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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Fair Labor Standards

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LITTLER MENDELSON

14th Floor

San Jose. CA 95113 2303

408 998 4150

PATRICIA P. WHITE, Bar No. 84140

E-mail: pwhite@littler.com

ROBERT J. WILGER, Bar No. 168402

E-mail: rwilger@littler.com

ADAM J. FISS, Bar No. 211799

E-mail: afiss@littler.com

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

50 West San Fernando Street

14th Floor

San Jose, CA 95113.2303

Telephone: 408.998.4150

Facsimile: 408.288.5686

Attorneys for Defendant

CITY OF PALO ALTO

CASEY O'NEILL,

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

Case No. C05-04515 JW [E-Filing]

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

Plaintiff, PROTECTIVE ORDER

v.

CITY OF PALO ALTO and DOES 1

through 10,

Defendant.

Plaintiff Casey O'Neill (hereinafter "Plaintiff) and Defendant City of Palo Alto

(hereinafter "Defendant"), anticipate seeking and/or disclosing in the course of discovery

information, which may be privileged, confidential, or proprietary. In order to facilitate discovery of

such information while concurrently providing protection to the party disclosing such information,

the parties hereto have agreed to enter into a Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter "Order")

limiting the disclosure of such information consistent with the terms set forth herein. 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

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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LITTLER MENDELSON

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

50 Wesi San Fernando SUeel

Ulh Floor

San Jose, CA 95113 2303

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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.

1. The parties may designate as "CONFIDENTIAL" or as "ATTORNEY'S

EYES ONLY" any document, thing, testimony, information, material or other information derived

therefrom, disclosed through formal or informal discovery or otherwise in the course of this

litigation as hereinafter set forth. Such designation shall subject the information produced or

provided under said designation to the provisions of this Confidentiality Agreement.

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping copies of the

document produced to a party with the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES

ONLY." Stamping the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" on the cover

of any multi-page document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential, unless

otherwise indicated by the producing party.

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial may be

designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" by making a statement to that

effect on the record at the deposition or other proceeding or, in the case of a deposition, such

designation may be made within ten (10) court days after the receipt of the deposition transcript.

Transcripts will be treated as confidential for the 10-day period. Arrangements shall be made with

the court reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to separately bind such portions of the

transcript containing information designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES

ONLY," and to label such portions appropriately.

4. Material designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES

ONLY" under this Protective Order, the information contained therein, and any summaries, copies,

abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from material designated as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" shall be used only for the purpose of the

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

5. Access to any "CONFIDENTIAL" document, thing, testimony, information,

material or other information derived therefrom, produced pursuant to this Protective Order may be

disclosed or made available only to: the Court; to counsel for a party (including the paralegal,

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1 clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the "qualified persons" designated

2 below:

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

4 counsel to assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

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

6 (c) a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action; and

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

8 Prior to receiving any "CONFIDENTIAL" document, thing, testimony, information, material or

9 other information derived therefrom, each "qualified person" shall be provided with a copy of this

10 Protective Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment A prior to

11 receiving any Confidential Material. The fully-executed Nondisclosure Agreement shall be retained

12 by counsel for the party disclosing such Confidential Material to the qualified person.

13 6. Access to any "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" document, thing, testimony,

14 information, material or other information derived therefrom, produced pursuant to this Protective

15 Order may be disclosed or made available only to: the Court; to counsel for a party (including the

16 paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the "qualified persons"

17 designated below:

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

19 counsel to assist in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action;

20 Prior to receiving any "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" document, thing, testimony, information,

21 material or other information derived therefrom, each "qualified person" shall be provided with a

22 copy of this Protective Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment

23 A prior to receiving any Confidential Material. The fully-executed Nondisclosure Agreement shall

24 be retained by counsel for the party disclosing such Confidential Material to the qualified person.

25 7. Where testimony at a deposition involves disclosure of Confidential Material,

26 such deposition shall be taken only in the presence of the individuals identified in paragraph 5.

27 8. The parties agree that certain documents relating to Plaintiffs employment

28 with Defendant are comprised of information protected by the attorney-client privilege, attorney

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1 work product doctrine, or contain private information that would otherwise be protected from

2 discovery. With respect to certain documents, including e-mails to and from Plaintiff, and other

3 work for which Plaintiff was responsible for drafting, that Defendant shall make available for

4 Plaintiffs attorneys to review under the following restrictions.

5 (a) All documents to be reviewed by Plaintiffs attorneys shall be considered to

6 be ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY during the review.

7 (b) Plaintiffs attorneys' review of the documents shall not be considered to be a

8 waiver of the attorney-client privilege, attorney work product doctrine, or any basis for objecting to

9 the production of the documents. Plaintiff nor Plaintiffs attorneys shall make an assertion that a

10 waiver of any privilege or privacy right occurred as a result of this review at any time during the

11 litigation of this matter.

