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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 05:704 Labor Litigation

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AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

GREGORY W. KNOPP (SBN 237615)

GALIT A. KNOTZ (SBN 252962)

gknopp@akingump.com

gknotz@akingump.com

1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 600

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Telephone: 310.229.1000

Facsimile: 310.229.1001

Attorneys for Defendants,

PIER 1 IMPORTS (U.S.), INC.

PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.

MARLIN & SALTZMAN, LLP

STANLEY D. SALTZMAN (SBN 090058)

DAVID LEIMBACH (SBN 265409)

ssaltzman@marlinsaltzman.com

dleimbach@marlinsaltzman.com

29229 Canwood Street, Suite 208

Agoura Hills, California 91301

Telephone: (818) 991-8080

Facsimile: (818) 991-8081

Attorneys for Plaintiff,

LAUREN MATHEIN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - FRESNO DIVISION

LAUREN MATHEIN, individually 

and on behalf of all others similarly 

situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC.; PIER 1 

IMPORTS (U.S.), INC.; and DOES 1 

to 100, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:16-cv-00087- DAD-SAB

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

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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 may be 

warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter 

the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does 

not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

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

information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal 

principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this 

Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under 

seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the 

standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file 

material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

information or items under this Order.

2.2 ―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).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel 

(as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

―CONFIDENTIAL.‖ 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among 

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other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated 

in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.6 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.

2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel.

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to 

this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have 

appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has 

appeared on behalf of that party.

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

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs).

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 

demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and 

their employees and subcontractors.

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as ―CONFIDENTIAL.‖ 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party.

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3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and 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 testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their 

Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by 

this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following information: (a) any information 

that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes 

part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of 

publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 

public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the 

Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the 

disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation 

of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall 

be governed by a separate agreement or order.

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 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 

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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 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 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 mistaken designation.

While the parties must exercise restraint, a Designating Party has the right to 

designate as ―Confidential‖ any material that the Designating Party in good faith 

believes to contain non-public information that is entitled to confidential treatment 

under applicable law, specifically including, but not limited to, any employee payroll 

data, employee personnel data and/or contact information, or Pier 1 Imports (U.S.), Inc.

or Pier 1 Imports, Inc.’s (collectively, ―Pier 1‖) internal policies, practices or strategies.

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

Order (see, e.g., 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 or trial proceedings), that the 

Producing Party affix the legend ―CONFIDENTIAL‖ to each page that contains 

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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 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 ―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 deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that 

the Designating Party identify within thirty days of the close of the deposition, hearing, 

or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

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

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

of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

―CONFIDENTIAL.‖ If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant 

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 

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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, with the exception of Personal Contact 

Information, as explained below. 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.

Any contact information of Pier 1’s current or former employees that Pier 1

produces at any time during the course of, or in connection with this litigation 

(―Personal Contact Information‖), shall be deemed Confidential, whether or not 

stamped or marked as confidential. The designation of Personal Contact Information as 

confidential shall not be subject to objections pursuant to Paragraph 6 (or its subparts) 

of this Order. Any Personal Contact Information shall be used by Lauren Mathein and 

her counsel solely for the purpose of investigating, prosecuting, and/or settlement of this 

litigation. 

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 

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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 manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, any party may file and serve a that identifies the challenged material 

and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge within 21 days of the parties agreeing 

that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute. 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. 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 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 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

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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.

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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the ―Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound‖ that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(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 ―Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound‖ (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 ―Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound‖ (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock 

jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation and who have signed the ―Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound‖ 

(Exhibit A);

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the ―Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound‖ (Exhibit A), 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 must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be 

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order.

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

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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; 

(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 

Stipulated 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. 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 NonParty in this action and designated as ―CONFIDENTIAL.‖ Such information produced 

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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:

(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 Stipulated 

Protective Order in this litigation, 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 NonParty.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or 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. 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 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing 

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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.

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 in the stipulated protective order submitted to 

the court.

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. 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 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the 

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

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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 141. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a Receiving 

Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, 

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 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 (DURATION).

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: September 2, 2016 AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

GREGORY W. KNOPP 

GALIT A. KNOTZ 

By /s/ Gregory W. Knopp**

Gregory W. Knopp

Attorneys for Defendants

PIER 1 IMPORTS, INC. &

PIER 1 IMPORTS (U.S.), INC.

Dated: September 2, 2016 MARLIN & SALTZMAN, LLP

By/s/ David Leimbach (as authorized on 8/26/16)

David Leimbach

Attorneys for Plaintiff

LAUREN MATHEIN

**Pursuant to L.R. 131(e), I attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has 

been obtained from each of the above other signatories.

ORDER

Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The protective order is entered in this action;

2. The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United 

States District Court, Eastern District of California, any documents which 

are to be filed under seal will require a written request which complies with 

Local Rule 141; and

3. The party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required 

to show good cause for documents attached to a nondispositive motion or 

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compelling reasons for documents attached to a dispositive motion. Pintos 

v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 2, 2016 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety 

and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of Lauren 

Mathein v. Pier 1 Imports, Inc., Case No. 1:16-cv-0087-DAD-SAB, currently pending in 

the Eastern District of California. 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 Eastern 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: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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