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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 47:227 Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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RYAN M. KELLY (pro hac vice) ROBERT B. MILLIGAN 

ANDERSON + WANCA JOSEPH A. ESCAREZ 

3701 Algonquin Road, Suite 500 D. JOSHUA SALINAS 

Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008 SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 

Facsimile: (847)368-1501 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3500 

rkelly@andersonwanca.com Los Angeles, California 90067-3021 

Counsel for Plaintiff Facsimile: (310) 201-5219 

rmilliagan@seyfarth.com 

S. CHANDLER VISHER jescarez@seyfarth.com 

LAW OFFICES OF S. CHANDLER VISHER jsalinas@seyfarth.com 

268 Bush St., #4500 Attorneys for Defendant

San Francisco, California 94104 SI-BONE, INC., 

Facsimile: (415)901-0504 

chandler@visherlaw.com 

Local Counsel for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

ERIC B. FROMER CHIROPRACTIC, INC., 

a California corporation, individually and as 

the representative of a class of similarlysituated persons, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SI-BONE, INC., 

Defendant. 

Case No. 5:19-cv-00633-LHK

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

District Judge: Hon. Lucy H. Koh 

Courtroom 8 

AS MODIFIED

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The Parties have agreed to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order; accordingly, it is 

ORDERED:

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are 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 Stipulated Protective 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 13.4, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

2.2 “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). 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as 

well as their support staff). 

2.4 Designated House Counsel: House Counsel who seek access to “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information in this matter. 

2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 

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produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. 

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 or Consultant: 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 or as a consultant in this action (regardless whether the individual serves as a witness). 

This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this 

litigation. An expert for purposes of this Stipulated Protective Order shall not include anyone 

who is a past or current employee of either Party. 

2.8 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to another 

Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by 

less restrictive means. 

2.10 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. 

2.11 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.12 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. 

2.13 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

Experts and Consultants, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.14 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

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2.15 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. 

2.16 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

2.17 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective 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. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective Order do not cover the 

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to 

a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party 

as a result of publication not involving a violation of this Stipulated Protective Order, including 

becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to 

the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure 

from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to 

the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate 

agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

The Parties to this Stipulated Protective Order intend that the protections conferred by the 

designation of material as “Protected Material” shall apply to any documents produced in this 

litigation so designated, regardless of whether or not this Stipulated Protective Order has been 

entered by the Court. Further, the Parties agree to “meet and confer” in good faith after the 

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conclusion of the subject litigation (if not before) to ensure that “Protected Material” does not 

become part of the “public record.” 

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 

this Stipulated Protective 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 Stipulated Protective 

Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

appropriate standards. To the extent it is practical to do so, 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. 

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 or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary 

expenses and burdens on other parties) 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 at all or do not qualify for the level of protection 

initially asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

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

Stipulated Protective Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 

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stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery 

Material that qualifies for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order must be 

clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Stipulated Protective 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 the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” 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) and must specify, for 

each portion, the level of protection being asserted. 

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

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

material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all 

of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, 

qualify for protection under this Stipulated Protective Order. Then, before producing the specified 

documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection 

being asserted. 

(b) for material produced prior to the entry of this Stipulated Protective Order: Protected 

Material previously produced in this action prior to the entry of this Stipulated Protective Order 

will be covered under this Stipulated Protective Order as follows: the Designating Party shall 

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provide the Receiving Party with correspondence indicating which documents previously 

produced that will be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Such correspondence shall bring such material previously 

produced in this action prior to the entry of this Stipulated Protective Order under its protection as 

Protected Material. 

(c) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony and specify the level of protection being asserted. When it is 

impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection and it 

appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating 

Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) 

a right to have up to 30 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which 

protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of 

the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 30 days shall be covered 

by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may 

specify, at the deposition or up to 30 days afterwards if that period is properly invoked, that the 

entire transcript shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, hearing or 

other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can ensure that only 

authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a document as an exhibit at a deposition 

shall not in any way affect its designation as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the title page 

that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be followed by a list of all 

pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been designated as Protected Material and 

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the level of protection being asserted by the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall 

inform the court reporter of these requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the 

expiration of a 30-day period for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been 

designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless 

otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as 

actually designated. 

