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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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MICHAEL E. BREWER, Bar No. 177912

mbrewer@littler.com

PHILIP A. SIMPKINS, Bar No. 246635

pasimpkins@littler.com

JOHANNA R. CARNEY, Bar No. 277946

jcarney@littler.com

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Attorneys for Defendant, GARFIELD BEACH CVS, LLC

SHAUN SETAREH (SBN 204514)

shaun@setarehlaw.com

TUVIA KOROBKIN (SBN 268066)

tuvia@setarehlaw.com

NEIL LARSEN (SBN 276490)

neil@setarehlaw.com

SETAREH LAW GROUP

9454 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 907

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Telephone: 310.888.7771

Facsimile: 310.888.0109

Attorneys for Plaintiff, ROBERTA WATTERSON, on 

behalf of herself and all others similarly situated

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

ROBERTA WATTERSON, on behalf of 

herself and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

GARFIELD BEACH CVS, LLC, and 

DOES 1 through 50,

Defendants.

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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. 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 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; Civil Local Rule 79-5 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 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and 

House Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates 

information or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.5 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, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced 

or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

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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.

2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this 

action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel.

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, 

association, or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 Outside 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 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 Outside 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.”

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

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

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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 Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation 

and 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.

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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.

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

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, 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” 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).

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.” 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 “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains 

Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 

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protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by 

making appropriate markings in the margins).

(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.

(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 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 

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to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in 

voice to voice dialogue; other 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, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if 

applicable) within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties 

agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. 

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. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required 

declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the 

confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging 

Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good 

cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any 

portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed by 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. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality 

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designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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).

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 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) the officers, directors, and employees (including House 

Counsel) 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) 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);

(d) the court and its personnel;

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(e) 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);

(f) 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.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the 

information or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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,” 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” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order 

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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 action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, 

to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject 

to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, 

then the Party shall:

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 

Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 

agreement with a Non-Party;

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and

(3) make the information requested available for inspection 

by the Non-Party.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from 

this court within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the 

Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the 

discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall 

not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality 

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agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. Absent a court order to 

the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this 

court of its Protected Material.

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

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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.

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 79-5. 

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 79-5, a 

sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at issue 

is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. 

If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local 

Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the 

public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court.

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, 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 60 day deadline 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, 

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925.932.2468

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

(NO. 3:14-CV-01721-HSG) 12.

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).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: April 6, 2015 SETAREH LAW GROUP

By: _/s/ Shaun Setareh_______

 Neil Larsen

 Shaun Setareh

 Attorneys for Plaintiff

 ROBERTA WATTERSON

DATED: April 6, 2015 LITTLER MENDELSON 

By: /s/ Philip Simpkins__

 Philip A. Simpkins

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 GARFIELD BEACH CVS, LLC

I hereby attest, pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3) that I have obtained 

concurrence in the filing of this document from each of the signatories shown above.

Dated: April 6, 2015 By: /s/ Philip Simpkins__________

PHILIP A. SIMPKINS

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:_____________ __________________________

U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.

4/8/2015

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LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C.

Treat Towers

1255 Treat Boulevard

Suite 600

Walnut Creek, CA 94597

925.932.2468

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

(NO. 3:14-CV-01721-HSG) 13.

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ____________________________________________________ [full name], 

of ____________________________________________________ [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 Roberta Watterson v. Garfield 

Beach CVS, LLC, Case No. 3:14-cv-01721-HSG. 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: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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