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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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WELTER LAW FIRM, P.C.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

520 N. CENTRAL AVE., SUITE 730

GLENDALE, CA 91203

(818) 858-0188

Eric A. Welter, Bar No. 270591

 eaw@welterlaw.com

WELTER LAW FIRM, P.C.

1141 Elden Street, Suite 220

Herndon, VA 20170

Telephone: (703) 435-8500

Facsimile: (703) 435-8851

Laura B. Thomasian, Bar No. 251502 lbt@welterlaw.com

Sean F. Daley, Bar No. 272493

 sfd@welterlaw.com

WELTER LAW FIRM, P.C.

520 N. Central Avenue, Suite 730

Glendale, CA 91203

Telephone: (818) 858-0188

Facsimile: (818) 244-5580

Attorneys for Defendant

GUARANTEED RATE, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANIELLE KESTERSON, an individual, 

Plaintiff,

v.

GUARANTEED RATE, INC., a corporation; 

and DOES 1 through 5, inclusive, 

Defendants.

CASE NO. 3:15-cv-05430-EMC

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Date Action Filed: September 11, 2015

Trial Date: June 19, 2017

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. 

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The parties acknowledge that this action is likely to involve trade secrets and other valuable 

research, development, commercial, financial, technical, proprietary, and/or private information for 

which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution 

of this action is warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, 

among other things, confidential loan applicant identifying, financial, and personal information, 

business financial information, information regarding confidential business practices, or other 

confidential research, development, or commercial information (including information implicating 

privacy rights of third parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which 

may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, 

case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the 

prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect 

information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted 

reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address 

their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such 

information is justified in this matter. 

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.

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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), and as specific above in Section 1.

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, 

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.

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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.

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.

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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 

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 retard 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 

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like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made 

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 protected testimony 

(i) on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all 

protected testimony, or

(ii) within 7 days following receipt of the deposition, hearing, or proceeding transcript.

In circumstances where portions of the deposition, hearing, or proceeding testimony are 

designated for protection, the transcript pages containing “Confidential” information must be 

separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each page the legend 

“Confidential,” as instructed by the Designating Party.

(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.

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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, 

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 35 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 

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required declaration within 35 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the 

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. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. 

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:

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(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 

litigation;

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

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation;

(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, 

(f) 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);

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other 

person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

(h) any deposition, proceeding, or hearing witness who previously has had access to the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” Information or who is currently or was previously an officer, director, employee 

or agent of an entity that has had access to the “CONFIDENTIAL” Information;

(i) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the Action who 

previously did not have access to the “CONFIDENTIAL” Information, provided that: (1) disclosure 

is reasonably necessary, (2) the deposing party requests that the witness and the attorney for the 

witness sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and (3) the witness and 

the attorney for the witness will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign 

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the 

Designating Party or ordered by the Court. This paragraph does not apply to persons covered under 

sections 7.2(a)-(c). 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 

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except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; 

(j) any mediator, third-party neutral, or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 

mutually agreed upon by any of the Parties engaged in settlement discussions; and 

(k) any other person or entity that Designating Party agrees to in writing. 

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

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. 

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 

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), insofar as the 

parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by 

the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement 

in the stipulated protective order submitted to the Court.

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. This Order shall not be construed to preclude either Party 

from asserting in good faith that certain “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items require additional 

protection. The Parties shall meet and confer to agree upon the terms of such additional protection.

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 

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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. This paragraph does not apply to 

deposition testimony regarding material marked as “CONFIDENTIAL” unless the deposition 

testimony itself is marked “CONFIDENTIAL.” This paragraph applies only to disclosures of 

information marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and does not apply to abstracts, compilations, summaries of 

information created by the Receiving Party so long as the abstract, compilation, or summary of 

information does not include any information as marked as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 90 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, 

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 submit a written 

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

by the 90 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, 

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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). To the extent permitted by law, the Court shall retain jurisdiction 

to enforce, modify, or reconsider this Order, even after final disposition of the Action. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: March 29, 2016 WELTER LAW FIRM, P.C.

 /s/ Laura B. Thomasian

By: _____________________________________ ERIC A. WELTER

LAURA B. THOMASIAN

SEAN F. DALEY

Attorneys for DEFENDANT GUARANTEED RATE, 

INC. 

DATED: March 29, 2016 McGUINN, HILLSMAN & PALEFSKY

 /s/ Jeannette A. Vaccaro

By: ___________________________________________ JEANNETTE A. VACCARO

Attorneys for PLAINTIFF DANIELLE KESTERSON 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________ HON. EDWARD M. CHEN

United States District Judge

April 4, 2016

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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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 March ___, 2016, in the case of Kesterson v. Guaranteed Rate, Inc., CASE 

NO.3:15-cv-05430-EMC. 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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ECF ATTESTATION

I, Laura B. Thomasian, am the ECF User whose ID and Password are being used to file this 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER. In compliance with General Order 45 X.B, I hereby attest 

that Jeannette Vaccaro has concurred in this filing. 

DATED: March 29, 2016 WELTER LAW FIRM, P.C.

 /s/ Laura B. Thomasian

By: ___________________________________________ ERIC A. WELTER

LAURA B. THOMASIAN

SEAN F. DALEY

Attorneys for DEFENDANT GUARANTEED RATE, 

INC. 

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