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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Civil Rights

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BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN 

& BALINT, P.C. 

Andrew S. Friedman 

Wendy J. Harrison (SBN 151090) 

2901 North Central Ave., Suite 1000 

Phoenix, AZ 85012 

(602) 274-1100 

CHAVEZ & GERTLER, L.L.P. 

Mark A. Chavez (SBN 90858) 

Jonathan Gertler (SBN 111531) 

Nance F. Becker (SBN 99292) 

42 Mill Avenue 

Mill Valley, California 94941 

(415) 381-5599 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

[Additional counsel appear on signature page.] 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

JAVIER AND LETICIA ZAMORA and 

DANIEL PEREZ and ELIZABETH 

PEREZ, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

WACHOVIA CORPORATION and 

WORLD SAVINGS BANK, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: C 07-4603 JSW 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL, TRADE SECRET AND 

PRIVATE CONSUMER INFORMATION 

The Honorable Jeffrey S. White 

 

In order to protect confidential, trade secret, proprietary and private consumer 

information, good cause appearing, and based on the stipulation of the parties to this 

action 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: 

This Order shall govern the use of confidential, trade secret and private consumer 

information produced during discovery in this proceeding. As used in this Order, the term 

“party” shall mean all named parties in the above-styled action, including any named 

party added or joined to this action. As used in this Order, the term “non-party” shall 

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mean any individual, corporation, association, or other natural person or entity other than 

a party. The term "documents" as used herein is intended to be comprehensive and 

includes any and all materials in the broadest sense contemplated by Rule 34 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. For purposes of this Order, the party or non-party 

designating information, documents, materials or items as confidential bears the burden 

of establishing the confidentiality of all such information, documents, materials or items. 

1. For the purposes of this Order, "Confidential" information means the 

following types of documents and information: 

(a) Information that constitutes a trade secret in accordance with Cal. 

Civil Code § 3426.1; 

(b) Non-public communications with regulators or other governmental 

bodies that are intended to be kept confidential and/or are protected from disclosure by 

statute or regulation; 

(c) Information, materials, and/or other documents reflecting non-public 

business or financial strategies, and/or confidential competitive information which, if 

disclosed, would result in prejudice or harm to the disclosing party; and 

(d) Borrower-specific information, including private consumer 

information that contains identifying, contact or private financial information provided by 

a consumer to a financial institution, resulting from any transaction with the consumer or 

any service performed for the consumer, or otherwise obtained by the financial 

institution, including any list, description, or other grouping of consumers (and publicly 

available information pertaining to them) that is derived using any nonpublic personal 

information, including any “nonpublic personal information” such as identified by the 

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6801 et seq. 

2. Any party may seek an amendment to this Order to designate confidential 

documents and information in addition to the categories described in Paragraph 1 before 

production of any such documents and information. The parties agree to meet and confer 

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in good faith and attempt to reach agreement on any request by a party to designate such 

additional categories of confidential documents or information. 

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

document produced to a party with one of the following legends: 

"CONFIDENTIAL - SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER,” 

“CONFIDENTIAL" or “CONFIDENTIAL PRIVATE CONSUMER 

INFORMATION” 

Any such stamp or designation shall not cover up, obscure or otherwise conceal 

any text, picture, drawing, graph or other communication or depiction in the document. 

If such designation is not feasible (e.g. in the case of certain electronic documents), then 

such designation may be made by informing the other parties in writing. 

4. The designation of any material as "Confidential" pursuant to this Order 

shall constitute the verification of counsel for the producing party or non-party that the 

material constitutes Confidential information as defined in Paragraph 1 of this Order. 

5. Documents produced by a party or non-party or their counsel ("Designating 

Party") and as confidential under this Order (hereinafter "Confidential Material") may be 

disclosed or made available only to the following persons (hereinafter "Qualified 

Persons"): 

(a) The parties to this action or an officer, director, or employee of a 

party deemed reasonably necessary by counsel to aid in the prosecution, defense, or 

settlement of this action; 

(b) Counsel for the parties to this action ("Counsel"), including all 

partners and associate attorneys of such Counsel's law firms and all clerks, employees, 

independent contractors, investigators, paralegals, assistants, secretaries, staff and 

stenographic, computer, audio-visual and clerical employees and agents thereof when 

operating under the direct supervision of such partners or associate attorneys and who are 

actually working on this action, all of whom shall be bound by this Order; 

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(c) The Court and any person employed or retained by the Court whose 

duties require access to confidential material; 

(d) Stenographic reporters or audio-visual personnel engaged in 

connection with this action including deposition reporters, video operators and 

transcribers; 

(e) Any person who created, authored, received or reviewed such 

Confidential Material and those persons identified on such Confidential Material as 

creators, authors or recipients of the Confidential Material; 

(f) Actual and/or potential trial or deposition witnesses, where counsel 

believes, in good faith, that disclosure is necessary to prepare for or develop the 

testimony of such witnesses; 

(g) Experts or consultants retained by such counsel to assist in the 

prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action and their respective employees, 

associates or colleagues; 

(h) Employees of firms engaged by the parties for purposes of 

photocopying, electronic imaging or computer litigation support in connection with this 

litigation; or 

(i) Such other persons as may be designated by written agreement of 

Counsel or by order of the Court. 

6. Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each Qualified Person 

described in paragraphs 5(e) through 5(g) shall be provided with a copy of this Order and 

shall execute an Agreement to Maintain Confidentiality (hereinafter "Confidentiality 

Agreement") in the form of Attachment "A." Each such person signing a Confidentiality 

Agreement shall be subject to and bound by this Order. Counsel for the party seeking to 

disclose Confidential Material to any Qualified Person pursuant to paragraphs 5(e) 

through 5(g) shall be responsible for retaining the executed originals of all such 

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Confidentiality Agreements and certifying that such individuals have complied with the 

requirements of Paragraph 14. 

No Party may file in the public record in this action any Confidential Material 

without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after 

appropriate notice to all interested persons. Any Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Confidential Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

7. If a person receiving Confidential Material learns that, by inadvertence or 

otherwise, it has disclosed Confidential Material to any person or in any circumstance not 

authorized under this Order, that person shall request the recipient to return the 

Confidential Material including all copies thereof, and notify the Designating Party that 

produced the Confidential Material of the disclosure. 

8. Nothing in this Order shall prohibit disclosure of Confidential Material in 

response to compulsory process or the process of any governmental regulatory agency. If 

any person subject to this Order, including a person subject to a Confidentiality 

Agreement under this Order, is served with such process or receives notice of any 

subpoena or other discovery request seeking Confidential Material, such person shall 

promptly (not more than three (3) working days after receipt of such process or notice) 

notify the Designating Party of such process or request, shall take all reasonable steps to 

refrain from producing Confidential Material in response to such process, and shall afford 

a reasonable opportunity for the Designating Party to oppose the process or to seek a 

protective order. 

9. Counsel for any deponent, party or non-party may designate specific 

portions of deposition testimony or exhibits as Confidential Material by indicating on the 

record at the deposition that the testimony of the deponent or any exhibits to his 

testimony are to be treated as confidential. The Court reporter shall separately bind such 

testimony and exhibits in a transcript bearing the legend "Confidential – Subject To 

Protective Order" on the cover page. Failure of Counsel to designate testimony or 

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exhibits as confidential at deposition, however, shall not constitute a waiver of the 

confidentiality of the testimony or exhibits. Upon receipt of the transcript of the 

deposition, Counsel shall be entitled to designate specific pages and lines of the transcript 

or the exhibits as confidential within 30 (thirty) days after receipt of the transcript. Until 

Counsel for the deponent, party or non-party designates the transcript or exhibits as 

confidential, however, any other party shall be entitled to treat the transcript or exhibits as 

non-confidential material. 

10. No one may attend the portions of depositions or review the transcripts of 

the portions of any depositions at which Confidential Material is shown or discussed other 

than those persons designated in Paragraph 5 and outside counsel for any non-party 

deponent (who shall first sign the Confidentiality Agreement). 

11. A party or other person objecting to designation of any document(s) or 

material(s) as Confidential Material shall provide written notice of the objection to 

Counsel for the Designating Party, specifying the document(s) or material(s) that are the 

subject of the objection. Upon receipt of the written objection, counsel for the 

Designating Party shall, within twenty (20) days, provide a written response to the 

objecting party explaining the basis for the designation as Confidential Material; otherwise 

the document(s) or material(s) shall be deemed to be no longer Confidential 

without a court order. The parties and any other objecting person(s) shall confer 

in good faith in an effort to resolve the objection and any response by the Designating 

Party. If the objecting party or person and the Designating Party are unable to resolve the 

issue, the Designating Party, within fourteen (14) days after serving its written response 

to the objection notification, may file a motion with the Court to continue the designation 

of the document(s) or material(s) as "Confidential Material." In deciding such a motion, 

the Court shall make an independent determination as to whether or not the document(s) 

or materials) is Confidential and is entitled to protection under applicable law. To 

maintain confidential status, the Designating Party shall have the burden of establishing 

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that the document(s) or material(s) constitutes Confidential Material as defined in 

Paragraph 1 of this Order, and is entitled to protection under applicable law. If the 

Designating Party does not file a motion seeking to maintain the "Confidential 

Designation" within fourteen (14) days after serving its written response to the objection 

to confidentiality, the document(s) or material(s) at issue shall be deemed to be no longer 

confidential. 

