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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1051 Trademark Infringement

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HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP 

SUSAN G. O’NEILL - 115133 

soneill@hansonbridgett.com 

BATYA F. SWENSON - 192396 

bswenson@hansonbridgett.com 

425 Market Street, 26th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: (415) 777-3200 

Facsimile: (415) 541-9366 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Counterdefendant 

FIRST REPUBLIC BANK 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

FIRST REPUBLIC GROUP, LLC, 

Defendant. 

No. CV 06-06494 CRB 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

FIRST REPUBLIC GROUP, LLC, 

Counterclaimant, 

v. 

FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, 

Counterdefendant. 

 

Plaintiff and Counterdefendant FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, and Defendant and 

Counterclaimant FIRST REPUBLIC GROUP, LLC, stipulate through their respective counsel of 

record as follows: 

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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 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 Stipulated 

Protective 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 9, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no 

entitlement to file confidential 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. 

Notwithstanding anything in this Stipulated Protective Order, the parties agree that the 

Disclosure or Discovery Material, as defined in Section 1.2 below, shall not be used by the 

Receiving Party, as defined in Section 1.5 below, for any purpose other than for prosecuting or 

defending this action. 

1. DEFINITIONS 

1.1 Party or Parties: any party to this action, and all parties to this action, including all 

of its or their officers, directors, partners, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside 

counsel (and their support staff), including the law firms Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & 

Rudy, LLP, and Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP. 

1.2 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 voluntarily exchanged, produced or generated in 

disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

1.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, 

stored, or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed 

under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and are designated as “Confidential” in the good 

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faith belief that it contains confidential, proprietary, trade secret and/or otherwise private 

information subject to protection under state or federal law. 

1.4 “Highly ConfidentialAttorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: that narrow 

and limited subset of Confidential Information or Items which is designated as “Highly 

Confidential,” and whose disclosure to another Party or non-party the Designating Party (as 

defined in Section 1.7, below) in good faith believes would create a substantial risk of serious 

competitive injury to the business of the Designating Party, or other serious injury, that could not 

be avoided by less restrictive means. 

1.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

1.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

1.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

1.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

1.9 Counsel: attorneys who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

1.10 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 Party’s competitor. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation. 

1.11 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. 

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2. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective 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. All notes, memoranda, reports, and other written communications that reveal or discuss 

information contained in Protected Material shall be given the same protections under this 

Stipulated Protective Order as though they were designated as Protected Material. 

3. DURATION 

Even after the termination of this litigationwhether by settlement, discontinuance, 

dismissal, severance, judgment or other dispositionthe confidentiality obligations imposed this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in 

writing or a court order otherwise directs. 

4. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

4.1 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Stipulated Protective Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 4.1(a), below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order 

must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. Designation in 

conformity with this Stipulated Protective 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top 

of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion of a document or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Designating Party 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 (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 

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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 “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 Stipulated Protective Order, and before 

producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top 

of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion of a document or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Designating Party 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 (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

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

that the Designating Party identify all protected testimony on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, or identify all protected testimony within twenty (20) 

calendar days after receipt of the transcript. Until expiration of this twenty-day period, all such 

testimony shall be considered and treated as though it is designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Only those portions of the testimony that 

are designated for protection within the twenty (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 to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Designating 

Party. 

(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 appropriate legend. If that 

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matter is stored or recorded electronically (including information databases, images, or programs 

stored on computers, discs, networks or backup tapes) and a legend cannot be affixed upon it, the 

Designating Party may designate such material as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” by cover letter identifying the Protected 

Material. Parties other than the Producing Party shall also have the right to designate such 

materials for confidential treatment in accordance with this Stipulated Protective Order by written 

notice. If only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Designating Party, to 

the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions. 

(d) for information revealed in the course of a hearing, that the Designating 

Party identify all protected information on the record, before the conclusion of the hearing, or 

other proceeding, or identify all protected testimony within twenty (20) calendar days after 

receipt of the transcript. Until expiration of this twenty-day period, all such testimony shall be 

considered and treated as though it is designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” except that Parties may draft orders on the hearings as necessary to effect the 

court’s decisions. Only those portions of the testimony that are designated for protection within 

the twenty 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 to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Designating 

Party. 

4.2 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate 

qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Stipulated Protective Order for such 

material. If material is appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

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As used in this Stipulated Protective Order, an act is “timely” if it does not unduly prejudice 

another party. 

4.3 Inadvertent Production. If the Producing Party contends that it has inadvertently 

produced material that it alleges is protected by the attorney client privilege, the work product 

doctrine, and/or any other privilege (“the Subject Material”), that party shall notify the Receiving 

Party of the inadvertent production immediately upon its discovery of the inadvertent production. 

Immediately upon notification, and in no event, no later than three business days after receiving 

notice, the Receiving Party shall return and/or destroy all copies of the Subject Material identified 

in the notice, and shall certify in writing that it has done so. In so doing, the Receiving Party shall 

not waive or prejudice any challenge it may have to the alleged privileged status of the Subject 

Material, nor shall it waive or prejudice any challenge it may have to the Producing Party’s claim 

of inadvertent production. If, after undertaking an appropriate meet-and-confer process, the 

parties are unable to resolve any dispute they have concerning the Subject Material, the Receiving 

Party may file a motion to compel such material. 

5. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

5.1 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. 

5.2 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 

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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 Designating Party’s justification for the confidentiality designation that 

was stated 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 protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation. 

6. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

6.1 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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of 

Section 10, 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 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

6.2 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 in this action, as well as employees of said 

Counsel 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; 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) The court and its personnel; 

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(e) Neutral evaluators, mediators or arbitrators assigned to the case by the 

court or retained for the case by the mutual agreement of the Parties; 

(f) Professional Vendors for services such as copying, scanning, or electronicdocument processing to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(g) Former employees, officers, or directors of the Parties, provided that such 

former employees, officers, partners, or directors saw the said material when they held said 

positions and have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A); and 

(h) The author of the document or the original source of the information. 

6.3 Disclosures of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

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 “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Counsel in this action, as well as employees of said

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

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A); 

(c) the court and its personnel; 

(d) Neutral evaluators, mediators or arbitrators assigned to the case by the 

court or retained for the case by the mutual agreement of the Parties; 

(e) Professional Vendors such as copying, scanning, or electronic-document 

processing to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation. 

(f) The author of the document or the original source of the information. 

6.4 Maintenance of Signed Agreements. The Counsel for the Receiving Party wishing 

to disclose Protected Materials shall maintain the original signed “Acknowledgement and 

Agreement(s) to Be Bound by Protective Order.” 

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6.5 Disclosure Not Otherwise Authorized. In the event that Counsel representing any 

Party in this action believes that it is necessary to disclose Protected Materials to an individual or 

entity to whom disclosure is not permitted by this Stipulated Protective Order, such Counsel shall 

make a written request (delivered by hand, electronic mail or facsimile) to Counsel for the 

Designating Party identifying the individual to whom it is desired to make such disclosure and the 

specific Protected Materials involved. Within five (5) business days of the request, Counsel for 

the Designating Party may object to such disclosure by delivering by hand, electronic mail, or fax 

a written objection to Counsel serving the disclosure letter. Failure to so object constitutes 

consent to such disclosure. In the event that a Designating Party objects to such disclosure, such 

Protected Materials shall not be disclosed to any individual other than those to whom disclosure is 

permitted by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order until such dispute has been 

resolved by agreement of the parties or by order of the court. 

7. 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the 

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by hand delivery, electronic 

mail or facsimile), 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. 

Provided that the Producing Party has taken the necessary steps to prevent, through judicial. 

process, production of the documents sought to be produced, the Receiving Party shall not 

produce to the Party in the other action any documents designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIALATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY,” and will maintain the status quo 

pending resolution of the Producing Party’s motion to quash or analogous proceeding. 

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 

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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 Stipulated 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. 

8. 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 the terms of 

this Stipulated Protective Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

9. 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. 

Any court hearing that refers to or describes information designated as “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” shall in the court’s discretion be conducted in 

camera. 

10. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty (60) 

days after the final termination of this action (e.g., a court order terminating this action and from 

which no appeal is taken), each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

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Producing Party. As used in this paragraph, “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 affirms that the Receiving Party has complied with the foregoing provisions, and 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 archival copies and not required to return copies of all pleadings, motion papers, 

transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, attorney-client communications or attorney work 

product, even if such materials contain Protected Material, provided that such Counsel take 

appropriate steps to prevent the disclosure in a manner contrary to this Stipulated Protective 

Order of such Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected 

Material remain subject to this Stipulated Protective Order as set forth in Section 3 

(DURATION), above. 

11. MISCELLANEOUS 

11.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges the 

right of any person to seek its modification by the court in the future. 

11.2 Admissions and Waivers. Neither the entry of this Stipulated Protective Order, 

nor the designation of any information or documents as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIALATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” or failure to make such a designation, shall 

constitute evidence or any admission with respect to any issue in the case, and shall not constitute 

a waiver of any objections to the disclosure of such information. Nothing in this Stipulated 

Protective Order shall be construed as a waiver by either Party of any objection to the 

admissibility of a particular document into evidence. Moreover, nothing in this Stipulated 

Protective Order shall be construed to require any party to disclose to any other party any 

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Confidential of Highly Confidential Information, or to prohibit any party from refusing to 

disclose Confidential or Highly Confidential Information to any other party. 

11.3 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.

DATED: March __, 2007 HANSON BRIDGETT MARCUS 

VLAHOS & RUDY, LLP 

By: /s/ 

BATYA F. SWENSON 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

FIRST REPUBLIC BANK 

DATED: March __, 2007 TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND 

CREW, LLP 

By:____/s/_____________________________ 

GREGORY S. GILCHRIST 

Attorneys for Defendant 

FIRST REPUBLIC GROUP, LLC 

I, Batya F. Swenson, hereby attest, pursuant to N.D. Cal. General Order No. 45, that the 

concurrence to the filing of this document has been obtained from the other signatory hereto. 

By: /s/ 

 BATYA F. SWENSON 

 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: ________________________ 

 CHARLES R. BREYER 

 United States District Judge 

March 16, 2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER (CV 06-06494 CRB) 1306168.1

EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

BY PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 

I, _________________________, 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 ______________________ in the case of 

First Republic Bank v. First Republic Group, LLC., and related counterclaim, Case No. CV 06-

06494 CRB. My address is ________________________________________________. My 

present occupation is ________________________________________________. 

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 of court. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in 

any manner any information or item that is subject to the 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 _______________________________ of _________________________ 

______________________________________________________________________________ 

[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. 

Executed this _____ day of ____________________, 2007, at __________________ [city 

and state]. 

 

Signature 

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