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Nature of Suit Code: 220
Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

Timothy L. Moore (SBN 3015168)

tmoore@reedsmith.com 

Reed Smith LLP 

101 Second Street; Suite 1800 

San Francisco, CA 94105-3659 

Telephone: +1 415 543 8700 

Facsimile: +1 415 391 8269 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Bank of America, N.A., for itself and as 

successor by merger with BAC Home Loans 

Servicing LP (erroneously sued separately as 

“Bank of America, N.A.” and “Bank of America 

Home Loans”) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PHYLLIS WILKINS, an individual,

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., BANK OF 

AMERICA HOME LOANS, BANK OF NEW 

YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW 

YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE 

CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWABS, 

INC. ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, 

SERIES 2006-10AC, AND DOES 1-20, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:15-cv-2341-KJM-EFB

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL 

DESIGNATION ONLY 

Compl. Filed: January 17, 2014 

FAC Filed: 

Honorable Judge Kimberly J. Mueller 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the Parties, identified as Plaintiff Phyllis 

Wilkins and Defendants Bank of America, N.A., for itself and as successor by merger with BAC 

Home Loans Servicing LP (erroneously sued as “Bank of America Home Loans”) and Bank of New 

York Mellon f/k/a the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificate Holders of the CWABS Inc., 

Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-10AC (collectively, “Defendants), by and through their 

respective counsel of record, that in order to facilitate the exchange of information and documents 

which may be subject to confidentiality limitations on disclosure due to federal laws, state laws, and 

privacy rights, the Parties stipulate as follows: 

1. In this Stipulation and Protective Order, the words set forth below shall have the 

following meanings: 

a. “Proceeding” means the above-entitled proceeding, Case Number 2:15-cv2341-KJM-EFB. 

b. “Court” means the Honorable Kimberly J. Mueller, or any other judge to 

which this Proceeding may be assigned, including Court staff participating in such proceedings. 

c. “Confidential” means any information which is in the possession of a 

Designating Party who believes in good faith that such information is entitled to confidential 

treatment under applicable law. 

d. “Confidential Materials” means any Documents, Testimony or Information as 

defined below designated as “Confidential” pursuant to the provisions of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

e. “Designating Party” means the Party that designates Materials as 

“Confidential.” 

f. “Disclose” or “Disclosed” or “Disclosure” means to reveal, divulge, give, or 

make available Materials, or any part thereof, or any information contained therein. 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

g. “Documents” means (i) any “Writing,” “Original,” and “Duplicate” as those 

terms are defined by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence, which have been produced 

in discovery in this Proceeding by any person, and (ii) any copies, reproductions, or summaries of all 

or any part of the foregoing. 

h. “Information” means the content of Documents or Testimony. 

i. “Testimony” means all depositions, declarations or other testimony taken or used 

in this Proceeding. 

2. The Designating Party shall have the right to designate as “Confidential” any Documents, 

Testimony or Information that the Designating Party in good faith believes to contain non-public 

information that is entitled to confidential treatment under applicable law. 

3. The entry of this Stipulation and Protective Order does not alter, waive, modify, or 

abridge any right, privilege or protection otherwise available to any Party with respect to the discovery of 

matters, including but not limited to any Party’s right to assert the attorney-client privilege, the attorney 

work product doctrine, or other privileges, or any Party’s right to contest any such assertion. 

4. Any Documents, Testimony or Information to be designated as “Confidential” must be 

clearly so designated before the Document, Testimony or Information is Disclosed or produced. The 

parties may agree that the case name and number are to be part of the “Confidential” designation. The 

“Confidential” designation should not obscure or interfere with the legibility of the designated 

Information. 

a. For Documents (apart from transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), the Designating Party must affix the legend “Confidential” on each page of any Document 

containing such designated Confidential Material. 

b. For Testimony given in depositions the Designating Party may either: 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

i. identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, all 

“Confidential” Testimony, by specifying all portions of the Testimony that qualify as 

“Confidential;” or 

ii. designate the entirety of the Testimony at the deposition as “Confidential” 

(before the deposition is concluded) with the right to identify more specific portions of 

the Testimony as to which protection is sought within 30 days following receipt of the 

deposition transcript. In circumstances where portions of the deposition Testimony are 

designated for protection, the transcript pages containing “Confidential” Information may 

be separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each page the 

legend “Confidential,” as instructed by the Designating Party. 

c. For Information produced in some form other than Documents, and for any other 

tangible items, including, without limitation, compact discs or DVDs, the Designating Party must 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 Designating 

Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the “Confidential” portions. 

