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Nature of Suit Code: 290
Nature of Suit: Other Real Property Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331(a) Fed. Question: Real Property

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Joseph E. Addiego III (CA SBN 169522)

John D. Freed (CA SBN 261518)

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 276-6500

Facsimile: (415) 276-6599

Email: jakefreed@dwt.com

joeaddiego@dwt.com 

Attorneys for Defendants

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

ANTONIA REBECA ROWE,

Plaintiff,

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JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., et al.,

Defendants.

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Case No. 15-cv-01508-BAM

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Local Rule 141.1

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I. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

or private information for which special protection may be warranted. Accordingly, the Court 

enters the following Protective Order. The order does not confer blanket protection on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery, 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, and it does not presumptively entitle parties to file confidential 

information under seal.

II. “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL

2. “Confidential” material shall include the following documents and tangible things 

produced or otherwise exchanged: Any documents produced by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. or 

its affiliates that include confidential or other personal material pertaining to individual customers 

or to the policies and procedures of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or its affiliates.

III. SCOPE

3. The protections conferred by this agreement cover not only confidential material 

(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from confidential material; (2) 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of confidential material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by parties or their counsel that might reveal confidential material. 

However, the protections conferred by this agreement do not cover information that is in the 

public domain or becomes part of the public domain through trial or otherwise.

IV. ACCESS TO AND USE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL

4. Basic Principles. A receiving party may use confidential 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. Confidential material may be disclosed only to the 

categories of persons and under the conditions described in this agreement. Confidential 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 agreement. For purposes of this 

Protective Order, the term “receiving party” shall include Fidelity National Title Company.

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5. 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 

confidential material only to:

(a) the receiving party’s counsel of record in this action, as well as employees 

of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including in house counsel) of the 

receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, unless the 

parties agree that a particular document or material produced is for Attorney’s Eyes Only 

and is so designated;

(c) experts and consultants to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

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

(Exhibit A);

(d) the court, court personnel, and court reporters and their staff;

(e) copy or imaging services retained by counsel to assist in the duplication of 

confidential material, provided that counsel for the party retaining the copy or imaging 

service instructs the service not to disclose any confidential material to third parties and to 

immediately return all originals and copies of any confidential material;

(f) 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 

confidential material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be 

disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this agreement; 

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

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

6. Filing Confidential Material. This order does not restrict the filing of confidential 

material or the discussion of such material in court filings, except that designating parties reserve 

the right to seek, and other parties reserve the right to oppose, an order sealing such material. 

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Eastern District of California Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to seal material 

filed with the court.

V. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

7. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each party 

or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this agreement 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 agreement.

8. 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 delay the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses 

and burdens on other parties) expose the designating party to sanctions.

9. If it comes to a designating party’s attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, the designating party must promptly notify 

all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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

agreement (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 10(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or 

ordered, disclosure or discovery material that qualifies for protection under this agreement must be 

clearly so designated before or when the material is disclosed or produced.

(a) Information in documentary form: (e.g., paper or electronic documents and 

deposition exhibits, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), the designating party must affix the word “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page 

that contains confidential 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).

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(b) Testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings: the 

parties must identify on the record, during the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all 

protected testimony, without prejudice to their right to so designate other testimony after 

reviewing the transcript. Any party or non-party may, within 15 days after receiving a 

deposition transcript, designate portions of the transcript, or exhibits thereto, as 

confidential.

(c) Other tangible items: the producing party must affix in a prominent place on 

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

word “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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).

11. 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 agreement for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the receiving party must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the material is treated 

in accordance with the provisions of this agreement. 

VI. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

12. Timing of Challenges. Any party or non-party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a designating party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a party does not waive its right to 

challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the

original designation is disclosed.

13. Meet and Confer. The parties must make every attempt to resolve any dispute 

regarding confidential designations without court involvement. Any motion regarding confidential 

designations or for a protective order must include a certification, in the motion or in a declaration 

or affidavit, that the movant has engaged in a good faith meet and confer conference with other 

affected parties in an effort to resolve the dispute without court action. The certification must list 

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the date, manner, and participants to the conference. A good faith effort to confer requires a faceto-face meeting or a telephone conference.

14. Judicial Intervention. If the parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the designating party may file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Eastern District of California Local Rule 141.1. The burden of persuasion in any such motion 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. All parties shall continue to maintain the material in question as 

confidential until the court rules on the challenge.

VII. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

15. 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 the designating party in writing and 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 agreement. Such notification shall include a copy of this agreement; 

and

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

the designating party whose confidential material may be affected.

VIII. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

16. If a receiving party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

confidential material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this agreement, 

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 

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terms of this agreement, and (d) request that such person or persons execute the 

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

IX. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

17. 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 Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended

to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order or agreement that 

provides for production without prior privilege review. Parties shall confer on an appropriate nonwaiver order under Fed. R. Evid. 502.

X. NON-TERMINATION AND RETURN OF DOCUMENTS

18. Within 60 days after the termination of this action, including all appeals, each 

receiving party must return all confidential material to the producing party, including all copies, 

extracts and summaries thereof. Alternatively, the parties may agree upon appropriate methods of 

destruction.

19. Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain one archival copy of 

all documents filed with the court, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, correspondence, 

deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert 

work product, even if such materials contain confidential material.

20. The confidentiality obligations imposed by this agreement shall remain in effect 

until a designating party agrees otherwise in writing or a court orders otherwise.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

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DATED: December 4, 2015

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP

Joseph E. Addiego, III

John D. Freed

By:/s/ John D. Freed

 John D. Freed 

Attorneys for Defendants

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

CRAFTS LAW FIRM LLP

Angelo A. DuPlantier

By: /s/ Angelo A. DuPlantier (as authorized on 12/2/15)

 Angelo A. Duplantier

100 Pacifica, Suite 140

Irvine, CA 92618

Attorneys for Plaintiff

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EXHIBIT A

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 protective order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California on _________________ in the case of Rowe v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 

Case No. 15-cv-01508-BAM. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 

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 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 the purpose of enforcing the terms of this protective order, even 

if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

DATED: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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ORDER ON PROTECTIVE ORDER (15-CV-1508)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 4, 2015 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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