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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

GUITA BAHRAMIPOUR, AUSTIN 

HEBERGER, JR., and JANELLA 

HAIRSTON, individually, and on 

behalf of all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs 

vs. 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, 

INC., formerly known as SALOMON 

SMITH BARNEY, INC. 

Defendants. 

Case No. C 04-04440 CW 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Hon. Claudia Wilken 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

The undersigned parties recognize that 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, defending, or settling this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, 

the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter this Stipulated Protective 

Order (the “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 Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information 

under seal, and that 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. 

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2. DEFINITIONS

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

employees, consultants, retained experts (both testifying and non-testifying), testifying 

witnesses (potential and actual), 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 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party. 

2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information 

or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.” 

2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential.” 

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

who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

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

2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staffs). 

2.11 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 

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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. 

2.12 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 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 (including 

depositions) that might reveal, discuss, or otherwise disclose Protected Material. Nothing 

in this Order shall be construed as preventing a Producing Party from making whatever 

use of its own Protected Material that it wishes. 

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. 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 the 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 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” to each page that contains protected material. 

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 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. 

(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 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 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 

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the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is 

concluded) a right to have up to 20 days after being provided with a transcript of the 

testimony to identify the specific portions of the testimony that are “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

within this 20 day period shall be covered by the provisions of this 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 “CONFIDENTIAL” 

legend 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.” If only portions of the information or item 

warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 

protected portions. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If corrected within sixty (60) 

calendar days after production, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or 

items as “Confidential” 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” 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. 

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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 

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described in this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must 

comply with the provisions of Section 11 of this Order (FINAL DISPOSITION), below. 

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; 

(b) the past or present officers, directors, and employees 

(including House Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation; 

(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 Order. 

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(g) 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,” 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 Order. In addition, the Receiving Party 

must deliver a copy of this 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 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 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 

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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 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 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; however, the undersigned 

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parties agree to meet and confer in good faith (pursuant to the requirements discussed in 

Section 6.2 (MEET AND CONFER) of this Order) regarding any such modification prior 

to petitioning the Court for intervention. 

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or 

producing any information or item on any ground, and nothing herein shall be construed 

to affect in any way the admissibility or relevance of any document, testimony, or other 

evidence. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence 

of any of the material covered by this Order. This Order is without prejudice to the right 

of any party hereto to: apply to the Court for a further protective order relating to any 

documents and/or information provided pursuant to this Order; and/or take whatever other 

steps are reasonably necessary to safeguard highly confidential information. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

Dated: February 16, 2006. 

 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

FRAMROZE M. VIRJEE 

CHRIS A. HOLLINGER 

ADAM P. KOHSWEENEY 

CHRISTOPHER T. SCANLAN 

By: /s/ 

 Chris A. Hollinger 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. 

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Dated: February 16, 2006.

 THIERMAN LAW FIRM 

MARK R. THIERMAN 

DOSTART CLAPP GORDON & COVENEY, LLP 

JAMES F. CLAPP 

HOFFMAN & LAZEAR 

H. TIM HOFFMAN 

ARTHUR LAZEAR 

LAW OFFICE OF JOHN M. KELSON 

JOHN M. KELSON 

By: /s/ 

 James F. Clapp 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED: 

 2/22/06 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN 

DATED: 

 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 

___________ in the case of Guita Bahramipour v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., et al., 

Case No. C 04-04440 CW (N.D. Ca.). 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 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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