5. The inadvertent production by any of the undersigned Parties or non-Parties to the 

Proceedings of any Document, Testimony or Information during discovery in this Proceeding without a 

“Confidential” designation, shall be without prejudice to any claim that such item is “Confidential” and 

such Party shall not be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent production. In the event that 

any Document, Testimony or Information that is subject to a “Confidential” designation is inadvertently 

produced without such designation, the Party that inadvertently produced the document shall give written 

notice of such inadvertent production within twenty (20) days of discovery of the inadvertent production, 

together with a further copy of the subject Document, Testimony or Information designated as 

“Confidential” (the “Inadvertent Production Notice”). Upon receipt of such Inadvertent Production 

Notice, the Party that received the inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information shall 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

promptly destroy the inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information and all copies thereof, 

or, at the expense of the producing Party, return such together with all copies of such Document, 

Testimony or Information to counsel for the producing Party and shall retain only the “Confidential” 

designated Materials. Should the receiving Party choose to destroy such inadvertently produced 

Document, Testimony or Information, the receiving Party shall notify the producing Party in writing of 

such destruction within ten (10) days of receipt of written notice of the inadvertent production. This 

provision is not intended to apply to any inadvertent production of any Information protected by 

attorney-client or work product privileges. In the event that this provision conflicts with any applicable 

law regarding waiver of confidentiality through the inadvertent production of Documents, Testimony or 

Information, such law shall govern. 

6. In the event that counsel for a Party receiving Documents, Testimony or Information in 

discovery designated as “Confidential” objects to such designation with respect to any or all of such 

items, said counsel shall advise counsel for the Designating Party, in writing, of such objections, the 

specific Documents, Testimony or Information to which each objection pertains, and the specific reasons 

and support for such objections (the “Designation Objections”). Counsel for the Designating Party shall 

have thirty (30) days from receipt of the written Designation Objections to either (a) agree in writing to 

de-designate Documents, Testimony or Information pursuant to any or all of the Designation Objections 

and/or (b) file a motion with the Court seeking to uphold any or all designations on Documents, 

Testimony or Information addressed by the Designation Objections (the “Designation Motion”). 

Pending a resolution of the Designation Motion by the Court, any and all existing designations on the 

Documents, Testimony or Information at issue in such Motion shall remain in place. The Designating 

Party shall have the burden on any Designation Motion of establishing the applicability of its 

“Confidential” designation. In the event that the Designation Objections are neither timely agreed to nor 

timely addressed in the Designation Motion, then such Documents, Testimony or Information shall be 

de-designated in accordance with the Designation Objection applicable to such material. 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

7. Access to and/or Disclosure of Confidential Materials designated as “Confidential” shall 

be permitted only to the following persons: 

a. the Court; 

b. (1) Attorneys of record in the Proceedings and their affiliated attorneys, 

paralegals, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such attorneys who are actively involved in the 

Proceedings and are not employees of any Party. (2) In-house counsel to the undersigned Parties and the 

paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such counsel. Provided, however, that each nonlawyer given access to Confidential Materials shall be advised that such Materials are being Disclosed 

pursuant to, and are subject to, the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order and that they may not 

be Disclosed other than pursuant to its terms; 

c. those officers, directors, partners, members, employees and agents of all nondesignating Parties that counsel for such Parties deems necessary to aid counsel in the prosecution and 

defense of this Proceeding; provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of Confidential Materials to 

any such officer, director, partner, member, employee or agent, counsel for the Party making the 

Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and Protective Order to such person, shall explain that 

such person is bound to follow the terms of such Order, and shall secure the signature of such person on 

a statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

d. court reporters in this Proceeding (whether at depositions, hearings, or any other 

proceeding); 

e. any deposition, trial or hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously has had 

access to the Confidential Materials, or who is currently or was previously an officer, director, partner, 

member, employee or agent of an entity that has had access to the Confidential Materials; 

f. any deposition or non-trial hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously did 

not have access to the Confidential Materials; provided, however, that each such witness given access to 

Confidential Materials shall be advised that such Materials are being Disclosed pursuant to, and are 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

subject to, the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order and that they may not be Disclosed other 

than pursuant to its terms; 

g. mock jury participants, provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of 

Confidential Materials to any such mock jury participant, counsel for the Party making the Disclosure 

shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and Protective Order to such person, shall explain that such person 

is bound to follow the terms of such Order, and shall secure the signature of such person on a statement 

in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

h. outside experts or expert consultants consulted by the undersigned Parties or their 

counsel in connection with the Proceeding, whether or not retained to testify at any oral hearing; 

provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of Confidential Materials to any such expert or expert 

consultant, counsel for the Party making the Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order to such person, shall explain its terms to such person, and shall secure the signature of 

such person on a statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. It shall be the obligation of counsel, 

upon learning of any breach or threatened breach of this Stipulation and Protective Order by any such 

expert or expert consultant, to promptly notify counsel for the Designating Party of such breach or 

threatened breach; and 

i. any other person that the Designating Party agrees to in writing. 

