fresno, CA 93720 

Telephone: (559) 438-2390 

Facsimile: (559) 438-2393 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CLARENDON AMERICA INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC UTILITY 

DISTRICT, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CLARENDON AMERICA INSURANCE 

COMPANY and DOES 1 through 100, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 1:05-cv-00736-REC-LJO 

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR THE 

PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

Pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the parties hereby stipulate 

to the following to facilitate discovery and protect the confidentiality of and rights to information 

and documents disclosed in connection with this litigation: 

1. Applicability Of This Protective Order. All information and material produced or 

exchanged in discovery or otherwise made available for inspection and copying in this case and 

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MCCORMICK, BARSTOW, 

SHEPPARD, W AYTE & 

CARRUTH LLP 

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designated by a party or non-party as “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to the terms of this Protective 

Order (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall be governed by this Protective Order. 

2. Use of Information Produced Pursuant To This Order. Confidential Material 

shall not be made available to any person or entity except as authorized under this Protective 

Order. Confidential Material shall be used by the party or parties to whom the information is 

produced solely for the purpose of litigating this case. Such information and material shall not be 

used or disclosed to any other person or entity for any other use or purpose, unless otherwise 

agreed in writing by the Designating Party or so ordered by the Court. For purposes of this 

Protective Order, the party designating information or material as Confidential Material is defined 

as the “Designating Party.” Nothing contained in this Protective Order shall affect the right of a 

Designating Party to disclose or use its own Confidential Material for any purpose. 

3. Confidential Information Designation. A party may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” any document, material, item or information that is filed with the Court or 

produced or made available in discovery in this action and is or contains information confidential 

to the Designating Party. 

4. Designating and Marking Confidential Material. A document is to be designated 

as Confidential Material by stamping or writing on it the following legend: “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

This legend shall be placed on the first page of the document and on each page that the 

Designating Party claims to contain Confidential Material. 

5. Inadvertent Misdesignation. A Designating Party that inadvertently fails to mark 

an item as “CONFIDENTIAL,” or marks an item with an incorrect designation of confidentiality, 

at or near the time of production shall have thirty days after discovery of the inadvertent failure or 

mistake to correct such failure or mistake. The correction shall be made in writing and shall be 

accompanied by substitute copies of each item, appropriately marked as Confidential Material. 

Within thirty days of receipt of the substitute copies, the receiving party shall return or destroy the 

previously unmarked, or incorrectly marked, items and all copies thereof. 

Likewise, where a receiving party or person discovers that another party or person seeks 

to produce or has produced documents containing material or information confidential to the 

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MCCORMICK, BARSTOW, 

SHEPPARD, W AYTE & 

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receiving party or person, and yet such material or information has not been marked 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” the receiving party shall be entitled to invoke the procedure for inadvertent 

misdesignation set forth in this section. 

6. Disclosure Of Confidential Materials. Information and material designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed only to the following persons unless the Designating Party 

first otherwise agrees in writing or the Court first otherwise orders: 

 a. Counsel for the parties to this litigation, including necessary secretarial, 

clerical and litigation support or copy service personnel assisting such counsel so long as such 

counsel and support personnel are apprised of and agree to be bound by the provisions of this 

Stipulation and Order; 

 b. Consultants or expert witnesses performing services in connection with the 

prosecution or defense of this litigation; 

 c. The Court, Court personnel and court reporters; 

 d. Representatives of any named party to the litigation, provided that each 

representative understands and agrees to be bound by the terms of this Order; and 

 e. Deposition witnesses, where the Designating Party has consented on the 

record of the deposition to the showing of the Confidential Material to the witness. 

7. Use Of Confidential Material By Designating Party. Nothing in this Protective 

Order limits a party’s ability to show materials which that party has designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to whomever the Designating Party deems appropriate. Nothing in this 

Protective Order limits a party’s ability to show materials designated by another party as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to that Designating Party, including any present officer, director, employee, 

or representative thereof. 

8. Jurisdiction. The parties agree this Court has jurisdiction with respect to any 

proceedings regarding the performance under and/or compliance with this Protective Order. 

9. Protecting Confidential Materials. Each person who receives any Confidential 

Material shall exercise due and proper care, in connection with the storage, custody, use and 

dissemination of such material, to avoid any intentional or inadvertent disclosure to persons to 

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whom disclosure is not permitted under this Protective Order. 

10. Challenging Designation Of Materials As Confidential. A party may challenge 

the designation of Confidential Material only as follows: 

 a. If a party believes material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” by another 

party has not properly been so designated or should be reclassified or revealed to an individual 

not otherwise authorized to have access to such material under the terms of this Protective Order, 

that party (defined as the “Challenging Party” for purposes of this section) shall provide to the 

Designating Party written notice of this disagreement. The parties shall then attempt in good faith 

to resolve such dispute informally. 

 b. If the parties cannot resolve their dispute informally, the Challenging Party 

may request relief from the Court. The Designating Party bears the burden to establish the 

contested material is confidential. The material involved shall be treated according to its original 

designation during the pendency of the challenge. 

