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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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RENNE SLOAN 

HOLTZMAN 

&SAKAI, LLP

Attorneys at Law

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LOUISE H. RENNE, ESQ. (SBN 036508)

JONATHAN V. HOLTZMAN, ESQ. (SBN 099795)

RENNE SLOAN HOLTZMAN & SAKAI, LLP

50 California Street, Suite 2100

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 678-3800

Facsimile: (415) 678-3838

jholtzman@publiclawgroup.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs,

DONALD HAMILTON, an individual; 

BOBBY JONES, an individual; DAMON BARRON-SMITH, 

an individual; and ALJARICE SANDERS, an

individual

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DONALD HAMILTON, an individual; BOBBY 

JONES, an individual; DAMON BARRONSMITH, an individual; ALJARICE SANDERS, 

an individual; and on behalf of themselves and 

others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT 

CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation; BBA 

AVIATION SHARED SERVICES, INC., a 

Florida corporation;; BBA GROUP US 

HOLDINGS INC., a Massachusetts Corporation; 

STEVE TRUE, an individual; NORMAN 

RAMIREZ, an individual; DENNIS SMITH, an 

individual; VALVADEN, an individual; and 

DOES 1-100,

Defendants.

Case No.: C-05-00490-CW

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

This Stipulation (the “Agreement”) is made between Plaintiffs Donald Hamilton, Bobby 

Jones, Damon Barron-Smith, and Aljarice Sanders (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) and Defendants

Signature Flight Support Corporation, BBA Aviation Shared Services, Inc., BBA Group US 

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Holdings, Inc., Steve True, Dennis, and Norman Ramirez (“Defendants”), through their 

respective attorneys of record, with reference to the following facts and terms:

1. Plaintiffs filed this action against Defendant, designated as Civil Action Number 

C-05-00490-CW in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California 

(“District Court action”).

2. The parties may be producing documents or providing information or testimony 

in or in connection with the District Court action that contains business, competitive, 

confidential, proprietary, private, trade secret or other information of a sensitive nature 

(“Confidential Information”).

3. The parties wish to facilitate discovery while concurrently providing protection to 

the party that has produced the documents or information and testimony that constitute or contain 

Confidential Information. The parties acknowledge and agree that, absent this Protective Order, 

the party seeking the Confidential Information otherwise would have been required to file a 

motion with the District Court to obtain the information, documents or materials designated as 

Confidential Information and the Confidential Information would not have been produced but for 

the protection afforded by this Protective Order.

4. Documents claimed by the producing part to be or to contain Confidential 

Information shall, prior to production, be marked by the producing party as “Confidential –

Subject to Protective Order.” Placement of the “Confidential – Subject to Protective Order” 

designation on each protected page or on the initial page of a document when it is produced shall 

constitute notice to all other persons that the producing party believes that the document contains 

Confidential Information. Copies, extracts, summaries, notes, and other derivatives of 

Confidential Information shall also be deemed Confidential Information and shall be subject to 

the provisions of this Agreement.

5. Depositions or portions of depositions or testimony may be designated as 

Confidential Information either by an examining party’s attorney or by an attorney defending or 

otherwise attending the deposition. A person claiming that a deposition or any portion of a 

deposition is or contains Confidential Information shall give notice of such claim to the parties to 

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the District Court action either prior to or during the deposition, or within twenty-eight (28) days 

after mailing of the deposition transcript, and the testimony taken and the transcript of such 

deposition shall be designated as Confidential Information.

6. Confidential Information may be disclosed only as follows:

(a) To counsel of record or consulting counsel for a party in the District Court 

action, and secretaries, paralegals and other staff employed in the offices of such counsel to 

whom it is necessary that the Confidential Information be disclosed for purpose of the District 

Court action;

(b) To the parties after they have been given a copy of this Agreement and 

Order;

(c) The Court and Court personnel in this District Court action;

(d) To court reporters and videographers engaged for depositions who have 

been given a copy of this Agreement and Order and who have signed an undertaking in the form 

of Exhibit A hereto;

(e) To any person who is retained by a party as a consultant or as a testifying 

expert in connection with the District Court action, provided that Confidential Information shall 

only be disclosed to any such person (1) to the extent necessary for that person to perform his or 

her work in connection with the District Court action, and (2) after such person has been given a 

copy of this Agreement and Order and has signed an undertaking in the form of Exhibit A 

hereto;

(f) Witnesses at deposition, arbitration or trial, provided that the witness signs 

an undertaking in the form of Exhibit A prior to being shown Confidential Information;

(g) Any mediator, judge or arbitrator before whom the parties mediate the 

claims asserted in the District Court action.

7. Confidential Information shall be used or disclosed by the party and persons to 

who it is directed solely for purposes of and only to the extent reasonably necessary to prosecute 

or defend this District Court action or the related litigation currently pending before the Court 

(Civil Action No. C-05-1101-CW). Confidential Information shall not be used or disclosed by 

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such party or persons for any other purpose, unless specifically agreed to in writing by all the 

parties to this action or as authorized by further order of the Court. No person who is furnished 

Confidential Information shall disclose it to any person not entitled under this Order to receive it.

8. Each person to whom the disclosure of any Confidential Information is made shall 

not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, or disseminate, or attempt to use, disclose, or 

disseminate, any such information except as expressly provided in this Agreement.

9. If Confidential Information is to be discussed or disclosed during a deposition, the 

producing party shall have the right to exclude from attendance at the deposition, during the time 

the Confidential Information is to be discussed or disclosed, any person not entitled under this 

Agreement to receive the Confidential Information with the exception of parties or other persons 

as set forth in Paragraph 3 above.

10. Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent the producing party from disclosing its 

own Confidential Information to any person as it or he deems appropria te.

11. Inadvertent failure to designate documents or information as Confidential 

Information shall not waive a party’s right to so designate such documents or information at a 

later time, expect as provided in Paragraph 5.

12. If the parties cannot agree as to the designation of any particular information, 

document or material after good faith discussion, any party may challenge another party’s 

designation of information, documents or materials as “Confidential Information” by filing a 

motion with the District Court to have the designation revoked. In the event that a party files 

such a motion, all parties shall continue to treat the information, documents or materials in 

question as confidential until the District Court has ruled on the motion.

13. If a dispute arises as to whether a particular person should be granted access to 

Confidential Information, the party seeking to prevent disclosure may move the Court or file an 

ex parte application to prevent the disclosure.

14. Counsel for each party shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent 

unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of any Confidential Information.

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15. Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any objection to the 

discoverability or admissibility of any Confidential Information or preclude the parties from 

seeking any available protection with respect to any Confidential Information.

16. Parties may seek subsequent designation of produced documents as privileged via 

noticed motion within six months of production. If contested, the burden of justifying the 

privilege designation shall rest on the producing or moving party, and the receiving party shall be 

permitted to retain one copy of the challenged document for purposes of contesting the motion.

17. This Agreement shall apply to the production of all Confidential Information in 

this action, whether such information is informally produced or produced in response to a formal 

discovery request or Court order.

18. Within sixty (60) days of the final termination of the action by judgment, appeal, 

settlement, or otherwise, or sooner if so ordered by the Court, the parties to whom Confidential 

Information was disclosed shall either destroy the documents or things containing such 

information or return them to the producing party at the producing party’s option.

19. This Agreement shall become effective only upon its approval by the Court.

20. This Agreement may be amended only by written agreement of the parties 

approved by the Court.

21. Nothing in this order shall be construed to prohibit Plaintiffs and their counsel 

from disclosing or discussing the contents of any documents produced and marked confidential 

with any other counsel, including attorneys from the United States Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission, engaged in pending related litigation (Civil Action No. C-05-1101-

CW), if such other counsel agrees to the terms of this protective order.

SO STIPULATED:

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Dated: October _____, 2005 RENNE SLOAN HOLTZMAN & SAKAI LLP

By:

Louise H. Renne

Jonathan V. Holtzman

Ingrid M. Evans

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Donald Hamilton, 

Bobby Jones, Aljarice Sanders, and Damon 

Barron-Smith

Dated: October _____, 2005 LITTLER MENDELSOHN

By:

Alan B. Carlson

Robert J. Wilger 

Attorneys for Defendants Signature Flight 

Support Corporation, BBA Aviation Shared 

Services, BBA Group US Holdings, Inc., 

Steve True and Dennis Smith

Dated: October _____, 2005 COOK & ROOS

By:

Mike Wilbur 

Attorney for Defendant Norman Ramirez

APPROVED AND SO ORDERED:

Dated: 10/25/05 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN

The Honorable Claudia Wilken

United States District Court Judge

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EXHIBIT A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I have been designated by [PARTY NAME] as a person who may have access to 

Confidential Information as that term is defined in the Stipulation and Protective Order (the 

“Order”) entered in Hamilton, et al. v. Signature Flight Support Corp., et al., United States 

District Court for the Northern District of California, Civil Action No. C-05-00490-CW.

I certify that I have read and am fully familiar with the terms of the Order. I agree to be 

bound by it and to comply fully with it. I agree that I will use the Confidential Information only 

for purposes of the District Court action and will not use the Confidential Information for any 

other purpose. I also agree that I will not permit the unauthorized viewing or disclosure of 

Confidential Information as set forth in the Order. I consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for 

any action to enforce this undertaking.

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

this Agreement was executed in _________ on ________, 2005.

________________________________

Name

_________________________________

Address

_________________________________

Employer

_________________________________

Job Title

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Proof of Service - STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

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PROOF OF SERVICE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

I, the undersigned, am a resident of the State of California, over the age of eighteen years, and 

not a party to the within action. My business address is 188 The Embarcadero, Suite 200, San 

Francisco, CA, 94105. On October 25, 2005, I served with following documents(s) by the 

method indicated below:

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

by placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope(s) with postage thereon 

fully prepaid, in the United States mail at San Francisco, California addressed as set 

forth below. I am readily familiar with the firm’s practice of collection and processing 

correspondence for mailing. Under that practice it would be deposited in the U.S. 

Postal Service on that same day with postage thereon fully prepaid in the ordinary 

course of business. I am aware that on motion of the party served, service is presumed 

invalid if the postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more than one day after 

date of deposit for mailing in affidavit. 

by placing the document(s) listed above in the sealed envelope(s) and by causing 

messenger delivery of the envelope(s) to the person(s) at the address(es) set forth 

below. I am readily familiar with the business practice of my place of employment 

with respect to the collection and processing of correspondence, pleadings and notices 

for hand delivery. On October 25, 2005, I caused to be served via messenger the 

above-listed documents. 

by personally delivering the document(s) listed above to the person(s) at the 

address(es) set forth below.

by placing the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope(s) and consigning it to an 

express mail service for guaranteed delivery on the next business day following the 

date of consignment to the address(es) set forth below.

Val Vaden

330 Primrose Road, Suite 505

Burlingame, CA 94010

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the forgoing is true and 

correct, and that I am employed by an officer of a member of the bar of this Court at whose 

direction the service was made. Executed on October 25, 2005, at San Francisco, California.

Mark Allen

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