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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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WANG V. ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC (CASE NO. C09-04797 SI)

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHNNY WANG, an individual, on

his own behalf and on behalf of all

others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

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ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC, a

Delaware limited liability company,

and DOES 1-100, inclusive,

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CASE NO.: C09-04797 SI

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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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 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 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 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). Counsel shall not designate

discovery materials as “Confidential” without first making a good faith

determination that protection is warranted.

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2.4 “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to

another Party or non-party would created a substantial risk of serious injury that

could not be avoided by less restrictive means. Counsel shall not designate

discovery materials as “Highly Confidential” without first making a good faith

determination that protection is warranted.

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.

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 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; class administration;

preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, retrieving data in any

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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.

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 withing 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.

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If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or

items that it designated for protection do not quality for protection at all, or do not

quality 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;

provided, however, that the parties agree that materials that have been produced by

the parties in this action prior to the entry of this Order may, within 14 days of the

entry of this Order, be designated as subject to the protections of this Order.

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 bottom of each page that contains protected material. If only

a portion of 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 document it wants

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

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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 bottom 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 from the date of receipt of

the transcript to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which

protection is sought and to specify that 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’

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EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Party or non-party 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 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

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begin the process by conferring directly or in writing 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 Designating 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 be

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11,

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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 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 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 by separately bound

by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under

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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 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 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), and (3) as to whom the procedures set

forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed;

(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.

 7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to

“Experts”

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing

by the Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined

in this Order) any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY

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CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must make a written

request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to

disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and

state of his or her primary residence, (3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current

resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or

entity from whom the Expert has received compensation for work in his or her

areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services at any

time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the

case, filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the

Expert has provided any professional services during the preceding five years.

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information

specified in the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to

the identified Expert unless, within seven days of delivering the request, the Party

receives a written objection from the Designating Party. Any such objection must

set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objections must meet

and confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to

try to resolve the matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party

seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as provided in Civil

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking

permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the

circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the

disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the

disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means that might be used to

reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a

competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve

the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer

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discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its

refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the

Expert shall bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure

would entail (under the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need

to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert.

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.

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

existence of this Protective Order 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

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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 (60) 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

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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 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

any 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.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: ___4/5/2010____________ _____s/HarryShulman/________________ Attorneys for Plaintiff

Johnny Wang

DATED: ____4/5/2010___________ _____s/Tomio B. Narita _____________ Attorneys for Defendant

Asset Acceptance, LLC

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: _______________________ _____________________________

Honorable Susan Illston

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 Wang v. Asset Acceptance, LLC Case No. C09-04797 SI. 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 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 tel.

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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