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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Personal Injury

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

ESTHER P. HOLM, SB# 140279

 E-Mail: Esther.Holm@lewisbrisbois.com

ANDREW A. HIGGS, SB# 221891

 E-Mail: Andrew.Higgs@lewisbrisbois.com

650 Town Center Drive, Suite 1400

Costa Mesa, California 92626

Telephone: 714.545.9200

Facsimile: 714.850.1030

Attorneys for Defendant/CrossClaimant/Cross-Defendant, NATURAL 

GAS FUEL SYSTEMS, INC. D.B.A. 

MOMENTUM FUEL TECHNOLOGIES

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

WILLIAM LEE JOHNSON, an 

incompetent adult, by and through his 

Guardian ad Litem, Jerrad Johnson; 

JOAN JOHNSON; B & N 

TRUCKING, INC.,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

NATURAL GAS FUEL SYSTEMS, 

INC. D.B.A. MOMENTUM FUEL 

TECHNOLOGY; CARLETON 

TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; COBHAM 

PLC; PAPÉ TRUCKS, INC.; DOES 1 

TO 100, INCLUSIVE,

Defendants.

CASE No. 1:19-cv-00105-LJO-SAB

ORDER RE STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

The Hon. Stanley A. Boone

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE

Trial Date: None Set

AND RELATED CROSS-CLAIMS

Subject to the approval of the Court, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and 

between plaintiffs, WILLIAM LEE JOHNSON, JOAN JOHNSON and B & N 

TRUCKING, INC. (“Plaintiffs”), and defendants, NATURAL GAS FUEL 

SYSTEMS, INC. D.B.A. MOMENTUM FUEL TECHNOLOGIES, CARLETON 

TECHNOLOGIES, INC., dba COBHAM MISSION SYSTEMS, and PAPÉ 

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TRUCKS, INC. d/b/a/ PAPÉ KENWORTH (collectively, “Defendants”) 

(collectively referred to herein as the “Parties”), through Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ 

respective counsel of record, that a Protective Order be entered in this action in 

accordance with the following terms:

1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may 

be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 

enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 

discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 

only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth 

in Section 12.3 below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to 

file confidential information under seal; Local Rule 141(Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2, 26) sets 

forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied 

when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal.

B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

This action is likely to involve trade secrets, design and manufacturing 

information and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, 

technical and/or proprietary information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is 

warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, 

among other things, confidential business or financial information, information 

regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential research, 

development, or commercial information (including information implicating privacy 

rights of third parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or 

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which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or 

federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to 

expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over 

confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties 

are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable 

necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to 

address their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a 

protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the 

parties that information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons 

and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been 

maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it 

should not be part of the public record of this case.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Action: This pending federal lawsuit, entitled William Lee Johnson, et 

al. v. Natural Gas Fuel Systems, Inc. D.B.A. Momentum Fuel Technologies, et al., 

CASE NO. 1:19-cv-00105-LJO-SAB.

2.2 Challenging Party: A Party or Non-Party that challenges the 

designation of information or items under this Order.

2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: Information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 

the Good Cause Statement.

2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staff).

2.5 Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

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2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.7 Expert: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 

an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.

2.8 House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel.

2.9 Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: Attorneys who are not employees of a 

party to this Action, but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and 

have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm 

which has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.

2.11 Party: Any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs).

2.12 Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this Action.

2.13 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g. photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 

demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 

and their employees and subcontractors.

2.14 Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

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2.15 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.

Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the 

trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be 

deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this Action, with 

or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this Action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 

pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under 

this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that 

qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for 

protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written 

communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, 

items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept 

unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating 

Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 

promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 

under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” “CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL” legend”), to each 

page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on 

a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the 

protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection 

need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 

which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 

before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 

deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the 

documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 

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documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, 

before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a 

portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing 

Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins).

(b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party 

identifies the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the 

deposition all protected testimony.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary 

and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place 

on the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information 

warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 

protected portion(s).

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive 

the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY PROVISIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s 

Scheduling Order.

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process under Local Rule 251 (Fed. R. Civ. P. 37), et seq.

