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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1983 Civil Rights

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ROB BONTA, State Bar No. 202668

Attorney General of California

JON S. ALLIN, State Bar No. 155069

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

JEREMY DUGGAN, State Bar No. 229854

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 210-6008

Fax: (916) 324-5205

E-mail: Jeremy.Duggan@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

J. Burnes

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

DORA SOLARES,

Plaintiff,

v.

RALPH DIAZ, et al.,

Defendants.

1:20-CV-00323-JLT-BAM

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Action Filed: March 2, 2020

To facilitate discovery in this matter, Plaintiff Dora Solares and Defendant Burnes, 

stipulate that all information, testimony, documents, or things produced or given (by a party or by 

a non-party) as part of discovery in this action shall be governed by this Stipulated Protective 

Order, which designates certain material as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to 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. 

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Accordingly, the parties 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 from public disclosure 

and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 

information under seal; Eastern District 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.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another Party or 

Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means. The criteria for such designation shall be whether the Party has a good-faith 

belief that the information is entitled to protection from disclosure to non-attorneys, because such 

information threatens the safety of individuals or inmates, or threatens the safety and security of a 

prison.

2.4 Counsel (without qualifier): Counsel of Record (as well as their support staff).

2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that 

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 

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testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter.

2.7 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.

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action but 

are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on behalf 

of that party or are affiliated with a law firm or government agency which has appeared on behalf 

of that party.

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

consultants, retained experts, and Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

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

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

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

subcontractors.

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected 

Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected 

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Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order do not cover the 

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to 

a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as 

a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party 

prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who 

obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after 

the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this 

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

appropriate standards. The Designating Party must 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 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 the Designating Party to sanctions.

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If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protection do not qualify for protection at all or do not qualify for the level of protection 

initially asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. 

Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) 

below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for 

protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing 

Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” to 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, the level of protection being asserted.

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 

need not designate them for protection 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 –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, 

qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the 

Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to 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 

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identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must 

specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted.

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

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

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating 

Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) 

a right to have up to 21 days after receiving a transcript of the deposition (including a rough 

transcript, if applicable), to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection 

is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the 

testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Proposed Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party 

may specify, at the deposition or up to 21 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that 

the entire transcript shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or 

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all 

pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and 

the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall 

inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the 

expiration of a 21-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been 

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designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise 

agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually 

designated.

(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” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only a portion or portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portion(s).

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to 

challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 

original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 

for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written 

notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 

specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in 

good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

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forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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 or 

establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in 

a timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. 

If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, either party may file 

and serve a motion to retain or challenge a confidentiality designation after 30 days have passed 

from the initial notice of challenge or after the parties have agreed that the meet-and-confer 

process will not resolve their dispute. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet-and-confer requirements 

imposed in the preceding paragraph. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to 

sanctions. All parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 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 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

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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.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. 

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” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees of 

said Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) the court and its personnel;

(d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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

necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 

unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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.

(f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, 

Counsel for the Receiving Party may not disclose any information or item designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to Plaintiff Solares, members of Plaintiff’s 

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family, friends or associates of Plaintiff, or to any inmate, parolee, or person previously in the 

custody of CDCR or any of their relatives, friends, associates, or the public. Counsel for the

Receiving Party also may not disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to Defendant Burnes or any other CDCR employee unless that 

person otherwise qualifies to receive it under this section. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court 

or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, only Counsel for the Receiving Party may have 

access to and review any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.” Staff employed by Counsel and Expert(s) retained by the Receiving Party will 

not disclose any item or information designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” or make copies of any item or information so designated, except as necessary for this 

litigation. Counsel may disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) Expert witnesses of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(a)(2), below, 

have been followed;

(c) the court and its personnel;

(d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and

(e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to Experts.

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(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the Designating Party, 

a Party that seeks to disclose to an Expert (as defined in this Order) any information or item that 

has been designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to paragraph 

7.3(c) first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general 

categories of “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information that the Receiving 

Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the 

city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, 

(4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the 

Expert has received compensation or funding for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom 

the expert has provided professional services, including in connection with a litigation, at any 

time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, filing 

date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has offered expert 

testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a deposition or trial, during the 

preceding five years.

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the preceding

respective paragraphs may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless,

within 14 days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the 

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice-to-voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party 

seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion seeking permission from the court 

to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the 

reasons why the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the 

disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that could be used to reduce that risk. 

In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration describing the 

parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and 

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confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal 

to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding, the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden

of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards proposed)

outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party 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 subject to this 

Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the 

subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” before a 

determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained 

the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of 

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

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a 

lawful directive from another court.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 

LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 

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action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected 

by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

10. 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 any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 

Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the 

unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized 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” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery 

order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the Parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product 

protection, the Parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order 

submitted to the court.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

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

seek its modification by the court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or 

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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 Stipulated Protective Order.

12.3 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. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request 

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is entitled to protection under the law.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 

material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, upon request of the Producing 

Party, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not 

the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) within 60 days that (1) identifies (by 

category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) 

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

or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this 

provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, 

deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial 

exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if 

such materials contain Protected Material. In addition, Counsel of Record is not required to 

destroy or return copies of Protected Material that may be stored on back-up storage media 

created in the Counsel of Record’s normal course of business and retained for disaster-recovery 

purposes, but Counsel of Record should make an attempt to destroy or return such copies as 

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feasible. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to 

this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: January 5, 2024 Respectfully submitted,

ROB BONTA

Attorney General of California

JON ALLIN

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

/s/Jeremy Duggan

JEREMY DUGGAN

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendant

J. Burnes

Dated: January 4, 2024 Respectfully submitted,

/s/Erin Darling (as authorized 01/04/24)

JUSTIN STERLING

ERIN DARLING

Attorneys for Plaintiff Dora Solares

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print or 

type full address], declare under 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 of 

California on _________ [date] in the case of Solares v. Diaz, et al., Eastern District of California Case 

No. 1:20-cv-00323. 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.

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as my 

California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to 

enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date: _________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: ______________________________

[printed name]

Signature: __________________________________

[signature]

SA2019101902

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ORDER

Having considered the above stipulation and finding good cause, the Court adopts the 

stipulated protective order. 

The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States District 

Court, Eastern District of California, any documents subject to the protective order to be filed 

under seal must be accompanied by a written request which complies with Local Rule 141 prior 

to sealing. The party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required to show 

good cause for documents attached to a non-dispositive motion or compelling reasons for 

documents attached to a dispositive motion. Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 

677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). Within five (5) days of any approved document filed under seal, the 

party shall file a redacted copy of the sealed document. The redactions shall be narrowly 

tailored to protect only the information that is confidential or was deemed confidential.

Additionally, the parties shall consider resolving any dispute arising under the protective 

order according to the Court’s informal discovery dispute procedure.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 5, 2024 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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