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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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DALE L. ALLEN, JR. # 145279

LESLEY L. NOVOTNY, # 229279

LOW, BALL & LYNCH

505 Montgomery Street, 7th Floor

San Francisco, California 94111-2584

Telephone (415) 981-6630

Facsimile (415) 982-1634

Attorneys for Defendants CITY OF EMERYVILLE;

OFFICER EDWARD MAYORGA; 

OFFICER ROBERT ALTON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PAUL D. COLE, 

Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF EMERYVILLE, OFFICER EDWARD

MAYORGA, OFFICER ROBERT ALTON,

Defendants.

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the following protective order:

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties may designate any

document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom, as “Confidential” under the terms

of this Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”). Confidential information is information which has not

been made public and which concerns or relates to the processes, investigations, operations, type or work of

the Emeryville Police Department, and other information as the parties agree, including but not limited to

deposition testimony that has been taken but sealed by agreement of the parties pending its determination as

relevant to this action.

By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom as

“confidential,” under the terms of this Order, the party making the designation is certifying to the court

that there is a good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation within the meaning of Federal Rule of

Civil Procedure 26(g).

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2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping copies of the document produced to

a party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any

multipage document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the

producing party.

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial may be designated as confidential

by making a statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or other proceeding. Arrangements shall be

made with the court reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such portions of the

transcript containing information designated as confidential, and to label such portions appropriately.

4. Material designated as confidential under this Order, the information contained therein, and any

summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from material designated as

confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall be used only for the purpose of the prosecution, defense,

or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose.

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order may be disclosed or made available only

to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such

counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated below:

a. a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party deemed necessary by counsel to

aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

b. experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such counsel to

assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

c. court reporter(s) employed in this action;

d. a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action; and

e. any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree.

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each “qualified person” shall be provided with a copy of

this Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment A, a copy of which shall be

provided forthwith to counsel for each other party and for the parties.

6. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of qualified persons.

7. The parties may further designate certain discovery material or testimony of a highly confidential

and/or proprietary nature as “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” (hereinafter “Attorney’s

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Eyes Only Material”), in the manner described in paragraphs 2 and 3 above. Attorney’s Eyes Only Material,

and the information contained therein, shall be disclosed only to the Court, to counsel for the parties (including

the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” listed in

subparagraphs 5(b) through (e) above, but shall not be disclosed to a party, or to an officer, director or

employee of a party, unless otherwise agreed or ordered. If disclosure of Attorney’s Eyes Only Material is

made pursuant to this paragraph, all other provisions in this Order with respect to confidentiality shall also

apply.

8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of material

obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such material is also obtained

through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its own Confidential Material as it deems appropriate.

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript designated as

Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only, is included in any papers to be filed in Court, such papers shall be

labeled “Confidential – Subject to Court Order” and filed under seal until further order of this Court.

10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in any court proceeding in this action, it shall

not lose its confidential status through such use, and the party using such shall take all reasonable steps to

maintain its confidentiality during such use.

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (i) to bring before the Court at

any time the question of whether any particular document or information is confidential or whether its use should

be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to the Court under FRCP 26(c) for a separate protective order as to

any particular document or information, including restrictions differing from those as specified herein. This

Order shall not be deemed to prejudice the parties in any way in any future application for modification of this

Order.

12. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of documents and

information between the parties to this action without involving the Court unnecessarily in the process. Nothing

in this Order nor the production of any information or document under the terms of this Order nor any

proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party

or of altering the confidentiality or nonconfidentiality of any such document or information or altering any existing

obligation of any party or the absence thereof.

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13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the information

contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the public, and the Court shall retain

jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of

this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and return to each other all documents, material and deposition

transcripts designated as confidential and all copes of same, or shall certify the destruction thereof.

SO STIPULATED:

Dated: LOW, BALL & LYNCH

 By /S/ Dale L. Allen, Jr.

Attorneys for Defendants

CITY OF EMERYVILLE; OFFICER EDWARD

MAYORGA; OFFICER ROBERT ALTON

Dated: COOLEY GODWARD LLP

 By /S/

Robert W. McHenry, Esq.

Sayuri K. Sharper, Esq.

Attorneys for Plaintiff PAUL D. COLE

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

Dated:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

June 7, 2005

MAGISTRATE

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Judge Edward M. Chen

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Attachment A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, , do solemnly swear that I am fully familiar with the terms of the

Stipulated Protective Order entered in Cole v. City of Emeryville, et al., United States District Court for the

Central District of California, Civil Action No. CV 05643-EMC, and hereby agree to comply with and be

bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until modified by further Order of this Court. I

hereby consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing this Order.

Dated:

/s/

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