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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CREDIT PROTECTION ASSOCIATION’S CONFIDENTIAL 

AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION, CASE NO. 10-0232 

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DAVID I. DALBY (SBN: 114750)

HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP 

One California Street, 18th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415-362-6000 

Facsimile: 415-834-9070 

ddalby@hinshawlaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

CREDIT PROTECTION ASSOCIATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

KRISTEN HYLAND, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

CREDIT PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, 

Defendants. 

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Case No.: C 10-00232 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER RE CREDIT PROTECTION 

ASSOCIATION’S CONFIDENTIAL 

AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION

Hon. Laurel Beeler 

Complaint Filed: January 19, 2010 

WHEREAS Plaintiff has demanded inspection of certain Credit Protection 

Association (“CPA”) internal policies, procedures, training materials, and/or operating 

guidelines, and underlying agreements; 

WHEREAS CPA's internal policies, procedures, training materials, operating 

guidelines and underlying agreements are trade and business secrets, and are confidential 

and sensitive proprietary information, the confidentiality of which is strictly safeguarded 

by CPA; and 

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WHEREAS information regarding CPA's policies, procedures, training materials, 

operating guidelines, and underlying agreements, if freely produced, would compromise 

CPA's confidential and proprietary information; 

WHEREFORE the parties hereby stipulate and agree to be bound by the following 

Protective Order: 

1. Except as may be otherwise provided by further order of the Court, CPA's 

policies, procedures, training materials, operating guidelines, and underlying agreements, 

including any and all, memoranda discussing the same, and deposition or declaration 

testimony concerning the same, shall be disclosed only to "Qualified Persons" including 

(a) counsel of record engaged in the preparation of plaintiff's case for trial, including 

partners, associate attorneys, and support staff; (b) expert witnesses, if any, retained by 

plaintiff or his attorneys to assist in the preparation of this case for trial; and (c) plaintiff. 

Other than the Qualified Persons specified above, no person shall be provided access to 

documents or transcripts disclosing CPA's policies, procedures, and guidelines. 

2. CPA shall label as "Confidential" information concerning its policies, 

procedures, training materials, and operating guidelines that it contends is subject to this 

Order. When confidential information is attached to, contained in, or is incorporated in a 

deposition transcript or declaration, the cover page and the confidential portions of the 

transcript or declaration and any confidential exhibits shall be labeled "Confidential." 

3. Any information designated "Confidential" shall be made available only to 

Qualified Persons who shall have read this Order and who shall agree to be bound by the 

terms thereof and who shall agree to maintain said information in confidence and not to 

use or reveal the same to anyone other than a Qualified Person and to use the same only 

in connection with the trial or preparation for trial of this proceeding. 

4. All documents containing confidential information which are filed in the 

action shall be filed in a sealed envelope on which shall be stated the title of the action to 

which it pertains, an indication of the nature of the contents of such sealed envelope, the 

word "CONFIDENTIAL" and a statement substantially in the following form: 

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"This envelope is sealed pursuant to Court Order and contains Confidential 

Information filed in this proceeding and is not to be opened or the contents 

thereof to be displayed or revealed except by further Court Order." 

A confidential envelope shall not be opened without further Court Order except by 

counsel of record who shall return the document to the Court or Clerk of the Court in a 

sealed envelope marked as aforesaid. 

5. All documents containing confidential information and notes or other 

records regarding the contents thereof shall be maintained in the custody of counsel of 

record for the parties, and no partial or complete copies thereof shall be retained by 

anyone else, except such experts who have complied with the requirements of Paragraph 

6, infra, who may retain documents on a temporary basis for purposes of study, analysis, 

and preparation of the case. 

6. An expert witness must, prior to receipt of confidential information, sign a 

written agreement in the following form: 

"I hereby acknowledge that I, [name], [position of employment], am about 

to receive confidential information. I certify my understanding that such 

information is to be provided to me pursuant to the terms and restrictions of 

the Court's Order in the above entitled action, Kristen Hyland v. Credit 

Protection Association, that I have been given a copy of and have read said 

Order and agree to be bound by the terms thereof. I understand that such 

information and any copies I make of any documentary material containing 

confidential information or any notes or other records that may be made 

regarding any of such information shall not be disclosed to others, except 

'Qualified Persons' as defined in such Order." 

7. If persons are deposed regarding confidential information in this action, 

only Qualified Persons, the witness being deposed, the court reporter, and other parties 

and their counsel shall be present. 

8. As used herein, the term "confidential information" includes documents of 

every kind and all extracts therefrom and summaries thereof. In the event of a dispute 

over what constitutes "confidential information," documents or other information 

designated as such by CPA shall continue to receive the protections of this order unless 

and until the Court orders otherwise. 

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9. This Stipulation and Protective Order shall not prevent any party from 

using the confidential information at the trial in this action without prior notice to the 

other party. 

10. At the conclusion of this litigation, all of the documents constituting 

confidential information (with the exception of plaintiff's attorneys' and experts' work 

product), including all copies, shall be returned to counsel for CPA and all confidential 

information in an electronic form, format or electronic version of any kind shall be 

destroyed. Plaintiff's attorneys and plaintiff's experts will confirm in writing that they 

have destroyed all work product containing confidential information and they have 

destroyed all confidential information in an electronic form, format or electronic version 

of any kind. 

11. Any violation or threatened violation of this Stipulation and Protective 

Order shall be grounds for immediate injunctive relief and/or sanctions as the Court may 

deem appropriate. 

SO STIPULATED. 

DATED: July 26, 2010 HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP 

 By: /s/ David Ian Dalby 

 David I. Dalby 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 Credit Protection Association 

DATED: July 26, 2010 KROHN & MOSS 

 By: /s/ Ryan S. Lee 

 Ryan Scott Lee 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 Kristen Hyland 

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ORDER 

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT 

the foregoing Protective Order be entered by this Court. 

SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July _31, 2010 ____________________________________ 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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