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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 15:1681 Fair Credit Reporting Act

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

THOMAS HASSAN KUBBANY and 

NANCY KUBBANY, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

TRANSUNION, LLC, a Delaware 

Corporation, LANDSAFE CREDIT, 

INC., a California Corporation, 

CENTRAL PACIFIC MORTGAGE 

COMPANY dba NORTH COAST 

MORTGAGE, a California Corporation, 

and DOES I THROUGH XX, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

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Date Action Filed: January 17, 2008 

Trial Date: None set 

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 would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby 

stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. 

BRYAN CAVE LLP 

ROBERT E. BOONE III, California Bar No. 132780 

JENNIFER A. JACKSON, California Bar No. 192998 

AMY M. GANTVOORT, California Bar No. 227294 

120 Broadway, Suite 300 

Santa Monica, California 90401-2386 

Telephone: (310) 576-2100 

Facsimile: (310) 576-2200 

e-mail: reboone@bryancave.com jjackson@bryancave.com 

 amy.gantvoort@bryancave.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LANDSAFE CREDIT, INC. 

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The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only 

to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal 

principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth 

in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to 

file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the 

procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied 

when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS

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

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their 

support staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, 

regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or 

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection 

under standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

2.4 “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. 

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure 

or Discovery Material in this action. 

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2.7 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.” 

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel 

(as well as their support staffs). 

2.12 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 or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of 

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

Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons 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. 

3. 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. 

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4. 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 a court order otherwise directs. 

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. A Designating Party must 

take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, 

or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the 

material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations 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 Party’s or a non-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 Party or non-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, material that qualifies for protection under this 

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. 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”). 

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 

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proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the 

testimony that qualify as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” When it is 

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

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may 

qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the 

testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is 

concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the 

testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection 

being asserted (“Confidential” or “Highly 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. 

No person shall attend those portions of the deposition designated 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” unless such person 

is an authorized recipient of classified information under the terms of this Order. 

The Party who noticed or requested the deposition shall, prior to the 

commencement of testimony at such deposition, serve a copy of this Order upon the 

officer reporting the deposition. The court reporter shall acknowledge service of a 

copy of this Order, and shall agree that he/she, his/her employees, and his/her agents 

shall be bound by the terms of this Order, and shall make no use or disclosure of 

Protected Material unless expressly permitted by the terms of this Order, or by the 

express consent of all Parties and any designating person who are or may become 

subject to the provisions of this 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 nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or 

presenting the testimony. The court reporter shall provide copies of the deposition 

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transcript or deposition exhibits only to attorneys for the Parties and, if the 

deposition is of a third person or entity, to that deponent or his/her attorney. Copies 

of any transcript, reporter’s notes, or any other transcription records of any such 

testimony prepared by the court reporter, will be marked with the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY,” as appropriate, and will be retained in absolute confidentiality and 

safekeeping by such reporter or delivered to the attorneys of record or filed under 

seal with the Court. 

When a party to this Order designates the testimony (including proposed 

testimony) of a person being deposed as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” and objection is made to such designation, such testimony 

shall not be withheld because such objection has been made to the “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” designation. Such testimony shall be 

treated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” until a 

stipulation or order on motion that it should not be so treated. 

(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.” If only portions of the 

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

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as 

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely 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 – 

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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 this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a 

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable 

substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a later significant 

disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive 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. 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 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. 

6.3 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 Local Rule 7 (and in 

compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that identifies the challenged 

material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. 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 

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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. 

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 11, 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. 

This Order shall not prevent or limit any party from using Protected Material 

in discovery or at trial; however, the Parties reserve the right to approach the Court 

regarding the procedures to be used to maintain confidentiality at trial. 

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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

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

Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

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(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 “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(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 

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to 

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

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 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 of the document or the original source of the 

information; 

(h) any plaintiff or defendant in this action; and 

(i) any mediator approved by the Parties or appointed by the 

Court, who has signed the “Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit 

A). 

7.3 Disclosure of “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

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

by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item 

designated “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this 

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action, as well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

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

Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party (1) who has no 

involvement in competitive decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, and (3) who has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set 

forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed; 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to 

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

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(f) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items to “Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed 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 “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” first must make a written request to the Designating Party 

that (1) identifies the specific “Highly Confidential” 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 

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for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided 

professional services 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 provided any professional services during the 

preceding five years. 

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

specified in the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to 

the identified Expert unless, within seven court 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. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to 

make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 

7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking permission 

from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with 

specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is 

reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and 

suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any 

such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant 

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

the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets 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. 

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8. 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 burdens and the 

expenses 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. 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 the terms of this Order, and (d) 

request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

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Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. Without written permission from 

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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. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing 

by the Producing Party, within four years after the final termination of this action, 

including any appeals, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to 

the Producing Party. Upon final termination of the action, the Parties shall meet and 

confer regarding agreement to a date earlier than the four year deadline for the 

return of all Protected Material to the Producing Parties. 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 four year deadline that identifies (by 

category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 

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

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

of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials 

contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute 

Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION), above. 

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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 or by written stipulation 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 

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 No Admission or Waiver. The execution of this Order shall not, 

in itself, operate as an admission against or otherwise prejudice any contention of 

any party on any motion provided for herein, or in any other proceeding or trial in 

this action, nor shall this Order be taken to constitute a waiver of any party's right to 

seek relief from the Court from any or all provisions of this Protective Order. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

 

DATED: May 6, 2008 Law Offices of Amitai Schwartz 

By: 

 Amitai Schwartz 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

THOMAS HASSAN KUBBANY and 

NANCY KUBBANY 

 

DATED: May 7, 2008 Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP 

By: 

 Adam Johnson 

Attorneys for Defendant 

TRANS UNION, LLC 

DATED: May 7, 2008 Bryan Cave LLP 

By: 

 Jennifer A. Jackson 

Attorneys for Defendant 

LANDSAFE CREDIT, INC. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

United States District Judge 

/s/ /s/ /s/ 5/8/08

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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 Thomas 

Hassan Kubbany, et al. v. Trans Union, LLC, et al., United States District Court for 

the Northern District of California, Case No. CV08-0320. 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] 

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