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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Bohlin, et al. v. Maldonado, et al., No. C06 00518 RS

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Whitney Huston (SBN 234863) 

Kim Pederson (SBN 234785) 

Kerstin Arusha (SBN 182624) 

FAIR HOUSING LAW PROJECT 

111 West St. John Street, Suite 315 

San Jose, CA 95113 

Tel: (408) 280-2427 

Fax: (408) 293-0106 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Bohlin 

Christopher Brancart (SBN 128475) 

BRANCART & BRANCART

Post Office Box 686 

Pescadero, CA 94060 

Tel: (650) 879-0141 

Fax: (650) 879-1103 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Project Sentinel 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(San Jose) 

SANDRA BOHLIN, et al. 

 Plaintiffs, 

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HELEN MALDONADO, et al, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. C-06-00518 RS

STIPULATION FOR A PROTECTIVE 

ORDER RE FAIR HOUSING TESTING 

RECORDS AND PROPOSED ORDER 

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the following 

protective order: 

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties have agreed to 

designate Project Sentinel’s testing records as “confidential” under the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”). 

2. Project Sentinel’s testing records, the information contained therein, and any 

summaries, copies, abstracts or other documents derived in whole or in part from material 

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designated as confidential under this order shall be used only for the purpose of the prosecution, 

defense or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose. Documents disclosed which are 

covered by this order are Bates Stamped: 000008-000018; 000024-000029; PS000003-000020; 

PS000024-000039; PS000060-000065; PS000074-000080. Plaintiffs agree that any future 

documents disclosed to Defendants which are covered by this order shall be designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

3. Project Sentinel’s testing records may be disclosed or made available only to 

the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff employed 

by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated below: 

 (a) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such 

counsel, or counsel discussed in 3(c), to assist in the prosecution, defense 

or settlement of this action or any action mentioned in 3(c); 

(b) court reporter(s) employed in this action; 

(c) counsel hired by Defendants’ insurance company, if any, in connection 

with this litigation or any insurance coverage dispute arising out of this 

litigation. Counsel includes the paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff 

employed by such counsel; 

(d) representatives of any insurance company participating in defendants’ 

defense to this action, if any, including its clerical and secretarial staff; 

(e) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

4. In the event that any material deemed confidential by this order is used in any 

court proceeding in this action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and the 

party using such shall take all reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

5. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (a) to bring before 

the Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or information is 

confidential or whether its use should be restricted or (b) to present a motion to the Court under 

FRCP 26(C) for a separate protective order as to any particular document or information, 

including restrictions differing from those specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to 

prejudice the parties in any way in any future application for modification of this Order. 

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6. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of

documents and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court 

unnecessarily in the process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information or 

document under the terms of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be 

deemed to have the effect of an admission or waiver by either party or of altering the 

confidentiality or non-confidentiality of any such document or information or altering any 

existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

7. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the 

information deemed confidential by this Order is not or does not become known to the public, 

and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information 

disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and 

return to each other all documents deemed confidential under this order and all copies of same, 

or shall certify the destruction thereof.

SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: July 28, 2006 FAIR HOUSING LAW PROJECT 

 /s/______________________________ 

 Whitney Huston

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Bohlin 

Dated: July 28, 2006 BRANCART & BRANCART

 /s/______________________________ 

 Christopher Brancart 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Project Sentinel 

Dated: July 28, 2006 HINSHAW & CULBERTSON 

/s/______________________________ 

Bradley M. Zamczyk 

Attorneys for Defendants 

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PROPOSED ORDER 

Upon review of the parties’ stipulation requesting a protective order and good cause appearing: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the protective order shall apply to this case: 

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties have agreed to 

designate Project Sentinel’s testing records as “confidential” under the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”). Documents which include Project Sentinel’s testing 

records include those Bates Stamped: 000008-000018; 000024-000029; PS000003-000020; 

PS000024-000039; PS000060-000065; PS000074-000080. Any future documents disclosed to 

Defendants which are covered by this order shall be designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2. Material designated as confidential under this Order, the information contained therein, 

and any summaries, copies, abstracts or other documents derived in whole or in part from

material designated as confidential under this order shall be used only for the purpose of the 

prosecution, defense or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose. 

3. Material designated as confidential under this order and produced pursuant to this Order 

may be disclosed or made available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the 

paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” 

designated below: 

(a) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such counsel, 

or counsel discussed in 3(c), to assist in the prosecution, defense or settlement of 

this action or any action mentioned in 3(c); 

(b) court reporter(s) employed in this action; 

(c) counsel hired by Defendants’ insurance company, if any, in connection with this 

litigation or any insurance coverage dispute arising out of this litigation. Counsel 

includes the paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such counsel; 

(d) representatives of any insurance company participating in defendants’ defense to 

this action, if any, including its clerical and secretarial staff; 

(e) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

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4. In the event that any material deemed confidential by this order is used in any court 

proceeding in this action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and the party 

using such shall take all reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

5. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (a) to bring before the 

Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or information is confidential 

or whether its use should be restricted or (b) to present a motion to the Court under CCP 2017 

for a separate protective order as to any particular document or information, including 

restrictions differing from those specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to prejudice 

the parties in any way in any future application for modification of this Order. 

6. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of documents and 

information between the parties to this action without involving the Court unnecessarily in the 

process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information or document under the 

terms of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be deemed to have the effect 

of an admission or waiver by either party or of altering the confidentiality or non-confidentiality 

of any such document or information or altering any existing obligation of any party or the 

absence thereof. 

7. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the 

information deemed confidential by this Order is not or does not become known to the public, 

and the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information 

disclosed hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and 

return to each other all documents deemed confidential under this order and all copies of same, 

or shall certify the destruction thereof.

Dated: 

 _______________________________ 

 Honorable Judge Seeborg 

July 31, 2006

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