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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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Yasin M. Almadani (Cal. Bar No. 242798)

ALMADANI LAW

4695 MacArthur Ct., Suite 1100

Newport Beach, CA 92660

Tel: (949) 877-7177

Fax: (949) 877-8757

YMA@LawAlm.com 

Ahmed Ibrahim (Cal. Bar No. 238739)

AI LAW, PLC

4695 MacArthur Ct., Suite 1100

Newport Beach, CA 92660

Tel: (949) 266-1240

Fax: (949) 266-1280

aibrahim@ailawfirm.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

DANIELLE K. LEWIS (SBN 218274) 

dlewis@selmanlaw.com

MILES E. MAURINO (SBN 319377) 

mmaurino@selmanlaw.com

SELMAN BREITMAN LLP 

33 New Montgomery, Sixth Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105-4537 

Telephone: 415.979.0400 

Facsimile: 415.979.2099

Attorneys for Defendants County of Solano, 

Solano County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Thomas A. 

Ferrara, Dalton McCampbell, Lisa McDowell, Roy 

Stockton, Connor Hamilton, and Chris Carter

(Additional Counsel Listed on Next Page)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

NAKIA V. PORTER, an individual on her 

own behalf and on behalf of her minor 

children, L.P. and A.P; JOE BERRY 

POWELL, JR., an individual; and CLIFTON 

POWELL, on behalf of his minor child, O.P.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

COUNTY OF SOLANO; SOLANO 

COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; SHERIFF 

THOMAS A. FERRARA, in his official 

capacity as Sheriff of Solano County; 

DEPUTY DALTON MCCAMPBELL, an 

individual; DEPUTY LISA MCDOWELL, an 

individual; SERGEANT ROY STOCKTON, 

an individual; DEPUTY CONNOR 

HAMILTON, an individual; DEPUTY CHRIS 

CARTER, an individual; CITY OF DIXON; 

DIXON POLICE DEPARTMENT; DIXON 

POLICE CHIEF ROBERT THOMPSON, in 

his official capacity as Dixon Chief of Police; 

OFFICER GABRIEL HOLLINGSHEAD, an 

individual, OFFICER AARON WILLIAMS, 

an individual, and DOES 1 to 10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:21-CV-01473-KJM-JDP

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller

United States District Judge

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DERICK E. KONZ, SB No. 286902

Email: dkonz@akk-law.com

JACOB J. GRAHAM, SB No. 340295

Email: jgraham@akk-law.com

ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP

Attorneys at Law

601 University Avenue, Suite 150

Sacramento, CA 95825

Telephone: (916) 564-6100

Telecopier: (916) 564-6263

Attorneys for Defendants City of Dixon, City of 

Dixon Police Department, Chief Robert Thompson, 

Officer Gabriel Hollingshead, and Officer Aaron Williams

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Plaintiffs Nakia V. Porter, on her own behalf and on behalf of her minor children, L.P., and A.P., 

Joe Berry Powell, Jr., and Clifton Powell, on behalf of his minor child, O.P. (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), 

on the one hand, and Defendants County of Solano, Solano County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Thomas A. 

Ferrara, Deputy Dalton McCampbell, Deputy Lisa McDowell, Sergeant Roy Stockton, Deputy Connor 

Hamilton, Deputy Chris Carter, City of Dixon, Dixon Police Department, Dixon Police Chief Robert 

Thompson, Officer Gabriel Hollingshead, and Officer Aaron Williams (collectively, “Defendants” and, 

together with Plaintiffs, the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate 

and agree to the Court’s entry of the protective order set for below.

1. INTRODUCTION

A. Purposes and Limitations

The Parties believe that a subset of discovery in this action may involve the 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. While none of the 

Parties believe that blanket confidentiality designations are necessary or appropriate in this case and none 

concede that any designation of materials as confidential by a disclosing party in this litigation is, in fact, 

deserving of confidentiality treatment, the Parties do not oppose the entry of the following Protective 

Order in the interests of convenience, judicial economy, preservation of party resources, and to avoid 

delays in the production of discovery in this case. In recognition of the foregoing, this Court enters the 

following Protective Order. This Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses 

to discovery. The protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under applicable legal principles. Further, 

as set forth in Section 12.3, below, this Protective Order does not entitle the parties to file confidential 

information under seal. Rather, when the parties seek permission from the court to file material under 

seal, the parties must comply with Civil Local Rule 141 and with any pertinent orders of the assigned 

District Judge and Magistrate Judge.

