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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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ipencer C. Skeen CA Bar No. 182216 

Tim L. Johnson, CA Bar No. 265794 

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 

4370 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 990 

San Diego, CA 92122 

Telephone: 858.652.3100 

Facsimile: 858.652.3101 

Attorneys for Defendants Sterling Jewelers Inc. (erroneously sued as 

"Sterling Jewelers, Inc.) and Signet Jewelers Limited 

Richard E. Quintilone II, CA Bar No. 200995 

J.R. W. Cucovatz, CA Bar No. 286303 

QUINTILONE & ASSOCIATES 

22974 El Toro Road, Suite 100 

Lake Forest, CA 92630 

Telephone: 949.458.9675 

Facsimile: 949.458-9679 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Kathya Tapia, on behalf of herself 

and on behalf of a Class of all other persons similarly 

situated 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

Case No. 5:14-CV-00624-EJD 

CLASS ACTION 

Assigned For All Purposes To: 

Honorable Edward J. Davila 

Courtroom 4, 5th Floor 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

Action Filed: December 19, 2013 

Removal Date: February 10, 2014 

KATHYA TAPIA, on behalf of herself 

and on behalf of a Class of all other 

persons similarly situated 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

STERLING JEWELERS, INC., an 

unknown business entity• SIGNET 

JEWELERS LTD, an unknown business 

entity, and DOES 1 through 100, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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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 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; 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 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 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

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

"CONFIDENTIAL." 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 

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

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

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

2.6 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. 

2.7 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. 

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

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

2.9 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. 

2.10 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). 

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.12 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. 

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as "CONFIDENTIAL." 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

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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. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and 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 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 

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 

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For a period of six months after final disposition of this litigation, 

this court will retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this order.

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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. 

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, 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 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 the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" 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 or materials available for 

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

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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 "CONFIDENTIAL." 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 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 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. 

(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 or item is stored the 

legend "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). 

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 DESIGNATIONS 

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

designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a 

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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. 

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 

Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 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 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 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 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 

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requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party 

to make such a motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 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. 

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 Order. When the litigation 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. 

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seek court intervention within the period set out in Standing Order, Section D

seek relief with respect to In any DDJR the parties must attest that they have seek court intervention

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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 litigation and who have signed the 

"Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound" that is attached hereto as Exhibit 

A; 

(b) 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); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this 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); 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock 

jurors, 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); 

(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 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. 

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

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

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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 NonParties 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 litigation, 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 NonParty. 

(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 Order, and (d) request such 

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All disclosure and discovery disputes are subject to the 

undersigned's Standing Order re Civil Discovery Disputes.

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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. 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. 

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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 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(d) is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. 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 Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

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or (f)

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: December 22, 2014 

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Class 

DATED: December 22,`2014 

Atto eys 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

United States District/Magistrate Judge 

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AS MODIFIED BY THE COURT, Howard R. Lloyd December 29, 2014

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

[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 on [date] in the case of Kathya Tapia v. Sterling Jewelers Inc. 

et al., Case No. 5:14-CV-00624-EJD. 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 [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. 

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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