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Nature of Suit Code: 423
Nature of Suit: Bankruptcy Withdrawal 28 USC 157
Cause of Action: 28:0157 Motion for Withdrawal of Reference

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

YU FANG TAGGART AND MELISSA 

BOLTON,

PLAINTIFFS

vs.

RICHARD LEON ROBERTS AND

PAMELA JEAN HALL,

DEFENDANTS

Case No.: 2:19-cv-02470-KJM-JDP

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE ORDER

The parties YU FANG TAGGART, MELISSA BOLTON, and RICHARD LEON 

ROBERTS, by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate as follows.

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

In order to protect the confidentiality of the parties’ respective confidential, proprietary, 

and/or trade secret information obtained or disclosed in connection with this action, the parties 

hereby agree to enter into the Stipulated Protective Order as set forth below, subject to the 

Court’s approval:

1. PURPOSE AND LIMITS OF THIS ORDER

This action involves adjudication of a claim made by Plaintiffs against Defendant 

arising from Bankruptcy Code Section 523. No underlying tort or damages claims are 

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asserted; however, it is anticipated that the Parties may seek information or production of 

certain information that involves confidential, proprietary, or private information requiring 

special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than this 

litigation. The categories of documents that need protection include federally protected student 

information, confidential business information, and medical information, which would be 

harmful to the Party, business and/or student if disclosed. In light of these issues, the Parties 

seek a court order that certain documents may be disclosed and used during depositions and as 

exhibits to court-related motions. 

In light of the above, the Court enters this Protective Order. This Order does not confer 

blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery, and the protection it gives 

from public disclosure and use extends only to the specific material entitled to confidential 

treatment under the applicable legal principles. This Order does not automatically authorize 

the filing under seal of material designated under this Order. Instead, the parties must comply 

with L.R. 141 if they seek to file anything under seal. This Order does not govern the use at 

trial of material designated under this Order.

2. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

2.1. Over-Designation Prohibited. Any party or non-party who designates 

information or items for protection under this Order as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” (a “designator”) must only designate specific 

material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. To the extent practicable, only those 

parts of documents, items, or oral or written communications that require protection shall be 

designated. Designations with a higher confidentiality level when a lower level would suffice 

are prohibited. Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Unjustified 

designations expose the designator to sanctions, including the Court’s striking all 

confidentiality designations made by that designator. Designation under this Order is allowed 

only if the designation is necessary to protect material that, if disclosed to persons not 

authorized to view it, would cause competitive or other recognized harm. Material may not be 

designated if it has been made public, or if designation is otherwise unnecessary to protect a 

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secrecy interest. If a designator learns 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 designator must promptly notify all parties that it is withdrawing the 

mistaken designation.

2.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. Designation under this Order requires 

the designator to affix the applicable legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY”) to each page that contains protected 

material. For testimony given in deposition or other proceeding, the designator shall specify 

all protected testimony and the level of protection being asserted. It may make that designation 

during the deposition or proceeding, or may invoke, on the record or by written notice to all 

parties on or before the next business day, a right to have up to 21 days from the deposition or 

proceeding to make its designation.

2.2.1. 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 identified 

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

designation, all material shall be treated as HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES 

ONLY. After the inspecting party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, 

the producing party must designate the documents, or portions thereof, that qualify for 

protection under this Order.

2.2.2. Parties shall give advance notice if they expect a deposition or other proceeding 

to include designated material so that the other parties can ensure that only authorized 

individuals are present at those proceedings when such material is disclosed or used. The use 

of a document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any way affect its designation. 

Transcripts containing designated material shall have a legend on the title page noting the 

presence of designated material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all pages 

(including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated, and the level of protection 

being asserted. The designator shall inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any 

transcript that is prepared before the expiration of the 21-day period for designation shall be 

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treated during that period as if it had been designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of the 21-day period, 

the transcript shall be treated only as actually designated.

2.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate does 

not, standing alone, waive protection under this Order. Upon timely assertion or correction of 

a designation, all recipients must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the material is treated 

according to this Order.

3. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

All challenges to confidentiality designations shall proceed under L.R. 251 (Motions 

Dealing with Discovery Matters).

4. ACCESS TO DESIGNATED MATERIAL

4.1. Basic Principles. A receiving party may use designated material only for this 

litigation. Designated material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under 

the conditions described in this Order. 

4.2. Disclosure of CONFIDENTIAL Material Without Further Approval. 

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the designator, a receiving 

party may disclose any material designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

4.2.1. The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action and employees of 

outside counsel of record to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary;

4.2.2. The officers, directors, and employees of the receiving party to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary, and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); 

4.2.3. Experts retained by the receiving party’s outside counsel of record to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary, and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit 

A);

4.2.4. The Court and its personnel; 

4.2.5. Outside court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary, and who have signed the 

Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A);

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4.2.6. During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); and 

4.2.7. The author or recipient of a document containing the material, or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

4.3. Disclosure of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY 

Material Without Further Approval. Unless permitted in writing by the designator, a 

receiving party may disclose material designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY 

EYES ONLY without further approval only to:

4.3.1. The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action and employees of 

outside counsel of record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information; 

4.3.2. The Court and its personnel; 

4.3.3. Outside court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and 

professional vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary, and who have signed the 

Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit A); and 

4.3.4. The author or recipient of a document containing the material, or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

4.3.5. The receiving party’s experts, pursuant to the procedures below.

4.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY Material to Experts. Unless agreed to in 

writing by the designator:

