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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act

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TOMIO B. NARITA (SBN 156576)

tnarita@snllp.com 

SARAH H. SCHEINHORN (SBN 294759)

sscheinhorn@snllp.com

SIMMONDS & NARITA LLP

44 Montgomery Street, Suite 3010

San Francisco, CA 94104-4816

Telephone: (415) 283-1000

Facsimile: (415) 352-2625

Attorneys for Defendants

Midland Funding, LLC and Midland

Credit Management, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

LARRY DEAN DAVIS,

 Plaintiff,

 vs.

MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC., a 

Delaware limited liability company; 

MIDLAND CREDIT 

MANAGEMENT, INC., a Kansas 

corporation; THE BRACHFELD 

LAW GROUP, A PROFESSIONAL 

CORPORATION, a California 

corporation; ERICA LYNN 

BRACHFELD, individually and in her 

official capacity;

 Defendants.

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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 other 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.

No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a court order 

allowing the filing of a document under seal. An application to file a document under 

seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and on the person or entity that has custody 

and control of the document, if different from opposing counsel. If opposing counsel, 

or the person or entity who has custody and control of the document, wishes to 

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oppose the application, he/she must contact the chambers of the judge who will rule 

on the application, to notify the judge’s staff that an opposition to the application will 

be filed.

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

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

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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 

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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.

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 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 after the disclosure from a 

source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of 

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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 

under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for 

production 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 

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

it designated for protection do not quality for protection, that Designating 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, 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 protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on 

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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 document 

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 on the record, before 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 

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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 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. 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.

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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 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, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

confidentiality (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 141, if applicable) within 21 

days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the 

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meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each 

such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the 

movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the 

preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion 

including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. 

In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality 

designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to 

the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. 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 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. Unless the Designating Party has waived 

the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as 

described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level 

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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).

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 to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

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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 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 of the 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 an 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 

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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 

Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

produced 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;

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(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.1 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 

 

1 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of 

confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to 

protect its confidentiality interests in this court.

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writing 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

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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 

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. A 

sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at 

issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection 

under the law. 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.

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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).

DATED: May 5, 2014__________ /s/ Fred W. Schwinn__________________

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Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: May 5, 2014__________ /s/ Tomio B. 

Narita__________________Attorneys for 

Defendant

DATED: May 5, 2014___________ /s/ Erica L. Brachfeld________________

Attorneys for Defendant

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 13, 2014

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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 Davis v. Midland Funding, LLC, et. al., (Case No.: 2:13-cv02316-LKK-CKD). 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 

_____________________________________

CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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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: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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