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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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DENNIS J. HERRERA, State Bar #139669

City Attorney

ELIZABETH S. SALVESON, State Bar #83788

Chief Labor Attorney

ANTHONY GRUMBACH, State Bar #195107

RUTH M. BOND, State Bar #214582

Deputy City Attorneys

Fox Plaza

1390 Market Street, 5th Floor

San Francisco, California 94102-5408

Telephone: (415) 554-3947

Facsimile: (415) 554-4248

Email: anthony.grumbach@sfgov.org

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRANCIS KELLY, DENNIS KRUGER, ROBERT P.

ANDERSON, GEORGE O. BULLWINKEL,

STEPHEN C. CHRISTENSEN, FRED J. FEGAN,

GERALD L. GREY, THOMAS E. KAZARIAN,

FRANK M. KUNST, GARY J. LAVAYSSE,

PATRICK H. McLAUGHLIN, DANIEL M.

O’DONNELL, ROBERT G. OLLER, HENRY L.

RANEY, GEORGE J. RIPOLL, PATRICIA

CAULFIELD AND HORTENCE PUCCETTI,

Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly

Situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; SAN

FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT; EDWARD M.

HARRINGTON, in his Official Capacity as Controller

of the City and County of San Francisco; PHILIP A.

GINSBURG in his Official Capacity as Human

Resources Director of the City and County of San

Francisco; and DOES ONE though FIFTY, inclusive,

Defendants.

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

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Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may 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.

1. DEFINITIONS. 

(a) Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel or House Counsel (as well as

their support staffs). 

(b) Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.”

(c) Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery

in this matter.

(d) Expert: a personwith 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 current employee of a Party and who, at the time of

retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party. This

definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

(e) House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

(f) Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

(g) Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,

consultants, retained experts, and Counsel, including their support staff.

(h) Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery

Material in this action.

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(i) Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support

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

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

(j) Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

“Confidential.”

(k) Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from

a Producing Party.

2. SCOPE. This Stipulated Protective Order does not confer blanket protections on all

Disclosure or Discovery Material. The protection it affords extends only to the information or items

that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential, and that are

designated as such by the Parties.

3. DESIGNATIONS OF MATERIAL AS CONFIDENTIAL. Any Party may designate

documents, files, records or other information as “CONFIDENTIAL.” The designation of documents,

files, records or other information as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be used to protect constitutional,

statutory, common law and contractual privileges and rights. The material covered by this Order

includes not only material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” 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 material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

4. EXERCISE OF RESTRAINT AND CARE IN DESIGNATING MATERIAL AS

“CONFIDENTIAL.” The protection afforded by this Stipulated Protective Order extends only to the

limited information or items that are entitled, under the applicable legal principles, to treatment as

confidential. Every Party or non-party that designates documents or information for protection under

this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the

appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to 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. Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations

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are prohibited. Designations that are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an

improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process, or to

impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties), expose theDesignating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not

qualify for protection, that Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the

mistaken designation.

5. MANNERANDTIMINGOF DESIGNATIONS. Except as otherwise provided in this

Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, a Party seeking to designate material as confidential under

this Order must do so before the material is disclosed or produced. Designation in conformity with

this Order requires:

(a) For information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions or

other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Party producing the document affix the legend

“CONFIDENTIAL” at the top of each page that contains material it seeks to protect. If only a portion

or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Party must clearly identify the

portions it seeks to protect (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). A Party or nonparty that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not designate them as

confidential 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 copied and produced, the Party producing the documents must determine which

documents, or portions thereof, it seeks to protect as confidential, and then, before producing the

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” at the top of each

page. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Party must

identify the portions it seeks to protect (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

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(b) 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 testimony it seeks to protect. When it is impractical

to identify separately each portion of testimony that the Party seeks to protect, and when it appears that

substantial portions of the testimony may be designated, 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 20 days after receipt of the transcript to identify the specific portions of the

testimony as to which protection is sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately

designated for protection within said 20-day period shall be covered by the provisions of this Order.

Transcript pages containing confidential material must be separately bound by the court reporter, who

must affix at the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” as instructed by the Party or

non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

(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.” If

only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Party, to the extent practicable, shall

identify the portion or portions it seeks to protect.

6. INADVERTENT FAILURES TO DESIGNATE. If timely corrected, an inadvertent

failure to designate material as “CONFIDENTIAL” does not, standing alone, waive a Designating

Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on

timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS.

