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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 15:1681 Fair Credit Reporting Act

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Mark F Anderson (SBN 44787) 

Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron & Ogilvie LLP 

445 Bush St, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Phone: 415.861.2265 

Fax: 415.861.3151 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Hung Tran 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

HUNG TRAN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL 

RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, 

INC; 

EXPERIAN INFORMATION 

SOLUTIONS, INC. and 

EQUIFAX INFORMATION 

SERVICES LLC, 

Defendants. 

Case No. C 05 4616 SC 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

Judge: Honorable Samuel Conti 

Subject to the approval of this Court and the provisions of Rule 26 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Parties by and through their respective counsel 

of record, hereby stipulate and agree that, with respect to any information, documents, 

or things obtained by any Party to these actions during settlement negotiations or in 

response to any discovery the following Stipulated Protective Order shall govern: 

1. PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS

 The purpose of this Stipulated Protective Order is to allow the Parties to 

have reasonable access to sensitive commercial, financial, and confidential 

information from other Parties while protecting the confidentiality or privacy of that 

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information. The Parties acknowledge that this Stipulated Protective Order does not 

confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

protection it affords to Discovery Materials (defined below) 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/Parties. “Party” or “Parties” means Hung Tran, American 

Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.; Experian Information Solutions, 

Inc.; and Equifax Information Services, LLC including all of their officers, directors, 

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

support staff). 

 2.2 Discovery Material. “Discovery Material” means any 

information, document, or tangible thing, upon which any expression, 

communication, or representation has been recorded by any means, or response to 

any discovery request, including by way of example, document requests, 

interrogatories, requests for admissions, notices of deposition, requests to inspect, 

initial disclosures, subpoenas and any other similar materials, or portions thereof. 

 2.3 Settlement Materials: “Settlement Materials” means any 

information, document or tangible thing provide to the Receiving Party for the 

purposes of settlement negotiations. 

 2.4 Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” means any 

(1) Settlement Materials or (2) Discovery Materials Producing Party designates as 

sensitive or proprietary business or financial information, personal information, or 

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information furnished to it in confidence by any third party, which information is not 

known to the general public. 

2.5 Receiving Party. “Receiving Party” means a Party to the action 

or any third party who receives Discovery Material or Settlement Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party. “Producing Party” means a Party to the action 

or any third party who produces or otherwise makes available Discovery Material or 

Settlement Material to a Receiving Party. 

2.7 Designating Party. “Designating Party” means a Party to the 

action or any third party who provides Settlement Materials to one or more Parties or 

third parties or who produces Discovery Materials that it designates as “Confidential 

Information.” 

2.8 Counsel. “Counsel” means counsel of record, an employee 

in-house counsel of a Party, and their secretarial and support personnel and other 

assistants to whom it is necessary to disclose Confidential Information for the 

purpose of this action. 

2.9 Expert. “Expert” means a person with specialized knowledge or 

experience in a matter pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by one Party 

or its Counsel to serve as an expert witness. 

2.10 Trial Preparation Materials. “Trial Preparation Materials” means 

documents and materials such as pleadings, court papers and briefs, exhibits, 

depositions, interrogatories, and the like, and summaries thereof or notes pertaining 

thereto. 

3. SCOPE 

 The protection conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order covers not 

only Confidential Information, but also any information copied or extracted 

therefrom, as well as copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus 

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testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or Counsel to or in Court or in 

other settings that might reveal Confidential Information. 

 4. DESIGNATION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

 4.1 Designation in General. Any Party or non-party may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” by so marking any Discovery Material– and any copies, 

abstracts, excerpts or analyses thereof – given, used, served or produced by the Party 

or non-party in connection with this action, including without limitation in response 

to formal discovery demands or subpoenas or in compliance with the initial 

disclosure requirements prescribed by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26(a), 

that the Designating Party or non-party in good faith believes to contain, reflect, 

regard, or disclose any confidential, non-public, or proprietary business or financial 

information. 

