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Nature of Suit Code: 160
Nature of Suit: Stockholder's Suits
Cause of Action: 12:22 Securities Fraud

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LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

Paul H. Dawes (Bar No. 55191) 

John C. Tang (Bar No. 212371) 

Andrew M. Farthing (Bar No. 237565) 

140 Scott Drive 

Menlo Park, California 94025 

Telephone: (650) 328-4600 

Facsimile: (650) 463-2600 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

David M. Friedman (Bar No. 209214) 

Samuel B. Lutz (Bar No. 241165) 

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 391-0600 

Facsimile: (415) 395-8095 

Attorneys for Nominal Defendant 

Waste Connections, Inc. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

KENNETH TRAVIS, et al. 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

RONALD J. MITTELSTAEDT, et al., 

 Defendants, 

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WASTE CONNECTIONS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, 

Nominal Defendant. 

LAWRENCE PIERCE, et al. 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

RONALD J. MITTELSTAEDT, et al., 

 Defendants, 

and 

WASTE CONNECTIONS, INC., a Delaware 

corporation, 

Nominal Defendant. 

CIV S-06-02341 FCD GGH 

CONSOLIDATED ACTION

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REGARDING DISCOVERY RELATED TO 

SPECIALLY APPEARING DEFENDANTS 

MOTION TO DISMISS PURSUANT TO 

FED.R.CIV.P. 12(B)(2). 

Action Filed: October 24, 2006 

Judge: Hon. Frank C. Damrell, Jr. 

 

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WHEREAS, on June 21, 2007, Nominal Defendant Waste Connections moved to 

dismiss plaintiffs’ consolidated complaint for failure to make a pre-suit demand pursuant to 

Fed.R.Civ.P. 23.1; 

WHEREAS, on June 21, 2007, Individual Defendants, including Specially 

Appearing Defendants Messrs. Harlan and Razzouk, moved to dismiss plaintiffs’ consolidated 

complaint for failure to state a claim pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6); 

WHEREAS, on June 21, 2007, Specially Appearing Defendants Messrs. Harlan 

and Razzouk also moved to dismiss certain claims for lack of personal jurisdiction pursuant to 

Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(2); 

 WHEREAS, all defendants believe that discovery is not permitted unless and until 

it is determined that plaintiffs’ have complied with the pre-suit demand requirement pursuant to 

Fed.R.Civ.P. 23.1; 

 WHEREAS, all defendants believe that discovery is not permitted while a motion 

to dismiss is pending pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”), 15 

U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(B); 

 WHEREAS, the parties agree that the participation of Specially Appearing 

Defendants in discovery related to the issue of personal jurisdiction shall not waive or otherwise 

affect their position that they are not subject to the personal jurisdiction of this Court; 

WHEREAS, however, plaintiffs and all defendants agree that plaintiffs shall be 

permitted to take limited discovery related solely to the issue of whether the Court has personal 

jurisdiction to adjudicate certain claims asserted against Messrs. Harlan and Razzouk; 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the 

undersigned counsel for the parties that the following terms and conditions of this Stipulated 

Protective order shall govern all discovery conducted before any rulings on the motions to 

dismiss filed June 21, 2007: 

GENERAL DEFINITIONS AND PROVISIONS: 

1. Only the following persons or entities are “Parties” to this action: Waste 

Connections, Inc. (including its officers and directors), Individual Defendants Ronald J. 

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Mittelstaedt, Robert H. Davis, Eugene V. Dupreau, Steven F. Bouck, Darrell W. Chambliss, 

David M. Hall, Jerri L. Hunt, James M. Little, David G. Eddie, Eric O. Hansen, Kenneth O. Rose, 

Michael R. Foos, and Eric J. Moser (collectively “Individual Defendants”) and Specially 

Appearing Defendants Michael Harlan and William Razzouk (“Specially Appearing 

Defendants”), and Plaintiffs Kenneth Travis and Lawrence Pierce (“Plaintiffs”). 

2. All discovery produced by Defendants during the pendency of the motions 

to dismiss filed on June 21, 2007 or any other subsequent motion to dismiss (including any 

deposition testimony given), shall be used (if at all) only in connection with their opposition to 

Specially Appearing Defendants Motion to Dismiss State Law Claims for Lack of Personal 

Jurisdiction. No such documents produced (or deposition testimony given) during the pendency 

of the motions to dismiss shall be cited in, or otherwise used by plaintiffs in connection with 

opposing either the Nominal Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Make a Pre-Suit 

Demand or the Individual Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim, or for any 

other purpose other than that mentioned in the preceding sentence. 

