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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Stipulation Re Protected Subpoenaed Records. C02-1953 TEH - 1 

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Gregory M. Fox, State Bar No. 070876 

Christine Lee, State Bar No. 231617 

BERTRAND, FOX & ELLIOT 

The Waterfront Building - 2749 Hyde Street 

San Francisco, California 94109 

Telephone: (415) 353-0999 

Facsimile: (415) 353-0990 

Carol A. Korade – State Bar No. 082133 

Office of the City Attorney 

2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Room 280 

Alameda, California 94501-4477 

Telephone: (510) 747-4750 

Facsimile: (510) 747-4767 

Attorneys for Defendants CITY OF ALAMEDA and 

ALAMEDA OFFICERS RONALD JONES, JON WESTMORELAND 

AND ANTHONY MUNOZ 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

HAO-QI GONG and JEFFREY PETERS, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

CITY OF ALAMEDA, RONALD JONES, JON 

WESTMORELAND AND ANTHONY 

MUNOZ, et al., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C-03-5495 TEH 

STIPULATION RE PROTECTIVE 

ORDER FOR PROTECTED 

SUBPOENAED MATERIAL AND 

ORDER THEREON 

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THE PARTIES, BY AND THROUGH THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEL OF 

RECORD, DO HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE THAT: 

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), Local Rule 79-5, and in the interest of allowing 

discovery to proceed while ensuring that Protected Subpoenaed Materials are not improperly 

disclosed, the undersigned hereby stipulate, subject to approval and entry by the Court, to the 

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following Protective Order concerning specific records subpoenaed by defendant City of 

Oakland, as identified below: 

1. This Protective Order applies to the following records subpoenaed by defendant 

City of Oakland (“Protected Subpoenaed Material”): 

a. Employment records from Nortel Networks for plaintiff Jeffrey Peters 

(aka Jonathen Matrix Peters); 

b. Employment records from Hewlett Packard for plaintiff Jeffrey Peters 

(aka Jonathen Matrix Peters); 

c. Santa Clara Police Department records for plaintiffs Hao-Qi Gong, (aka 

Kim Gong, Kay Gong) and Jeffrey Peters (aka Jonathen Matrix Peters); 

d. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department records for plaintiffs Hao-Qi 

Gong (aka Kim Gong, Kay Gong) and Jeffrey Peters (aka Jonathen Matrix 

Peters); 

e. Tacoma Police Department records for plaintiffs Hao-Qi Gong (aka Kim 

Gong, Kay Gong) and Jeffrey Peters (aka Jonathen Matrix Peters); 

f. Pierce County Sheriff’s Department records for plaintiffs Hao-Qi Gong 

(aka Kim Gong, Kay Gong) and Jeffrey Peters (aka Jonathen Matrix 

Peters); 

g. Santa Clara County Family & Children’s Services records for plaintiffs 

Hao-Qi Gong (aka Kim Gong, Kay Gong) and Jeffrey Peters (Jonathen 

Matrix Peters). 

2. Nothing in this Protective Order shall prejudice any Party or Third Non-Party 

from seeking amendments hereto or to seek other modifications. The Court retains jurisdiction 

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for six (6) months after the termination of this action to enforce this order and, upon motion of 

any party hereto, to make amendments, modifications, deletions or additions to this order as the 

court may deem appropriate. 

3. Until such time as this Protective Order has been entered by the Court, the Parties 

agree that upon execution by the Parties it will be treated as though it had been entered. 

Permissible Use of Subpoenaed Material

4. The Protected Subpoenaed Material shall not be used for any purpose other than 

this Action. 

5. The Protected Subpoenaed Material shall not be copied or reproduced except to 

the extent such copying or reproduction is reasonably necessary to the conduct of this action. All 

such copies or reproductions shall be subject to the terms of this Protective Order and shall be 

returned to Plaintiffs’ counsel, upon request, upon the final conclusion of the Action. 

6. The Protected Subpoenaed Material, or copies or extracts therefrom and the 

information therein, may be given, shown, made available to, or communicated in any way only 

to the parties, including an officer, director, manager, supervisor, or in-house counsel of a party; 

counsel for the parties, including certified law students, or an employee or contractor of such 

counsel to whom it is necessary that the material be shown for purposes of this litigation; other 

employees of a party for the sole purpose of working directly on the litigation; and third party 

consultants and independent experts to whom it is necessary that the material be shown for 

purposes of this litigation. 

7. If an attorney for any party in this litigation desires to give, show, make available 

or communicate any Protected Subpoenaed Material to any person who is not specifically 

authorized to have access to such document pursuant to paragraph 6, the requesting attorney will 

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disclose to the attorney for the party who produced the document the name of the person to 

whom disclosure of the document is sought. The attorneys will then have ten (10) days to 

negotiate the terms of disclosure to that person and, if no agreement can be reached, the 

requesting attorney may seek leave of court on notice to make the disclosure in question. 

9. Each person other than employees or contractors permitted by the parties or their 

counsel to have access to Protected Subpoenaed Material pursuant to the terms of this stipulation 

and order shall, prior to being afforded such access, be shown the stipulation and protective order 

and shall sign an agreement stating that he or she has read and understands its terms and shall 

abide by them by signing a form containing the following statement: 

"I hereby acknowledge that I am about to receive Protected Subpoenaed Material. I certify my 

understanding that such information is to be provided to me pursuant to the terms and restrictions 

of the Protective Order [date entered] in Gong v. City of Alameda, et al. I have been given a 

copy of and have read this Order and agree to be bound by its terms." 

A file shall be maintained by the attorneys of record of all written agreements signed by 

persons to whom such documents have been given, which file shall be available for inspection in 

camera by the Court upon a showing of good cause pursuant to a noticed motion. 

10. The parties agree that the parties will follow Local Rule 79-5 with respect to the 

use of any documents covered by this stipulation. 

 11. The attorneys of record for the parties are in accord with the above terms of this 

stipulation and protective order as acknowledge hereafter by their signatures, and have requested 

the Court to enter this stipulation and protective order. 

 12. Upon termination of this litigation, the originals and all copies of Protected 

Subpoenaed Material shall be turned over to plaintiffs’ counsel. 

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 13. The termination of proceedings in this action shall not thereafter relieve the 

parties from the obligations of maintaining the confidentiality of all material designated as 

confidential which is received pursuant to this stipulation and order; provided, however, that this 

paragraph shall not apply to any material which is or becomes publicly available. 

Termination of Protective Order

14. The protection of Protected Subpoenaed Material produced pursuant to, and in 

conformity with this Protective Order, shall remain in effect until the Court has issued a 

superseding Protective Order in this Action. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED: 

Dated: June 28, 2006 /s/ 

DAVID J. BEAUVAIS 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

Dated: June 30, 2006 /s/ 

GREGORY M. FOX 

Attorney for Defendants 

 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, 

IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: _____________, 2006 __________________________ 

THELTON E. HENDERSON 

Judge of the United States 

District Court 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Thelton E. Henderson

07/05

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