12 (c) Defendant shall allow Plaintiffs attorneys to review the aforementioned

13 documents, but only in the office of its attorneys of record, Littler Mendelson. Plaintiffs attorneys

14 shall not: (1) remove any documents from the offices of Littler Mendelson; (2) make any copies of

15 the documents that are being reviewed; or (3) take any notes, regardless of medium being used,

16 regarding the documents being reviewed.

17 (d) Plaintiffs attorneys shall mark those documents believed to be responsive to

18 Plaintiffs various requests for production of documents. After Plaintiffs attorneys have identified

19 those documents they are asserting to be responsive to Plaintiffs requests for production of

20 documents, Defendant's attorneys shall redact the attorney-client privilege, attorney-work product,

21 or private information from the documents and make them available to Plaintiffs attorneys.

22 9. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a

23 party of material obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such

24 material is also obtained through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its own Confidential

25 Material as it deems appropriate; provided, however, if a party has obtained any such material

26 pursuant to a separate confidentiality agreement or other legal obligation of confidentiality, that

27 party shall continue to adhere to such confidentiality obligations and, in addition, such materials

28 shall be covered by this Protective Order.

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LITTLER MENDELSON

50 Wesl San Fernando Sireel

Ulh Floor

San Jose CA 95113 2303

408 998 4150

10. 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 document, thing, testimony, information, material or other information derived

therefrom, designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY." All document,

thing, testimony, information, material or other information derived therefrom designated as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES" only may only be filed under seal and only after

that party has complied with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. If a party determines certain documents or testimony should have been

designated "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY," but were not so designated, the

producing party shall notify opposing counsel in writing. Such material shall then be treated as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" subject to the party's rights under this

Protective Order.

12. In the event that any "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY"

document, thing, testimony, information, material or other information derived therefrom, is used in

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

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

such use.

13. (a) This Protective Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the

parties to: (i) bring before the Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or

information is "CONFIDENTIAL," "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY," or whether its used should be

restricted; or (ii) present a motion to the Court under Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 26(c) for a separate

protective order as to any particular document or information, including restrictions differing from

those as specified herein. This Protective Order shall not be deemed to prejudice the parties in any

way in any future application for modification of this Protective Order.

(b) A party that elects to initiate a challenge to a confidentiality designation must

do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue;

other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the party designating the

documents as confidential. In conferring, the challenging party must explain the basis for its belief

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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.

(c) 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.

(d) 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.

14. This Protective 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 Protective Order nor in the production of any

information or document under the terms of this Protective Order nor any proceedings pursuant to

this Protective Order shall be deemed to have the effect of any 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.

15. The terms and conditions of this Order shall apply retroactively to the time of

commencement of this case in this Court.

16. This Protective Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the

extent that the information contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to

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

information disclosed hereunder.

17. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the producing party, within

sixty days after the final termination of this action, each party in possession of any document, thing,

testimony, information, material or other information derived therefrom designated as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" must return all such information to the

producing party, including all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of

reproducing or capturing anything designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or ATTORNEY'S EYES

ONLY." With permission in writing from the designating party, the party in possession of such

information may destroy some or all of the information or material designated as

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" instead of returning it. Whether the

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" information or material is returned or

destroyed, the party who received that information or material 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 "CONFIDENTIAL" or

"ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" information or material that was returned or destroyed and that

affirms that the party who received the information has not retained any copies, abstracts,

compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the "CONFIDENTIAL"

or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" information or 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 "CONFIDENTIAL" or "ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" information

or material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute "CONFIDENTIAL" or

"ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY" information or material remain subject to this Protective Order.

18. In the event any person shall violate or threaten to violate the terms of this

Protective Order, the parties agree that any aggrieved party may immediately apply to obtain

injunctive relief against any such person violating or threatening to violate any of the terms of this

Protective Order, and in the event that a party does so, the respondent person subject to the

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provisions of this Protective Order shall not employ as a defense thereto the claim that the aggrieved

party possesses an adequate remedy at law. However, the right to apply to obtain injunctive relief

does not preclude any aggrieved party from obtaining money damages for violation or threatened

violation of this Protective Order.

Dated: September _JT, 2006

Dated: September / :& . 2006

n IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

PROTECTIVE ORDER

ADAN0PFISS

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

Attorneys foM)efendant

CITY OF FALO ALTO

DOUGLAS J. MELTON

LONG & LEVIT LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff

CASEY O'NEILL

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

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Attachment A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, , do solemnly swear that I am fully familiar with

the terms of the Stipulation and Protective Order entered in O'Neill v. City of Palo Alto, United

Stated District Court for the Northern District of California, Civil Action No. C05-04515 JW, and

hereby agree to comply with and be bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until

modified by further order of this Court. I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for

purposes of enforcing this Protective Order.

Dated:

Signed:

Name:

Address:

Firmwide:81453408.1 048542.1010

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