3. Any depositions taken during the pendency of the motions to dismiss filed 

on June 21, 2007, or any other subsequent motion to dismiss, shall be limited solely to the issue of 

whether the Court has personal jurisdiction over Messrs. Harlan and Razzouk to adjudicate state 

law claims alleged in Plaintiffs’ Complaint. 

4. As used in this Order, “Disclosing Party” shall refer to the Parties in this 

action, as well as any third parties, who convey information, give testimony or produce 

documents; “Designating Party” shall refer to any Party to this action who designates material 

disclosed by any Disclosing Party as “CONFIDENTIAL,” “CONFIDENTIAL — FOR 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,”; “Receiving Party” shall refer to the Party who receives material 

produced by a Disclosing Party in response to a document request, subpoena, by agreement or 

otherwise. 

5. “Confidential Information” as used herein refers to any information that is 

disclosed by any Party, or any third parties, in connection with this action that the Designating 

Party claims, in good faith, constitutes or contains financial or other business information of a 

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proprietary, confidential, or commercially sensitive nature, information invasive of an individual’s 

legitimate privacy interests. 

6. For purposes of this Protective Order, the term “document” means all 

written, recorded, or graphic material, whether produced or created by a Party or a non-party, and 

whether produced pursuant to document requests, subpoena, by agreement or otherwise. 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

7. Confidential Information includes information conveyed by the Disclosing 

Party to the Receiving Party directly or through its counsel that the Designating Party claims in 

good faith to be its financial or other business information of a proprietary, confidential, or 

commercially sensitive nature, or information invasive of an individual’s legitimate privacy 

interests, including: 

 (a) Information set forth in response to discovery requests, provided 

that prior to disclosure to the Receiving Party through its counsel, the responses are marked by 

the Designating Party with one of the following legends: 

CONFIDENTIAL

Subject to a Protective Order 

or 

CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY

Subject to a Protective Order 

or similar legend agreed upon by the Parties clearly indicating whether the Designating Party 

intends that the material is to be viewed only by attorneys and experts for the Receiving Party, or 

by other designated individuals as provided herein; 

 (b) Information set forth in documents produced in response to a 

request for production, provided that prior to or at the time of production to the Receiving Party 

through its counsel, the Designating Party designates such documents as Confidential 

Information or marks copies of such documents with a legend as set forth in subparagraph (a) 

above; 

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 Where a Disclosing Party produces documents from its files for inspection 

and selection for copying by a Receiving Party, a Designating Party through its counsel may 

require that, during the course of production, such documents only be reviewed by persons 

authorized to receive Confidential Information pursuant to Paragraphs 10 or 11 of this Order, and 

any copies, reproductions, summaries, excerpts, compilations, notes, or information obtained or 

generated by such reviewers during the course of production shall be treated as Confidential 

Information designated for access only as contemplated by Paragraphs 10 or 11; 

 (c) Information disclosed during depositions, provided that counsel, 

the witness, or the Party whose Confidential Information is to be or was disclosed, states on the 

record at the deposition what is to be treated as Confidential Information. Additionally, a Party 

or non-party may designate such Confidential Information in writing within thirty (30) days of 

the completion of the transcript of such deposition (as certified by the court reporter). After any 

such written designation, counsel for all the Parties shall be responsible for marking the 

designated material in all previously unmarked copies of transcripts with a legend as set forth in 

subparagraph (a) above. Prior to the expiration of such thirty (30) day period, all information 

disclosed during a deposition shall constitute Confidential Information, unless otherwise agreed 

by the Parties and the witness, or ordered by the Court; 

 (d) Any other information conveyed by the Disclosing Party to the 

Receiving Party directly or through its counsel that the Designating Party claims in good faith to 

be its financial or other business information of a proprietary, confidential, or commercially 

sensitive nature, or information invasive of an individual’s legitimate privacy interests, provided 

that, prior to disclosure to the Receiving Party through its counsel, the information, if in written 

or other tangible form, is marked by the Designating Party with one of the legends set forth in 

subparagraph (a) above, and, if in oral or other intangible form, is identified as Confidential 

Information and, if practical, within fifteen (15) days after disclosure is reduced to written form 

which bears one of the notices set forth above; 

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 (e) Copies, reproductions, notes, summaries, excerpts, and 

compilations of or referring to any information set forth in subsections (a) through (e), inclusive, 

above. 

8. Interrogatory answers, responses to requests for admission, deposition 

transcripts and exhibits, pleadings, motions, affidavits, and briefs that quote, summarize or 

contain materials entitled to protection may be accorded status as Confidential Information, but, to 

the extent feasible, shall be prepared in such a manner that the Confidential Information is bound 

separately from information that is not entitled to protection under this Protective Order. 