(d) information contained in responses to written discovery: a Designating Party may 

designate information disclosed in response to written discovery requests (including subpoenas) 

as “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” by so indicating in said responses, on each page of any documents 

produced with such responses, and/or as otherwise provided in Paragraph 5.2 above, identifying 

those responses being so designated. In addition, a Designating Party may designate in writing, 

within fourteen (14) days after receipt of another Party or non-party’s responses to written 

discovery requests, the specific responses, documents, and/or other information to be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

(e) 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 or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. If only a portion or portions of 

the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portion(s) and specify the level of protection being asserted. 

5.3 Protected Material Disclosed by a Non-Party. For 14 days after a Non-Party makes 

disclosures in this proceeding, the entire disclosure shall be treated as Protected Material under 

this Stipulated Protective Order. Within the 14-day period, the Non-Party or a Party in this action 

may notify all other parties that all or specific portions of the disclosure are Protected Material. 

Thereafter, the designated portions shall remain subject to this Stipulated Protective Order 

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5.4 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate qualified 

information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection 

under this Stipulated Protective Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” after the 

material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on notification of the designation, must 

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

this Stipulated Protective Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

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

confidentiality at any time. The challenge shall be made within thirty (30) days of the 

Challenging Party’s receipt of the material to be challenged. A challenge may be made by serving 

by e-mail on all other Parties (and Non-Parties, if applicable) a “Notice of Objection” that 

identifies with particularity the Protected Material as to which the designation is challenged and 

states the basis for each challenge. After any challenge is asserted to a designation made 

according to the procedures set forth in Paragraph 5.2 above and its various sub-paragraphs, the 

Protected Material shall continue to have its designation until the challenge is fully resolved 

according to the procedures set forth in Paragraphs 6.2 and 6.3. 

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

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 

for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written 

notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 

specific paragraph of the Stipulated Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each 

challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly within 30 days of the 

date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief 

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 

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* The meet and confer must be in person or by telephone. A mere exchange of letters, emails, or 

messages does not satisfy the requirement to meet and confer.

 

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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 or establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet 

and confer process in a timely manner. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 30 days 

of the initial notice of challenge or within 21 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 

and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to 

make such a motion including the required declaration within 30 days (or 21 days, if applicable) 

shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In 

addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any 

time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition 

transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 

and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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. 

If a motion pursuant to Paragraph 6.3 is timely filed, the original designation shall remain 

effective until an appellate court’s ruling on any timely filed writ petition. The Parties shall meet 

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and confer in good faith prior to the filing of any motion under Paragraph 6.3. 

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 case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Stipulated Protective Order. 

When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of 

section 14 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 

Stipulated Protective 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) All Parties in this action; 

(b) Outside Counsel of Record in this action, including counsel’s partners, employees, and 

agents (e.g., outside copy services, litigation-support services, and stenographers) retained in the 

action; 

(c) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

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

(d) Experts or Consultants (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

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

(e) the court and its personnel; 

(f) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and Professional 

Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

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

(g) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary and who have signed 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 must be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

(h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

(i) any mediators or arbitrators selected to assist in resolution of this matter, and their 

personnel actively engaged in assisting them; 

(j) putative class members if the information is about that putative class member only; and 

(k) any other person mutually agreed upon among the Parties, but only if that person has 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

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 “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that 

is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) Experts or Consultants of the Receiving Party (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4(a)(2), below, 

have been followed; 

(c) the court and its personnel; 

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(d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, and Professional 

Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

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

(e) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 

(f) any mediators or arbitrators selected to assist in resolution of this matter, and their 

personnel actively engaged in assisting them; and 

(g) any other person mutually agreed upon among the Parties, but only if that person has 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

7.4 Procedures for Approving or Objecting to Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to Experts or Consultants. 