8. Confidential Materials shall be used by the persons receiving them only for the purposes 

of preparing for, conducting, participating in the conduct of, and/or prosecuting and/or defending the 

Proceeding, and not for any business or other purpose whatsoever. 

9. Any Party to the Proceeding (or other person subject to the terms of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order) may ask the Court, after appropriate notice to the other Parties to the Proceeding, to 

modify or grant relief from any provision of this Stipulation and Protective Order. 

10. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or complying with the terms of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order shall not: 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

a. operate as an admission by any person that any particular Document, Testimony 

or Information marked “Confidential” contains or reflects trade secrets, proprietary, confidential or 

competitively sensitive business, commercial, financial or personal information; or 

b. prejudice in any way the right of any Party (or any other person subject to the 

terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order): 

i. to seek a determination by the Court of whether any particular 

Confidential Material should be subject to protection as “Confidential” under the terms of 

this Stipulation and Protective Order; or 

ii. to seek relief from the Court on appropriate notice to all other Parties to 

the Proceeding from any provision(s) of this Stipulation and Protective Order, either 

generally or as to any particular Document, Material or Information. 

11. Any Party to the Proceeding who has not executed this Stipulation and Protective Order 

as of the time it is presented to the Court for signature may thereafter become a Party to this Stipulation 

and Protective Order by its counsel’s signing and dating a copy thereof and filing the same with the 

Court, and serving copies of such signed and dated copy upon the other Parties to this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

12. Any Information that may be produced by a non-Party witness in discovery in the 

Proceeding pursuant to subpoena or otherwise may be designated by such non-Party as 

“Confidential” under the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order, and any such designation by 

a non-Party shall have the same force and effect, and create the same duties and obligations, as made 

by one of the undersigned Parties hereto. Any such designation shall also function as a consent by 

such producing Party to the authority of the Court in the Proceeding to resolve and conclusively 

determine any motion or other application made by any person or Party with respect to such 

designation, or any other matter otherwise arising under this Stipulation and Protective Order. 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

13. If any person subject to this Stipulation and Protective Order who has custody of any 

Confidential Materials receives a subpoena or other process (“Subpoena”) from any government or 

other person or entity demanding production of Confidential Materials, the recipient of the Subpoena 

shall promptly give notice of the same by electronic mail transmission, followed by either express 

mail or overnight delivery to counsel of record for the Designating Party, and shall furnish such 

counsel with a copy of the Subpoena. Upon receipt of this notice, the Designating Party may, in its 

sole discretion and at its own cost, move to quash or limit the Subpoena, otherwise oppose 

production of the Confidential Materials, and/or seek to obtain confidential treatment of such 

Confidential Materials from the subpoenaing person or entity to the fullest extent available under 

law. The recipient of the Subpoena may not produce any Documents, Testimony or Information 

pursuant to the Subpoena prior to the date specified for production on the Subpoena. 

14. Nothing in this Stipulation and Protective Order shall be construed to preclude either 

Party from asserting in good faith that certain Confidential Materials require additional protection. 

The Parties shall meet and confer to agree upon the terms of such additional protection. 

15. If, after execution of this Stipulation and Protective Order, any Confidential Materials 

submitted by a Designating Party under the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order is 

Disclosed by a non-Designating Party to any person other than in the manner authorized by this 

Stipulation and Protective Order, the non-Designating Party responsible for the Disclosure shall 

bring all pertinent facts relating to the Disclosure of such Confidential Materials to the immediate 

attention of the Designating Party. 

16. This Stipulation and Protective Order is entered into without prejudice to the right of any 

Party to knowingly waive the applicability of this Stipulation and Protective Order to any Confidential 

Materials designated by that Party. If the Designating Party uses Confidential Materials in a nonConfidential manner, then the Designating Party shall advise that the designation no longer applies. 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

17. Where any Confidential Materials, or Information derived from Confidential Materials, is 

included in any motion or other proceeding governed by Fed. R. Civ. P. 26 or any other Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure, the party shall follow those rules. With respect to discovery motions or other 

proceedings not governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the following shall apply: If 

Confidential Materials or Information derived from Confidential Materials are submitted to or otherwise 

disclosed to the Court in connection with discovery motions arid proceedings, the same shall be 

separately filed under seal with the clerk of the Court in an envelope marked: “CONFIDENTIAL - 

FILED UNDER SEAL PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER AND WITHOUT ANY FURTHER 

SEALING ORDER REQUIRED.” This stipulation and protective order does not entitle the parties to 

file confidential information under seal. Local Rule 141 sets 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.

18. The Parties shall meet and confer regarding the procedures for use of Confidential 

Materials at trial and shall move the Court for entry of an appropriate order. 

19. Nothing in this Stipulation and Protective Order shall affect the admissibility into 

evidence of Confidential Materials, or abridge the rights of any person to seek judicial review or to 

pursue other appropriate judicial action with respect to any ruling made by the Court concerning the 

issue of the status of Protected Material. 