9. The designation or non-designation of any information shall not constitute 

waiver of any subsequent designation of the information. Redesignation of the information shall 

be made in writing, accompanied by the Bates number of the original item, and an appropriately 

marked substitute copy of each redesignated item. All Parties shall immediately replace the 

original item with the substitute copy, and either return the original item and all copies thereof to 

the Designating Party, or confirm in writing to the Designating Party that the original has been 

destroyed. 

DECLASSIFICATION OF CONFIDENTIAL STATUS

10. All Confidential Information shall be accorded confidential status pursuant 

to the terms of this Protective Order, unless the Parties formally agree in writing to the contrary, 

or a determination is made by the Court as to the item’s confidential status and that determination 

has become final by expiration of the time period within which appellate review or intervention 

must be sought. 

11. Any Party who reasonably disputes the designation of any information as 

“Confidential Information” pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order may challenge that 

designation at any time after receiving notice of the designation. The Parties will try first to 

resolve such dispute on an informal basis before presenting the dispute to the Court by motion or 

otherwise. In the event that informal resolution is not achieved, any Party wishing to challenge 

the protection under this Protective Order of the disputed information may file a motion with the 

Court. In the event a motion is timely filed pursuant to this paragraph, the Confidential 

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Information in question shall remain subject to this Stipulated Protective Order until the Court 

rules on the motion. 

DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

12. Confidential Information may be designated “CONFIDENTIAL ⎯

FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only if the Designating Party reasonably and in good faith 

believes that such Confidential Information is so highly sensitive that its disclosure other than as 

provided for in this Paragraph could result in substantial harm. Confidential Information 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” shall be deemed to require 

the highest degree of confidentiality and may be disclosed only to (i) in-house and outside 

attorneys for the Parties, and their respective employees; (ii) copy services retained by counsel for 

the Parties for the preparation of this action; and (iii) outside experts or consultants retained for 

the purposes of this litigation provided that (a) review of such Confidential Information 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” is necessary for such expert or 

consultant to render his or her opinion; and (b) Confidential Information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” shall not, under any circumstances, be 

divulged to any expert or consultant who is affiliated with any Waste Connections competitor, 

supplier, or customer, without prior written consent from Waste Connections. 

13. Confidential Information designated “CONFIDENTIAL” may be disclosed 

subject to all the provisions and restrictions employed with respect to materials and information 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL -- FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” except that Confidential 

Information designated “CONFIDENTIAL” may also be disclosed to Parties and their employees 

to the extent deemed necessary by counsel for the prosecution or defense of this litigation, and to 

a Parties’ experts or consultants of a Party pursuant to Paragraphs 12 and 13 below. 

14. Confidential Information shall not be disclosed to any expert or consultant 

for a period of at least five (5) business days after service on all Parties of information regarding 

the identity of the expert or consultant, including his/her name, address, and job title, the name 

and address of his/her employer, and a current curriculum vitae, including a list of all companies 

for which such person has consulted during the previous year. If, within five (5) business days of 

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the date of such notice, another Party objects to the disclosure of Confidential Information to the 

expert or consultant identified then, unless the Parties otherwise agree, the objecting party shall 

have five (5) business days to file an appropriate motion to preclude disclosure of Confidential 

Information to the expert or consultant. No Confidential Information may be disclosed to the 

expert or consultant until the motion is decided. 

15. Before a Receiving Party discloses any Confidential Information to any 

expert or consultant or non-party witness, the expert or consultant or non-party witness must 

certify that he or she has read this Order and manifest his or her assent to be bound thereby by 

signing a copy of the Undertaking, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A. Once a 

person has executed the Undertaking, it shall not be necessary for that person to sign a separate 

Undertaking each time that person is subsequently given access to Confidential Information. 

Each Undertaking executed by an expert or consultant or non-party witness shall be retained by 

counsel for the Receiving Party, and a copy of the executed Undertaking shall be served on all 

other Parties to this action. Persons receiving Confidential Information are enjoined from 

disclosing it to any other person, or using it in any other litigation, except in conformance with 

this Stipulated Protective Order. Non-party witnesses who are shown Confidential Information 

shall not be allowed to retain copies of Confidential Information. 

16. Nothing herein shall prohibit a Party, or its counsel, from disclosing a 

document designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL ⎯ FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” to the author or recipient of such document, or to a person who is a current executive 

officer or director of the same company as the author or recipient, or who served as an executive 

officer or director of that company at the time the document was authored, or to an individual 

designated by a current officer or director, of the same company as the author or recipient, as 

having permission to see such document. 