11. Submitting Confidential Materials To the Court. 

a. Where a party other than a Designating Party seeks to submit documents to 

the Court which have been designated as Confidential Material, or which quote or refer to the 

substance of any such materials, the submitting party shall file any such documents under seal. 

b. Where a party seeks to submit documents to the Court which have been 

designated as Confidential Material by the submitting party, the submitting party may file any 

such documents under seal. The party may also, in its discretion, decline to file such documents 

under seal. In these circumstances, the submitted material will no longer qualify for protection as 

Confidential Material under this Protective Order. 

12. Information Protected By Privilege, Work Product Or Other Doctrine. The 

production of any information governed by this Stipulation and Order shall be without prejudice 

to any claim by the producing party or non-party that any such information is privileged or 

otherwise protected within the meaning of Fed. R. Civ. P. 26, and no party or non-party shall be 

held to have waived any such privilege or protection by such production. If, after documents 

have been produced, a claim of privilege or protection is made in writing to each party to which 

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the documents were produced, each such receiving party shall take reasonable steps to ensure all 

copies of those documents are returned promptly to the producing party. If data or information 

has been extracted or copied from a document that is thus subsequently returned, that information 

and/or data shall be expunged and not used. To the extent, however, that, before being notified of 

the inadvertent production, the receiving party has in good faith used such information and/or 

data in documents filed with the Court or at depositions, the receiving party shall have no 

obligation to expunge such information and/or data from, or otherwise to alter, any such 

document filed with the Court or the transcript of any such deposition. 

13. Conclusion Of Litigation. All provisions of this Protective Order restricting the 

communication or use of Confidential Material shall continue to be binding after the conclusion 

of this action, unless otherwise agreed by all parties or ordered by the Court. Upon conclusion of 

the litigation, including the running of any time to appeal or to move for relief under Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 60(B)(1)-(3), a party in possession of Confidential Material, other than that which is contained 

in pleadings, correspondence, and deposition transcripts, shall, upon request of the Designating 

Party, either (a) return such documents, no later than 30 days after the request, to counsel for the 

party who provided such information; or (b) destroy the documents within that time period and 

certify in writing within that time period that the documents have been destroyed. 

14. Use Of Confidential Material During Court Proceedings. If any Confidential 

Material is used in any pretrial proceeding in this dispute, the material shall not lose its status as 

Confidential Material through such use. The parties shall take all reasonable steps to protect the 

confidentiality of the Confidential Material during any such use, including, but not limited to, 

requesting in camera proceedings. The terms of this Protective Order do not preclude, limit, 

restrict or otherwise apply to the use of documents at trial. The parties agree to meet and confer 

in good faith prior to trial to establish procedures for the use of Confidential Material at trial. 

15. Improper Disclosure Of Confidential Materials. If any Confidential Material is 

disclosed to any person to whom such disclosure is not authorized by this Protective Order, or 

other than in a manner authorized by this Protective Order, the party responsible for the 

disclosure shall, upon discovery of the disclosure, immediately notify the Designating Party in 

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writing of all facts pertinent to the disclosure that, after due diligence and prompt investigation, 

are known to the party responsible for the disclosure (including the name, address, telephone 

number and employer of the person to whom the disclosure was made), shall immediately take all 

reasonable efforts to prevent further disclosure by each unauthorized person who received such 

information, and shall immediately require each unauthorized person to return all Confidential 

Material that was improperly disclosed to that person, all copies made of the improperly disclosed 

Confidential Material, and all documents containing excerpts from or references to the improperly 

disclosed Confidential Material. 

16. No Admissions. Compliance with this Protective Order in no way constitutes an 

admission by any party that any information designated pursuant to this Protective Order is or is 

not proprietary, confidential, or a trade secret. 

17. Modification Of Protective Order. Each party reserves the right to request that the 

Court modify the terms of this Protective Order in the event that the party believes that a 

modification is necessary. 

SO STIPULATED: 

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Dated: October 18, 2005 McCORMICK, BARSTOW, SHEPPARD 

WAYTE & CARRUTH LLP 

By: /s/ Anthony L. Osborn 

James P. Wagoner 

Anthony L. Osborn 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

SIERRA FOOTHILLS PUBLIC 

UTILITY DISTRICT 

Dated: October 18, 2005 WILKINS, DROLSHAGEN & 

CZESHINSKI, LLP 

By: /s/ Alyson A. Berg 

Alyson A. Berg 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CLARENDON AMERICA INSURANCE 

COMPANY 

ORDER

Pursuant to the above stipulation, and good cause shown therefor, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated:___10/19/05_ ___/s/ ROBERT E. COYLE_____________ 

 The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

 United States District Judge 

79020/00000-872996.v1 

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