(a) Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive

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its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after

the original designation is disclosed.

(b) Meet and Confer. 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

directly (in voice-to-voice dialogue, other forms of communication not being sufficient) with Counsel

for the Designating Party. 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.

(c) Judicial Intervention. A Party who decides to challenge a confidentiality

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

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. The motion must

be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the moving Party has complied with the

meet-and-confer requirement set forth in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity

the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meetand-confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the

Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, all Parties shall continue to treat the

material as confidential. 

8. USE OF “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIALS. Documents, files, records or other

information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be used only in the above-entitled litigation for

the purpose of this litigation, and only in accordance with the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Parties who receive materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” must store and maintain those

materials at a location and in a secure manner to ensure that access is limited to the persons authorized

under this Order. 

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9. DISCLOSUREOF“CONFIDENTIAL” INFORMATIONORITEMS. Unlessordered

by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose

materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the Court and its personnel;

(b) the author of the document or the original source of the information;

(c) the officers, directors, employees, and Counsel of the Receiving Parties, to

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A, attached hereto);

(d) the officers, directors, and employees, and Counsel of the Designating Parties;

(e) Experts of the Receiving Parties and Experts of the Designating Parties to

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A, attached hereto);

(f) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation; and

(g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A, attached hereto).

10. PROTECTEDMATERIALSUBPOENAEDORORDEREDPRODUCEDINOTHER

LITIGATION. If a Party who receives materials designed as “CONFIDENTIAL” is served with a

subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or

items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must so notify the Designating Party,

in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving

the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The

Party who receives material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” also must immediately inform in

writing the person 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 the subject of this Stipulated Protective Order. In

addition, the Party who receives materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” must deliver a copy of

this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the person in the other action that caused the subpoena

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or order to issue. The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence

of this Stipulated Protective Order and to afford the Party that designated the materials as

“CONFIDENTIAL” in this case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court

from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and expenses

of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material, and nothing in these provisions should

be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Party who receives materials designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

11. 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 anycircumstancenot authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, that Party must immediately

(a) notify in writing the Designating Party 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 execute

the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A, attached hereto). 

12. FILINGPROTECTEDMATERIAL. 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 material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” A Party that seeks

to file under seal any material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” must comply with Civil Local Rule

79-5.

13. USE AT TRIAL. In the event any Party desires to use Protected Material as exhibits

or to disclose Protected Material to witnesses during trial or pretrial proceedings, such Party shall meet

and confer with opposing Counsel to reach an agreement, in accordance with the Court’s rules and

procedures, on an appropriate method for disclosure. If the Parties cannot reach an agreement, the

dispute shall be submitted to the Court.

14. DURATION. Even after the termination of the litigation, all documents, files, records

and/or other information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall remain confidential until either

(1) the Court specifically rules otherwise, including during the period a designation is disputed or a

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request to disclose to a person is disputed, or (2) the Party designating the documents, files, records

or other information as “CONFIDENTIAL” withdraws that designation in writing.

15. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the

Producing Party, within sixty (60) days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party

must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. With permission in writing from the

Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of

returning it. Whether the 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 sixty-day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected

Material that was returned or destroyed 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 14

(DURATION), above.

16. SANCTIONS. If the Court finds that any Party is responsible for the unauthorized

disclosure of any Protected Material relating to this lawsuit, the Parties and Counsel may be subject

to sanctions.

17. 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 of any of the material

covered by this Protective Order.

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18. MODIFICATION OF THIS ORDER. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

IT IS SO STIPULATED:

DENNIS J. HERRERA

City Attorney

Dated: October 4, 2005 By: /s/ Ruth M. Bond 

RUTH M. BOND

Deputy City Attorney

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO,

ET AL.

McCARTHY, JOHNSON & MILLER

LAW CORPORATION

Dated: October 4, 2005 By: /s/ Diane Sidd-Champion 

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

FRANCIS KELLY, ET AL.

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: __________________ 

SUSAN ILLSTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________________________, of ________________________

[print or type full name]

___________________________________________________________________, declare under

[print or type full address]

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 on ___________________

 [date]

in the case of Francis Kelly, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, et al., Case No. C 05-1287

SI. 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.

Date: _________________________________

______________________________________

[City and State]

Printed name: __________________________

[printed name]

Signature: _____________________________

[signature]

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