20. This Stipulation and Protective Order shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of 

this Proceeding and all subsequent proceedings arising from this Proceeding, except that a Party may 

seek the written permission of the Designating Party or may move the Court for relief from the 

provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order. To the extent permitted by law, the Court shall retain 

jurisdiction to enforce, modify, or reconsider this Stipulation and Protective Order, even after the 

Proceeding is terminated. 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

21. Upon written request made within thirty (30) days after the settlement or other 

termination of the Proceeding, the undersigned Parties shall have thirty (30) days to either (a) promptly 

return to counsel for each Designating Party all Confidential Materials and all copies thereof (except that 

counsel for each Party may maintain in its files, in continuing compliance with the terms of this 

Stipulation and Protective Order, all work product, and one copy of each pleading filed with the Court 

[and one copy of each deposition together with the exhibits marked at the deposition)]*, (b) agree with 

counsel for the Designating Party upon appropriate methods and certification of destruction or other 

disposition of such Confidential Materials, or ( c) as to any Documents, Testimony or other Information 

not addressed by sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), file a motion seeking a Court order regarding proper 

preservation of such Materials. To the extent permitted by law the Court shall retain continuing 

jurisdiction to review and rule upon the motion referred to in sub-paragraph (c) herein. *[The bracketed 

portion of this provision shall be subject to agreement between counsel for the Parties in each case.] 

22. After this Stipulation and Protective Order has been signed by counsel for all Parties, it 

shall be presented to the Court for entry. Counsel agree to be bound by the terms set forth herein with 

regard to any Confidential Materials that have been produced before the Court signs this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

23. The Parties and all signatories to the Certification attached hereto as Exhibit A agree to 

be bound by this Stipulation and Protective Order pending its approval and entry by the Court. In the 

event that the Court modifies this Stipulation and Protective Order, or in the event that the Court enters a 

different Protective Order, the Parties agree to be bound by this Stipulation and Protective Order until 

such time as the Court may enter such a different Order. It is the Parties’ intent to be bound by the terms 

of this Stipulation and Protective Order pending its entry so as to allow for immediate production of 

Confidential Materials under the terms herein. 

This Stipulation and Protective Order may be executed in counterparts. 

/// 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

DATED: ___________________ BAYUK & ASSOCIATES, INC. 

 By: /s/ Christopher W. Bayuk 

Christopher W. Bayuk, Esq. 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

Phyllis Wilkins 

DATED: ___________________ REED SMITH, LLP 

 By: /s/ Timothy L. Moore 

Timothy L. Moore 

Attorneys for Defendants 

Attorneys for Defendants, 

Bank of America, N.A., for itself and as 

successor by merger with BAC Home Loans 

Servicing LP (erroneously sued as “Bank of 

America Home Loans”) and Bank of New York 

Mellon fka the Bank of New York, as Trustee for 

the Certificate holders of the CWABS Inc., Asset 

Backed Certificates, Series 2006-10AC

ORDER 

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby approves the Stipulation and Protective 

Order, as modified. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: October 6, 2016. 

 

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STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER-CONFIDENTIAL DESIGNATION ONLY 

REED SMITH LLP 

A limited liability partnership formed in the State of Delaware 

EXHIBIT A 

CERTIFICATION RE CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIALS 

I hereby acknowledge that I, ____________________________________ [NAME], 

____________________________________ [POSITION AND EMPLOYER], am about to receive 

Confidential Materials supplied in connection with the Proceeding, 2:15-cv-02341-KJM-EFB. I 

certify that I understand that the Confidential Materials are provided to me subject to the terms and 

restrictions of the Stipulation and Protective Order filed in this Proceeding. I have been given a copy of 

the Stipulation and Protective Order; I have read it, and I agree to be bound by its terms. 

I understand that Confidential Materials, as defined in the Stipulation and Protective Order, 

including any notes or other records that may be made regarding any such materials, shall not be 

Disclosed to anyone except as expressly permitted by the Stipulation and Protective Order. I will not 

copy or use, except solely for the purposes of this Proceeding, any Confidential Materials obtained 

pursuant to this Protective Order, except as provided therein or otherwise ordered by the Court in the 

Proceeding. 

I further understand that I am to retain all copies of all Confidential Materials provided to me in 

the Proceeding in a secure manner, and that all copies of such Materials are to remain in my personal 

custody until termination of my participation in this Proceeding, whereupon the copies of such Materials 

will be returned to counsel who provided me with such Materials. 

I declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California, that the foregoing is 

true and correct. Executed this ____ day of ______ , 20_, at _________________. 

DATED:____________________________ BY:_______________________________ 

 Signature 

 _______________________________ 

 Title 

 _______________________________ 

 Address 

 _______________________________ 

 City, State, Zip 

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