St. Clair v. U.S. Airways, Inc.

Filing 26

ORDER APPROVING 25 Stipulated Protective Order. Signed by Judge Jeffrey S. White on April 9, 2010. (jswlc3, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 4/9/2010)

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Richard G. Grotch, Esq. - SBN 127713 Alisha A. Beltramo, Esq. - SBN 267423 CO DDING TO N, HICKS & DANFORTH A Professional Corporation, Lawyers 555 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 300 Redwood City, California 94065-2133 Tel. [phone] Fax.[phone] E-mail: [e-mail] ATTO RNEYS FOR Defendant US AIRWAYS, INC. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NO RTH ERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT B. ST. CLAIR, Plaintiff,

No. C-09-5871 JSW STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

v s. U.S. AIRWAYS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, DOE ONE, DOE TWO, DOE THREE, DOE FOUR, DOE FIVE, DOE SIX, DOE SEVEN, DOE EIGHT, DOE NINE, and DOE TEN, Defendants. / 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 would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth
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the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 2. 2 .1 D E FIN IT IO N S Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium

or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this m a tte r . 2 .3 Confidential Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, stored

or maintained) or tangible things that properly qualify for protection under standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). Counsel shall not designate any discovery material as "Confidential" without first making a good faith determination that protection is warranted. 2 .4 "Highly Confidential ­ Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items: extremely

sensitive, "Confidential Information" or Items whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 2 .5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a

Producing Party. 2 .6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material

in this action. 2 .7 . Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential -- Attorneys' Eyes Only." 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

"Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential ­ Attorneys' Eyes Only." 2 .9 . Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained

to represent or advise a Party in this action. 2 .1 0 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 2

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2 .1 1

Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their

support staffs). 2 .1 2 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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party's and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party's. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 2 .1 3 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g.,

photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 4. D U R A T IO N

Even after the termination 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; the Court's jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this Stipulation and Order shall expire six months after the final termination of this Action. 5. 5 .1 DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 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 pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. A Designating Party must take care to 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 3
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protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. As noted above, counsel shall not designate any discovery material as "Confidential" without first making a good faith determination that protection is warranted. M ass, 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 Party's or a non-party's attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 5 .2 M anner 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, 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 (apart from transcripts of depositions or other

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "H IGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" at the top of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for 4
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protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend ("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY") at the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either "CONFIDENTIAL" or "H IGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings that the Party

or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted ("CONFID E N T IAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," as instructed by the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 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 the information or item is stored the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "H IGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." If only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 5
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portions, specifying whether they qualify as "Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential ­ Attorneys' Eyes Only." 5 .3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to

designate qualified information or items as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential ­ Attorneys' Eyes Only" does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential ­ Attorneys' Eyes Only" after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 6. 6 .1 CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party's

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 6 .2 M eet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party's

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. 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. 6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such 6
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motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 7. 7 .1 ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or

produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, 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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; (b) the officers, directors, and employees and insurers (including House Counsel) of the

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); / // / // 7
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(c)

ex p erts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); (d) (e) the Court and its personnel; court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); (f) d u ring their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order. (g) 7.3 the author of the document or the original source of the information. Disclosure of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" only to: (a) the Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as employees of

said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; (b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for

this litigation, (2) who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); (c) (d) the Court and its personnel; court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" (Exhibit A); and (e) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 8

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8.

PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

L IT I G A T IO N . If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "H IGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ­ ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected M aterial 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 copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. / // 9
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FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL.

If a party wishes to file a document that has been designated "Confidential" by another party pursuant to this protective order, or if a party wishes to refer in a memorandum or other filing to inform ation so designated by another party, the submitting party must file and serve an Administrative Motion for a sealing order and lodge the document, memorandum or other filing in accordance with Civil Local Rule 79-5. When lodged, the "Confidential" material shall be placed in a sealed envelope with instructions that the document is filed pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order and that the envelope is not to be opened absent further order of the Court. The envelope should be labeled to identify the title of the case, the case number and the title of the document. If only a portion of the document, memorandum or other filing is sealable, the submitting party must also lodge with the Court a redacted version of the document, memorandum or other filing to be placed in the public record if the Court approves the requested sealing order. Within five days thereafter, the designating party must file with the Court and serve a declaration establishing that the designated information is sealable, and must lodge and serve a narrowly tailored proposed sealing order, or must withdraw the designation of confidentiality. If the designating party does not file its responsive declaration as required by this subsection, the document or proposed filing will be made part of the public record. If a request to file under seal is denied in part or in full, neither the lodged document nor any proposed redacted version will be filed. The Clerk will notify the submitting party, hold the lodged document for three days for the subm itting party to retrieve it, and thereafter, if it is not retrieved, dispose of it. If the request is denied in full, the submitting party may retain the document and not make it part of the record in the case, or, within three days, re-submit the document for filing in the public record. If the request is denied in part and granted in part, the party may resubmit the document in a manner that conforms to the Court's order and Civil Local Rule 79-5. / // / // / // 10
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FINAL DISPOSITION.

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action, and upon request by the Producing Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected M aterial" includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 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 sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected M a te r i a l . Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected M aterial remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 1 2. 1 2 .1 M ISC E L L A N E O U S Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek

its modification by the Court in the future. 1 2 .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. / // / // / // 11
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IT IS SO STIPULATED. Dated: April 8, 2010 DEM EO DEMEO & WEST /s/ John F. DeMeo John F. DeMeo Attorneys for Plaintiff Robert B. St. Clair

By:

Dated: April 8, 2010

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By: 11 12 13 (*) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 12
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/s/ Richard G. Grotch Richard G. Grotch (*) Attorneys for Defendant US Airways, Inc.

I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a "conformed" signature (/s/) within this e-filed document. ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April __, 2010 9

_ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Honorable Jeffrey S.White United States District Judge

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E X H IB IT A ACK NO W LEDG M ENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND I, _____________________________ , of _________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on April ___, 2010, in the case entitled Robert B. St. Clair v. U.S. Airways, Inc., et al., United States District Court, Northern District of California, No. C 09-5871 JSW. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. I hereby appoint ______________________ 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.

Dated: _________________________________ City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: ______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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