Tompkins v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

Filing 47

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Craig M. Kellison on 3/23/2015 re: Disclosure of track image recorder video. (Donati, J)

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STEPHANIE L. QUINN (SBN 216655)
MARIEL COVARRUBIAS (SBN 274784)
MURPHY, CAMPBELL, ALLISTON & QUINN
8801 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 230
Sacramento, CA 95826
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
[e-mail]
Attorneys for Defendant
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO

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BURLEY D. TOMPKINS,
Plaintiff,

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE
ORDER RE: DISCLOSURE OF
TRACK IMAGE RECORDER
VIDEO

vs.

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Case No. 2:12-CV-01481-CMK

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a
corporation,

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Defendants.
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PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be

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warranted. The specific item of discovery at issue is a copy of UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD

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COMPANY’S (“UPRR”) track image recorder (TIR) video recording during the time of the

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alleged June 28, 2011 incident, which Plaintiff asserts as one factor giving rise to the above

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captioned matter. The video recording to be produced to Plaintiff contains highly sensitive

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and confidential commercial information which UPRR has gone to great expense and

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investment to maintain and protect. UPRR has purchased locomotive video cameras, which

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require computer software created and licensed by March Networks to render viewable
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recordings. UPRR strongly protects its original locomotive video recording files and deems

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them to be confidential and proprietary material. Plaintiff’s unauthorized disclosure of this

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confidential material has the potential of harming UPRR in several ways, including:

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disseminating proprietary locomotive operating procedures, sharing competitive decision-

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making and advantages, potentially jeopardizing its software licensing agreement with

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March Networks, or merely annoying, embarrassing, and harassing behavior from unknown

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third parties.
Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the

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following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not

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confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the

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protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or

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items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles,

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specifically and only UPRR’s TIR video and accompanying software. The parties further

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acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does

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not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Local Rule 141 sets forth the

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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

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generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal

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Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). This includes specifically any and all TIR videos, and/or any

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and all material depicting recordings made from UPRR’s locomotive video recording devices

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and related software produced in this case.

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

(as well as their support staff).
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Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items
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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

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

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things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in

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disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

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Expert:

a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter

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pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an

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expert witness or as a consultant 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

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this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared

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in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on

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behalf of that party.

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Party:

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

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employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support

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staffs).

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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

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services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations,

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and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and

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subcontractors.

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“CONFIDENTIAL.”

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

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

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SCOPE
The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected

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

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Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3)

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any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal

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Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not

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cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of

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disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a

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Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including

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becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known

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to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the

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disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of

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confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be

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governed by a separate agreement or order.

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DURATION

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

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this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a

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court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1)

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dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final

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judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands,

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trials, or reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications

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for extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

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DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
5.1

Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each

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

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take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the

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appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts
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of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other

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portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not

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warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

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

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

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unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary

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expenses and burdens on other 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

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designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly

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notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.
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Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this

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

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ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must

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be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

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Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

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(a) 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

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Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If

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only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing

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

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markings in the margins).

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A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for

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inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has

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indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before

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

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“CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied

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and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof,

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qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the
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Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains

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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

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making 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

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other proceeding, all protected testimony.
(c) 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

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“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection,

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the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).
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Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to

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designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating

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Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction

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of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the

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material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

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CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
6.1

Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of

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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

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economic burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not

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waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge

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promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

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

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

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basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the

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written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance
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with this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve

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each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to

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voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of

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service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief

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that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an

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opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no

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change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A

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Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has

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

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unwilling to 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

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within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that

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the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such

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motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has

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complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph.

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Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration

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within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality

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designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a

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motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing

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

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declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements

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imposed by the preceding paragraph.

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

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Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to

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harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the

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Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality

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designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, all parties
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shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled

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under the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the 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

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disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only

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for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material

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may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in

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this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the

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provisions of section 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).
Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location

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and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under

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this Order.

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7.2

Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise

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ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may

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disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

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(a) 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

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disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and

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

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(b)

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

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

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

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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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(d) the court and its personnel;

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

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jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this
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litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit

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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

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Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the

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court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal

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Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed

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to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order.
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the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

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(h) the Receiving Party.

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(i) witnesses or persons involved in this action to whom disclosure is reasonably

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

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Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

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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

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compels

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“CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must:

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(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include
a copy of the subpoena or court order;

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(b) 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

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subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated

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Protective Order; and

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(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
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subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as

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“CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order

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issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating

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Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential

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material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or

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encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive 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 Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party

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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

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this 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

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agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then

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the Party shall:

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(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that

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some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-

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Party;

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(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective

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Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific

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description of the information requested; and

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(3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party.

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(c) 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

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

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

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the Non-Party before a determination by the court1. Absent a court order to the contrary, the

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Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its

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Protected Material.

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

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Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated

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Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating

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Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized

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copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized

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disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or

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persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached

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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 certain inadvertently

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

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

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provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-

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discovery order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to

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Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the

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effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client

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privilege or work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the

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stipulated protective order submitted to the court.

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

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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 interested in this court.
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to seek its modification by the court in the future.
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Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective

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

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any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order.

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Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the

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material covered by this Protective Order.
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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

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not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file

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under seal any Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 141. Protected Material may

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only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific

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Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon

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a request establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a

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trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request

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to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then

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the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Local Rule 141

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unless 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,

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each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy

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such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies,

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abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of

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the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the

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Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the

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same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by

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category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and

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(2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations,

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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

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pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda,

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correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and

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consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any

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such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this

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Protective Order as set forth in Section 4, regarding DURATION.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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DATED: March 20, 2015

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By:

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/s/ MARIEL COVARRUBIAS_________
STEPHANIE L. QUINN (SBN 216655)
MARIEL COVARRUBIAS (SBN 274784)
Attorneys for Defendant UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY

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DATED: March 20, 2015

HILDEBRAND McLEOD & NELSON INC.

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By:

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/s/ RYAN OTIS___________________
ANTHONY PETRU (SBN 91399)
RYAN OTIS (SBN 260032)
Attorneys
for
Plaintiff
BURLEY
TOMPKINS

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated: March 23, 2015

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D.

EXHIBIT A
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
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I,

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[print

or

type

full

name],

of

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_________________ ________________________[print or type full address], declare
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under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated
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Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District
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of California in March 2015 in the case of Burley D. Tompkins v. Union Pacific Railroad
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Company, United States District Court Case No. 2:12-CV-01481-CMK (Eastern District of
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California). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated
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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
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disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective
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Order to any person 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
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Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated
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Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this
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action.
I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of

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____________________________________________________________ [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: _________________________________

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Printed name: _______________________________

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Signature: __________________________________

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