17. Nothing in the provisions of this Protective Order shall prevent a 

Designating Party from using its own Confidential Information in any manner it desires. 

18. Confidential Information shall be used only by persons permitted access to 

it pursuant to Paragraphs 10 and 11; shall be used only for the purpose of this action; shall not be 

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disclosed to persons other than those permitted access pursuant to Paragraphs 10, 11 and 14, and 

the Court and necessary Court personnel, and shall not be disclosed to any individual or entity that 

is involved in any action against the defendants, other than the actions covered by this Stipulation 

and Protective Order. Any party or attorney that is involved, or anticipates involvement in, any 

legal action against defendants other than the actions covered by this Stipulation and Protective 

cannot have access, directly or indirectly, to Confidential Information. Moreover, any 

Confidential Information obtained in this litigation shall not be used in connection with or in 

furtherance of any other pending or future litigation. 

19. Each individual who receives any Confidential Information hereby agrees 

to subject himself or herself to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purpose of any proceedings 

relating to the performance under, compliance with, or violation of this Order. The recipient of 

any Confidential Information that is provided under this Order shall maintain such information in 

a secure and safe area, and shall use best efforts to maintain the confidentiality of such 

information. 

20. No person shall attend portions of depositions during which Confidential 

Information is disclosed unless such person is an authorized recipient of Confidential Information 

under the terms of this Order. If, during the course of a deposition, the response to a question 

would require the disclosure of Confidential Information, the witness may refuse to answer or the 

Party whose Confidential Information would be disclosed may instruct the witness not to answer 

or not to complete his answer, as the case may be, until any persons not authorized to receive 

Confidential Information have left the room. 

21. Any court reporter or videographer who transcribes or videotapes testimony 

in this action at a deposition shall be required to agree, before transcribing or videotaping any 

such testimony, that all information designated Confidential Information shall not be disclosed 

except as provided in this Order, and that copies of any transcript, reporter’s notes, videotapes, or 

any other transcription records of any such testimony will be retained in absolute confidence and 

safekeeping by such reporter or videographer or shall be delivered to an attorney of record or filed 

under seal with the Court. 

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22. If any information that a Designating Party claims in good faith is 

Confidential Information is inadvertently disclosed to a Receiving Party without being properly 

designated as Confidential Information, the Designating Party may notify each Receiving Party 

that such Confidential Information inadvertently was not so designated, provided the Designating 

Party gives such notice in writing within ten (10) days after becoming aware that the Confidential 

Information was not properly designated. Such written notice shall identify with specificity the 

information or documents the Designating Party is then designating to be Confidential 

Information. If the Designating Party gives such written notice as provided above, its claims of 

confidentiality shall not be deemed to have been waived by its failure to designate properly the 

information as Confidential Information prior to disclosure. Upon receipt of written notice as 

provided for herein, the Receiving Party shall mark the original and all known copies of the 

documents with the proper designation. In addition, the Receiving Party shall use its best efforts 

to ensure that the information that was inadvertently disclosed is thereafter restricted to only those 

persons entitled to receive Confidential Information in accordance with the proper designation, 

under the terms set forth herein. 

23. A person with custody of Confidential Information shall maintain it in a 

manner which ensures that access to Confidential Information is strictly limited to persons entitled 

to receive Confidential Information in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

24. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Order to the contrary, the 

confidentiality obligations of this Order shall not apply, or shall cease to apply, to any information 

that: 

 (a) At the time of disclosure hereunder, was already lawfully in the 

possession of the receiving party and was not acquired through discovery or under any obligation 

of confidentiality; or 

 (b) At the time of disclosure hereunder was, or subsequently becomes, 

through no fault of the receiving party, a public document or publicly available. 

USE IN PAPERS FILED WITH THE COURT, AND AT TRIAL OR HEARING 

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Confidential Information, including without limitation any brief or memorandum, the document(s) 

shall be conditionally lodged under seal. If within ten (10) days of the conditional lodging, a 

Party fails to file a motion for an order sealing the record, the document(s) may be filed without 

seal. If a Party files a motion for an order sealing the record and the Court denies the motion as to 

any particular document, the Parties shall seek further guidance from the Court regarding use of 

the document(s). 

25. Should need arise during any hearing before the Court for any party to 

disclose Confidential Information, it may do so only in camera or after other appropriate 

safeguards are provided by the Court. 

26. The Parties shall meet and confer regarding procedures governing the use 

of Confidential Information at trial. 

