Vital Distributions, LLC v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc.

Filing 19

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman on 5/10/2022. (Zignago, K.)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

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VITAL DISTRIBUTIONS, LLC, a California
limited liability company,
Plaintiff,

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vs.
PEPPERIDGE FARM, INCORPORATED,
a Connecticut corporation,

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Defendants.

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Case No. 2:22-cv-00319-MCE-KJN
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PURPOSE AND GOOD CAUSE FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve the production of

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confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure

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and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Pursuant to

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Local Rule 141.1(c)(1), the types of information eligible for protection in this action includes

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customer and pricing information, purchase and sale data, and other valuable research, development,

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commercial, financial, technical and/or other proprietary information. Such confidential and

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proprietary materials and information consists of, among other things, confidential business or

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financial information, information regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential,

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development, or commercial information (including information implicating privacy rights of third

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parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged or

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otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or

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common law.

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Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(c)(2), there is a need to protect this type of evidence. A party’s

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trade secret, confidential, competitive, or proprietary information could be abused if its use were not

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limited to this lawsuit. For example, third party competitors could exploit confidential information to

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their advantage were it made public. In some cases, disclosure of this type of evidence could breach

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confidentiality agreements or violate privacy or consumer protection laws.

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Accordingly, Plaintiff VITAL DISTRIBUTIONS, LLC (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant

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PEPPERIDGE FARM, INCORPORATED (“Defendant”) (collectively, the “Parties”) seek a

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Stipulated Protective Order pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(c)(3) as opposed to entering into a private

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agreement, because the proposed Order provides mechanisms for the resolution of disputes and the

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handling of designated evidence that involve the Court. Therefore, to expedite the flow of

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information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials,

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to adequately protect information the Parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the Parties

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are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial,

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to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and to serve the ends of justice, there is good

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cause for a protective order for such information. It is the intent of the Parties that information will

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not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good

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faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause

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why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

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Therefore, the Parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following

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Stipulated Protective Order (“Protective Order”). The Parties have agreed to be bound by the terms of

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this Protective Order.

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS.
Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential,

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proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use

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for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties

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hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The

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parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses

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to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the

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limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal
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principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated

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Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Local Rule 141 sets

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

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permission from the court to file material under seal.

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DEFINITIONS.
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Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of information

or items under this Order.
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“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).

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their support staff).

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Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as

Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
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Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or

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manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,

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transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery

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in this matter.

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Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the

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litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant

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in this action.

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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.
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Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity

not named as a Party to this action.
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Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action but

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are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on behalf of that

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party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party.
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consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

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

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Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in

this action.

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Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g.,

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photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or

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retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

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

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Producing Party.

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SCOPE.

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The protections conferred by this Protective Order cover not only Protected Material (as

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

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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.

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However, the protections conferred by this Protective Order do not cover the following information:

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

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

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not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial or

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otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by

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the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and

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under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. This Protective Order shall not

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prohibit or limit the use of Protected Material at trial, unless governed by a separate agreement or

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order.

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DURATION.
Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this

Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court
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order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims

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

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

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including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to

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applicable law.

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DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL.
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Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or

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Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Protective Order must take

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care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards.

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The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or

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oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material, documents, items,

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or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit

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of this Order.

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown to

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be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber

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or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other

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parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

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If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for

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protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties

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that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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5.2

Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Protective

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Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered,

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Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Protective Order must be clearly

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so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

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Designation in conformity with this Protective Order requires:
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For information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but

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excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party

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affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or
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portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly

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identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). A Party or

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Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not designate

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them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it would like copied

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and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available for

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inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the

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documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or

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portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Protective Order. Then, before producing the

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specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that

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contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for

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protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making

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appropriate markings in the margins).

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(b)

for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that

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the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other

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proceeding, all protected testimony.

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for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any

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other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the

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container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If

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

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extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

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5.3

Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate

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qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure

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protection under this Protective Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a designation, the

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Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with

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the provisions of this Protective Order.

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CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS.
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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 confidentiality
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designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or

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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

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is disclosed.

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

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providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each challenge.

