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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Civil Rights Act

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SUSANA ALCALA WOOD, City Attorney (SBN 156366)

SEAN D. RICHMOND, Senior Deputy City Attorney (SBN 210138)

srichmond@cityofsacramento.org

CITY OF SACRAMENTO

915 I Street, Room 4010

Sacramento, CA 95814-2608

Telephone: (916) 808-5346

Facsimile: (916) 808-7455

Attorneys for the CITY OF SACRAMENTO, MICHAEL PINOLA, TRAVIS 

HUNKAPILLER, RUVIM TSVEROV; ROBERT LINDNER, ANGEL ESPINOZA, JOSEPH SWALEH, JASON FINNECUM, and JOHN HELMICH

DALE K. GALIPO, ESQ. (SBN 144074)

dalekgalipo@yahoo.com

LAW OFFICES OF DALE K. GALIPO

21800 Burbank Boulevard, Suite 310 

Woodland Hills, California 91367 

Tel: (818) 347-3333 

Fax: (818) 347-4118 

Attorney for MARY ELLEN LENNOX

DIANA ESQUIVEL, Deputy Attorney General, (SBN 202954)

Diana.Edquivel@doj.ca.gov

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 210-7320

Facsimile: (916) 322-8288

Attorneys for STATE OF CALIFORNIA and MICHAEL SIMPSON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARY ELLEN LENNOX, individually and 

as successor in interest to decedent Jordan 

Zenka,

 Plaintiff,

 vs.

CITY OF SACRAMENTO; STATE OF 

CALIFORNIA; MICHAEL PINOLA; 

Case No.: 2:21-cv-02075 TLN-KJN

STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE 

ORDER AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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MICHAEL G. SIMPSON; TRAVIS 

HUNKAPILLER; RUVIM TSVEROV; 

ROBERT LINDNER; ANGEL ESPINOZA; 

JOSEPH SWALEH; JASON FINNECUM; 

JOHN HELMICH and DOES 9-10, 

inclusive,

 Defendants.

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 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.

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 

Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c) and for which public disclosure is likely to result in particularized 

harm, or is privileged under law, and/or violates privacy or official information interests recognized 

by law, or is otherwise entitled to protection.

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staff) and any self-represented (pro se) party or non-party.

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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, audio/video files, personnel files, policies/procedures, and 

other tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery 

in this matter.

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 and that expert’s support staff.

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

the 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, transcribing, preparing exhibits or 

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.

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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 

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 Non-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 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 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.

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 alter of: (1) dismissal of 

all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; or (2) final judgment herein 

after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remains, 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 

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standards. 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 routine 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 does

not qualify 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 

or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure of 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 deposition 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 portions(s).

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials containing Confidential 

Information 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 documents it 

wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or 

portions of documents qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 

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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 

portions(s).

(b) For testimony given in a deposition or in other pretrial 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 the exterior 

of the container or containers in which the information or items 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 reasonable 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.

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 

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challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice-to-voice 

dialogue; other forms of communications 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 improper 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 under

the provisions of and incompliance with Eastern District Local Rules 230 and 251 (and Local 

Rules 141 and 141.1, if applicable). Alternatively, the Parties may agree to resolve a challenge 

through any Informal Discovery Dispute process available by the Court. In any event, any 

such motion or informal-resolution process must be filed or commenced within 21 days of the 

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

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is later, unless the parties agree to a different 

deadline. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion or commence the informalresolution process within 21 days or 14 days, or other deadline agreed to by the parties, shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In 

addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion or commence the informal-resolution 

process 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 or informal-resolution process commenced 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 such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

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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 or commence the informal-resolution process as 

described above, 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.

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. Protected 

Material disclosed in this case may not be used in separate proceedings or actions at this time or in 

the future without first being obtained through proper discovery procedures or court order in those 

separate proceedings or actions. 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 of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) 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

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reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the court and its personnel and court reporters, stenographers, and their support staff; 

(e) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors (including 

their support staff) 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. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 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 

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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.

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 NonParty’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; 

(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 Non-Party. 

(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. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear 

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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 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

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. 

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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. 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. 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.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in Section 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). 

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14. LOCAL RULE 141.1 STATEMENT

In accordance with the provisions of Local Rule 141.1, the parties state as follows:

(1) The information eligible for a protective order in this case is:

a. employment records that would otherwise be privileged;

b. law enforcement tactical and evaluative information;

c. confidential information concerning the privacy of third parties to this 

lawsuit.

(2) A particularized need exists as to these categories as follows:

a. These records contain confidential and personal information;

b. These records contain information that may constitute official 

information and could risk the safety and security of law enforcement officers if publicly 

disseminated;

c. These records contain information of third parties to this lawsuit that are 

confidential and personal in nature.

(3) A court order is needed to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of this 

information is maintained and will be enforceable after the litigation has ended.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: ___08/10/22________________ SUSANA ALCALA WOOD,

City Attorney

By: /s/ Sean D. Richmond_____

SEAN D. RICHMOND

Senior Deputy City Attorney

Attorneys for the CITY OF 

SACRAMENTO, MICHAEL PINOLA, 

TRAVIS HUNKAPILLER, RUVIM 

TSVEROV; ROBERT LINDNER, ANGEL 

ESPINOZA, JOSEPH SWALEH, JASON 

FINNECUM, and JOHN HELMICH

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DATED: ___08/10/22________________ LAW OFFICES OF DALE K. GALIPO

By: /s/ Dale K. Galipo

DALE K. GALIPO

Attorney for MARY ELLEN LENNOX

DATED: ___08/10/22________________ ROB BONTA

Attorney General of California

CHRISTINE E. GASKE

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

By: /s/ Diana Esquivel

DIANA ESQUIVEL

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendants State of California, by 

and through the California Highway Patrol, 

and Michael Simpson

ORDER

Good cause having been shown, the Court permits the parties 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 18, 2022

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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 Eastern District of California on in the case of Mary Ellen 

Lennox, et al v. City of Sacramento, et al. Case No.: 2:21-cv-02075 TLN-KJN. 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 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 

Eastern 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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