OTHER PROVISIONS 

27. In the event any person or Party having possession, custody or control of 

any Confidential Information receives a subpoena or other process or order to produce such 

information in another unrelated legal proceeding, such person or Party shall promptly notify the 

attorneys of record of the Designating Party claiming confidential treatment of the document 

sought by such subpoena or other process or order, shall furnish those attorneys of record with a 

copy of said subpoena or other process or order, and shall not interfere with respect to any 

procedure sought to be pursued by the Designating Party whose interests may be affected. The 

Designating Party asserting the confidential treatment shall have the burden of defending against 

such subpoena, process or order. If the Party asserting the Confidential Information designation 

wishes to take legal action to quash the subpoena, process or order, it must notify the Receiving 

Party of its intent within five (5) court days after receiving notice, in which case the Receiving 

Party shall not produce such documents while such legal proceedings are pending. If no such 

notification is made, the receiving person or party is entitled to comply with the subpoena, process 

or order. 

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Confidential Information shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of this action, including 

all appeals, unless otherwise agreed or ordered. At the conclusion of the litigation, including all 

appeals, any document or thing, other than attorney work product, which contains Confidential 

Information of a Party and all copies made thereof, including any copies provided to any other 

persons, shall within 60 days be returned to the Designating Party, or it shall be destroyed. If a 

Party destroys, rather than returns, Confidential Information, that Party shall certify in writing that 

such documents have been destroyed, and serve such certification on the Designating Party within 

30 days. At the conclusion of this litigation, including all appeals, counsel for the Parties shall 

maintain the confidentiality as specified in this Order of all work product materials containing 

Confidential Information, and shall not use Confidential Information for any other purpose. 

29. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of any Party to oppose 

production of any information on any ground allowed under the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, 

or applicable law. 

30. Nothing herein shall be deemed to waive any applicable privilege or work 

product protection, or to affect the ability of a Party to seek relief for inadvertent disclosure of 

material protected by privilege or work product protection. 

31. Any violation of the terms of this Protective Order may result in the 

imposition of such relief as the Court deems appropriate, including specific performance and 

injunctive relief. It shall not be a defense to a request for injunctive relief that the aggrieved party 

possesses an adequate remedy at law. The Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce this Stipulated 

Protective Order beyond the conclusion of this litigation, including personal jurisdiction over all 

persons subject to this Order. 

32. Nothing in the provisions of this Protective Order shall be deemed to 

preclude any Party from seeking and obtaining, on an appropriate showing, such additional 

protection with respect to Confidential Information as that Party may consider appropriate. 

33. This Protective Order may be executed in counterparts. 

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Dated: September 12, 2007 Respectfully submitted, 

LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 

Paul H. Dawes 

John C. Tang 

David M. Friedman 

Andrew M. Farthing 

Samuel B. Lutz 

By /s/ David M. Friedman 

David M. Friedman 

Attorneys for Nominal Defendant Waste 

Connections, Inc. 

Dated: September 12, 2007 SCHIFFRIN BARROWAY 

 TOPAZ & KESSLER, LLP 

 

By /s/ Nichole T. Browning (as authorized 

on 9/12/07)

Alan R. Plutzik (Bar No. 077785) 

Timothy Fisher (Bar No. 191626) 

Nichole T. Browning 

2125 Oak Grove Road, Suite 120 

Walnut Creek, California 94598 

Telephone: (925) 945-0200 

Facsimile: (925) 945-8792 

Eric L. Zagar 

J. Daniel Albert 

280 King of Prussia Road 

Radnor, PA 19087 

Telephone: (610) 667-7706 

Facsimile: (610) 667-7056 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September 27, 2007 

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STIPULATED AND PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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 EXHIBIT A

UNDERTAKING TO BE BOUND BY CONFIDENTIAL ORDER

I, ______________________________________ (print or type name), hereby certify that 

I have read the “Stipulation and [Proposed] Protective Order” in the action entitled Travis, et al. 

v. Mittelstaedt, et al., and Pierce, et al. v. Miettelstaedt, et al., Consolidated Case No. CIV S-06-

02341 FCD GGH, prior to receiving any Confidential Information as defined therein, that I 

understand the terms and effect of that Order, and that I agree, upon the potential penalty of 

contempt and other remedies, to be bound thereby. I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of 

the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, in connection with that 

Order. 

I understand that all Confidential Information, as defined in the Order, including, but not 

limited to any copies thereof or notes or other transcriptions made therefrom, shall be maintained 

in a secure manner and shall be returned no later than 30 days after the termination of this action 

to the counsel for the party or other person who provided such Confidential Information. 

I hereby declare that I am not affiliated with any competitor, supplier, or customer, of 

Waste Connections, Inc. 

I declare the foregoing under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California. 

DATED: SIGNED: ________________________________ 

 

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