 4.2 Inadvertent Failure to Designate. A Party or non-party that 

inadvertently fails to mark an item as Confidential Information at the time it is given, 

used, served or produced may correct its failure in writing, accompanied by 

substitute copies of each item, container or folder, appropriately marked as 

Confidential Information. Failure to designate is not a waiver of the confidential 

nature of the material. 

 4.3 Settlement Negotiations. All documents provided to any Party in 

connection with any settlement negotiations, whether marked so or not, are 

Confidential Information and all copies must be returned to the Designating Party 

immediately upon request. The Receiving Party agrees not to challenge the 

confidential designation of any Settlement Materials.

5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

 5.1 Meet and Confer. Except as provided in 4.3, the acceptance by a 

Receiving Party of Confidential Information shall not constitute an admission or 

concession or permit an inference that the Confidential Information is, in fact, 

confidential. Should a Receiving Party object in good faith to such designation, that 

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Party must notify the Designating Party or Parties in writing of such objection, 

specifying the basis thereof. The Parties shall then negotiate in good faith to attempt 

to resolve their dispute regarding the confidentiality of the subject materials. In 

conferring, the Receiving 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 and to explain the basis for the 

designation. 

 5.2 Judicial Intervention. Should such meet-and-confer efforts fail, 

the Designating Party may then apply to the Court for a protective order covering the 

designated information within twenty (20) days from the receipt of such written 

notice from the Receiving Party. Or the Receiving Party may file and serve a motion 

under Civil Local Rule 7 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 and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the designation 

provided by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall bear the burden of 

establishing the confidentiality of any material (except for Settlement Materials as 

provided supra ¶ 4.3 which is deemed confidential) designated as Confidential 

Information. The information which is the subject of such dispute shall continue to 

be treated as confidential subject to this Stipulated Protective Order for a period of 

twenty (20) court days following written notice of objection unless a motion for a 

protective order is filed within that time, in which case the information shall be 

treated as confidential pending the outcome of such motion. In the absence of such a 

motion, the documents or information shall not be treated as confidential upon the 

expiration of twenty (20) court days after written notice of objection.

6. USE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL 

 6.1 General. No Confidential Information shall be made public by 

the Receiving Party or divulged to anyone other than as set forth herein. Absent a 

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specific order by the Court or if the Designating Party otherwise agrees, once 

designated as Confidential Information, such materials and information shall be used 

by the Parties solely in connection with this litigation, and not for any other purpose, 

including any business, competitive, or governmental purpose or function. 

 6.2 Advice of Counsel. Nothing under this Stipulated Protective 

Order shall bar or otherwise restrict Counsel from rendering advice to a Party with 

respect to this action, and in the course thereof, relying in a general way upon 

examination of any Confidential Information. However, in rendering such advice 

and in otherwise communicating with a Party, such Counsel shall not disclose the 

contents of any Confidential Information contrary to the terms or intent of this 

Protective Order. 

 6.3 Right to Disclose. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order 

shall preclude any person or entity from disclosing or using, in any manner or for any 

purpose, any information or document if that information or document is lawfully 

obtained from a third party under no obligations of confidentiality with respect 

thereto and having the right to disclose such information. Similarly, the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall in no way affect a Party’s right to reveal or disclose 

to anyone any information designated by that Party itself as CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION. Nothing herein shall prohibit a Party from disclosing 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION to the person the document identifies as the 

author, addressee or recipient of such material. 

7. ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

 7.1 Permissible Disclosures. Confidential Information shall be 

treated by each Receiving Party as confidential unless and until the Court rules to the 

contrary or the Designating Party agrees otherwise. Unless and until the Court rules 

or the Designating Party otherwise agrees, and except as set forth in Paragraph 7.2 

herein, access to or disclosure of Confidential Information shall be limited to the 

following persons and the following persons are bound by the terms of this Stipulated 

