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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 for Protective Order, and (Proposed) Order (15-cv-03353-HSG)

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

JEFFREY R. VINCENT

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

WILFRED FONG

Deputy Attorney General

State Bar No. 154303

1515 Clay Street, 20th Floor

P.O. Box 70550

Oakland, CA 94612-0550

Telephone: (510) 879-0189

Facsimile: (510) 622-2121

Attorneys for Defendants Nelson, Badgley, Cervelli,

Letendre, Maki, and Helman

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JASON CALL,

Plaintiff,

v.

COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-03353-HSG

STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE 

ORDER; AND ORDER

The following Stipulated Protective Order shall govern the use and disclosure of the 

documents and materials listed herein. 

ITEMS SUBJECT TO THIS STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

(A) Any law enforcement policy or procedure material marked “Confidential” by the producing 

party.

(B) Any peace officer personnel file records marked “Confidential” by the producing party.

(C) Any criminal investigation material marked “Confidential” by the producing party.

(D) Any other law enforcement material of a sensitive nature marked “Confidential” by the 

producing party.

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Production of the documents and materials listed above will be subject to the following 

conditions and the Court’s Protective Order:

1. The documents, materials and their contents may be used by plaintiff and his counsel 

only in this litigation and may not be used in separate proceedings or actions at this time or in the 

future without first being obtained through proper discovery procedures or court orders in those 

separate proceedings or actions. 

2. The documents and their contents may not be disclosed, copied, distributed, shown, 

described, or read to any person or entity (including, but not limited to, media representatives) by 

plaintiff or his counsel, representatives or agents, other than (a) the parties to this litigation; 

(b) the parties’ attorneys, paralegals, and legal office staff in this litigation; (c) the parties’ expert 

consultants in this litigation for purposes of expert consultation and trial testimony preparation; 

and (d) the Court in this action, filed under seal, for purposes of this litigation.

3. The plaintiff’s expert consultants must sign an acknowledgment and agreement to be 

bound by the terms of this Stipulation for Protective Order and Order, an executed copy of which 

will be provided to defendant’s counsel within seven (7) days after formal disclosure of such 

consultants as expert witnesses in this litigation. The acknowledgment and agreement must 

contain the following language:

“As an expert witness for the plaintiff in this lawsuit, I hereby acknowledge receipt of 

a copy of the signed Stipulation for Protective Order and Order, approved and entered 

by the Court in this action, and I agree to be bound by all terms and conditions in that 

Protective Order and recognize that I may be personally found in contempt of Court 

or subject to other sanctions determined by the Court should I violate any term or 

condition in that Protective Order.”

4. All documents and materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order will be 

clearly marked “Confidential” to indicate that they are subject to this Protective Order.

5. Except for documents and materials filed under seal by the court, all originals and copies 

of documents and materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order shall be returned 

to defendant’s counsel within ten (10) days after final termination of this litigation, whether such 

termination occurs by settlement, judgment, dismissal, appeal or otherwise.

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6. This Protective Order does not in any way affect or prejudice the right of any party at the 

time of trial or other proceedings in this action to object to the admissibility of said documents or 

materials at the trial or in other proceedings of this action.

7. Any writings or other documents stipulated in writing by the parties to be confidential 

and subject to this Stipulated Protective Order, and produced subsequent to the date this 

Protective Order is signed by the Court, shall also be subject to all the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

8. If any party intends to file a motion that includes as an exhibit any writing(s) subject to 

this Protective Order, that party shall meet and confer with the opposing party. If the producing 

party maintains its position that the documents are confidential, the party intending to file the 

documents must file a motion to file the documents under seal pursuant to Northern District Civil 

Local Rule 79-5. 

9. Violation of this Protective Order by any party or any other person, including but not 

limited to any party’s expert witnesses and consultants, will result in sanctions to be determined 

by the Court upon application by any other party.

10. This Stipulated Protective Order and the obligations of all persons subject to it, 

including those relating to the disclosure and use of the materials specified herein, shall survive 

the final termination of this case, whether such termination is by settlement, judgment, dismissal, 

appeal or otherwise.

11. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order is intended to prevent authorized 

individuals from having access to the documents and materials specified herein to which they 

would have had access in the normal course of their duties.

SO STIPULATED:

Dated: December 2, 2016 LINDA S. MITLYNG

ATTORNEY AT LAW

_/s/ Linda S. Mitlyng

LINDA S. MITLYING, ESQ.

Attorney for Plaintiff Jason Call

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Stipulation for Protective Order, and (Proposed) Order (15-cv-03353-HSG)

Dated: December 2, 2016 MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE

/s/ Nancy K. Delaney

NANCY K. DELANEY, ESQ. Attorney for County Defendants

Dated: December 2, 2016 KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

JEFFREY R. VINCENT

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

/s/ Wil Fong

WIL FONG

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for State Defendants

ORDER

Upon good cause shown, the above Stipulation of the parties is hereby approved and made 

the Order of this Court.

Dated: December 6, 2016 _

_________________

HON. HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR.

United States District Court Judge

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