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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 15:53(b) - Prelim &amp; Perm Inj Relief &amp; other Equitable Relief

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

DIRECTV,

 a corporation, 

and 

 

DIRECTV, LLC, 

 a limited liability company, 

 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 15-cv-01129-HSG 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS 

 Having (i) met and conferred regarding the appropriate level of protection for 

confidential materials elicited or produced during the proceeding of this action, (ii) reviewed the 

Jonathan E. Nuechterlein 

General Counsel 

Eric D. Edmondson, D.C. Bar No. 450294 

Erika Wodinsky, Cal. Bar No. 091700 

Jacob A. Snow, Cal. Bar No. 270988 

Boris Yankilovich, Cal Bar No. 257887 

901 Market Street, Suite 570, 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

(415) 848-5100 / (415) 848-5184 (fax) 

eedmondson@ftc.gov; ewodinsky@ftc.gov; 

jsnow@ftc.gov; byankilovich@ftc.gov 

Raymond E. McKown, Cal. Bar No. 150975 

Stacy Procter, Cal. Bar No. 221078 

10877 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, 

Los Angeles, CA 90024 

(310) 824-4343 / (310) 824-4380 (fax) 

rmckown@ftc.gov; sprocter@ftc.gov

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Federal Trade Commission 

CHAD S. HUMMEL (Bar No. CA 139055)

E-mail: CHummel@manatt.com 

CLAYTON S. FRIEDMAN (Bar No. CA 

245513) 

E-mail: CFriedman@manatt.com 

MICHAEL YAGHI (Bar No. CA 202720) 

E-mail: MYaghi@manatt.com 

MANATT PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 

11355 West Olympic Boulevard 

Los Angeles, CA 90064-1614 

Telephone: (310) 312-4000 

Facsimile: (310) 312-4224 

CHRISTIAN E. BAKER (Bar No. CA 247006) 

E-mail: CBaker@manatt.com 

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 

One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 291-7400 

Facsimile: (415) 291-7474 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DIRECTV and DIRECTV, LLC

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Northern District of California’s Model Protective Order for Standard Litigation, adopting the 

Model Order’s provisions where appropriate and modifying them where necessary to 

accommodate the unique circumstances of this action, (iii) and worked diligently and 

cooperatively to resolve any differences between the parties and to arrive at a jointly-stipulated 

proposal, the parties hereby submit the following Proposed Stipulated Protective Order 

Regarding Confidential Materials. 

1. PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS: Disclosure and discovery activity in this action will 

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 is warranted. Accordingly, Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and 

Defendants DIRECTV and DIRECTV, LLC (“Defendants”) hereby stipulate to and petition the 

Court to enter this Stipulated Protective Order Regarding “Confidential” Materials (the “Order”), 

as defined herein. 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 information or items that are entitled to confidential 

treatment under applicable legal principles. The Parties further acknowledge that this Order does 

not automatically entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 

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 under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS: As used in this Order: 

a. “Materials” shall refer to any document, writing, recording, transcript of oral 

testimony, recorded or graphic matter, tangible object, and electronically stored 

information, or to any portion of the foregoing. Any Materials disclosed, 

provided, produced, or filed in this proceeding by any Person, whether a Party or 

Non-Party, that contain (1) Sensitive Personal Information as defined in 

paragraph 3, or (2) trade secrets or other competitively sensitive information (such 

as confidential research, development, technical, commercial, or financial 

information) not otherwise publicly accessible or available, as well as any 

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information that discloses the substance of the contents of such Materials, may be 

designated as Confidential by any Party or by the Non-Party that discloses, 

produces, provides, or files the Materials. 

b. “Non-Party” shall refer to any Person who is not a Party. 

c. “Party” shall refer to any party to this action, including all of its officers, 

directors, employees, and contractors. 

d. “Person” shall refer to any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

governmental or other legal entity, including, but not limited to, each Party and 

any Non-Party. 

e. “Sensitive Personal Information” shall include a Person’s Social Security number, 

taxpayer identification number, date of birth (other than year), home address, 

driver’s license number or other state identification number (or a foreign country 

equivalent), passport number, personal financial information, such as bank 

account, credit card, or debit card number(s), and medical records or other 

information relating to the Person’s treatment of physical or mental health or 

condition or to the provision of or payment for health care to the Person. 

3. CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS: Consistent with Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), any Materials 

disclosed, provided, produced, or filed in this proceeding by any Party or Non-Party that contain 

(1) Sensitive Personal Information, or (2) trade secrets or other competitively sensitive 

information (such as confidential research, development, technical, commercial, or financial 

information) not otherwise publicly accessible or available, as well as any information that 

discloses the substance of the contents of such Materials, may be designated as Confidential by 

any Party or by the Non-Party that discloses, produces, provides, or files the Materials. The 

designating Party or Non-Party may designate as Confidential only those portions of Materials 

that qualify for Confidential treatment under this Order. A designation that Materials are 

Confidential shall constitute a representation by the designating Party or Non-Party, in good 

faith and after careful determination, that the designated Materials, or portion thereof, are 

eligible for such designation pursuant this Order. Such designated Materials, as well as any 

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information that discloses the substance or contents of such Materials, shall be treated as 

Confidential pursuant to and to the extent permitted by this Order. 

4. Sensitive Personal Information shall be afforded all the protections of this Order 

afforded to other Confidential Materials, and also shall be secured by any receiving Party or 

Non-Party in such a manner as to minimize the possibility of disclosure, intentional or 

unintentional, to unauthorized Persons, including the physical storage thereof in a secure area or 

law office, the electronic storage thereof on a password-protected computer or system which 

may be accessed only by Persons authorized to have access to the Sensitive Personal 

Information pursuant to the terms of this Order, and the transmission thereof only to other 

authorized Persons by a trackable method with restricted delivery to such Persons. 

5. Any Party or Non-Party who, as part of this proceeding, discloses, provides, or produces 

to any other Party, or files with the Court, materials that are Confidential under this Order shall 

designate such Materials as Confidential at the time of the disclosure, provision, production, or 

filing. Materials shall be designated as Confidential by placing on or affixing to the document 

or other medium containing Confidential Material (in such manner as will not interfere with the 

legibility thereof), or, if an entire folder or box of documents is confidential, by placing or 

affixing to that folder or box, the designation “CONFIDENTIAL – FTC v. DIRECTV., Case 

No. 15-cv-01129-HSG,” or any other appropriate notice that identifies this proceeding, together 

with an indication of the portion or portions of the document considered to be Confidential 

Material. Confidential Materials contained in electronic documents may also be designated as 

confidential by placing the designation “CONFIDENTIAL – FTC v. DIRECTV, Case No. 15-

cv-01129-HSG,” or any other appropriate notice that identifies this proceeding, on the face of 

the CD or DVD or other medium on which the document is produced. Masked or otherwise 

redacted copies of Materials may be produced where the portions masked or redacted contain 

privileged matter, provided that the copy produced shall indicate at the appropriate point that 

portions have been masked or redacted and the reasons therefor. 

6. Notwithstanding paragraph 5, if during a deposition in this proceeding, a deponent (or 

the deponent’s counsel) fails to designate as Confidential appropriate portions of the deponent’s 

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deposition testimony on the record during the course of or at the close of the deposition, the 

deponent (or the deponent’s counsel) may, no later than ten days after the deposition transcript 

becomes available to the deponent, designate as Confidential those portions of the transcript that 

contain Confidential Materials. The Confidential designation may be accomplished by marking 

“CONFIDENTIAL” every page of the transcript that contains Confidential Materials, notifying 

all Parties of the transcript page and line numbers of the pages deemed to be Confidential, and 

marking the first and last such pages of such ranges as “CONFIDENTIAL – START” and 

“CONFIDENTIAL – END,” respectively. Until the earlier of the expiration of this ten-day 

period or the Confidential designation, the entire deposition transcript shall be treated as 

Confidential. 