4.4.1. A party seeking to disclose to an expert retained by outside counsel of record 

any information or item that has been designated HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY 

EYES ONLY must first make a written request to the designator that (1) identifies the general 

categories of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY information that the 

receiving party seeks permission to disclose to the expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the 

expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the expert’s 

current resume, (4) identifies the expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or 

entity from whom the expert has received compensation or funding for work in his or her areas 

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of expertise (including in connection with litigation) in the past five years, and (6) identifies 

(by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation where the 

expert has offered expert testimony, including by declaration, report, or testimony at deposition 

or trial, in the past five years. If the expert believes any of this information at (4) – (6) is 

subject to a confidentiality obligation to a third party, then the expert should provide whatever 

information the expert believes can be disclosed without violating any confidentiality 

agreements, and the party seeking to disclose the information to the expert shall be available to 

meet and confer with the designator regarding any such confidentiality obligations.

4.4.3. A party that makes a request and provides the information specified in 

paragraphs 4.4.1 or 4.4.2 may disclose the designated material to the identified expert unless, 

within seven days of delivering the request, the party receives a written objection from the 

designator providing detailed grounds for the objection. 

4.4.4. All challenges to objections from the designator shall proceed under L.R. 251.

5. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 

IN OTHER LITIGATION

5.1. Subpoenas and Court Orders. This Order in no way excuses noncompliance 

with a lawful subpoena or court order. The purpose of the duties described in this section is to 

alert the interested parties to the existence of this Order and to give the designator an 

opportunity to protect its confidentiality interests in the court where the subpoena or order 

issued.

5.2. Notification Requirement. 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 or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES 

ONLY that party must: 

5.2.1. Promptly notify the designator in writing. Such notification shall include a copy 

of the subpoena or court order;

5.2.2. 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 

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subject to this Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Order; and 

5.2.3. Cooperate with all reasonable procedures sought by the designator whose 

material may be affected.

5.3. Wait For Resolution of Protective Order. If the designator 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 or HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY before a determination by the court where the subpoena or order 

issued, unless the party has obtained the designator’s permission. The designator shall bear the 

burden and expense of seeking protection of its confidential material in that court.

6. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF DESIGNATED MATERIAL

If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed designated 

material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Order, it must 

immediately (1) notify in writing the designator of the unauthorized disclosures, (2) use its best 

efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the designated material, (3) inform the person or 

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (4) use 

reasonable efforts to have such person or persons execute the Agreement to Be Bound (Exhibit 

A).

7. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a producing party gives notice 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).

8. FILING UNDER SEAL

Without written permission from the designator or a Court order, a party may not file in 

the public record in this action any designated material. A party seeking to file under seal any 

designated material must comply with L.R. 141. Filings may be made under seal only pursuant 

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to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific material at issue. The fact that a 

document has been designated under this Order is insufficient to justify filing under seal. 

Instead, parties must explain the basis for confidentiality of each document sought to be filed 

under seal. Because a party other than the designator will often be seeking to file designated 

material, cooperation between the parties in preparing, and in reducing the number and extent 

of, requests for under seal filing is essential. If a receiving party’s request to file designated 

material under seal pursuant to L.R. 141 is denied by the Court, then the receiving party may 

file the material in the public record unless (1) the designator seeks reconsideration within four 

days of the denial, or (2) as otherwise instructed by the Court.

9. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, each party shall return all 

designated material to the designator or destroy such material, including all copies, abstracts,

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any designated 

material. The receiving party must submit a written certification to the designator by the 60-

day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the designated 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 

designated material. This provision shall not prevent counsel from retaining 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 designated material. Any 

such archival copies remain subject to this Order.

10. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES

The Parties and all signatories to the Agreement to Be Bound attached hereto as Exhibit 

A agree to be bound by this Stipulated Protective Order pending its approval and entry by the 

Court. In the event that the Court modifies this Stipulated Protective Order, or in the event that 

the Court enters a different Protective Order, the Parties agree to be bound by this Stipulated 

Protective Order until such time as the Court may enter such a different Order. It is the Parties’ 

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intent to be bound by the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order pending its entry so as to 

allow for immediate production of materials designated CONFIDENTIAL or HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS EYES ONLY.

This Stipulation and Protective Order may be executed in counterparts.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

 Dated: February 10, 2022 CLAYEO C. ARNOLD, PC

 By: s/ Joshua H. Watson__

Joshua H. Watson

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Taggart and Bolton

Dated: February 10, 2022 DUANE MORRIS LLP

By: s/ Patricia P. Hollenbeck 

Patricia P. Hollenbeck

Geoffrey A. Heaton

Attorneys for Defendant

Richard Leon Roberts 

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ORDER

For good cause shown, the parties’ stipulated protective order, ECF No. 26, is approved 

and so ordered.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 17, 2022 

JEREMY D. PETERSON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

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 Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of California on _______ [date] in the case of Yu Fang Taggart, et al. v. Richard 

Roberts, et al. (Case No. 2:19-cv-02470-KJM-JDP). I agree to comply with and to be bound by 

all the terms of this Protective Order, and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so 

comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment for contempt. I solemnly promise that I 

will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Protective Order to 

any person or entity except in strict compliance with this Order. At the termination of this action 

or at any time requested by counsel of record in this action, I will return to counsel of record in 

this action all confidential documents r materials that I have received pursuant to this Agreement, 

and anything that I have prepared relating to or reflecting such information. 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 this Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 

termination of this action. 

Date: ___________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ____________________ 

Signature: ______________________

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