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Protective Order, subject to the qualification provisions of Paragraph 7.2 herein: 

 a. The Court and those employed by the Court, in which event such 

information shall be filed under seal (and kept under seal until further order of 

the Court); 

 b. Each of the named Parties to the litigation who has, through that 

Party’s respective Counsel, signed this Stipulated Protective Order (or who 

has accepted the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order by the Party’s 

counsel’s execution of Appendix A hereto), including any representative of 

the Party (officers, directors, partners, employees) assisting in the prosecution 

or the defense of the litigation, and such Party’s counsel, including the clerical, 

secretarial, and paralegal staff employed by such counsel; 

 c. Court reporters and employees of court reporters engaged by 

counsel to record and transcribe testimony in this litigation, and translators 

engaged for any purpose in the litigation; 

 d. Experts retained for the purpose of assisting counsel in the 

litigation to the extent reasonably necessary for the litigation of this action; 

provided, however, that in all such cases the person to whom disclosure is 

made must signify assent to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order by 

executing the acknowledgement attached as Appendix A hereto, indicating 

that he or she has read and understands this Stipulated Protective Order and 

has agreed to be bound by its terms and has agreed to be bound by its terms and 

providing a copy of the signed acknowledgment to the Designating Party; and 

e. Persons from whom testimony is taken or is to be taken in the 

litigation, either in a deposition or at trial, provided that Confidential 

Information may be disclosed to such persons only in the preparation for, 

review of, or in the course of his or her testimony, and that such person shall 

not retain such Confidential Information after his or her testimony is 

concluded and that the Designating Party has stipulated that such witness has 

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a need to know this information; provided, however, that in all such cases the 

person to whom disclosure is made must first signify assent to the terms of 

this Stipulated Protective Order by executing the acknowledgement attached 

as Appendix A hereto, indicating that he or she has read and understood this 

Stipulated Protective Order; and 

 7.2 Other Persons. Counsel desiring to qualify a person or persons to 

receive Confidential Information under paragraph 7.1(c), (d), or (e) shall first obtain 

from each such person a signed undertaking in the form of Appendix A hereto. 

 7.3 Additional Parties. In the event that additional persons become 

parties to this action, they shall not have access to Confidential Information produced 

by or obtained from any Party or nonparty until the newly joined party or his or her 

counsel executes the acknowledgment attached as Appendix A hereto, indicating to 

all other Parties that he or she has read this Stipulated Protective Order and agrees to 

be bound by its terms. 

 7.4 Disclosure Pursuant to Subpoena. Should any non-party serve a 

subpoena calling for the production of any Confidential Information on any Party or 

Counsel for a Party who has received such information, the subpoenaed Party in such 

instance shall provide notice in writing via facsimile to the Designating Party 

immediately and in no event more than three days after Receiving the subpoena. 

Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena. It shall be the obligation of 

the Designating Party, prior to the response date on the subpoena, to seek a protective 

order or any other appropriate relief from the Court if the Designating Party wishes to 

maintain the confidentiality of the material. A Designating Party that fails to seek 

judicial relief to preclude the disclosure of any Confidential Information in response 

to a subpoena shall be deemed to have waived any claim of confidentiality with 

respect to such material. 

 7.5 Objection to Disclosure to Other Persons. Should any Party seek 

to disclose Confidential Information to such other persons not authorized to receive 

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Confidential Information pursuant to paragraph 7(a-f), said Party shall identify in a 

written notice to the Designating Party (1) the specific Confidential Information; (2) 

the purpose of such disclosure; (3) the person(s) to receive the Confidential 

Information, by name, address and telephone number; (4) counsel for that person(s), 

by name address and telephone number; and (4) any litigation, administrative 

proceeding or proceeding, by caption and docket number. This written notice will be 

provided at least sixty (60) days in advance of the intended date of disclosure. The 

Designating Party in such instance shall provide any objection to such disclosure in 

writing notice to the other Party within thirty (30) after receipt of that Party’s intent to 

disclose. No Confidential Information shall be disclosed to that person(s) until the 

validity of the objection has been resolved, either by an agreement between the 

Parties or by order of the Court. The objecting party shall have the burden of 

obtaining a court order on the controversy. If no objection is made by the Designating 

Party, then the identified Confidential Information may be divulged by the Receiving 

Party to the identified person upon his or her execution of the acknowledgement 

attached as Appendix A hereto, indicating that he or she has read and understood this 

Stipulated Protective Order and has agreed to be bound by its terms. Unless the 

parties agree, no party may divulge CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION to a person 

who refuses to agree to be bound by this protective order. 