7. Notwithstanding paragraph 5, any Party, within thirty days of receiving Confidential 

Materials from a Non-Party as part of this proceeding, may designate such Materials as 

Confidential. Until the earlier of the expiration of this thirty-day period or the Confidential 

designation, such Materials shall be treated as Confidential. 

8. With respect to all Materials provided for inspection by a Party or its counsel, all 

Confidential Materials shall be stamped “CONFIDENTIAL – FTC v. DIRECTV., Case No. 15-

cv-01129-HSG” by the Party or Non-Party desiring such designation, or otherwise designated 

by such Party or Non-Party in writing, within thirty days of production. Until the end of such 

thirty-day period, the document production will be deemed to be designated Confidential in its 

entirety under the terms of this Order. A designation of Confidential by stamping or labeling 

need not be made until after counsel for the inspecting party has inspected the Materials and 

selected Materials to be copied. Making Materials available for inspection shall not constitute a 

waiver of any claim to designate such Materials as Confidential, and all Materials provided for 

inspection by a Party’s or Non-Party’s counsel shall be treated as though designated 

Confidential at the time of inspection. 

9. Any Party or Non-Party who previously disclosed, provided, or produced to or filed with 

the FTC, as part of Federal Trade Commission Matter Number 1023141, Materials entitled to 

confidentiality under the Federal Trade Commission Act, or any other federal statute or 

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regulation, or under any federal court or FTC precedent interpreting such statute or regulation, 

may, within ninety days of entry of this Order, designate any such Materials as Confidential to 

the extent permitted by this Order. This designation may be accomplished by notifying all 

Parties of the Bates ranges (or other identifying information) of such Materials that are to be 

designated Confidential. Until the earlier of the expiration of this ninety-day period or the 

Confidential designation, such Materials shall be treated as Confidential. 

10. The disclosure of Confidential Materials or information that discloses the substance of 

the contents of Confidential Material (including through any writing or communication 

reproducing, paraphrasing, or otherwise disclosing the content of Confidential Materials) shall 

be limited to the following Persons: 

a. The Court presiding over this proceeding and related officials involved in this 

proceeding or any other related proceeding (such as appellate review of this 

proceeding) in which the Confidential Materials are used, including judges, 

magistrates, commissioners, referees, jurors, court reporters and Persons 

preparing transcripts of testimony, and other personnel of the Court. 

b. The FTC, including its Commissioners, counsel, staff, employees, and agents 

(including consultants not covered under Subparagraph 10(e) below), as well as 

contractors assisting the FTC in the preparation or hearing of this proceeding 

under the direction and control of the FTC, its Commissioners, counsel, staff, 

employees, or agents. 

c. Defendants’ outside counsel of record in this proceeding, as well as their 

associated attorneys and other employees or contractors assisting such counsel in 

the preparation or hearing of this proceeding under the direction and control of 

such counsel; provided, however, that no such Person shall be an officer, 

director, or employee of any Defendant. 

d. The following three individuals, who are in-house legal counsel at DIRECTV: 

Robin Rogers, Christopher Murphy, and Ted Suzuki. 

e. Any independent experts or consultants retained or consulted by the parties in 

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this proceeding, including the employees of such experts or consultants who are 

assigned to assist such experts or consultants, in connection with services in the 

preparation or hearing of this proceeding. 

f. Any Person who, based on a good faith and objectively reasonable belief or 

understanding of counsel of record for the disclosing party, created, sent, 

received or reviewed the Confidential Materials, or who has had access to the 

Confidential Materials independent of this proceeding. 

g. Any trial or deposition witness and the witness’s counsel, if the Confidential 

Materials are, based on a good faith and objectively reasonable belief or 

understanding of counsel of record for the disclosing party, reasonably related to 

the witness’s testimony. 

h. Any Person designated by the Court in the interest of justice, upon such terms as 

the Court deems proper. 

