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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal - Employment Discrimination

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STAN S. MALLISON (SBN 184191) 

 stanm@themmlawfirm.com 

HECTOR R. MARTINEZ (SBN 206336) 

 hectorm@themmlawfirm.com 

MARCO A. PALAU (SBN 242340) 

 mpalau@themmlawfirm.com 

JOSEPH D. SUTTON (269951) 

 jsutton@themmlawfirm.com 

ERIC S. TRABUCCO (295473) 

 etrabucco@themmlawfirm.com 

MALLISON & MARTINEZ 

1939 Harrison Street, Suite 730 

Oakland, California 94612-3547 

Telephone: (510) 832-9999 

Facsimile: (510) 832-1101 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

EDGAR MORALES, SALVADOR 

MAGAÑA, AND MATTHEW BAGU on 

behalf of themselves, the State of 

California, and all other similarly 

situated individuals, 

 PLAINTIFFS, 

 v. 

LEGGETT & PLATT INCORPORATED, 

a Missouri Corporation, L&P 

FINANCIAL SERVICES CO., a 

Delaware Corporation, and DOES 2-20, 

inclusive, 

 DEFENDANTS. 

 Case No. 2:15-cv-01911-JAM-EFB 

STIPULATED [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Complaint Filed: April 23, 2015 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

confidential, proprietary, and/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 pertaining to material of a 

confidential, personal, private, sensitive, or non-public nature, including any of 

Defendants’ non-public proprietary, business, financial, or commercially sensitive 

information, and including such information pertaining to putative class members or 

other current and/or former employees of Defendants, which ordinarily would be kept 

confidential and not disclosed by Defendants, including that in the following categories: 

information maintained in personnel files; information concerning employee 

compensation, payroll and benefits to the extent the information is not generally 

applicable to all employees; social security numbers, home telephone numbers and 

addresses of Defendants’ current and former employees, and information reflected 

outside of employees’ personnel files but concerning discipline, employee evaluations 

and other documents concerning employee performance, employee concerns, 

investigations, injuries, absences, and reasons for termination. Public disclosure of 

these categories of confidential information maintained on putative class members and 

other current and former employees of Defendants may cause embarrassment and/or 

financial or competitive harm to an individual who is the subject of such information. 

The parties have agreed that entry of a protective order will assist in the flow of 

discovery materials, facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of 

discovery materials, protect and ensure the confidential treatment of information, and 

ensure that the parties are permitted reasonably necessary uses of such materials in 

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation and any appeals arising 

therefrom. 

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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 141 

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, 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 and who may 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. 

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

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action, including putative class 

members not specifically named in the case caption. 

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, including the employees and staff of Outside 

Counsel of Record. 

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

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (including 

employees and agents of Outside Counsel of Record). 

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. 

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. A Designating Party may designate as 

Protected Material material that is produced informally or in response to formal 

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discovery in the course of the litigation. 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 a Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the 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 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. 

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 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 shall be made in the following 

manner: 

(a) in the case of information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial proceedings): by 

affixing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains Protected Material. 

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 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) in the case of testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial 

proceedings: (i) by a statement on the record, by counsel for the Designating Party, 

before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, that any particular 

testimony shall be treated as Confidential Information. In that event, the reporter 

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shall separately transcribe any such portion of the testimony; or (ii) by written notice, 

sent by counsel to all parties within twenty-one (21) business days after receiving a 

copy of the deposition transcript, that any particular testimony shall be treated as 

Confidential Information. 

(c) in the case of information produced in some form other than documentary 

and for any other tangible items: by affixing in a prominent place on the exterior of the 

container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected upon discovery of 

the error, 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. Such correction and notice thereof shall be made in writing, 

and the Designating Party shall promptly substitute copies of each item appropriately 

marked. After the Receiving Party receives such notice, the Receiving Party must 

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

provisions of this Order. Within thirty (30) days after receipt of the corrected copies, 

unless the Designating Party agrees otherwise, the Receiving Party shall return the 

previously unmarked items and all copies thereof or destroy the same and certify, upon 

request of the Designating Party, the destruction to counsel for the Designating Party. 

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 

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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 230 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 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. 

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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 and any appeals 

arising therefrom or any bankruptcy proceedings of the Defendants in this action, and 

for no other purpose whatsoever. 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 and the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record 

in this action, as well as employees of and Professional Vendors hired by 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 

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Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) 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, as well as any mediator that the parties have 

agreed in writing to use or have been ordered to use in connection with this action; 

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

jurors, and Professional Vendors who have been retained by a party or counsel of 

record for purposes of assisting in this litigation and to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation; 

(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 and identified 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 of the information prior to 

its designation as CONFIDENTIAL in this action; 

(h) the employee or putative class member to whom the Protected Material 

pertains. Neither the Receiving Party nor his/its counsel may show or disclose to an 

employee or putative class member Protected Material pertaining to other employees 

or putative class members. 

7.3 Material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” may be provided to persons 

listed in paragraphs 7(c) and (f) above provided that such person confirms his or her 

understanding and agreement to abide by the terms of this Stipulation and Order by 

signing an “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” in the form attached 

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hereto as Exhibit A. The signed “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

shall be maintained by counsel for the Receiving Party who seeks to disclose such 

Confidential Information and a copy shall be provided to the Designating Party upon 

agreement of the parties or order by the Court. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena, other compulsory process 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 within five (5) business 

days (or before the date for compliance if earlier) identifying the Confidential 

Information sought and enclosing a copy of the subpoena, other compulsory process 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 

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THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced 

by Non-Parties in connection with 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 NonParty. 

(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 

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

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately use its best efforts 

to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, inform the person or 

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 

and 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 

Inadvertent failure to designate documents, testimony or things as Protected 

Material does not waive the Designating Party’s right to secure the protections of this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 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), the 

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

work product protection is not a waiver of privilege or protection from discovery in this 

case or in any other federal or state proceeding. The inadvertent disclosure or 

inadvertent failure to designate as confidential by a Designating Party of documents or 

information that party believes to be Protected Material shall not be deemed a waiver 

in whole or in part of any party’s claim of confidentiality, either as to a specific 

document or information disclosed or as to any other document or information relating 

thereto or concerning the same or related subject matter. 

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. 

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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 141. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a Receiving 

Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 133 unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

12.4 No Limit on a Party’s Own Use. Nothing herein shall be construed to 

limit a producing party’s use or disclosure of its own Protected Material. This 

Stipulation and Order has no effect upon, and shall not apply to, the producing 

party’s use of its own Protected Material. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, including the expirations 

or exhaustion of all rights to appeal this and any and all related actions, as defined in 

paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must, at the election of the Receiving Party, either 

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

However, counsel may retain Protected Material for the length of time required by 

counsel’s malpractice carrier. 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, if requested by the Producing Party, the Receiving 

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

person or entity, to the Designating Party) that 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. 

 MALLISON & MARTINEZ

DATED: October 14, 2016 By: /s/ Marco A. Palau 

 Attorney for Plaintiffs 

 SHOOK HARDY & BACON L.L.P.

DATED: October 14, 2016 By: /s/ Carri A. McAtee Attorneys for Defendants 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: October 27, 2016. 

 

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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 Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of Edgar 

Morales et al. v. Leggett & Platt Incorporated et al., Case No. 2:15-cv-01911-JAM-EFB. 

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 

Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

Date: ______________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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