8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 Before obtaining access to any CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

covered by this Stipulated Protective Order, each person (other than Counsel) who is 

permitted to have access to CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION under this 

Stipulated Protective Order must signify assent to the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order by executing the acknowledgement attached as Appendix A hereto, 

indicating that he or she has read and understands this Protective Order and agrees to 

be bound by its terms. If a deponent or the attorney for a deponent refuses to execute 

the acknowledgement attached as Appendix A hereto, he or she shall be requested on 

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the deposition record to agree to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. Every 

deposition witness whose appearance at deposition is obtained pursuant to the 

process of this Court and to whom CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION is disclosed 

at deposition is hereby ordered (1) to maintain all CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION in confidence, and (2) not to disclose CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION to anyone other than in accordance with the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

9. HANDLING OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

 9.1 Deposition Transcripts. In the case of depositions and pretrial 

proceedings, the Parties agree to provisionally treat the entire transcript of the 

deposition or pretrial proceeding as Confidential Information. Within thirty (30) 

days of receipt of the transcript, any Counsel may designate portions of the transcript 

as Confidential Information by informing the reporter and other Counsel in writing of 

such designations by page and line number. The reporter, who shall first have agreed 

to abide by the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, shall be instructed to seal 

the transcript and include on the cover page the legend: “This transcript portion 

contains information subject to a Protective Order and shall be used only in 

accordance therewith.” 

 9.2 Exclusion of Unauthorized Persons. When testimony designated 

as Confidential Information is (or is sought to be) elicited during a deposition, 

persons not entitled to receive such information under the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order shall be excluded from attendance at the deposition of this action 

during such time as the Confidential Information is being disclosed, unless the 

Parties otherwise agree or the Court otherwise orders. 

 9.3 Inadvertent Production. If during document production, the 

Producing Party inadvertently produces a document entitled to protection under the 

attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine, or other provisions of 

applicable law: (a) the Parties agree that the erroneous or inadvertent production 

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shall not constitute a waiver of such protection as to either the subject matter of the 

material or as to related documents or communications; and (b) the Producing Party 

may request the return of the inadvertently produced document at any time before the 

commencement of trial, but no more than thirty (30) days after the document is first 

marked as a deposition exhibit, identified as a potential trial exhibit, or otherwise 

identified by any Party in any pleading or correspondence served on all Parties to this 

action. Any such a request shall be made in writing, and shall identify the basis for 

the claimed protection. If the Party (or Parties) that received the inadvertently 

produced document agrees that the document is entitled to protection (without regard 

to its inadvertent production), all copies of the inadvertently produced document 

shall be returned to the producing Party or destroyed, and no reference to such 

document shall be made in discovery, at trial, or any other manner. If the Parties do 

not agree that the document is entitled to protection, the burden is on the producing 

Party to file an appropriate motion with the Court within forty-five (45) days after the 

document is first marked as a deposition exhibit, identified as a potential trial exhibit, 

or otherwise identified by any Party in any pleading or correspondence served on all 

Parties to this action. Further, the Parties agree that in camera review of such 

documents or testimony is not a waiver of privilege. 

 9.4 Unauthorized Disclosure. If a Receiving Party learns that, by 

inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Confidential Information to any persons 

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 

Confidential 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 acknowledge attached as Appendix A hereto. 

10. FILING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

 Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order 

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secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the 

public record in this action any Confidential Information. A Party that seeks to file 

under seal any Confidential Information must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 11.1 Termination of Participation in Action. Once participation in this 

action by any person obtaining Confidential Information has been terminated or 

otherwise concluded, all Confidential Information, excluding information protected 

by the attorney work product privilege, in the possession of such person shall be 

returned by such person within thirty (30) calendar days to the Counsel from whom 

he or she obtained such Confidential Information. 