11. Prior to disclosing Confidential Materials to any Person on the basis of subparagraph 

10(d), 10(e), 10(f), or 10(g), the disclosing Party shall provide to such Person a copy of this 

Order and obtain from such Person a signed statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

Such signed statement shall be retained by counsel for the disclosing Party and need not be filed 

with the Court or served upon opposing counsel, unless requested for good cause or ordered by 

the Court. A Person’s refusal or practical inability to sign this statement, after the disclosing 

Party’s good faith effort to secure signature, shall not restrict the disclosing Party (or its 

counsel) from disclosing the materials to the Person during trial, deposition, or other discovery 

or pretrial proceeding; provided, however, that the disclosing Party (or its counsel) shall serve 

on or provide to the Person a copy of this Order before the disclosure, and, in the case of the 

Person’s refusal, makes a record of the Person’s refusal to sign, or, in the case of 

impracticability, makes a good faith attempt to obtain the Person’s signature after the 

disclosure. 

12. Disclosure of Confidential Materials, or information that discloses the substance of the 

contents of Confidential Materials, to any Person described in Paragraph 10 of this Order shall 

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be only for the purposes of the preparation and hearing of this proceeding, or any appeal 

therefrom, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Any such receiving Person to whom 

Confidential Materials are disclosed in this proceeding shall: (a) read this Order; (b) use such 

Confidential Materials, or information that discloses the substance of the contents of 

Confidential Materials, only for purposes permitted by this Order; and (c) not disclose or 

divulge the content of Confidential Materials, or information that discloses the substance of the 

contents of Confidential Materials, other than as permitted by this Order. However, nothing 

contained in this Order shall be construed as imposing these or any other obligations on the 

Court or court personnel. 

13. Nothing in this Order shall restrict the use of Confidential Materials outside of this 

litigation by any Person, or the disclosure of Confidential Materials to any Person (or that 

Person’s counsel), who: (a) originally disclosed, provided, or produced such Materials in this 

proceeding; (b) has had such Materials in its possession, custody, or control independent of this 

proceeding or Federal Trade Commission Matter Number 1023141; or (c) has discovered such 

materials independent of this proceeding or Federal Trade Commission Matter Number 

1023141. 

14. In addition to paragraph 13, nothing in this Order shall restrict the use or disclosure of 

Confidential Materials by the FTC, subject to taking appropriate steps to preserve the 

confidentiality of such Materials: (1) as provided by the FTC’s Rules of Practice, 16 C.F.R. 

§0.1, et seq., and any cases construing them, or Sections 6(f) and 21 of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act and any cases construing them; or (2) pursuant to any other legal obligation 

imposed upon the FTC. To the extent required by applicable laws or regulations, the FTC shall 

provide prior notice of such use or disclosure to the designating Person. 

15. Without written permission from the Party or Non-Party who designated the Materials 

Confidential or an order of the Court, a Party may not file in the public record in this action any 

Confidential Materials. Instead, a Party that seeks to file Confidential Material must comply 

with Civil Local Rule 79-5, including its provisions for filing Materials under seal. For 

Materials designated Confidential by a Non-Party, the Party seeking their filing shall provide to 

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that designating Non-Party advance notice of at least three days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, 

and legal holidays defined under Fed. R. Civ. P. 6) before filing an Administrative Motion to 

File Under Seal under Rule 79-5(d). If the designating Non-Party agrees in writing to withdraw 

its Confidential designation from the Materials at issue or to otherwise permit their filing in the 

public records, such Materials may be filed in the public record and shall no longer be treated as 

Confidential in this proceeding. 

16. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to affect in any way the admissibility of any 

Materials, testimony, or any other evidence in this proceeding. This Order shall have no effect 

upon, and its scope shall not extend to, any Party’s use of its own discovery Materials in this 

proceeding. 