 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed to in writing by the Designating 

Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an Expert or Consultant (as defined in this Stipulated 

Protective Order) any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to paragraph 7.3(b) first must make a written request to 

the Designating Party that (1) identifies the general categories of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose 

to the Expert or Consultant and provides the disclosure pursuant to FRCP 26, (2) sets forth the 

full name of the Expert or Consultant and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) 

attaches a copy of the Expert’s or Consultant’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s or 

Consultant’s current employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert or 

Consultant has received compensation or funding for work in his or her areas of expertise or to 

whom the expert has provided professional services, including in connection with a litigation, at 

any time during the preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, 

filing date, and location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert or Consultant 

has offered expert testimony, including through a declaration, report, or testimony at a deposition 

or trial, during the preceding five years. 

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(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in the preceding 

respective paragraphs may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert or 

Consultant unless, within 14 days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection 

from the Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is 

based. 

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with the 

Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by 

agreement within seven days of the written objection. If no agreement is reached, the Party 

seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert or Consultant may file a motion as provided in Civil 

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) seeking permission 

from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set 

forth in detail the reasons why the disclosure to the Expert or Consultant is reasonably necessary, 

assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail, and suggest any additional means that 

could be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration describing the parties’ efforts to resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the 

extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and setting forth the reasons advanced 

by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 

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(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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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 Stipulated Protective Order are applicable to information 

produced by a Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. Such information produced by Non-Parties 

in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this 

Stipulated Protective Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a 

Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(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 NonParty; 

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 

Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of 

the information requested; and 

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3. make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or 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 Stipulated Protective Order, 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 

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submitted to the court. 

12. DESIGNATING PARTY’S USE OF OWN DOCUMENTS 

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall limit any Designating Party’s use of its 

own documents and information, including Protected Material, in this action or otherwise. Such 

disclosure shall not affect any designations made pursuant to the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order so long as the disclosure is made in a manner that is reasonably calculated to 

maintain the confidentiality of the information. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges the 

right of any person to seek its modification by the court in the future. 

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

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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

13.3 Export Control. Disclosure of Protected Material shall be subject to all applicable 

laws and regulations relating to the export of technical data contained in such Protected Material, 

including the release of such technical data to foreign persons or nationals in the United States or 

elsewhere. The Producing Party shall be responsible for identifying any such controlled technical 

data, and the Receiving Party shall take measures necessary to ensure compliance. 

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

Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request 

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or 

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otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected 

Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) is denied by the court, then the 

Receiving Party may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 

79-5(e)(2) unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

14. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, 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 Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 

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Dated: June 17, 2019 SEYFARTH SHAW, LLP 

By: /s/ D. Joshua Salinas 

ROBERT B. MILLIGAN 

JOSEPH A. ESCAREZ 

D. JOSHUA SALINAS 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SI-Bone 

Dated: June 17, 2019 Law Offices of S. Chandler Visher 

By: /s/ S. Chandler Visher 

S. CHANDLER VISHER 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

 Local Counsel 

Dated: June 17, 2019 Anderson + Wanca 

By: /s/ Ryan M. Kelly 

RYAN M. KELLY (pro hac vice) 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS ORDERED. 

DATED: 

 United States District/Magistrate Judge 

June 20, 2019

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ATTESTATION CIVIL L.R. 5-1(i)(3) 

I, D. Joshua Salinas, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this 

document. I hereby attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from 

the signatories. 

/s/ D. Joshua Salinas

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EXHIBIT A 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN JOSE DIVISION 

ERIC B. FROMER CHIROPRACTIC, INC., a 

California corporation, individually and as the 

representative of a class of similarly-situated 

persons, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

SI-BONE, INC., 

Defendant

Civil Action No.: 5:19-cv-00633-LHK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of 

________________________ 

_______________________________________________________________ [print or type 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 Northern 

District of California in the case of Eric B. Fromer Chiropractic, Inc. v. SI-BONE, Inc., Case No. 

5:19-cv-0063-LHK. 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 

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

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_______________________________________ [print or type 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. 

Signature: __________________________________ Date: 

_________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

____________________________________________________ 

Job Title: Employer: 

Business Address: 

] 

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