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

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challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the Protective

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Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by

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conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient). In

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

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was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to

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reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the

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chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it

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has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to

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participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.

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

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intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality within 21

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days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer

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process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by

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a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer

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requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a

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

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waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging

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Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for

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doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof.

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

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

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preceding paragraph.

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

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Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary

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expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the

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Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain

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confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level

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of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the

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challenge.

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ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.
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Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or

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produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting,

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defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the

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categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Protective Order. When the litigation has

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been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL

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DISPOSITION).

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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 Protective Order.
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Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the

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court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information

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or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

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the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as

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employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the

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information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

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Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the

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Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed

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

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

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

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Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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the court and its personnel;

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court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors,

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

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

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during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

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

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

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transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be

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separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under

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this Protective Order.

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the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian

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or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

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LITIGATION.

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

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

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must:

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promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include

a copy of the subpoena or court order;

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promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue

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

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this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Protective Order; and

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cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the

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Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

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

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court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before

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

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

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seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions should be

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construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive

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from another court.

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A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS
LITIGATION.

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(a)

The terms of this Protective Order are applicable to information produced by a

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Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-

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Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this

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Protective Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from

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seeking additional protections.

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(b)

In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a

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

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the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall:

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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;

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promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Protective Order in

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this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the

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information requested; and

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make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-

Party.
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If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within

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

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Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely

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seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or
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control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by

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

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seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

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UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.
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If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected

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Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Protective Order, the

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Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized

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disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c)

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inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this

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Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

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Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED

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MATERIAL.

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When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that the Producing Party has

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

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

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is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides

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for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e),

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insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or

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information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the parties may

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incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the court.

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MISCELLANEOUS.
12.1

Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Protective Order abridges the right of any

person to seek its modification by the court in the future.

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12.2

Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order

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no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any informa-

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tion or item on any ground not addressed in this Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives

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any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective

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Order.

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Filing Protected Material. Except as otherwise set forth herein, without written

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permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all

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interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A

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Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 141. Pursuant

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to Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected

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

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the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Local Rule 141

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is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless

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otherwise instructed by the court.

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FINAL DISPOSITION.

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Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each

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Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As

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used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,

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summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the

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Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to

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the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day

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

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

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

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Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion

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papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and

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trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if

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such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute

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Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED.

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DATED: May 6, 2022

/s/ Jake Weaver __________________________
JAKE C. WEAVER
AVALON J. FITZGERALD
REYNOLDS TILBURY WOODWARD LLP
Attorneys for Plaintiff
VITAL DISTRIBUTIONS, LLC

DATED: May 6, 2022

/s/ Robert Kahn __________________________
EDWARD HUGUENIN
ROBERT J. KAHN
HUGUENIN KAHN LLP
Attorneys for Plaintiff
VITAL DISTRIBUTIONS, LLC

DATED: May 6, 2022

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MICHAEL M. GLESS
BENTLEY P. STANSBURY III
IGOR V. STADNIK
KEESAL, YOUNG & LOGAN
Attorneys for Defendant
PEPPERIDGE FARM, INCORPORATED

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EXHIBIT A

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print

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or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the

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Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District

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of California in the case of Vital Distributions, LLC v. Pepperidge Farm, Incorporated, Case

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No. 2:22-CV-00319-MCE-KJN. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this

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Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose

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me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose

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in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person

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or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.

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I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern

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District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if

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such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

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I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of

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_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as

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my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to

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enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

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Date:

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City and State where sworn and signed:

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Printed name:

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Signature:

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The court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order. (See ECF No. 18). The

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stipulation comports with the relevant authorities and the court’s applicable local rule. See L.R. 141.1.

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The court APPROVES the protective order, subject to the following clarification. The Local Rules

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state that once an action is closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the court will not retain jurisdiction over

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enforcement of the terms of any protective order filed in that action.” L.R. 141.1(f). Courts in the

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district generally do not agree to retain jurisdiction for disputes concerning protective orders after

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closure of the case. See, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 (E.D. Cal.,

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Feb. 03, 2017). Thus, the court will not retain jurisdiction over this protective order once the case is

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closed.

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Dated: May 10, 2022

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