17. Any Party or Non-Party who designates any Materials as Confidential pursuant to this 

Order may consent to the removal of such designation by so notifying counsel of record for the 

other Parties in writing, after which time such Materials shall no longer be treated as 

Confidential in this proceeding. Any Party or Non-Party that, acting in good faith, inadvertently 

or mistakenly designates Materials as Confidential may withdraw that designation so notifying 

counsel of record for the other parties in writing immediately after discovering the erroneous 

designation, after which time such Materials shall no longer be treated as Confidential in this 

proceeding. 

18. Any Party may challenge a designation of any Materials as Confidential and request 

removal of the designation as follows: 

a. The Party seeking such removal shall give the Party or Non-Party who 

designated the Materials as Confidential written notice thereof specifying the 

Materials as to which such removal is sought and the reason for the request. 

b. If the Parties and/or Non-Party cannot reach agreement concerning the matter 

within fifteen days after such notice, then the Party requesting the removal of the 

designation as Confidential may file and serve a motion for an order of the Court 

directing that the designation be removed. 

c. For Confidential Materials other than Sensitive Personal Information, the Party 

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or Non-Party desiring to maintain their designation as Confidential shall have the 

burden of establishing grounds for such treatment. The burden of establishing 

that any Sensitive Personal Information should not be designated Confidential 

shall be upon the party seeking to remove the designation. 

19. Neither the taking of any action in accordance with the provisions of this Order, nor the 

failure to object thereto, shall be construed as a waiver of any claim or defense in this 

proceeding. Moreover, the failure to designate Materials as Confidential in accordance with 

this Order and the failure to object to such designation at a given time shall not preclude the 

filing of a motion at a later date seeking to impose such designation or challenging the propriety 

thereof. The entry of this Order shall neither be construed as a waiver of any Person’s right to 

object to the furnishing of Materials in response to discovery in this proceeding, nor relieve any 

Person of the obligation to produce Materials in the course of discovery in this proceeding. 

20. If a Party or Non-Party through inadvertence discloses, produces, or provides any 

Confidential Materials without designating them as Confidential as provided in this Order, that 

Party or Non-Party shall promptly give written notice to the receiving Person that the Materials 

are Confidential and should be treated as such in accordance with this Order. The receiving 

Person shall treat such Materials as Confidential from the date it receives such notice. 

Disclosure of such Materials prior to receipt of such notice to a Person not authorized to receive 

Confidential Materials shall not be deemed a violation of this Order; however, each Person to 

whom disclosure has been made is to be advised that the Materials disclosed are Confidential 

and must be treated in accordance with this Order. 

21. In the case of any accidental or inadvertent disclosure of Confidential Materials or any 

other disclosure not in accordance with this Order, the Person responsible for the disclosure (or 

the Person’s counsel) shall promptly notify counsel for the Party or Non-Party who designated 

the Materials as Confidential, or any such Person who is not represented by counsel, of the 

disclosure, and shall make every effort to prevent further disclosure, including attempting to 

retrieve all copies of the Confidential Materials from the recipients thereof, and attempting to 

secure the agreement of the recipients not to further disseminate the Confidential Materials in 

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any form. 

22. At the time that any consultant, expert, or other Person retained to assist a Party’s 

counsel in this proceeding concludes his or her participation in this proceeding, such Person 

shall return to counsel of record for the retaining Party all copies of Confidential Materials, 

together with all notes, memoranda, or other papers reproducing, paraphrasing, or otherwise 

disclosing Confidential Materials, or certify as to their destruction. Furthermore, within thirty 

days after the completion of this proceeding, all Confidential Materials, including any writing or 

communication reproducing, paraphrasing, or otherwise disclosing such Confidential Materials, 

shall be collected by counsel for the receiving Party and either destroyed or returned to the Party 

or Non-Party who disclosed, produced, or provided the Materials; provided, however, that 

attorney work product, expert reports, deposition transcripts and other sworn statements, or 

pleadings reproducing, paraphrasing, or otherwise disclosing Confidential Materials may be 

retained in counsel’s files subject to this Order and providing that such Confidential Materials 

shall not be used for any purpose outside of those permitted by this Order. For purposes of this 

Order, this proceeding shall be considered completed when the entire proceeding has been 

resolved and any related orders have become final and non-appealable. 

