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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

MICHAEL A. TODD,

Plaintiff,

 v.

A. LAMARQUE, et al.,

Defendants. 

No. C 03-3995 SBA

ORDER

[Docket Nos. 327, 354]

Before the Court is plaintiff Michael A. Todd’s Request for Order Pursuant to July 25, 2007

Stipulated Protective Order [Docket No. 327]. The Court granted this request on February 12, 2008

[Docket No. 354]. Upon further consideration, the Court VACATES this order, and instead orders

the parties to meet and confer, as instructed by Magistrate Judge Zimmerman, before bringing this

issue before the Court.

On July 25, 2007, Magistrate Judge Zimmerman issued a stipulated protective order, which

included a provision allowing the parties to produce documents and designate them for “attorneys’

eyes only.” Docket No. 116 ¶ 5 (Stipulated Protective Order). His order also included the following

language:

The Parties shall confer and attempt to agree before any hearing or trial on additional

procedures under which “CONFIDENTIAL-ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

information may be introduced into evidence or otherwise used in court, and shall

seek approval from the Court as necessary. If necessary, the Court may be asked to

issue an order governing the use of Protected Material.

Id. ¶ 9.

To date, movants only state they attempted to call opposing counsel, more than once, on

January 23, 2008, and on some additional occaissions, to which there has been no response. Docket

No. 330 ¶ 3 (Decl. of William J. Hapiuk in Sup. of Pl. Michael A. Todd’s Request for Order

Pursuant to Jul. 25, 2007 Stipulated Protective Order). Trial is not set to begin until February 27,

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2008. The parties have time and shall make a reasonable attempt to meet and confer on this issue,

before bringing it before the Court. As instructed in the pre-trial conference, the parties shall reach

agreements where it is possible and reasonable to do so.

Therefore, the Court VACATES its Order Governing Use at Trial of Materials Produced

under July 25, 2007 Stipulated Protective Order [Docket No. 354], entered on February 12, 2008,

and orders the parties to meet and confer on the issue of using at trial, documents produced under

Magistrate Judge Zimmerman’s July 25, 2007 protective order, before bringing this issue before the

Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

February 14, 2008 _________________________________

Saundra Brown Armstrong 

United States District Judge

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