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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER - C 07 02013 CW (PR) 1

SHARON L. ANDERSON (SBN 94814)

County Counsel

MONIKA L. COOPER (SBN 193729)

Deputy County Counsel

COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA

651 Pine Street, 9th Floor

Martinez, California 94553

Telephone: (925) 335-1800

Facsimile: (925) 335-1866

email: Monika.Cooper@cc.cccounty.us

Attorneys for Defendants

M. MALONE, J. MOORE, and R. FULLER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

REGGIE PERKINS,

Plaintiff

v. 

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SHERIFF’S

DEPARTMENT J-TEAM, SERGEANT

M. MALONE, DEPUTIES K.

WESTERMANN, R. ROBERTS and R.

FULLER, DETECTIVE J. MOORE, A.

GARIBAY and LEIU AGENT G.

RENAUD,

Defendants.

No. C 07 - 02013 CW (PR)

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, and good cause appearing therefore, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS:

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action will 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 would be warranted.

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following

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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 information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal

principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section

10, 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.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1. Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors,

employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff).

2.2 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 produced or generated in disclosures or responses to

discovery in this matter.

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

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

under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items:

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or

nonparty would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less

restrictive means.

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

Producing Party.

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

Material in this action.

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2.7 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.”

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as

their support staffs).

2.12 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 competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional

jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

2.13 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.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and 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.

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4. DURATION

Even after the termination 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.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party

or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take

care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate

standards. A Designating Party must take care to 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 Party’s or a non-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 Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that

it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered,

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 (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

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top of 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 (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “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 Order, then, 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 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 (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before

the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further

specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of

testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the

testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the

testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right

to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is

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sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection

within the 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 Party or nonparty

offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 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 item is stored the legend

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If

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

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely 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 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

Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness,

unnecessary economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a

Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to

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mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 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.

6.3 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 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 justification for the confidentiality

designation that was given by the Designating Party 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 level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed

or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order.

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

section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

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

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

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

signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (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 “Agreement to

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A). 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 of the document or the original source of the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the

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Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

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

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for

this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A);

(c) the Court and its personnel;

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and

(e) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

8. 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 fax, if possible)

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.

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

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that

caused the subpoena or order to issue.

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The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence

of this 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.

9. 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 Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and

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

10. 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.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the

Producing Party, within sixty days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving

Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision,

“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 identifies (by

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category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that

affirms that the Receiving Party 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 an archival copy of all

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), above.

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.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: _______________ SHARON B. ANDERSON

COUNTY COUNSEL

By:____________________________ MONIKA L. COOPER

Deputy County Counsel

Attorneys for Defendants

M. MALONE, J. MOORE, and R.

FULLER

DATED: _______________ KEKER & VAN NEST

By:____________________________

PAVEN MALHOTRA

Attorneys for plaintiff

REGGIE PERKINS

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DATED: _______________ EDMUND G. BROWN, JR.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

By:____________________________ TIMOTHY McDONOUGH

Deputy Attorney General

Attorney For Defendant G. RENAUD

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _3/3/10 ____________________________

 CLAUDIA WILKEN

 United States District Judge

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _________________________________________ [print or type full name], of 

_______________________________________________________________________ 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and

understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court

for the Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Reggie Perkins v. Contra Costa

County Sheriff’s Department J-Team, et al., United States District Court No. C 07 - 02013 CW (PR),

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

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone

number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any

proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date: _________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: ______________________________

 [printed name]

Signature: __________________________________

 [signature]

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