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Nature of Suit Code: 480
Nature of Suit: Consumer Credit
Cause of Action: 15:1640 Truth in Lending

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER C 09 03279 JF - 1

LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM E. KENNEDY 

WILLIAM E. KENNEDY (CSB #158214) 

(willkennedy@pacbell.net) 

2797 Park Avenue, Suite 201 

Santa Clara, CA 95050 

(408) 241-1000 -TEL 

(408) 241-1500 -FAX 

WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER 

HENRY MARTIN (CSB #232106) 

(henrym@watsonvillelawcenter.org) 

315 Main Street, Suite 207 

Watsonville, CA 95076 

(831) 722-2845 -TEL 

(831) 761-3295 -FAX 

Attorneys for Plaintiff LUIS MARISCAL 

and all others similarly situated 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(San Jose Division) 

LUIS MARISCAL, individually and on behalf of 

all others similarly situated, 

Plaintiff, 

vs.

AQUA SUPREME and CARMEL FINANCIAL 

CORPORATION, INC., 

Defendants.

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Case No.: C 09 03279 JF 

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 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 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 

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

their support staffs).

2.10 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.

2.11 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.

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 

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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” on 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. 

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 

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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 appropriate legend 

(“CONFIDENTIAL”) on 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. 

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

proceedings, that includes, relates to, and/or references a document that has been designated 

"CONFIDENTIAL", the testimony encompassing, referring, and relating to the CONFIDENTIAL 

document is presumed CONFIDENTIAL.

(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, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential.”

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, 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 

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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 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 employees 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) 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) 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);

(e) 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. 

(f) 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 

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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 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 

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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 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: February 9, 2010 LAW OFFICE OF WILLIAM E. KENNEDY 

By /s/ 

William E. Kennedy 

Attorneys for Plaintiff LUIS MARISCAL 

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Dated: February 9, 2010 SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 

By /s/ 

Giovanni A. Ferrari 

Attorneys for Defendants CARMEL FINANCIAL 

CORPORATION, INC. 

ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO GENERAL ORDER 45

I, William E. Kennedy, attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been 

obtained from the other signatory. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on 

February 9, 2010 at Santa Clara, California. 

Dated: February 9, 2010 LAW OFFICE OF WILLIAM E. KENNEDY 

By /s/ 

William E. Kennedy 

Attorneys for Plaintiff LUIS MARISCAL 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _____2/11/10_____________ ____________________________________

 Patricia V. Trumbull

 United States Magistrate 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 LUIS MARISCAL, 

individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. AQUA SUPREME AND CARMEL 

FINANCIAL CORPORATION, INC. C-09-03279 JF. 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.

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

 [signature] 

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