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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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MICHAEL J. HADDAD (State Bar No. 189114) 

JULIA SHERWIN (State Bar No. 189268) 

GENEVIEVE K. GUERTIN (State Bar No. 262479) 

T. KENNEDY HELM (State Bar No. 282319) 

HADDAD & SHERWIN 

505 Seventeenth Street 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 452-5500 

Facsimile: (510) 452-5510 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Bobby Johnson, 

Sharon Johnson, Tanya Johnson, 

and A.J., a minor 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BOBBY DARRELL JOHNSON; SHARON KAY 

JOHNSON; TANYA SUEANN JOHNSON; and 

A.J., a minor, through her mother and Next Friend, 

TANYA JOHNSON; individually, 

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

SHASTA COUNTY, a public entity; SHASTA 

COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES CARY 

ERICKSON, TOM FLEMMING, RAY HUGHES, 

DAVID RENFER, and KYLE WALLACE; 

SHASTA COUNTY SHERIFF SERGEANT ERIC 

MAGRINI, and SHASTA COUNTY SHERIFF 

DETECTIVES GENE RANDAL, NICK 

THOMPSON, and CRAIG TIPPINGS; SHASTA 

COUNTY VOLUNTEER DR. JESSE WELLS, 

M.D.; SUTTER COUNTY, a public entity; SUTTER 

COUNTY SHERIFF DETECTIVE MATTHEW 

MAPLES, SUTTER COUNTY SHERIFF 

LIEUTENANT JAMES CASNER, and SUTTER 

COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICER MICHAEL T. 

GWINNUP, and DOES 1–10, Jointly and Severally, 

 Defendants. 

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No: 2:14-CV-01338-KJM-EFB 

Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller 

AMENDED STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE: 

CONFIDENTIAL 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 

DOCUMENTS TO INCLUDE 

IDENTITY OF 

CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMANT 

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The parties, by and through their respective attorneys of record, hereby stipulate to the 

following amended protective order being issued in this matter: 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

 Plaintiffs seek disclosure of portion of a search warrant No. S13-149 ordered sealed by the 

Sutter County Superior Court Judge Aronson, entitled “Attachment A” and related documents, 

which are likely to involve production of confidential or private information for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this 

litigation would 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 extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal 

principles to treatment as confidential-attorney eyes only. The parties further acknowledge, as set 

forth, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file 

material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.2 “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only”: The designation of “CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” includes attachment “A” and related document of the sealed 

portion of the warrant No. S13-149 issued by the Sutter County Superior Court. 

 2.3. “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only”: The designation of “CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” includes the identity of the confidential informant, identified as 

CRI-1, in the Statement of Probable Cause and Attachment “A” to Search Warrant No. S13-149. 

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2.4 Protected Material: any document designated as CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” or any information contained therein. 

2.5 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained 

to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor 

of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party 

or a competitor of a Party’s. 

2.7 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE 

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 

(as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION 

 Even after the termination 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. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions or other 

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend or watermark 

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“CONFIDENTIAL –ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” on 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) and must specify, for each portion that it is “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 5.1.1 for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of 

the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any 

portions of the testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, 

and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party 

or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the 

deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to twenty (20) days to identify the 

specific portions of the testimony as or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 

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

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” as instructed by the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the 

witness or presenting the testimony. 

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

6.1 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 11, below (FINAL 

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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. 

6.2 Disclosure of Protected Materials “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” 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 – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY only to: 

(a) the counsel of record for the Parties in this action, as well as employees of 

said counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation; 

(b) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(e) during their depositions, witnesses, save Plaintiffs, in the action to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary. 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. 

 6.3 Disclosure of documents “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

any information contained therein may not be disclosed to any Plaintiff in this action, nor relative 

of Plaintiff, including Mark Johnson or Jerry Johnson. 

7. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

 If by inadvertence or otherwise, Protected Material is disclosed to any person or in any 

circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must 

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immediately: (a) notify the court of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to 

retrieve all 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 be bound by the Stipulated Protective Order. 

9. 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. 

12. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty (60) 

days after the final termination of this action, defined as the dismissal or entry of judgment by the 

district court, or if an appeal is filed, the disposition of the appeal, each Receiving Party must 

return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected 

Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing 

or capturing any of the Protected Material. The Receiving Party must submit a written 

certification to the court by the sixty day deadline that all the Protected Material was returned and 

that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected material. 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, 

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), 

above. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

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13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

13.2 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 any of the material covered by 

this Protective Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: September 25, 2015 HADDAD & SHERWIN LLP 

 /s/ T. Kennedy Helm 

T. KENNEDY HELM 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Dated: September 25, 2015 BRICKWOOD LAW OFFICE 

 /s/ Gary Brickwood 

GARY BRICKWOOD 

Attorneys for Defendants SHASTA COUNTY, 

CARY ERICKSON, TOM FLEMMING, RAY 

HUGES, DAVID RENFER, KYLE WALLACE, 

ERIC MAGRINI, GENE RANDAL, NICK 

THOMPSON, CRAIG TIPPINGS, and DR. JESSE 

A. WELLS, M.D. 

Dated: September 25, 2015 PORTER SCOTT 

 /s/ John R. Whitefleet 

JOHN R. WHITEFLEET 

 Attorneys for Defendants SUTTER COUNTY, 

 MATTHEW MAPLES, JAMES CASNER, and 

 MICHAEL T. GWINNUP 

*Messrs. Brickwood and Whitefleet consent that this document be filed with their e-signatures. 

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 Having consider the parties’ stipulation, for the reasons stated in the court’s July 27, 2015 

order (ECF No. 53), the stipulation is approved and so ordered. 

Dated: October 7, 2015. 

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