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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1

Tim A. Pori (SBN 189270)

Shirley E. Gibson (SBN 206829)

LAW OFFICES OF TIM A. PORI

521 Georgia Street

Vallejo, CA 94590

Tel: (707) 644-4004

Fax: (707) 644-7528

MICHAEL J. HADDAD (SBN 189114)

JULIA SHERWIN (SBN 189268)

HADDAD & SHERWIN

505 Seventeenth Street

Oakland, CA 94612

Tel: (510) 452-5500

Fax: (510) 452-5510

Attorneys for Plaintiff Marc Larz Lister

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARC LARZ LISTER, ) Case No. C 05-2861 SI

)

Plaintiff, )

) STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

vs. ) ORDER

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TREVOR SCHNITZIUS, MICHAEL )

HULSEY, RICHARD SMITH, JAMES )

LIBBY, G.R. "JERRY MONGE, MARK A. )

MOCZULSKI, CITY OF ANTIOCH, and )

DOES 1 - 60, inclusive, )

)

Defendants. )

____________________________________)

Plaintiff MARC LARZ LISTER, by and through HADDAD & SHERWIN, and

Defendants TREVOR SCHNITZIUS, MICHAEL HULSEY, RICHARD SMITH, MARK

MOCZULSKI and CITY OF ANTIOCH ("Defendants"), by and through their attorneys,

EDRINGTON, SHIRMER & MURPHY, hereby stipulate to the following protective order:

1. DEFINITIONS

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

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

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

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

1.3 "Confidential" Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated,

stored or maintained) or tangible things qualify for protection under standards developed under

F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). This material includes the following:

a) Copies of private information contained in personnel files of any sworn member

of the Antioch Police Department.

b) Copies of Internal Affairs files pertaining to any sworn member of the Antioch

Police Department.

c) Copies of medical and/or psycho-therapeutic records of any party to this action.

1.4 "Highly Confidential-Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information or Items:

extremely sensitive "Confidential Information or Items" whose disclosure to another Party or

non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less

restrictive means. 

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

Producing Party.

1.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery

Material in this action.

1.7 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 "Highly

Confidential-Attorneys Eyes Only."

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

"Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential-Attorneys' Eyes Only."

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

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

1.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

1.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as

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their support staffs).

1.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent

to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as

a consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party and who, at the

time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party. This definition includes a

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

1.13 Professional Vendors: person or entities that provide litigation support services

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

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

2. SCOPE

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

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

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

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

3. DURATION

 Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by

this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or court

order otherwise directs.

4. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

4.1 F.R.Civ. P. 26(c). The information sought to be protected must be properly

qualified for protection under F.R.Civ. P. 26(c). Counsel shall not designate any discovery

material "CONFIDENTIAL" without first making a good faith determination that protection is

warranted.

4.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 4.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered,

material that qualified for protection under the Order must be clearly so designated before the

material is disclosed or produced.

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Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

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

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

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" at the top of each page that contains

protected material.

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 "HIGHLY

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

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY") at the top of 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 (either "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY").

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

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

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

portions of the testimony that qualify as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' ONLY."

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

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the

record (before the deposition or proceeding ins concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to

identify the specific the level of protection being asserted ("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY

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CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). Only those portions of the testimony that are

appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of

this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," as instructed by the Party or

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

( c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and for any other

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container

or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or

"HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." 

4.3 Inadvertent Failure to Designate. If timely and reasonably corrected, an

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as "Confidential" or "Highly

Confidential-Attorneys' Eyes Only" does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's right

to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as

"Confidential" or "Highly Confidential-Attorneys' Eyes Only" after the material was initially

produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of the Order. If

Receiving Party serves a written objection to the propriety of a "Confidential" or "Highly

Confidential" designation under this section, then, after reasonable attempts to meet and confer,

the Designating Party must move the Court for a Protective Order within thirty (30) days of the

conclusion of meet and confer discussions, or if the Designating Party does not so move, the

Receiving Party may treat the "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential" designation as having been

waived. 

5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

5.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a proper challenge to a Designating Party's

confidentially designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

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economic burden, or a later 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.

5.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating

Party's confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) 

with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the

basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the

Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chose

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.

5.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality

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

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

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that

sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by

the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue.

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

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party's

designation.

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed

or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for prosecuting,

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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 terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 10, 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.

6.2 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) employees of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary

for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" 

(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 "Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order" (Exhibit A);

(c) the Court and its personnel;

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation;

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

reasonably necessary, and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order"

(Exhibit A). 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 of the document or the original source of the information.

6.3 Disclosure of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" 

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the

Designating Party, Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated "HIGHLY

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CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" only to:

(a) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation, who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order"

(Exhibit A);

(b) the Court and its personnel;

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

is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(d) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

 PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION________________

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," the

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately

and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such

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

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that

caused the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of

this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to

protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The

Designating Party shall bear the 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.

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8. 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 copies of the Protected Material,

(c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all of 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.

 9. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from the

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a

Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to

file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. In addition to

placing the documents in a sealed envelope with instructions that the envelope is not to be

opened absent further order of the court, the envelope should be labeled to identify title of the

case, the case number, and the title of the document.

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

Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action and upon written

request from Producing Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the

Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected Material" includes all copies,

abstracts compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party

may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected

Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the

Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day

deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was

returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,

abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the

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Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney

work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that

contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in

Section 4 (DURATION), above.

11. MISCELLANEOUS

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. JURISDICTION. The Court shall retain jurisdiction over any matter covered by

this Stipulation and Order for 24 months after the final termination of this action.

THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE TO THE TERMS OF THE PROTECTIVE

ORDER AS SET FORTH ABOVE.

DATED: March 1, 2007 LAW OFFICES OF TIM A. PORI

 By: /s/ Tim A. Pori 

 TIM A. PORI 

Attorneys for Plaintiff MARC LARZ LISTER

 

DATED: March 2, 2007 HADDAD & SHERWIN

 By /s/ Michael J. Haddad (Authorized 3/2/07)

MICHAEL J. HADDAD

Attorneys for Plaintiff MARC LARZ LISTER

DATED: March 1, 2007 EDRINGTON, SCHIRMER & MURPHY

 By:_/s/ Michael Clark (Authorized 3/2/07)

 MICHAEL CLARK

 Attorneys for Defendants SCHNITZIUS,

 HULSEY, SMITH, MOCZULSKI and

 CITY OF ANTIOCH

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I hereby attest that I have on file all holographic signatures for any signatures indicated by

a "conformed" signature (/s/) within this e-filed document and/or written agreement to this

document from all counsel.

Dated: March 3, 2007

 /s/ Tim A. Pori 

 TIM A. PORI 

[PROPOSED] ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED:_______________________

___________________________________

SUSAN ILLSTON 

 United States District Judge

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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 Court for the Northern District of California on

______________________[date] in the case of Marc Larz Lister v. Trevor Schnitzius,

et al., Case No. C-05-02861 SI . I agree to comply with and 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 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]

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