UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       Plaintiff,                   v. DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, et al.,                   Defendants.

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Civil Action No. CN-00-CV-1663 Judge Newcomer Stamp: Received Mar 31 2000

JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER:
INTERIM PROTECTIVE ORDER

Plaintiff United States Tiled a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and A Preliminary Injunction requesting that the defendants be ordered by the Court not to consummate their proposed acquisition pending trial of this case.

Plaintiff and both defendants hereby stipulate that all documents filed in this case that are marked CONFIDENTIAL, including the Memorandum in Support of United States' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and a Preliminary Injunction and all exhibits thereto, will be filed under seal until further order.

Plaintiff and both defendants further stipulate that disclosure of these documents shall be limited to members and employees of counsel of record for parties to the above-captioned case, and to any experts retained specifically in connection with this case and the attorneys with access to these documents are prohibited from showing them to officers, dlrectors, members, or employees of any defendant in this case, or to any other preson not specifically authorized to receive them by this Court.

Plaintiff and both defendants further agree that these documents will remain under an interim protective order only until third parries have had an opportunity to be heard on the disclosure of their confidential information and the Court enters a protective Order to govern the course of proceedings in this case. Plaintiff and both defendants will confer promptly to attempt to (unreadable) to such a Protective Order.

Respecfully submitted,

_______________/s/________________ Michael H. Knight U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division 1401 H Street, N.W. Room 4000 Washington, D.C. 20530 Telephone: (202) 514-9109 Facsimile: (202) 307-5802

_______________/s/________________ Todd Miller, Esq. Baker & Miller, PLLC Suite 1000 915 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005-2302 Counsel for Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. _______________/s/________________ Burton Z. Alter, Esq. Christopher Rooney, Esq. Carmody & Torrance LLP 18th Floor 195 Church Street New Haven, CT 06509-1950 Counsel for Societe de Diffusion Internationale Agro-Alimentaire and SODIAAL North America Corporation

SO ORDERED: _______________/s/________________ United States District Judge

This 4^th day of April, 2000