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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 47:227 Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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Charles R. Messer (SBN 101094) 

MesserC@cmtlaw.com 

Jeanne L. Zimmer (SBN 123321) 

ZimmerJ@cmtlaw.com 

Stephen A. Watkins (SBN 205175)

watkinss@cmtlaw.com 

CARLSON & MESSER LLP 

5959 W. Century Blvd., Suite 1214 

Los Angeles, CA 90045 

Telephone: (310) 242-2200 

Facsimile: (310) 242-2222 

Attorneys for Defendant, 

PERFORMANT RECOVERY, INC., 

erroneously sued and served as 

PERFORMANT FINANCIAL CORPORATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

TIMOTHY GLICK, individually and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

PERFORMANT RECOVERY, INC., a 

Delaware corporation,

Defendant.

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Defendant PERFORMANT RECOVERY, INC., erroneously sued and served as 

PERFORMANT FINANCIAL CORPORATION ("Defendant") and TIMOTHY GLICK ("Plaintiff"), 

through their respective counsel, hereby file this Stipulated Protective Order as set forth below. 

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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 may 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 from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The 

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

does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the 

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

from the court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

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

or items under this Order. 

2.2 “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). 

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

their support staff). 

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

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium or 

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 in this matter. 

2.6 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. 

2.7 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. 

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

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action 

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

of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

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

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

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

in this action. 

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

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

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

Producing Party. 

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3. SCOPE 

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

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

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

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

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

publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record 

through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of 

Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and 

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

and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the time 

limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 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. The 

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Designating Party must 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 protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of 

this Order. 

Mass, 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 delay 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 Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for 

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

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner 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, Disclosure or 

Discovery 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 (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but excluding 

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

legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to 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). 

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 

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available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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 protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified 

documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to 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). 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

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

proceeding, all protected 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.” If only a portion or portions 

of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portion(s). 

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

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

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

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

provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 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 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, 

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

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

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

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

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

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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 or establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the 

meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

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

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Civil 

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days of the initial 

notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not 

resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

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

the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the 

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

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

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

including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion 

brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the 

movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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

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

retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court 

rules on the challenge. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 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 13 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 

Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

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litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached 

hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving Party to 

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

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

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

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

(Exhibit A); 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

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

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

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless 

otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other 

person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION 

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

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

must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a copy of 

the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other 

litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this Protective 

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

(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 subpoena or 

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

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

Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN 

THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this action 

and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with 

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this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these 

provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non-Party’s 

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

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

(1) 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; 

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

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

requested; and 

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

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 days of 

receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective 

order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject 

to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. Absent a 

court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in 

this court of its Protected Material. 

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material 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 unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

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 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL 

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently produced 

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

are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to 

modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 

without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), the parties reach 

an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorneyclient privilege or work product protection, as follows: 

If a Designating Party inadvertently discloses information in connection with the pending 

litigation to another Party that the Designating Party thereafter claims to be privileged or protected by 

the attorney-client privilege or attorney work product protection (“Disclosed Protected Information”), 

the disclosure of the Disclosed Protected Information shall not constitute or be deemed a waiver or 

forfeiture of any claim of privilege or work product protection that the Designating Party would 

otherwise be entitled to assert with respect to the Disclosed Protected Information and its subject 

matter in this proceeding or in any other federal or state proceeding. 

A Designating Party may assert in writing attorney-client privilege or work product protection 

with respect to Disclosed Protected Information. The Receiving Party must—unless it contests the 

claim of attorney-client privilege or work product protection in accordance with sub-paragraph (c)—

within five business days of receipt of that writing, (i) return or destroy all copies of the Disclosed 

Protected Information, and (ii) provide a certification of counsel that all of the Disclosed Protected 

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client privilege or work product protection with respect to Disclosed Protected Information, the 

Designating Party must produce a privilege log with respect to the Disclosed Protected Information. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS 

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its 

modification by the court in the future. 

12.2 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. 

12.3 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 not file in the public 

record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected 

Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under seal 

pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected 

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

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

Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

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

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 

Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must, upon request, submit a written 

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

the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that 

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

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

Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

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

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

product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 

constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: January 5, 2017 WOODROW & PELUSO, LLC

 By: /s/ Patrick H. Peluso1 

Steven L. Woodrow

Patrick H. Peluso 

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

TIMOTHY GLICK 

DATED: January 5, 2017 CARLSON & MESSER LLP 

 By: /s/ Stephen A. Watkins 

Charles R. Messer 

Jeanne L. Zimmer 

Stephen A. Watkins 

Attorneys for Defendant, 

PERFORMANT RECOVERY, INC., 

erroneously sued and served as PERFORMANT 

FINANCIAL CORPORATION 

 

1 Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(i)(3) Defendant obtained authorization from the other signatories to file 

this document

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: January 11, 2017 ______________________________ 

 United States District Judge 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], 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 [date] in the case of Glick v. Performant Recovery Corp., Case No. 3:16-cv-05461-

JST. 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 __________________________ [print or type full name] 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. 

Date: ______________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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