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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

Carl L. Fessenden, SBN 161494

Matthew W. Gross, SBN 324007

350 University Ave., Suite 200

Sacramento, California 95825

TEL: 916.929.1481

FAX: 916.927.3706

Attorneys for Defendants COUNTY OF YUBA and TAMARA PECSI

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMES STEWART, Individually and as 

Successor in Interest to Decedent JAHMAL 

DERRICK STEWART,

Plaintiff,

v.

COUNTY OF YUBA, a municipal 

corporation; TAMARA PECSI, individually 

and in her official capacity as a deputy 

sheriff for the Yuba County Sheriff’s 

Department; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, 

individually and in their official capacity as 

agents for Yuba County Sheriff’s 

Department,

 Defendants.

__________________________________/

No. 2:19-cv-01744 TLN-DB

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

AND ORDER

Complaint Filed: 09/03/2019

A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information for which protection from public disclosure and from use for any 

purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate 

to, and request 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 extent such information or items are entitled to confidential 

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treatment under the applicable federal law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability 

Act (“HIPAA”) and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The parties further acknowledge 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.

B. STIPULATION

The parties hereby stipulate and agree as follows:

1. DOCUMENTS. The following documents are protected Materials and shall not be used 

for any purpose other than this litigation:

(a) any incident report and related investigation concerning the allegations in the 

Complaint made by the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department;

(b) coroner records or other medical records;

(c) personnel files of any peace officer or medical personnel involved in this case;

(d) if a party wants to designate a document other than what is identified above as 

confidential under this Protective Order, the procedure set forth in Sections D and E shall be followed.

2. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material, 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 of Record 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 or becomes part of the public domain after its 

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 court order, trial, or otherwise; and (b) any information known 

to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from 

a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the 

Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or 

order.

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3. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order 

shall remain in effect until: (1) a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing; (2) a court order otherwise 

directs; or (3) there is a complete return or destruction of all Protected Material pursuant to Section 8. 

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.

4. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

4.1 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 8 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.

4.2 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 Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees of said 

Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees 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);

(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);

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(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 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.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other 

person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

5. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION

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” 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 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.

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6. 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 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.

7. 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.

8. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 3, 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 

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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 of Record 

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 3 (DURATION).

9. MISCELLANEOUS

9.1 Right to Further Relief

Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its modification or a change in 

designation of particular material as “CONFIDENTIAL” by the court in the future.

9.2 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.

9.3 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. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, 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.

C. DEFINITIONS

1. “Challenging Party” means a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2. “CONFIDENTIAL” means information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or 

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maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).

3. “Designating Party” means a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that 

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL”.

4. “Disclosure or Discovery Material” means 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.

5. “Expert” means a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

this litigation who (1) has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

consultant in this action, (2) is not a past or current employee of a Party and (3) at the time of retention, is 

not anticipated to become an employee of a Party.

6. “Non-Party” means any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other 

legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

7. “Counsel of Record” means attorneys who have appeared in this action on behalf of that 

party or are affiliated with a law firm or governmental entity which has appeared on behalf of that party.

8. “Party” means any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

9. “Producing Party” means a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

10. “Professional Vendors” means persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, 

storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

11. “Protected Material” means any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

CONFIDENTIAL.

12. “Receiving Party” means a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

D. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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A party may designate material other than identified Section B.1 as confidential. 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. To the extent it is 

practical to do so, the Designating Party must 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 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 Designating 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 Designating Party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken 

designation.

2. Manner and Timing of Designations

Except as otherwise provided in this Order 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 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) and must specify, for each 

portion, the level of protection being asserted. Alternatively, the Producing Party may designate an entire 

production or storage device (such as CD or flash drive) as confidential by including notice of such 

designation or including “CONFIDENTIAL” in the title of each designated file. 

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not 

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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 (i.e,, “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) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted.

(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, 

or in a writing to all parties within 30 business days of receipt of the deposition or hearing transcript, all 

protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. A Designating Party may specify, 

at the deposition or up to 30 days afterwards that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”. 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or 

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only authorized 

individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) are present 

at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any way affect its 

designation as “CONFIDENTIAL”.

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all pages 

(including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and the level of 

protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter 

of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 30-day period for 

designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated CONFIDENTIAL in its entirety 

unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually 

designated.

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(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 a portion or 

portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portion(s).

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.

E. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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.

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 

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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.

3. Judicial Intervention

If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge pursuant to the Meet and Confer provisions above, the Parties 

consent to judicial resolution of the dispute by the Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes’, and agree to utilize the 

informal telephonic conference of discovery disputes provided for in Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes’ Standing 

Order, whereby the Parties will jointly submit a two-page synopsis of their dispute to the Court 48 hours prior to a 

scheduled telephonic conference with the Court. If a party reasonably believes that the issue is such that additional 

briefing is warranted, the party retains the right to request Judge Barnes allow such further and additional briefing. 

The burden of persuasion in any such 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. 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 until the court 

rules on the challenge.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: February 28, 2020 PORTER SCOTT

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

By /s/Carl L. Fessenden

Carl L. Fessenden

Matthew W. Gross

Attorneys for Defendants

Dated: February 28, 2020 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

By /s/K. Chike Odiwe (authorized 02/28/2020)

John L. Burris 

K. Chike Odiwe 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT:

1. Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who will decide 

the matter related to that request to seal.

2. The designation of documents (including transcripts of testimony) as confidential pursuant to 

this order does not automatically entitle the parties to file such a document with the court under seal. 

Parties are advised that any request to seal documents in this district is governed by Local Rule 141. In 

brief, Local Rule 141 provides that documents may only be sealed by a written order of the court after a 

specific request to seal has been made. L.R. 141(a). However, a mere request to seal is not enough 

under the local rules. In particular, Local Rule 141(b) requires that “[t]he ‘Request to Seal Documents’ 

shall set forth the statutory or other authority for sealing, the requested duration, the identity, by name or 

category, of persons to be permitted access to the document, and all relevant information.” L.R. 141(b).

3. A request to seal material must normally meet the high threshold of showing that “compelling 

reasons” support secrecy; however, where the material is, at most, “tangentially related” to the merits of 

a case, the request to seal may be granted on a showing of “good cause.” Ctr. for Auto Safety v. 

Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096-1102 (9th Cir. 2016); Kamakana v. City and County of 

Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-80 (9th Cir. 2006).

4. Nothing in this order shall limit the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of certain 

documents, at any court hearing or trial – such determinations will only be made by the court at the 

hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion.

5. With respect to motions regarding any disputes concerning this protective order which the 

parties cannot informally resolve, the parties shall follow the procedures outlined in Local Rule 251. 

Absent a showing of good cause, the court will not hear discovery disputes on an ex parte basis or on 

shortened time.

6. The parties may not modify the terms of this Protective Order without the court’s approval. If 

the parties agree to a potential modification, they shall submit a stipulation and proposed order for the 

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court’s consideration.

7. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement of the 

terms of this Protective Order after the action is terminated.

8. Any provision in the parties’ stipulation that is in conflict with anything in this order is hereby 

DISAPPROVED.

DATED: March 2, 2020 /s/ DEBORAH BARNES UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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