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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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Amended Protective Order. (1:08-cv-00677 CRB (PC))

KAMALA D. HARRIS, State Bar No. 146672

Attorney General of California

MISHA D. IGRA, State Bar No. 208711

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

RUSSA M. BOYD, State Bar No. 239380

Deputy Attorney General

1300 I Street, Suite 125

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Telephone: (916) 319-9476

Fax: (916) 324-5205

E-mail: Russa.Boyd@doj.ca.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

Gonzalez

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

MARVELLOUS ASHA XYAH GREEN

also known as

MARVELLOUS ASHA XYAH

also known as

MARCELLUS ALEXANDER GREENE

also known as

MARVELLOUS AMIR WARRIOR,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. JONES, et al.,

Defendants.

1:08-cv-00677 CRB (PC)

AMENDED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

IN ACCORDANCE WITH LOCAL RULES 141, 143, AND 251, IT IS STIPULATED

BY THE PARTIES, BY AND THROUGH THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEL, AND

ORDERED BY THE COURT AS FOLLOWS:

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A. 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 request that 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 paragraph 18, below, that this Order does not entitle them to file confidential

information under seal; 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.

B. CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL SUBJECT TO THIS PROTECTIVE

ORDER

Plaintiff seeks the production of documents, files, memoranda, letters, written reports, and

other records that may contain information that Defendant contends has been deemed confidential

by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) pursuant to California

Code of Regulations, Title 15, sections 3450(d), 3321 and 3370; California Government Code

sections 6254(c) and (f); California Penal Code sections 832.7 and 6126.3; California Evidence

Code sections 1043 and 1045; and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) (“Confidential

Documents”). Defendant contents that release of any such Confidential Documents, with or

without redaction, may jeopardize the safety and security of the institution, as well as inmates and

correctional personnel. Therefore, Defendant shall be entitled, subject to the provisions of this

Order, to designate in good faith which of the documents in his production are confidential. The

criteria for such a designation shall be whether the Confidential Document is of an inflammatory,

sensitive, and confidential nature, such that the release of this information is inappropriate.

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With respect to any such Confidential Documents, the parties stipulate to the following

procedure in the event that Defendant produces redacted copies of Confidential Documents,

identified as confidential by Defendant in accordance with Section B.2 below: (1) Upon receipt

of Plaintiff’s written request for unredacted versions of particularly identified Confidential

Documents, Defendant will have 7 days—or longer upon agreement of the parties—to produce

the requested unredacted documents; provided that (2) if Defendant contends in good faith that

unredacted versions of the requested Confidential Documents are unlikely to lead to the discovery

of admissible evidence, Defendant may withhold the requested unredacted versions and respond,

within 7 days—or longer upon agreement of the parties—of receipt of Plaintiff’s request, with a

written request to meet and confer; (3) the parties shall meet and confer within 7 days of

Defendant’s request to determine whether they can agree that unredacted copies of the

Confidential Documents are likely to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, and will be

produced subject to the conditions set forth below; (4) if the parties do not agree, then the

documents in question will be presented to the Court for in camera review; and (5) documents

ordered to be produced after in camera review will be subject to the conditions of this protective

order as set forth below or as modified by a subsequent Court order.

B. CONDITIONS FOR RELEASE AND DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL

DOCUMENTS

1. Defendant must designate for protection only those parts of Confidential Documents

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.

2. Defendant shall indicate which Confidential Documents in its production it claims are

confidential by producing such Confidential Documents on pink or lilac-colored paper, by

stamping them as “confidential” on their face, or by other mutually agreeable means. If

Defendant does not indicate that a particular Confidential Document is confidential at the time it

is produced, it will be presumed not confidential, without prejudice to Defendant’s right to assert

confidentiality at a later date.

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3. Confidential information contained in Confidential Documents may be disclosed

only to the following persons:

a. Counsel of record;

b. Paralegal, stenographic, clerical, and secretarial personnel employed by counsel

of record;

c. Court personnel, stenographic reporters, and videographers engaged in such

proceedings that are incidental to preparation for the trial in this action;

d. Any outside expert, consultant or professional vendor retained by the parties for

purposes of this litigation;

e. The author or authors of the Confidential Document in question;

f. Witnesses, other than witnesses who are known to Plaintiff’s counsel after

reasonable inquiry to be currently or formerly incarcerated, to whom the

Confidential Documents and the information contained in the Confidential

Documents may be disclosed during, or in preparation for, a deposition taken in

this matter, or otherwise during the preparation for trial and during trial,

provided that the witness may not leave any deposition with copies of any of

the Confidential Documents, and shall be informed or and shall agree to be

bound by the terms of this order. If the witness does not agree to the

requirements set forth in this Order, Confidential Documents may not be

disclosed to the witness. For the purposes of this subsection (B.3.f) and the

next (B.4), “reasonable inquiry” is satisfied by a good faith request to the

individual in question, and to Defendant’s counsel, and does not impose on

Plaintiff’s counsel any obligation to conduct additional records or criminal

background searches, either on its own, through retention of an outside service

provider, or through requests to Defendant or CDCR.

