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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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Bingham McCutchen LLP 

JENNIFER G. REDMOND (SBN 144790) 

ADAM JOHN TULLMAN (SBN 235695) 

Three Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067 

Telephone: (415) 393-2000 

Facsimile: (415) 393-2286 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALLIANCE RESIDENTIAL COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

BLANCA AGUILAR, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ALLIANCE RESIDENTIAL COMPANY and 

DOES 1-20, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

No. C0503664 RS 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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 would 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 

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 

*E-FILED 3/28/06*

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

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, 

regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other 

things, testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter. 

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under 

standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

2.4 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party. 

2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates 

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

“Confidential.” 

2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential.” 

2.8 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but 

who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel 

(as well as their support staffs). 

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2.11 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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a 

Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to 

become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a 

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 

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

demonstrations; organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their 

employees and subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected 

Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected 

Material. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination 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. 

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 under the 

appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to 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 

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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 Party’s or a non-party’s attention that 

information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not 

qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify 

all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise 

provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, 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 (apart from 

transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or 

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents 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 appropriate 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). 

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(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the 

record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for 

protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the 

record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify 

the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought. Only those portions of the 

testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court reporter, who must affix each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” as instructed by 

the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 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 portions of the information or item warrant protection, the 

Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an 

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” does not, 

standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such 

material. If material is appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” after the material was 

initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, 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. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating 

Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, 

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unnecessary economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party 

does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a 

challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a 

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the 

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must 

explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give 

the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 

designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it 

has engaged in this meet and confer process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party 

may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 

79-5, if applicable) 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 imposed in the preceding 

paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation 

that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 

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 

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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 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) The Receiving Party and 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 “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (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 “Agreement 

to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement 

to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to 

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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. 

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION. 

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by 

fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the 

subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who 

caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered 

by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party 

must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action 

that caused the subpoena or order to issue. 

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the 

existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity 

to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. 

The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses 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. 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 the Designating 

Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected 

Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all 

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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. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested 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 79-5. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 

sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all 

Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” 

includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, 

the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 

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 sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all 

the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party 

has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence or attorney 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), above. 

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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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: 

March 23, 2006 /S/ 

Israel Ramirez 

Ramirez & Martinez Law Offices 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Blanca Aguilar 

DATED: 

March 24, 2006 /S/ 

Adam Tullman 

Bingham McCutchen LLP 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Alliance Residential Services 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

The Honorable Richard Seebord 

Magistrate Judge 

3/28/06

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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 Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Aguilar v. 

Alliance. 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 Northern 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: ______________________________ 

[printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

[signature] 

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SIGNATURE ATTESTATION

 I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures 

indicated by a “conformed” signature (/S/) within this efiled document. 

DATED: March 24, 2006 

BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP 

By:/S/ 

Adam John Tullman 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ALLIANCE RESIDENTIAL COMPANY 

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