Source: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-caed-2_05-cv-02270/USCOURTS-caed-2_05-cv-02270-8/pdf.json

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

---

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

1

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

RICHARD E. NOSKY, JR., City Attorney

State Bar No. 130726

SHELLEY L. GREEN, Deputy City Attorney

State Bar No. 161521

425 N. El Dorado Street, Second Floor

Stockton, California 95202

Telephone: (209) 937-8333

Attorneys for City Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

HEATHER MARIE EWING and ) CASE NO. 

MARK LEE EWING, ) 2:05-CV-02270-WBS-GGH

)

Plaintiffs, ) STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

) ORDER

vs. )

)

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY AND )

THROUGH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES )

IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE )

OF THE COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN; )

et al., )

)

Defendants. )

)

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby

stipulate to the following Protective Order:

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this

action, the parties may designate any document, thing, material,

testimony, or other information derived therefrom as

“Confidential” under the terms of this Stipulated Protective

Order (hereinafter “Order”). Confidential information is

information which has not been made public and which concerns

information, for purposes of this stipulation, kept in the

personnel and internal affairs files of the defendant Stockton

Police Department law enforcement personnel. It has been agreed

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 1 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

2

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

that the personnel records will be limited to the last ten years,

except for Detectives Reyes and Hutto, whose records provided

will date back to their date of hire with the City of Stockton.

Internal Affairs Records are limited to the past five years

unless any exist that have not been destroyed beyond that date. 

By designating a document, thing, material, testimony, or

other information derived therefrom as “Confidential” under the

terms of this Order, the party making the designation is

certifying to the Court that there is a good faith basis, both in

law and in fact, for the designation within the meaning of

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(g). 

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by

stamping copies of the document produced to a party with the

legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the

cover of any multi-page document shall designate all pages of the

document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the

producing party.

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing,

or trial may be designated as confidential by making a statement

to that effect on the record at the deposition or other

proceeding. Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter

taking and transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such

portions of the transcript containing information designated as

confidential and to label such portions appropriately.

4. Material designated as confidential under this Order,

the information contained therein, and any summaries, copies,

abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 2 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

3

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

material designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential

Material”) shall be used only for the purpose of the prosecution,

defense, or settlement of this action and for no other purpose.

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order

may be disclosed or made available only to the Court, to counsel

for a party (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial

staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons”

designated below: 

(a) A party deemed necessary by counsel to aid in the

prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(b) Experts or consultants (together with their

clerical staff) retained by such counsel to assist in the

prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

(c) Court reporter(s) employed in this action;

(d) A witness at any deposition or other proceeding in

this action; and

(e) Any other person as to whom the parties in writing

agree.

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each

“qualified person” shall be provided with a copy of this Order

and shall execute a Nondisclosure Agreement in the form of

Attachment A, a copy of which shall be provided forthwith to

counsel for each other party and for the parties.

6. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of

qualified persons when Confidential Material will be discussed.

7. The parties may further designate certain discovery

material or testimony of a highly confidential nature as

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 3 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

4

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

“CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” (hereinafter “Attorney’s Eyes

Only Material”) in the manner described in paragraphs 2 and 3

above. Attorney’s Eyes Only Material, and the information

contained therein, shall be disclosed only to the Court, to

counsel for the parties (including the paralegal, clerical, and

secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the

“qualified person” listed in subparagraphs 5(b) through (e)

above, but shall not be disclosed to a party, unless otherwise

agreed or ordered. If disclosure of Attorney’s Eyes Only

Material is made pursuant to this paragraph, all other provisions

in this Order with respect to confidentiality shall also apply.

8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use

or disclosure by a party of material obtained by such party

independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such

material is also obtained through discovery in this action, or

from disclosing its own Confidential Material as it deems

appropriate.

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a

deposition transcript designated as Confidential or Attorney’s

Eyes Only Material, is included in any papers to be filed in

Court, such papers shall be labeled “Confidential—Subject to

Court Order” and filed under seal until further order of this

Court. SEE SEPARATE ORDER.

10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in

any court proceeding in this action, it shall not lose its

confidential status through such use, and the party using such

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 4 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

5

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Confidential Material shall take all reasonable steps to maintain

its confidentiality during such use.

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of

the parties (i) to bring before the Court at any time the

question of whether any particular document or information is

confidential or whether its use should be restricted, or (ii) to

present a motion to the Court under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c) for a

separate Protective Order as to any particular document or

information, including restrictions differing from those as

specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to prejudice

the parties in any way in any future application for modification

of this Order.

12. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of

facilitating the exchange of documents and information between

the parties to this action without involving the Court

unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Order nor the

production of any information or document under the terms of this

Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be deemed

to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party or

of altering the confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such

document or information or altering any existing obligation of

any party or the absence thereof. 

13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this

action, to the extent that the information contained in

Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the

public, and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any

dispute concerning the use of information disclosed hereunder.

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 5 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

6

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Upon termination of this action, counsel for the parties shall

assemble and return to each other all documents, material, and

deposition transcripts designated as confidential and all copies

of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof. This paragraph

does not pertain to documents in the court record.

SO STIPULATED:

Dated: December 5, 2006 Richard E. Nosky, Jr. (SBN 130726)

Shelley L. Green (SBN 161521)

City Attorney’s Office

425 N. El Dorado St., Second Floor

Stockton, California 95202

Telephone: (209) 937-8333

By: /s/ Shelley L. Green

 Shelley L. Green

Attorneys for CITY DEFENDANTS

Dated: December 5, 2006 J. Mark Myles (SBN 200823)

Office of the County Counsel

County of San Joaquin

Courthouse – Room 711

222 East Weber Avenue

Stockton, California 95202

Telephone: (209) 468-2980

By: /s/ J. Mark Myles

 J. Mark Myles

Attorneys for Defendants DISTRICT

ATTORNEY JOHN D. PHILLIPS, DEPUTY 

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS LESTER F. 

FLEMING AND KEVIN MAYO and 

INVESTIGATOR BERTOCCHINI

///

///

///

///

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 6 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

7

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Dated: December 8, 2006 Terry Gross (SBN 103878)

Adam C. Belsky (SBN 147800)

Monique Alonso (SBN 127078)

GROSS & BELSKY LLP

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 2200

San Francisco, California 94104

Telephone: (415) 544-0200

Facsimile: (415) 544-0201

By: /s/ Monique Alonso

 Monique Alonso

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

HEATHER and MARK EWING

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

Dated: 1/3/07 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

Ewing.ord

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 7 of 8
1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

8

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Attachment A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, __________________________, do solemnly swear that I am

fully familiar with the terms of the Stipulated Protective Order

entered in HEATHER EWING, et al. v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et

al., United States District Court, Eastern District, Case

No. 2:05-CV-00270-WBS-GGH and hereby agree to comply with and be

bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until

modified by further Order of this Court. I hereby consent to the

jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing this Order.

Dated: 

Case 2:05-cv-02270-WBS -GGH Document 52 Filed 01/03/07 Page 8 of 8