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4. Plaintiff’s counsel is prohibited from disclosing any Confidential information to

Plaintiff, any inmate known to Plaintiff’s counsel after reasonable inquiry to be presently or

previously in the custody of the CDCR, or any individual known by Plaintiff’s counsel after

reasonable inquiry to be a relative of an inmate presently or previously in the custody of the

CDCR.

5. Plaintiff’s counsel, including paralegal, stenographic, clerical, and secretarial

personnel employed by Plaintiff’s counsel shall not make copies of the Confidential Documents

except as necessary for purposes of this litigation, Marvellous Amir Warrior (aka Greene) v.

Gonzalez, et al., U.S.D.C., Eastern District of California, case no. 1:08-cv-00677 CRB (PC),

including appeals.

6. Each person to whom disclosure of Confidential Documents and the information

contained therein is made shall, prior to the time of disclosure, be provided a copy of this order

and shall agree in writing that he or she has read this order, understands the provisions and

conditions, and agrees to be bound by its provisions, and consent to be subject to the jurisdiction

of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California with respect to any

proceeding relating to the enforcement of this order, including, without limitation, any proceeding

for contempt.

7. All Confidential Documents and the information contained therein shall be used

solely in connection with this litigation, including appeals, and not for any other purpose,

including other litigation.

8. All Confidential Documents that are filed with the Court shall be filed under seal,

labeled with a cover sheet bearing the case name along with the following statement: “This

document is subject to a protective order issued by the Court and shall not be examined or copied

except in compliance with that order.” Upon failure of the filing party to file Confidential

Documents under seal, any party may request that the Court place the document under seal.

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9. Nothing in this protective order is intended to prevent officials or employees of the

State of California, or other authorized government officials, from having access to Confidential

Documents to which they would have access in the normal course of their official duties.

C. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY

10. Plaintiff may challenge a designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt

challenge to Defendant’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial

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

Plaintiff does not waive his right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to

mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

11. To challenge a designation of confidentiality, Plaintiff shall initiate the dispute

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation he 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 Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each

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

dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service

of notice. In conferring, Plaintiff must explain the basis for his belief that the confidentiality

designation was not proper and must give Defendant 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. Plaintiff may proceed to the next stage of the challenge

process only if he has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that Defendant

is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.

12. If the parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, Plaintiff shall file

and serve a motion to challenge confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 251 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 earlier. Each such motion must be

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accompanied by a declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph.

13. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on Defendant (as

designating party). Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g. to harass

or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the challenging party

to sanctions. Unless Defendant has waived the confidentiality designation, all parties shall

continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the

confidentiality designation until the court rules on the Challenge.

D. FINAL DISPOSITION

14. Within 60 days after the final disposition of this litigation, including appeals, all

Confidential Documents, including copies, shall be destroyed or returned to Defendant’s counsel.

15. When Plaintiff’s counsel returns or destroys the confidential Documents, counsel

shall provide Defendant’s counsel with a declaration stating that all confidential Documents have

been returned or destroyed.

E. MISCELLANEOUS

16. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of either party to seek its modification by the

court in the future.

17. 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 the use of any of the material covered by this Protective Order in any

proceeding, including trial.

18. Without written permission from Defendant or a court order secured after appropriate

notice to all interested persons, Plaintiff may not file in the public record in this action any

Confidential Document. A party that seeks to file under seal any Confidential Document must

comply with Local Rule 141. Confidential Documents may only be filed under seal pursuant to a

court order authorizing the sealing of the specific protected material at issue.

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19. The provisions of this protective order are without prejudice to the right of any party:

a. To apply to the Court for a further protective order relating to any Confidential

Documents or material, or relating to discovery in this litigation;

b. To apply to the Court for an order removing the designation from any

Confidential Documents; or

c. To object to a discovery request.

20. This Protective Order shall be binding on the parties as of the date it is signed

by the parties. The provisions of this order shall remain in full force and effect until further

order of this Court.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

July 28, 2014 _____/s/ Russa M. Boyd__________

RUSSA M. BOYD

Attorney for Defendant

July 28, 2014 _____/s/ _Daniel L. Corbett_________

DANIEL L. CORBETT

Attorney for Plaintiff

IT IS SO ORDERED.

July _____, 2014 ______________________________

 U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

SA2012307758

SFI-864278v1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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