 11.2 Termination of Action. Within sixty (60) days after the final 

termination of this action, counsel for the Receiving Party shall return all copies of 

the Confidential Information to counsel for the Designating Party, or shall, at the 

option of the Designating Party, destroy such Confidential Information, and certify in 

writing that said destruction has occurred to counsel for the Designating Party. 

12. RIGHT TO FURTHER RELIEF - NO WAIVER 

 12.1 Right to Further Relief. This Stipulated Protective Order shall 

not prevent a Party from applying to the Court for relief from this Order or any of its 

terms or provisions, or from applying to the Court for further or additional protective 

orders. 

 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. Nothing in this Stipulated 

Protective Order shall be construed as a waiver of the right of any Party to object to 

the taking or admissibility of any testimony, the production of documents or tangible 

things, or the admissibility of other evidence where such an objection is based on a 

ground or grounds other than that the testimony or evidence involves 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. 

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 12.3 No Waiver Due to Review. Review of Confidential Information 

by Counsel or Experts shall not waive the confidentiality of the documents or 

objections to production. 

13. EFFECTIVE PERIOD 

 The terms of this Stipulated Protective Order shall be effective and 

binding upon a Party upon the signature of its Counsel below. The restrictions on use 

of Confidential Information set forth in this Stipulated Protective Order shall survive 

the conclusion of this litigation and, after conclusion of this litigation, the Court shall 

exercise limited jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: August 8, 2006 Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barrron & Ogilvie 

LLP 

By___/s/ Mark F Anderson 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 

Dated: August 15, 2006 KIRKPATRICK STOCKTON LLP 

 By /s/ Garrett E Miller

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 Equifax Information Services LLC 

Dated: August 16, 2006 JONES DAY 

 _______________ 

 By /s/ Xuan-Thu T. Phan

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 Experian Information Solutions, Inc 

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Dated: August 8, 2006 Greenberg Traurig 

 /s/Karen Rosenthal

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 American Express Travel 

 Related Services Company 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August , 2006 

 United States District Court Judge 

 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Samuel Conti

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Mark F Anderson (SBN 44787) 

Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron & Ogilvie LLP 

445 Bush St, 6th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Phone: 415.861.2265 

Fax: 415.861.3151 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

HUNG TRAN, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL 

RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, 

INC; 

EXPERIAN INFORMATION 

SOLUTIONS, INC. and 

EQUIFAX INFORMATION 

SERVICES LLC, 

Defendants. 

Case No. C05 4616 SC 

APPENDIX A TO STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Dept: 

Judge: Honorable Samuel Conti 

I, ________________________, hereby acknowledge and declare that: 

1. I have received a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order in this action. 

I have carefully read and understand the provisions of the Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

2. I will comply with all of the provisions of the Stipulated Protective 

Order. I will hold in confidence, will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the 

Stipulated Protective Order, and will use only for purposes of this litigation (and not 

for any other purpose, including any business, competitive, or governmental purpose 

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or function), any CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, including the substance and 

any copy, summary, abstract, excerpt, index or description of such material that is 

disclosed to me. 

3. I will return all CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION that comes into my 

possession, and all documents and things that I have prepared relating thereto, to 

counsel for the party by whom I am employed or retained or from whom I received 

such material, when requested by such counsel to do so. 

4. I understand that if I violate the provisions of the Stipulated Protective 

Order, I will be subject to sanctions by the Court and the parties, or any one of them, 

may assert other remedies against me. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the 

United States District Court for the Central District of California for the purpose of 

enforcement of the Stipulated Protective Order in this action. 

5. My address is: ______________________________________. 

6. My relationship to this case and the Parties thereto is: _______ 

__________________________________________________________________ 

__________________________________________________________________. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of 

America that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Dated: 

 (Signature) 

Print Name 

 

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