23. All Persons who receive Confidential Materials shall remain under a continuing duty not 

to disclose such Materials, except as permitted in this Order. This duty shall continue in full 

force and effect after the completion of this proceeding. However, nothing contained in this 

Order is intended to be construed as authorizing a Person to disobey a lawful court order or 

subpoena issued in another proceeding. 

24. The Parties, in conducting discovery from any Non-Party as part of this proceeding, 

shall provide to each such Non-Party a copy of this Order so as to inform the Non-Party of the 

Non-Party’s rights and obligations under this Order. 

25. The Parties reserve their rights to seek, through stipulated agreement or otherwise, 

additional protections for the use of Confidential Materials at trial. 

26. In the event that any additional Person becomes a Party to this proceeding, that Person, 

upon proper notice, shall be bound by this Order unless and until a different Protective Order is 

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entered with respect to that Person. 

SO STIPULATED 

Dated: June 23, 2015 /s/ Eric D. Edmondson

Eric D. Edmondson 

Counsel for Plaintiff 

Federal Trade Commission 

Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(i), the filer attests 

that concurrence in the filing of this document 

has been obtain from the other signatory. 

Dated: June 23, 2015 /s/ Chad S. Hummel

Chad S. Hummel 

Counsel for Defendants DIRECTV and 

DIRECTV, LLC 

IT IS SO ORDERED 

_________________________________________ 

 Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 

United States District Judge 

Northern District of California

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

DIRECTV,

 a corporation, 

and 

 

DIRECTV, LLC, 

 a limited liability company, 

 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 15-cv-01129-HSG 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF 

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS 

By undersigning, I acknowledge that have received and read the Protective Order entered 

by the Court in the above-captioned case on _________________ [date] and I agree to be bound 

Jonathan E. Nuechterlein 

General Counsel 

Eric D. Edmondson, D.C. Bar No. 450294 

Erika Wodinsky, Cal. Bar No. 091700 

Jacob A. Snow, Cal. Bar No. 270988 

Boris Yankilovich, Cal Bar No. 257887 

901 Market Street, Suite 570, 

San Francisco, CA 94103 

(415) 848-5100 / (415) 848-5184 (fax) 

eedmondson@ftc.gov; ewodinsky@ftc.gov; 

jsnow@ftc.gov; byankilovich@ftc.gov 

Raymond E. McKown, Cal. Bar No. 150975 

Stacy Procter, Cal. Bar No. 221078 

10877 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, 

Los Angeles, CA 90024 

(310) 824-4343 / (310) 824-4380 (fax) 

rmckown@ftc.gov; sprocter@ftc.gov

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Federal Trade Commission 

CHAD S. HUMMEL (Bar No. CA 139055)

E-mail: CHummel@manatt.com 

CLAYTON S. FRIEDMAN (Bar No. CA 

245513) 

E-mail: CFriedman@manatt.com 

MICHAEL YAGHI (Bar No. CA 202720) 

E-mail: MYaghi@manatt.com 

MANATT PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 

11355 West Olympic Boulevard 

Los Angeles, CA 90064-1614 

Telephone: (310) 312-4000 

Facsimile: (310) 312-4224 

CHRISTIAN E. BAKER (Bar No. CA 247006) 

E-mail: CBaker@manatt.com 

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 

One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 291-7400 

Facsimile: (415) 291-7474 

Attorneys for Defendants 

DIRECTV and DIRECTV, LLC

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by the terms of that Protective Order. 

As a condition to my receipt or review of any Materials designated Confidential pursuant 

to that Protective Order, I hereby agree that the Protective Order shall be deemed to be directed 

to and shall include me, and that I shall observe and comply with all of its provisions. I further 

understand and agree that I am not permitted to use, and I shall not use, Confidential Materials 

for any purpose other than those permitted under the Protective Order. 

Date: _________________ Signature: _______________________ 

 Printed Name: ____________________ 

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