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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - 1 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

BARRETT, DAFFIN, FRAPPIER, TREDER & 

WEISS, LLP and its constituent partners, 

ROBERT E. WEISS, CRIS A. KLINGERMAN, 

EDWARD A. TREDER, BRIAN ENGEL, 

JAMES C. FRAPPIER and STEVE P. 

TURNER, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:16-cv-00832-KJM-EFB 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 

Judge: Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller

Complaint 

Filed: October 12, 2015 

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 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. 

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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). 

 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record (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 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

 2.8 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. 

 2.9 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). 

 2.10 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

 2.11 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. 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

 2.13 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) may 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), by (1) describing them with sufficient 

specification to make these designations clear, including by description of the Documents or 

description of the range of document production numbers stamped or placed on the Documents, or 

(2) affixing the legend of “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 

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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 

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 (1) describe them with sufficient specification to 

make these designations clear, including by description of the Documents or description of the range 

of document production numbers stamped or placed on the Documents, or (2) affix the legend of 

“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). 

 (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. 

 (a) 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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 (b) 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), 

Disclosure in the course of discovery of any Document or information (whether designated as 

confidential or not) shall not be deemed to waive whatever privilege or immunity from discovery 

might otherwise attach to the Document or information produced, including without limitation the 

attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, the deliberative process privilege, the common 

interest privilege or the joint defense privilege. If any Party receives any information that is either (I) 

subject to a good faith claim of privilege or (ii) upon reasonable review appear to be subject to a 

legally recognized privilege, the person receiving such Documents or information shall provide 

immediate notice to the Producing Party or Non-Party of that fact, shall not review the apparently 

privileged information, and shall return any materials containing the apparently privileged 

information, as well as delete or destroy any copies of such materials. If a Producing Party or NonParty, promptly after discovery, notifies a Receiving Party that it inadvertently produced or provided 

access to information that is subject to a good faith claim of privilege, upon such notice, the 

Receiving Party shall not review the apparently privileged information, and shall return any materials 

containing the apparently privileged information, as well as delete or destroy any copies of such 

materials. 

 (c) Return of Documents; Presentation to Court. The return to the Producing Party or NonParty of any Documents claimed to be privileged shall not constitute an acknowledgment that the 

claimed Documents or information is in fact privileged or entitled to protections or immunity. The 

Receiving Party may promptly present the information to the Court under seal for seek a 

determination by the court regarding the Producing Party’s claim that the Documents or information 

is privileged or entitled to protections or immunity and retain a copy of the Document for this limited 

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purpose until the Court resolves the claim of privilege. The Producing Party must preserve the 

information until the claim is resolved. 

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 141 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 

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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. 

 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 challenges. 

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. 

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

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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 NonParty’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 NonParty’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), 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. 

 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. 

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Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, 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. 

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, 

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 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: August 22, 2013 KIEVE LAW OFFICES 

 

 

 By: /s/ Loren Kieve 

 LOREN KIEVE 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION 

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Dated: August 22, 2013 HANSEN, KOHLS, SOMMER & JACOB, LLP 

 

 

 By: /s/ Bret N. Batchman 

 DANIEL V. KOHLS 

 BRET N. BATCHMAN 

 Attorneys for Defendant BARRETT DAFFIN 

 FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ______________________ _____________________________________ 

 HON. EDMUND F. BRENNAN 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

August 26, 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 ___________ PHH Mortgage Corporation v. 

Barrett, Daffin, Frappier, Treder & Weiss, LLP et al., E.D. Cal., Case No. 2:16-cv-00832-KJM-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, 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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