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

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David E. Weiss (SBN 148147)

Email: deweiss@reedsmith.com

Cristina M. Shea (SBN 179895)

Email: cmshea@reedsmith.com

Amy Lifson-Leu (SBN 260062) Email: alifsonleu@reedsmith.com

Ashley Shively (SBN 264912)

Email: ashively@reedsmith.com

REED SMITH LLP

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San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: +1 415 543 8700

Facsimile: +1 415 391 8269

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Jesse Ray Lucas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JESSE RAY LUCAS, individually,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF VISALIA; VISALIA POLICE 

DEPARTMENT; ROBERT CARDEN, 

individually and in his capacity of Chief of 

Police of the Visalia Police Department; 

VISALIA POLICE OFFICER CARMEN 

ESPARZA, individually and in her capacity 

as a police officer; VISALIA POLICE 

OFFICER SEAN O’RAFFERTY, 

individually and in his capacity as a police 

officer; TASER INTERNATIONAL, INC., 

and DOES 1 to 30,

Defendants. ____________________________________

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Case No.: 

1: 09-CV-01015-AWI (DLB)

STIPULATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Honorable Anthony W. Ishii

U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Beck 

Plaintiff Jesse Ray Lucas, Defendants City of Visalia, the Visalia Police 

Department, Officers Sean O’Rafferty and Carmen Esparza (the “City Defendants”), 

and Defendant TASER International Incorporated (“TASER”) by and through their 

respective undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to and respectfully request that the 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Court enter the following Protective Order Regarding Confidential Information 

(“Order”), which the parties agree is necessary to safeguard the confidentiality of 

information, documents and materials (“Protected Material”) to be produced and 

disclosed in the course of and for the limited purposes of prosecuting, defending, 

attempting to settle, or settling this action. Such Protected Material may be disclosed 

only under the conditions described in this Protective Order. 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 Protective 

Order. 

1. Definitions:

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

a. Party. Any party this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

partners, employees, consultants, Experts, and Counsel.

b. Disclosure or Discovery Material. All items of information, regardless of 

the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, electronic files, testimony, transcripts, or tangible 

things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter.

c. “Confidential” Information or Items. Non-public technical, commercial, 

financial, personal, or business information (regardless of how generated, 

stored or maintained) or tangible things. By way of example, 

Confidential Information shall include, without limitation: (a) matters of 

a technical nature, such as materials, models, devices, products, trade 

secret processes, techniques, data, formulas, inventions (whether or not 

patentable), specifications and characteristics of products planned or 

being developed; (b) research subjects, methods and results; (c) matters 

of a business nature such as information about costs, margins, pricing 

policies, markets, sales, suppliers, customers, product plans and 

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marketing plans or strategies; (d) medical records, personal financial 

information, information containing confidential and sensitive matters, 

employment or personnel files, personal information or information 

protected by rights of privacy under Article I, Section 1 of the California 

Constitution or other applicable law, or other proprietary or competitively 

sensitive information; (f) other information of a similar nature that is not 

generally disclosed by a Producing Party to the public; and (e) any 

communications related to the (a) – (f), above. 

d. “Highly Confidential” Information or Items. Any party may designate 

information or items as “Highly Confidential.” The designation of 

information or items as “Highly Confidential” will require the 

information to be filed under seal, in accordance with District Court for 

the Eastern District of California Local Rule 141, or consistent with other 

procedures adopted by the parties and the Court. Any such Highly 

Confidential materials filed under seal or lodged conditionally under seal 

shall remain as such until further order of the Court. 

e. Receiving Party. A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

f. Producing Party. A Party or third-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

g. Designating Party. A Party or third-party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential.”

h. Protected Material. Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential.”

i. Outside Counsel. Attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who 

are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

j. In-House or House Counsel. Attorneys who are employees of a Party.

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k. Counsel (Without qualifier). Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staffs) of a party. 

l. Expert. A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who is retained by a Party or its Counsel to 

serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this action. This 

definition includes, but is not limited to, a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2. The use of the singular form of any word includes the plural, and vice 

versa. 

3. This Order shall govern the conduct of the parties and their attorneys and 

agents with respect to all designated records of testimony given at any deposition in 

this action and all designated answers, documents, information, and other discovery 

materials produced by the parties or any third party, whether informally or in response 

to interrogatories, requests for admissions or requests for production of documents or 

subpoenas, now pending or hereafter served, and any information obtained, 

summarized, derived, or compiled from such materials or discovery responses (i.e. all 

Disclosure or Discovery Material). 

