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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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CAMERON M. CUNNINGHAM, SB#75593

719 Orchard Street

Santa Rosa, CA 95404 

Tel: (707)829-9194, Fax: (707) 829-7039

NEWMAN STRAWBRIDGE, SB#171360

719 Orchard Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404, 

Tel: (707) 523-3377

Attorneys for Plaintiffs SHARON BROWN, RON 

SERRADELL, MILLIE BURKE

HOPE ANNE CASE (Bar No. 157089)

hope.case@dlapiper.com

DLA PIPER LLP (US)

2000 University Avenue

East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2214

Tel: 650.833.2000

Fax: 650.833.2001

FRANCESCA CICERO (Bar No. 246998)

francesca.cicero@dlapiper.com

DLA PIPER LLP (US)

555 Mission Street, Suite 2400

San Francisco, CA 94105-2933

Tel: 415.836.2500

Fax: 415.836.2501

Attorneys for Defendant

IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SHARON BROWN, RON SERRADELL, 

MILLIE BURKE,

Plaintiffs,

v.

IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS, INC., 

DOES 1-10 INCLUSIVE,

Defendants.

CASE NO. CV-09-3434 JSW

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY

Judge: Hon. Jeffrey S. White

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Plaintiffs Sharon Brown, Ron Serradell, and Millie Burke (collectively “Plaintiffs”) and 

Defendant IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS, INC. (“Defendant”), by and through their respective 

counsel, agree as follows:

1. This Stipulated Protective Order Regarding Confidentiality (“Protective Order”),

shall govern the designation and handling of confidential documents and information produced in 

this action by any party or nonparty person or entity. This information may include, without 

limitation, original writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, recordings (by video or audio 

device), electronically-stored data, and any other compilation from which information can be 

obtained, translated, if necessary, by the party responding to any request for production through 

detection devices into reasonably usable form, and any copies thereof.

2. “Confidential Information,” as used herein, means information that a party or 

nonparty producing such information pursuant to discovery in the action in good faith believes 

embodies or may embody confidential or sensitive financial, trade secret, business, technical or 

proprietary information or private personal information.

3. Designation of Confidential Information shall be made at or prior to the time of 

production (or, in the case of deposition transcripts, at the time of deposition or within 20 days of 

receiving the deposition transcript) by affixing to them a stamp or other notice bearing the word 

“Confidential” in a location that makes the designation readily apparent. Any information or data 

that has not been reduced to documentary form may be designated as “Confidential” by informing 

counsel for the parties in writing.

4. Confidential Information may be designated as such after it has been produced 

without having been so designated, and deposition testimony may be designated as Confidential 

Information after the testimony has been given without having been so designated, under the 

following conditions:

a. Persons to whom such Confidential Information or testimony has been 

disclosed must be advised in writing of the new designation;

b. The new designation applies only as of the date and time of receipt of 

notice by each person notified; and

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c. Persons to whom such Confidential Information has been disclosed must 

be provided with another copy of the documents, computer disks, or deposition testimony that 

bears the appropriate Confidential designation.

5. All material designated as “Confidential” under this Order shall not be disclosed, 

directly or indirectly, by the recipient to any person other than:

a. The Court and necessary Court personnel;

b. The named parties in this action; and, in the case of an entity party, its 

current and former officers, directors, employees, constituents and partners and affiliated, related 

or successor entities of a party to the extent deemed reasonably necessary by counsel for the 

party; 

c. The attorneys and any support staff assisting such counsel for any party to 

this action, in-house attorneys for any named party to this action and regular employees of the inhouse legal department of any named party in this action;

d. Counsel representing any insurer or indemnitor of any party;

e. Court reporters performing necessary duties in this action;

f. Any mediator, arbitrator or neutral retained by the parties or appointed by

the court;

g. Any person who was the author, addressee or copied recipient of the 

document or information, if disclosure to such individual(s) is reasonably necessary to prosecute 

or defend this lawsuit; 

h. Any expert or consultant retained by any party in connection with this case; 

and

i. Professional vendors providing litigation support services and their 

employees and subcontractors.

6. All persons to whom Confidential Information is disclosed pursuant to 

paragraph 5(d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) shall be specifically advised of the existence of this Order. 

In addition, all persons to whom Confidential Information is disclosed pursuant to paragraph 5(g) 

or (h) of this Order shall be required to sign the Confidentiality Acknowledgment in the form 

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attached hereto as Exhibit A. Counsel for the party disclosing any Confidential Information shall 

maintain the original acknowledgment and will produce it upon order of the Court for good cause 

shown, or by agreement. 

7. Court Procedures. The following provisions under this paragraph govern the 

treatment of Confidential Information filed or lodged with the Court.

a. Without written permission from the party disclosing the Confidential 

Information or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a party may

not file or otherwise disclose any Confidential Information in the public record in this action. The 

party that seeks to file under seal any Confidential Information must comply with Civil Local

Rule 79-5.

b. Materials provided to the Court shall be retained in the Court’s file, and 

shall be made available only to the Court and persons so authorized by the terms of this Protective 

Order. Any papers containing Confidential information shall be returned to the submitting party 

upon dismissal or final judgment in the action. 

c. Any party may request that any hearing or portion of trial which refers to 

or describes Confidential Information, shall, in the Court’s discretion, be in camera or closed to 

the public.