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6.3 Burden of Persuasion. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge 

proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made 

for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and 

burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. For 

material produced after the entry of this Protective Order, unless the Designating 

Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, 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 until the Court rules on the 

challenge. Previously produced material shall be treated as non-confidential by all 

Parties until the Court rules on the challenge. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 

Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 

Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 

conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a 

Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 

authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, 

as well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 

necessary to disclose the information for this Action;

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(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) 

of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff;

(f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A); 

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information 

or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

(h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, 

in the Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the 

deposing party requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto; 

and (2) they will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they 

sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless 

otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of 

transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected 

Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to 

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting 

personnel, mutually agreed upon by any of the Parties engaged in settlement 

discussions.

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 

that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” that party must:

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include 

a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 

the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 

action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 

protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions 

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action 

to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced 

by a Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such 

information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected 

by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions 

should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.

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(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, 

to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 

subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall:

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 

Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a 

confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and

(3) make the information requested available for inspection by 

the Non-Party, if requested.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving 

Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the 

discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 

Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to 

the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the 

court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and 

expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 

writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 

to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order,

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and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR 

OTHERWISE PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 

the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever 

procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production

without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and 

(e), insofar as the Parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work 

product protection, the Parties may incorporate their agreement in the Stipulated 

protective order submitted to the court.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 

disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 

Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 

ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.

12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 141(Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2, 26). 

Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing 

the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file 

Protected Material under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may 

file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

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12.4 Motion to File Protected Material Under Seal

In the event any Party anticipates the need to file Protected Material with the 

Court, including, but not limited to, for purposes of resolving a discovery dispute or 

as part of a motion in limine, said Party shall promptly notify in writing the 

Designating Party no less than ten (10) days prior to the filing of said motion. Said 

writing shall state with specificity the Protected Material(s) anticipated to be filed.

The Designating Party may then move for an Order allowing the Protected Material 

to be filed under seal. If no such motion is made, the Party serving notice herein 

may proceed to file the information in the public record.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 

days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return

all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in 

this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving 

Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same 

person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies 

(by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 

destroyed; and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any 

of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing 

transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert 

reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such 

materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 

constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 

Section 4 (DURATION). 

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14. VIOLATIONS OF ORDER

Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 

measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 

sanctions.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD FOR 

ALL PARTIES.

DATED: August 8, 2019 CHAIN | COHN | STILES

By: /s/ Chad Boyles

Matthew C. Clark

Chad Boyles

Attorneys for Plaintiffs WILLIAM LEE 

JOHNSON, JOAN JOHNSON and B & N 

TRUCKING, INC. 

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DATED: August 9, 2019 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

By: /s/ Esther P. Holm

Esther P. Holm

Attorneys for Defendant, Cross-Defendant 

and Cross-Claimant, NATURAL GAS 

FUEL SYSTEMS, INC. D.B.A. 

MOMENTUM FUEL TECHNOLOGIES

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DATED: August 9, 2019 ERICKSEN ARBUTHNOT

By: /s/

Graham M. Cridland

Gabriel Ullrich

Attorneys for Defendant, Cross-Defendant 

and Cross-Claimant, PAPÉ TRUCKS, 

INC. d/b/a/ PAPÉ KENWORTH

ORDER

Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The protective order is entered;

2. The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States 

District Court, Eastern District of California, any documents which are to be 

filed under seal will require a written request which complies with Local Rule 

141; and

3. The party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required to 

show good cause for documents attached to a nondispositive motion or 

compelling reasons for documents attached to a dispositive motion. Pintos v. 

DATED: August __, 2019 FREEMAN MATHIS & GARY, LLP

By:

Charles Horne

Michele C. Kirrane

Attorneys for Defendant, Cross-Defendant 

and Cross-Claimant, CARLETON 

TECHNOLOGIES, INC., dba COBHAM 

MISSION SYSTEMS

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Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 16, 2019 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________[full name], of ___________________________

[full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California on _________ in the case of 

William Lee Johnson, et al. v. Natural Gas Fuel Systems, Inc. D.B.A. Momentum 

Fuel Technologies, et al., CASE NO. 1:19-cv-00105-LJO-SAB. I agree to comply 

with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I 

understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions 

and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not 

disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated 

Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the 

provisions of this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of California for enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of 

this action. 

I hereby appoint __________________________ [full name] of 

_______________________________________ [full address and telephone 

number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action 

or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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