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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 42:405 Fair Housing Act

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 

SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

John E. McDermott (SBN 51047) 

HOWREY SIMON ARNOLD & WHITE, LLP

550 South Hope Street, Suite 1100 

Los Angeles, California 90071 

Telephone: (213) 892-1800 

Facsimile: (213) 892-2300 

Michael D. Milich (SBN 054137) 

City Attorney-City of Modesto 

1010 Tenth Street. Suite 6300 

Modesto, California 95353 

Telephone: (209) 577-5284 

Facsimile: (209) 544-8260 

Attorneys for Defendant City of Modesto 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

THE COMMITTEE CONCERNING 

COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT, 

SOUTH UNITED NEIGHBORS, et al., 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

CITY OF MODESTO, et al.,

Defendants. 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DLB 

The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY 

OF MODESTO 

Action filed August 18, 2004 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 2 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

This STIPULATION is entered into between plaintiffs and defendant City of 

Modesto, 

WHEREAS, plaintiffs have propounded discovery that requires the production of 

email by City, 

WHEREAS, City believes that the email to be produced inadvertently may 

contain information protected by attorney client privilege, work product doctrine or 

other privilege, or confidential personnel, criminal investigation or other information 

protected by the constitutional right of privacy, Public Record Act exemptions (Govt. 

Code § 6254) or other statutes, 

WHEREAS, City desires an order maintaining the confidentiality of its email and 

deeming production of its email in this matter as not waiving any privileges or 

protections, and the Court and plaintiffs are agreeable to such an order, 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

1. City is producing all email responsive to plaintiffs’ Request for Production of 

Documents and to search terms provided by plaintiffs, save for emails which the City 

has removed from the electronic disks containing the emails because they are privileged. 

The City will provide a privilege log for the removed emails. 

2. The emails produced by City may include the inadvertent production of emails 

that include information protected by attorney client privilege, the work product 

doctrine or other privilege, or contain confidential personnel, criminal investigation or 

other information protected by the constitutional right of privacy, Public Records Act 

exemptions (Govt. Code § 6254) or other statute (“Protected Information”). Production 

of emails containing Protected Information shall not be deemed a waiver of the 

Protected Information, and no one shall use the fact of the provision of such emails 

containing Protected Information in this matter as the basis for additional discovery into 

the Protected Information referred to in the emails. Nothing in this Section shall 

preclude a party from challenging the propriety of any claim of privilege or protection 

by the City, in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil procedure. 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 3 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

3. Plaintiffs may not use for any purpose, in this litigation or otherwise, any 

emails inadvertently produced by City that contain Protected Information, or disclose 

such emails or Protected Information to anyone, except in accordance with paragraph 4 

below. Plaintiffs shall confer with City in good faith regarding any emails as to which 

there is any doubt as to whether the emails contain Protected Information. 

4. Plaintiffs’ attorneys shall advise City of any emails produced by the City that 

they wish to use in this litigation at least 30 days in advance of their use. Within 21 

days, the City will advise plaintiffs’ attorneys of any emails it deems to be Protected 

Information subject to privilege or constitutional or statutory protection. The parties 

agree to adjust these timeframes in good faith should plaintiffs seek to use a voluminous 

amount of emails. Plaintiffs may not use for any purpose in this litigation or otherwise 

any emails deemed Protected Information by City, or disclose same to anyone, until 

litigation of the City’s claim of privilege or protection is resolved. Nothing in this 

section shall preclude plaintiffs from challenging the propriety of City’s claim of 

privilege in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

5. City’s production of email shall in no way constitute a waiver of any objection 

to the relevance or admissibility of any email. 

6. The disks produced by City shall be reviewed only by plaintiffs’ attorneys and 

other personnel under their control, shall not be reproduced or shown to any third 

persons without City’s approval, shall be maintained securely, and shall be returned to 

City within 10 days of the conclusion of this litigation, without making any copies of 

the disks. Within 45 days of the final disposition of this action, whether by judgment 

and exhaustion of any and all appeals, or by settlement, plaintiffs and their attorneys 

shall return the disks to the City and shall deliver to the City written confirmation that 

there has been compliance with all the terms of this paragraph, or that there has not been 

compliance and the reason for such noncompliance, upon receipt of which the City may 

make application to the Court for such further order as may be appropriate. 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 4 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

7. The parties shall take reasonable steps to ensure that this order is properly 

carried out. 

8. The confidentiality provisions of this order shall remain in full force and effect 

until further order of this Court. Nothing contained herein shall limit or be deemed to 

waive the right of any party to seek relief from any provision of this order or any 

modification thereof, or to seek greater protections than are afforded by this order in 

appropriate circumstances. 

9. It is expressly understood that any person who violates this order may be 

subject to sanctions imposed by the Court or to contempt of court charges. 

Dated: April __, 2005 HOWREY SIMON ARNOLD & WHITE, 

LLP 

By: 

John E. McDermott 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 City of Modesto 

Dated: April __, 2005 COVINGTON & BURLING 

By: 

Deanna Kwong 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 The Committee Concerning 

 Community Improvement, et al. 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 5 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 28 , 2005 

____/s/ ROBERT E. COYLE_________ 

/s/ The Honorable Robert E. Coyle 

United States District Court Judge 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 6 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

PROOF OF SERVICE

I am employed in the County of Los Angeles, State of California. I am over the 

age of 18 years and not a party to the within action. My business address is 550 South 

Hope Street, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90071. Upon this day, I served a copy 

of the attached STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

EMAIL TO BE PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO on all 

interested parties through their attorneys of record by placing a true and correct copy 

thereof by the method indicated, addressed as shown on the attached service list: 

SEE ATTACHED DISTRIBUTION LIST 

__X__ VIA FIRST CLASS MAIL (CCP § 1013a). I am readily familiar with the 

firm’s practice of collection and processing for mailing. Under that practice it would be 

deposited with the U.S. postal service on that same day as shown on this declaration 

with postage thereon fully prepaid at Los Angeles, California in the ordinary course of 

business. 

__X__ FEDERAL I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the 

bar of this court at whose directions the service was made. 

Executed on April 28, 2005 at Los Angeles, California. 

Christiane Shertz 

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Case No. CIV-F-04-6121 REC DL - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER RE EMAIL TO BE 

PRODUCED BY DEFENDANT CITY OF MODESTO

HOWREY 7 SIMON

ARNOLD &

WHITE, LLP

SERVICE LIST 

Donald Wesley Brown 

Covington and Burling 

One Front Street 

35th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

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