8. Confidential Information may be used or disclosed by the non-designating party or 

persons to whom it is disclosed solely in and for the purposes of this litigation and only to the 

extent reasonably necessary. Confidential Information shall not be used or disclosed by such 

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

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.

9. Unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court, or agreed to in writing by the 

parties, all material designated “Confidential” shall be treated as confidential and shall not be 

disclosed except under the terms of this Order:

a. In the event that any party objects to the designation of any document as 

Confidential Information such party may, in writing, request that the producing party remove the 

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“Confidential” designation. Such written request shall specifically identify the document(s) or 

information at issue;

b. The producing party, by its counsel, shall respond in writing within five 

business days of receipt of the written request, or within such other period of time as may be 

designated by order of the Court or agreement of the parties. If the producing party refuses to 

remove the “Confidential” designation, its written response shall state the reasons for this refusal. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, failure to provide a timely written response shall be deemed a 

refusal of the request;

c. If the producing party fails to respond to a request or refuses to remove the 

“Confidential” designation, any party may file a motion for an order requiring that the producing 

party remove the designation. It shall be the burden of the producing party under such 

circumstances to establish that the information so designated is “Confidential” within the 

meaning of this Order; and 

d. In the event of such a motion, the material at issue may be submitted to the 

Court for in camera inspection.

10. Nothing in this Order shall prevent disclosure beyond the terms of this Order if the 

designating person consents to such disclosure or if the Court allows such disclosure upon good 

cause shown.

11. If documents designated “Confidential” in this action are called for in a subpoena 

or other process by someone who is not a party to this action, the party to whom the subpoena or 

other process is directed shall immediately give written notice thereof to each person that has 

designated the information “Confidential” and shall not produce the documents until the earlier 

of fourteen days after providing notice or the return date of the subpoena or other process, and in 

no event shall the information be produced earlier than required by the subpoena.

12. A producing party may disclose documents or information it has designated 

“Confidential” and produced in this action to any person, with or without any conditions to such 

disclosure as it deems appropriate.

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13. At the conclusion of this lawsuit, each document, deposition transcript, or other 

material previously designated as Confidential Information, and all copies thereof, which are in 

the possession, custody or control of the party and the party’s counsel, shall be returned upon 

request to the person who made the designation. Counsel for a party requesting the return of 

Confidential Information shall retain at least one copy of the Confidential Information in its 

possession for three years after the conclusion of the lawsuit. Any material designated as 

“Confidential” or portions or excerpts thereof, which are not destroyed, shall remain subject to 

the terms of this Order.

14. Nothing herein shall be deemed to waive any applicable privilege or work product 

protection, or to affect the ability of a party to seek relief for an inadvertent disclosure of material 

protected by privilege or work product protection.

15. This Order shall survive the final determination of this action and shall remain in 

full force and effect after conclusion of all proceedings, for a period of five years, to provide the 

Court with ancillary jurisdiction to enforce its terms.

16. This Order shall become immediately binding on the named parties in this action 

upon their execution, regardless of if and when the Court takes action on the Order.

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17. The Court retains jurisdiction to make such amendments, modifications and 

additions to this Order as it may from time to time deem appropriate or may consider upon 

motion of any party.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated: March 9, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

LAW OFFICE OF CAMERON M. 

CUNNINGHAM

By /s/ Cameron M. Cunningham

CAMERON M. CUNNINGHAM

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sharon Brown, Ron 

Serradell, and Millie Burke

Dated: March 9, 2010 Respectfully submitted,

DLA PIPER LLP (US)

By /s/ Francesca Cicero

HOPE ANNE CASE

FRANCESCA CICERO

Attorneys for Defendant IKON Office 

Solutions, Inc.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: By:

Hon. Jeffrey S. White

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EXHIBIT A

I, ____________________________, hereby acknowledge that: (i) I have read the 

foregoing Order, dated ________________________, 2010 (the “Order”), which I am informed 

has been executed by the attorneys for the parties in the action presently pending in the Northern 

District of California, entitled Sharon Brown, Ron Serradell, and Millie Burke v. IKON Office 

Solutions, Inc., Case No. CV-09-3434 JSW; (ii) I understand the terms of the Order; (iii) I agree, 

upon the potential penalty of contempt and other civil remedies, to be bound by such terms; (iv) I 

understand that all Confidential Information and copies thereof, including notes or documents 

containing Confidential Information that may be provided to me, shall be maintained in a secure 

manner and shall be returned no later than 30 days after the termination of this action to the 

counsel for the party or other person who provided such Confidential Information; and (v) I 

submit my person to the jurisdiction of the Northern District of California, San Francisco 

Division, for the limited purpose of securing compliance with the terms and conditions of the 

Order.

(signature)

Name:

Business Address:

Home Address:

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