4. This Order protects the confidentiality and limits the use and disclosure 

of documents, materials, items, or information that materially consist of information 

that is entitled to confidential treatment, including, without limitation, those items 

defined in Paragraph 1(c) and 1(d), above, (Confidential or Highly Confidential 

Information or Items). All parties and their employees and agents, including, but not 

limited to, contract workers and temporary employees or workers, counsel of record in 

this action or other counsel to the parties and employees or agents of such counsel, as 

well as certain others as specified below, are bound by the terms of this Order.

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5. Any party to this action, as well as any third party responding to a 

subpoena or any other properly served discovery request in this action who is bound 

by this Order shall have the right to designate as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential” Information and subject to this Order any documents, materials, items, 

information, or other Disclosure or Discovery Material that such party believes in 

good faith constitutes Confidential or Highly Confidential Information. 

6. A Designating Party may designate any Disclosure or Discovery Material 

produced after the date of this Order “Confidential Information” or “Highly 

Confidential Information” and subject to this Order by any of the means set forth 

below. Any such information will then constitute Protected Material.

a. Stamping or inscribing on each page of the pertinent Disclosure or 

Discovery Material with words “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL.”

b. So designating portions of a deposition transcript or deposition exhibits, 

either during the deposition or by written notice to the court reporter 

and all counsel of record within fifteen (15) court days after the reporter 

sends the final transcript or written notice that the final transcript is 

available for review. The court reporter shall be instructed to separately 

bind the Confidential Information portion and to mark the caption page 

of such portion Confidential or Highly Confidential. Until the fifteen 

(15) court day period expires, all deposition transcripts shall be treated as 

Protected Material subject to the terms of this Protective Order.

c. Notifying all counsel in this case in writing of designation of any thirdparty-produced Disclosure or Discovery Materials as Confidential or 

Highly Confidential within fifteen (15) court days from the date the 

Designating Party has notice that the Disclosure or Discovery Material 

has been produced. Until the fifteen (15) court day period expires, all 

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third-party-produced Disclosure or Discovery Material shall be treated as 

Protected Material. 

7. If any party inadvertently fails to designate Disclosure or Discovery 

Material as Confidential or Highly Confidential, that party may subsequently do so in 

writing within thirty (30) days after discovering the inadvertent failure to designate or 

of discovering the inadvertent production-disclosure and that material shall be 

protected under this Order from the date of that designation.

8. If a party seeks to file materials designated as Highly Confidential, the 

party must seek to do so under seal in accordance with District Court for the Eastern 

District of California Local Rule 141, or consistent with other procedures adopted by 

the parties and the Court. Any such Highly Confidential materials filed under seal or 

lodged conditionally under seal shall remain as such until further order of the Court.

9. Confidential Information, Protected Material and other material subject 

to the terms of this Order shall be used only for the purposes of this litigation, shall 

not be used for any business, competitive, governmental, or other legal purpose or 

function, and shall not be disclosed to anyone except as expressly permitted herein.

10. By designating Disclosure or Discovery Material as Confidential or 

Highly Confidential, the Designating Party certifies that such party believes in good 

faith that the designated Disclosure or Discovery Material constitutes Confidential 

Information in that it materially consists of information that is entitled to confidential 

treatment, including, without limitation, medical records, personal financial 

information, information containing confidential and sensitive matters, personnel files, 

personal information or information protected by rights of privacy under Article I, 

Section 1 of the California Constitution or other applicable law, or other proprietary or 

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sensitive information. 

11. Protected Material designated Confidential or Highly Confidential may 

be disclosed only to:

a. Counsel of record to the parties in the instant action and other outside 

counsel to the parties who are retained with respect to this action and 

have agreed to be bound by this Order and signed the Acknowledgement 

attached hereto as Exhibit “A,” including clerical, secretarial, and 

paralegal staff employed by such counsel.

b. In-house counsel actually working on or with direct oversight 

responsibility for this action, including clerical, secretarial, and paralegal 

staff employed by such counsel who work on this matter;

c. The parties to this action, including representatives, agents, and 

employees of the parties;

d. The Court, court staff, members of the jury, deposition and trial reporters, 

any mediators, and/or court-appointed referees;

e. Independent consultants or experts retained by any party who are 

expected to testify at trial or employed by counsel or any party in order to 

assist in preparation for trial or for deposition;

f. Witnesses during the course of their depositions or testimony, provided, 

however, that the party disclosing Protected Material to a witness shall, 

before such disclosure, show this Order to the witness and inform such 

witness of the terms of this Order and its binding nature upon all parties, 

their agents, and any witnesses to whom Protected Material is disclosed. 

The parties shall not disclose Protected Material to witnesses who have 

not consented, in advance, and preferably in writing, to abide by the 

terms of this stipulation and Order. 

g. Any person who authored or previously received the Protected Material, 

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or who has knowledge of the specific facts identified in such materials;

h. Commercial photocopying services ordinarily used by counsel for the 

purpose of photocopying;

i. Any other person to whom the Designating Party agrees in writing. 