12. If any Confidential Material is inadvertently provided to a discovering party 

without being marked as confidential in accordance with this Order, the producing party 

may thereafter designate such materials as confidential and the initial failure to so mark 

the material shall not be deemed a waiver of its confidentiality. Until the material is 

designated as confidential by the Designating Party, however, the discovering party shall 

be entitled to treat the material as non-confidential. 

13. If a party inadvertently produces information that it later discovers, or in 

good faith later asserts, to be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, the 

production of that information will not be presumed to constitute a waiver of any 

applicable privileges or other protections. In these circumstances, the producing party 

must immediately notify all parties in writing of the inadvertent production and the basis 

for the privilege or other protection from production, and request in writing the return or 

confirmed destruction of the privileged or protected information. Within five days of 

receiving such notification, and in compliance with the receiving parties’ ethical 

obligations under the law, all receiving parties who have not already reviewed such 

materials or who have reviewed the materials but do not contest the applicability of the 

privilege asserted must return or confirm destruction of all such materials, including 

copies and/or summaries thereof. However, should a receiving party contest the 

applicability of a privilege asserted with respect to an inadvertently produced document 

which the receiving party has already reviewed, the receiving party may temporarily 

retain the document or documents at issue for the sole purpose of contesting the 

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applicability of the privilege asserted. Within two (2) business days of the issuance of a 

court order deeming the contested documents at issue privileged, however, the receiving 

party must return or confirm destruction of all such materials, including copies and/or 

summaries thereof. 

14. Within sixty (60) days of final termination of this lawsuit, including all 

appeals, (whether by judgment, settlement or otherwise) all materials produced by a party 

that contain Confidential Material, including all abstracts and summaries of such 

material, shall be destroyed or returned to Counsel for the Designating Party. Such 

destroyed or returned materials shall not include the notes or work product of counsel for 

the parties, expert witnesses or consultants or investigators or agents thereof. Counsel for 

each such party shall certify that the provisions of this paragraph have been satisfied by 

sending opposing counsel a letter confirming compliance. Reasonable out-of-pocket 

costs associated with returning or destroying Confidential Materials will be borne by the 

party requesting its return or destruction. 

15. No party receiving documents or materials designated as "Confidential 

Material," shall have any obligation to object to the designation at the time the designation 

is made or at any time thereafter. No party shall, by failure to object, be found to have 

acquiesced or agreed to such designation or be barred from objecting to such designation 

at any time. 

16. Nothing contained in this Order shall be a waiver of any objection to the 

admissibility of any evidence at trial, in any pretrial proceeding or on appeal. 

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DATED this 28th day of February, 2008. 

BONNETT, FAIRBOURN, FRIEDMAN, & 

BALINT, P.C. 

 /s Wendy J. Harrison_____________ 

Andrew S. Friedman (admitted pro hac vice) 

Wendy J. Harrison (CA SBN 151090) 

2901 North Central Avenue, Suite 1000 

Phoenix, Arizona 85012 

CHAVEZ & GERTLER, L.L.P. 

Mark A. Chavez (CA SBN 90858) 

Jonathan Gertler (CA SBN 111531) 

Nance F. Becker (CA SBN 99292) 

42 Miller Avenue 

Mill Valley, California 94941 

COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 

John J. Stoia, Jr. (CA SBN 141757) 

Theodore J. Pintar (CA SBN 131372) 

Leslie E. Hurst (CA SBN 178432) 

655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101 

(619) 231-1058 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

REED SMITH LLP 

 /Heather B. Hoesterey 

Jack R. Nelson (SBN 111863) 

Tyree P. Jones, Jr. (SBN 127631) 

Heather B. Hoesterey (SBN 201254) 

Two Embarcadero Center 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3922 

Telephone: (415) 543-8700 

Mailing Address: 

P. O. Box 7936 

San Francisco, CA 94120-7936 

Attorneys for Defendants 

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 [PROPOSED] ORDER 

 IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: February___, 2008 

 Hon. Jeffrey S. White 

 United States District Judge 

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EXHIBIT A 

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

STATE OF ___________ 

COUNTY OF _________ 

_______________________________, being duly sworn deposes and says: 

I have read the attached Protective Order Regarding Confidential and Trade Secret 

Information, if any, entered herein, and I agree to be bound by the terms thereof. 

 ______________________________ 

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this _______ day of 

_____________, 2008. 

 ______________________________ 

 Notary Public 

My Commission Expires: 

__________________________ 

DOCSSFO-12506974.1 

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