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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fair Labor Standards Act

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DONNA M. MEZIAS (SBN 111902)

LIZ K. BERTKO (SBN 268128) dmezias@akingump.com

lbertko@akingump.com

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

580 California Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: 415-765-9500

Facsimile: 415-765-9501

Attorneys for Defendant 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL HENRY, on behalf of 

himself, all others similarly situated, 

and the general public,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC., a 

Delaware corporation; and DOES 1- 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. C 14-04858 JST

[Assigned to Hon. Jon S. Tigar]

STIPULATION REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY 

MATERIAL AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER

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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 79-5 and General Order 62 set 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), as well as confidential, private or personal 

information regarding current or former Home Depot employees, confidential 

commercial or proprietary information, trade secrets, or any other confidential protected 

information under state or federal law. 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff).

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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.

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 

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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, 

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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. 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. 

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 

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copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents 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. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition, that the Designating Party identify 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought within 30 days of receipt of 

the transcript. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for 

protection shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. For 

testimony in other pretrial or trial proceedings, parties shall meet and confer and 

propose reasonable procedures for use of Protected Material. 

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the 

title page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be 

followed by a list of all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been 

designated as Protected Material and the level of protection being asserted by the 

Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 30 day period 

for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” in its entirety unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that 

period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated. 

(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.” 

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 

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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.

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 

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and General Order 62, if applicable) 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.

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, and any review process of the court’s ruling has been exhausted.

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 

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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’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 (including House Counsel) 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 

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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.

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.

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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 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 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 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.

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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.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Stipulated 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 

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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 Stipulated Protective 

Order. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order will be deemed to be a limit on or 

waiver of the attorney-client privilege, work product privilege, or any other relevant 

privilege.

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 and General Order 62. 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 and General Order 62, 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) and General Order 62 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.

12.4 Additional Parties to Lawsuit. If other Parties are added to this 

action, no Protected Material previously exchanged, produced, or used herein will be 

disclosed to such other Parties or their Counsel except upon their agreeing to be bound 

by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

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 

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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: June 24, 2015 /S/ Shawn Setareh

SHAUN SETAREH

SETAREH LAW GROUP

9454 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 907

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Telephone: (310) 888-7771

Facsimile: (310) 888-0109

Dated: June 24, 2015 /S/ Liz K. Bertko

LIZ K. BERTKO (SBN 268128)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

580 California Street, Suite 1500

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 765-9500

Facsimile: (415) 765-9501

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 25, 2015

Judge Jon S. Tigar

United States District Judge

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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 [date] in the case of Henry v. Home Depot USA, 

Inc., Civil Action No. C 14-04858 JST. 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.

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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.

Dated: _______________________, 20____

City and Date where sworn and signed: _________________________

Printed name: __________________________

[printed name]

Signature: ______________________________

 [signature]

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