All persons described in paragraph 10 above must not under any circumstances 

sell, offer for sale, exchange, advertise, or publicize either the Confidential/Highly 

Confidential Information or the fact that such persons have obtained such Information.

Nothing in this Order shall be construed so as to bind Court personnel in excess 

of the requirements of the applicable federal and/or local rules.

12. Copies may be made by or for the foregoing persons, provided that all 

copies are appropriately marked and treated as Confidential or Highly Confidential in 

accordance with this Order. 

13. Persons or entities to whom Protected Material is disclosed (a) shall not 

discuss such Protected Material or disclose it or its contents to any person or entity 

other than those listed above; and (b) shall not discuss such Protected Material or 

disclose it or its contents for any purpose other than prosecution or defense of the 

claims and any counterclaims in this action. 

14. Before any Protected Material is disclosed to any independent 

consultants, experts, or third party witnesses otherwise as allowed in this Order, such 

person or entity shall read this Order and sign the Acknowledgement attached hereto 

as Exhibit A. A copy of each such Acknowledgement shall be obtained and 

maintained by counsel of record for each party disclosing such material until the 

conclusion of this litigation.

15. Except to persons contemplated by this Order, no person may disclose, in 

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public or private, Protected Material except as set forth in this Order; but nothing 

contained in this Order shall apply to any Designating Party’s handling of its own 

Protected Material that has been designated as such solely by that party.

16. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Order, nothing in this Order 

shall prohibit counsel for a party from disclosing a document designated as Protected 

Material to the author of the document or the original sources of the information 

recorded in such document or otherwise as permitted by the terms of this Order.

17. The procedures set forth in this Order shall not affect the rights of the 

parties to object to discovery on any appropriate grounds, nor shall they relieve a party 

of the necessity of proper responses to discovery devices.

18. Challenging Confidentiality Designations. A Party that elects to initiate a 

challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith 

and must begin the process by conferring with counsel for the Designating Party. The 

Challenging Party must give the Designating Party an opportunity of not less than ten 

(10) calendar days to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, 

and, if no change in the designations is offered, to explain in writing the basis for the 

confidentiality designation.

A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality designation after 

considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a 

motion under seal that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the 

basis for the challenge, pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local 

Rules for the United States District Court, Eastern District of California. Until the 

Court rules on the challenge, all parties must continue to afford the material in 

question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation. 

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19. The provisions of this Order shall, absent written permission of the 

Producing Party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout and 

after the conclusion of this action, including without limitation during any appeals 

therefrom. Within sixty (60) days after receiving notice of the entry of an order, 

judgment or decree finally disposing of this action, including any appeals therefrom, 

all persons having received Protected Material hereunder shall at such persons’ own 

option either return such material and all copies thereof (including summaries and 

excerpts) to counsel for the Producing Party, or make commercially reasonable efforts 

to destroy all such material and copies thereof. Counsel described in Paragraph 9(a) 

above shall be entitled to retain court papers, deposition and trial transcripts and 

attorney work product (including court papers, transcripts, and attorney work product 

that contain Protected Material) provided that such counsel, and employees of such 

counsel, shall not disclose any such Protected Material contained in such court papers, 

transcripts, or attorney work product to any person or entity at any time except 

pursuant to court order or a written agreement with the Producing Party. All Protected 

Material returned to the parties or their counsel by the Court likewise shall be 

disposed of in accordance with this Paragraph. The terms of this Order shall continue 

to be binding and in effect as to any and all Protected Material retained by any 

Receiving Party after the conclusion of this action; and the above entitled Court shall 

retain jurisdiction over any disputes that may arise from alleged violation of this 

Order, including retention of the Court's discretion to enforce this Order by sanctions 

or otherwise.

20. In the event that any Protected Material is used in any court proceeding 

in this action or any appeal therefrom, such information or material shall not lose its 

status as Confidential or Highly Confidential. Counsel for the parties shall confer in 

an effort to reach agreement upon such procedures as are necessary to protect the 

confidentiality of any documents, information and transcripts used in the course of 

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any court proceedings, and shall incorporate such procedures, as appropriate, in a 

further pre-trial order.

21. No part of the restrictions imposed by this Order may be terminated, 

except by the written stipulation executed by counsel of record for each Designating 

Party, or by an Order of this Court. The termination of this action shall not terminate 

the effectiveness of this Order.