B. Good Cause Statement

In light of the nature of the claims and allegations in this case and the Parties’ representations that 

discovery in this case may involve the production of confidential records, and in order to expedite the 

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flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery 

materials, to adequately protect information the Parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that 

the Parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in connection with this action, to 

address their handling of such material at the end of the litigation, and to serve the ends of justice, a 

protective order for such information is justified in this matter. There is good cause for entry of a 

protective order. For example, discovery in this matter may involve the disclosure and production of 

private medical or mental health information or personally identifiable information (e.g., social security 

numbers, dates of birth, etc.), private personnel/employment records, performance evaluations, 

disciplinary actions, citizen complaints, internal affairs investigations, and other employment-related 

writings regarding employees of Defendants. The Parties maintain that special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation of said information may be 

warranted. Although the Parties do not concede that the Producing Party’s mere designation of 

information as confidential under this Protective Order justifies treatment of the information as 

confidential and they also do not concede that the categories of materials identified above are, in fact, 

deserving of being treated as confidential and shielded from public disclosure, they do not oppose the 

entry of this Protective Order in the interests of convenience, judicial economy, preservation of party 

resources, and to avoid delays in the production of discovery in this case. The Parties shall not designate 

any documents, electronically stored information, or other information as confidential without a good 

faith belief that such information has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and that there 

is good cause or a compelling reason why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Action: The instant action: Nakia V. Porter, et al. v. County of Solano, et al., No. 2:21-

CV-01473-KJM-JDP (E.D. Cal.).

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

items under this Order.

2.3 “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), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.

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2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel and House Counsel (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.” 

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, 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 (or who the Party is considering retaining) to 

serve as an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. House Counsel 

does not include Outside Counsel or any other outside counsel.

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

not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party to this Action but represent, 

advise, or support a Party to this Action and have appeared in this Action on behalf of that Party, are 

affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that Party, or are working under the supervision 

of an attorney who has appeared in this Action on behalf of that Party, and includes support staff.

2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

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

2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in 

this Action.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying, videotaping, transcribing, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and 

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a Producing 

Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this 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 deposition testimony, conversations, or presentations 

by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material, other than during a court hearing or at 

trial. 

Any use of Protected Material during a court hearing or at trial shall be governed by the orders of 

the presiding judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material during a court hearing or 

at trial.

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 NonParty 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 the 

case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose 

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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 inapplicable 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 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), 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 available for inspection need 

not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents 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 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 depositions that the Designating Party identifies on the 

record, before the close of the deposition as protected testimony. 

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

containers in which the information is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions 

of the information warrants 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 that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order. 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 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 

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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 251

(and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 141, 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 or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, 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 Action only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the 

categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been 

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 13 below.

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.

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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 in this Action, as well as employees and 

contractors of said Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for 

this Action;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

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

reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff; 

(f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

(h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the Action to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: the deposing party requests that the witness sign the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” form attached as Exhibit A hereto and said form is 

signed by the witness, 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 may be 

separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Protective Order; and

(i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually agreed 

upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.

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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 unless prohibited by law;

(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 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 issued, unless the Party has obtained the 

Designating Party’s permission, or unless otherwise required by the law or court order. To the extent such 

information is produced as required by law or court order, Designating Party will be notified immediately. 

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: 

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(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 Protective Order in this Action, 

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, if 

requested. 

(c) If a Non-Party represented by counsel fails to commence the process called for by Local 

Rule 251 within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information or fails 

contemporaneously to notify the Receiving Party that it has done so, the Receiving Party may produce 

the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If an unrepresented NonParty fails to 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 

agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court unless otherwise required by the law 

or court order. 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 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.

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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 into this Protective 

Order.

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. 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 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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must 

comply with Civil Local Rule 141 and with any pertinent orders of the assigned District Judge and 

Magistrate Judge. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the court, then the 

Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in Section 4, within 60 days of a written 

request by the Designating Party, 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 

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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, 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.

14. VIOLATIONS OF ORDER

Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all available and appropriate measures 

including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.

IT IS SO STIPULATED

Dated: July 15, 2022 ALMADANI LAW 

/s/ Yasin M. Almadani

Yasin M. Almadani, Esq.

AI LAW, PLC 

/s/ Ahmed Ibrahim

Ahmed Ibrahim, Esq.

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

Dated: July 15, 2022 SELMAN BREITMAN LLP 

/s/ Danielle K. Lewis

Danielle K. Lewis, Esq.

Miles F. Maurino, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendants County of Solano, Solano 

County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Thomas A. Ferrara, 

Dalton McCampbell, Lisa McDowell, Roy Stockton, 

Connor Hamilton, and Chris Carter

Dated: July 15, 2022 ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP

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/s/ Derick E. Konz, Esq.

Derick E. Konz, Esq.

Jacob J. Graham, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendants City of Dixon, Dixon Police 

Department, Chief Robert Thompson, Officer Gabriel 

Hollingshead, and Officer Aaron Williams

Order

Having considered the foregoing stipulation, and finding that good cause exists, the Parties’ 

Stipulated Protective Order is granted.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 28, 2022 

JEREMY D. PETERSON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _________________________________________________ [name], of 

________________________________________________________ [full address], declare under 

penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Protective Order that was issued by 

the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in Porter v. County of Solano, No. 

2:21-CV-01473-KJM-JDP (E.D. Cal.). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 

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 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 Eastern 

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 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 Protective Order.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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