22. If any party receiving Protected Material in this action is served with a 

subpoena or receives an order, process, request, or other legal compulsion from any 

person (including natural persons, corporations, partnerships, firms, and governmental 

or regulatory agencies) who is not a party to this Order seeking production or 

disclosure of any Protected Material (an “Other Demand”), such party must notify the 

Designating Party, in writing, immediately and in no event more than ten business 

days after receiving the Other Demand. Such party also must immediately inform in 

writing the party who caused the Other Demand to issue that some or all of the 

material sought is the subject of this Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Order promptly to the party that caused the Other Demand to 

issue. If a party is otherwise required by law to disclose Protected Material (excluding 

information designated as such solely by the party itself), the Receiving Party must 

notify the Designating Party, in writing, immediately and in no event more than five 

business days after receiving notice of such alleged duty. 

23. If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has 

disclosed or used Protected Material to any person or entity or in any circumstances 

not authorized under this Order, such Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify the 

Designating Party of all such unauthorized disclosures or uses, (b) use its best efforts 

to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to 

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whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) 

request such person or persons to execute “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. Nothing in this Paragraph in any way 

limits Designating Party’s ability to seek immediate remedy and relief in the 

appropriate fashion, or any way limits any Receiving Party’s liability for unauthorized 

disclosure. 

24. By stipulating to the entry of this Order no party waives any right it 

otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item on 

any ground. Similarly, no party waives any right to object on any ground to the 

admission into evidence of any Protected Material. 

25. All parties acknowledge that, while each party is making appropriate 

efforts to identify and withhold from production any documents that such party 

believes are privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, there is a possibility 

that privileged or otherwise Protected Material may be produced inadvertently. 

Accordingly, in order to facilitate the production of Disclosure or Discovery Material, 

the parties understand and agree that, to the extent that Disclosure or Discovery 

Material may include materials subject to the attorney-client privilege, work product 

doctrine or other applicable privilege or protection from disclosure, the inadvertent 

production of such Disclosure or Discovery Material is not intended to, and shall not, 

waive or diminish in any way the confidentiality of such material or its continued 

protection under the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine or any other 

applicable privilege or protection from disclosure. The parties further agree that, if a 

Producing Party at any time notifies each Receiving Party that any Disclosure or

Discovery Material is subject to a claim of privilege or of other protection from 

disclosure, or if a Receiving Party discovers that such material has been inadvertently 

produced, each Receiving Party shall return the specified information, testimony, or 

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documents and any copies or summaries or extracts thereof such party has, to the 

Producing Party within ten (10) business days of receipt of such notice or discovery 

and shall not use or disclose such items for any purpose; provided, however, that such 

return shall not preclude the Receiving Party from seeking to compel production of 

the materials for reasons other than its inadvertent production and shall not constitute 

an admission by the Receiving Party that the materials were in fact privileged or 

protected from disclosure in any way.

26. The parties may extend the time periods to designate Disclosure or 

Discovery Materials as Confidential or Highly Confidential under Paragraphs 4 of this 

Order by written agreement.

27. Retention of Completed “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

Forms (Exhibit A). Completed “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

Forms (Exhibit A) (“form”) must be maintained by the Party that obtained the 

completed form pursuant to this Protective Order. The Party retaining the completed 

form will produce the form to resolve any good faith challenge by a Party or 

Designating Party or dispute whether a person who is obligated under this Protective 

Order to complete the form did so properly and complied with the representations in 

the form and this Protective Order. If the parties are unable to resolve any such 

disputes or challenges through a good faith meet and confer process, the challenging 

Party or Designating Party may seek appropriate relief from this Court.

28. Nothing in this Stipulation or Protective Order shall be construed so as to 

bind Court personnel in excess of any requirements of the Local Rules of the United 

States District Court, Eastern District of California. 

29. It is further agreed that this stipulation may be signed in counterpart and 

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that a facsimile or electronic signature will be as valid as an original signature. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

DATED: July 2, 2010. Dooley, Herr, Peltzer & Richardson, LLP

By: /s/ Leonard Herr __________ 

Leonard Herr

Attorneys for Defendants 

City of Visalia, Visalia Police 

Department, Officer Carmen 

Esparza, and Officer Sean 

O’Rafferty

DATED: July 2, 2010. Manning & Marder, Kass Ellrod, 

Ramiriez LLP

By: /s/ Mildred O’Linn__________

Mildred K. O’Linn

Attorneys for Defendant 

Taser International, Inc.

DATED: July 2, 2010. REED SMITH LLP

By: /s/ David Weiss __________ David Weiss1

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Jesse Ray Lucas

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED:

DATED: 22 July, 2010 

United States Magistrate Judge ___/s/ Dennis L. Beck___________

 1 As the e-filer, I attest that each of the signatories hereto has concurred in the filing of this document.

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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 __________ in the case of 

Jesse Ray Lucas v. City of Visalia, et.al.

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. 

, Case No.: 1:09-cv-01015-AWI-DLB. 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 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 

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REED SMITH LLP

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware

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this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

Date: ______________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: ______________________________

Printed name: ______________________________

[printed name]

Signature: ______________________________

[signature]

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