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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION

PAMELA MOTLEY; ESTATE OF 

CINDY RAYGOZA, through its legal 

representative and administrator, 

YVETTE CALDERA; YVETTE 

CALDERA; VALERIE CALDERA; 

DANNY RICE,

Plaintiffs,

v.

FRESNO POLICE OFFICER JOSEPH 

SMITH; FRESNO POLICE OFFICER 

BRIAN LITTLE; FRESNO POLICE 

OFFICER DERRICK JOHNSON; 

FRESNO POLICE OFFICER 

MICHAEL COUTO; FRESNO 

POLICE OFFICER BERNARD 

FINLEY; FRESNO POLICE OFFICER 

BYRON URTON; UNKNOWN 

FRESNO POLICE OFFICERS; THE 

CITY OF FRESNO, CALIFORNIA,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:15-CV-00905-TLN-BAM

[Hon. Troy L. Nunley, District. Judge ; 

Hon. Barbara A. McAuliffe, Mag. 

Judge]

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

Complaint Filed: June 17, 2015

Trial Date: TBD

PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES (“Stipulation for 

Entry of Protective Order re Confidential Documents”), and pursuant to the Court’s 

inherent and statutory authority, including but not limited to the Court’s authority under 

the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the United States District Court, 

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Eastern District of California Local Rules; after due consideration of all of the relevant 

pleadings, papers, and records in this action; and upon such other evidence or argument 

as was presented to the Court; Good Cause appearing therefor, and in furtherance of the 

interests of justice,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. SCOPE OF PROTECTION.

The protections conferred by the parties’ Stipulation and this Order cover not 

only Protected Material/Confidential Documents (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 the parties’ Stipulation and this 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. 

Except to the extent specified herein (if any), any use of Protected Material at 

trial shall not be governed by this Order, but may be governed by a separate agreement 

or order. The Definitions section of the parties' associated Stipulation (§ 2) is 

incorporated by reference herein. 

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

judge: this Stipulation and its associated Protective Order do(es) not govern the use of 

Protected Material at trial. 

A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS.

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production 

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of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from 

public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting or defending this 

litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties have stipulated to and 

petitioned the court to enter the following Order. 

The parties have acknowledged that this Order does not confer blanket 

protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords 

extends only to the specified information or items that are entitled, under the applicable 

legal principles, to treatment as confidential. 

The parties further acknowledge, as set forth below, that this Order creates no 

entitlement to file confidential information under seal, except to the extent specified 

herein; Eastern District Local Rules 141, 141.1, 143, 230 and/or 251 forth the 

procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a 

party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

Nothing in this Order shall be construed so as to require or mandate that any 

Party disclose or produce privileged information or records that could be designated as 

Confidential Documents/Protected Material hereunder. 

2. DURATION OF PROTECTION.

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.

3. DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL/CONFIDENTIAL 

DOCUMENTS.

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

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Each Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under the 

parties’ Stipulation and this Order must take care to limit any such designation to 

specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party 

must take care to 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 routine 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 inhibit 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 Party’s or a non-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 Party or non-party must promptly notify all 

other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

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

Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 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(apart from transcripts of depositions 

or other pretrial or trial proceedings, and regardless of whether produced in hardcopy or 

electronic form), 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) and must 

specify, for each portion that it is “CONFIDENTIAL.” The placement of such 

“CONFIDENTIAL” stamp on such page(s) shall not obstruct the substance of the 

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page’s (or pages’) text or content.

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 

“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 Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, 

before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, 

and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify 

for protection, the Producing Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition or 

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to twenty (20) days to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” for protection within the 20 

days shall be covered by the provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective 

Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as 

instructed by the Producing Party.

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

any other tangible items (including but not limited to information produced on disc or 

electronic data storage device), 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 portions of the information or item warrant 

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

portions, specifying the material as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

3.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected (preferably, though 

not necessarily, within 30 days of production or disclosure of such material), an 

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under 

the parties’ Stipulation and this Order for such material. If material is appropriately 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” after the material was initially produced, the 

Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts 

to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the parties’ Stipulation and this 

Order.

3.4. Alteration of Confidentiality Stamp Prohibited. A Receiving Party shall 

not alter, edit, or modify any Protected Material so as to conceal, obscure, or remove a 

“CONFIDENTIAL” stamp or legend thereon; nor shall a Receiving Party take any 

other action so as to make it appear that Protected Material is not subject to the terms 

and provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order. However, nothing in this 

section shall be construed so as to prevent a Receiving Party from challenging a 

confidentiality designation subject to the provisions of section 4, infra. 

4. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS.

4.1. 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. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation 

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

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or a later 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.

4.2. Meet and Confer. Prior to challenging a confidentiality designation, a

Challenging Party shall initiate a dispute resolution process by providing written notice 

of each specific designation it is challenging, and describing the basis (and supporting 

authority or argument) 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 this 

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, either in 

person, telephonically, or by other comparable means, but not by correspondence) 

within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 

In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the specific 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. 

Frivolous challenges, and those challenges 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. 

4.3. Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a confidentiality 

challenge without court intervention, the Challenging Party shall file and serve a 

motion to remove confidentiality (under the applicable rules for filing and service of 

discovery motions) within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, or by the first day of trial of this matter, 

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whichever date is earlier – unless the parties agree in writing to a longer time. 

The parties must strictly comply with Eastern District Local Rules 141, 141.1, 

143, 230 and/or 251 (including the joint statement re discovery dispute requirement) in 

any motion associated with this Protective Order.

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. 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, regardless of whether the Designating Party is the moving party or 

whether such Party sought or opposes judicial intervention. 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 oppose a 

motion to remove 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.

4.4. Withdrawal of “CONFIDENTIAL” Designation. At its discretion, a 

Designating Party may remove Protected Material/Confidential Documents from some 

or all of the protections and provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order at any 

time by any of the following methods: 

(a) Express Written Withdrawal. A Designating Party may withdraw a 

“CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential 

Documents from some or all of the protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order 

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by an express withdrawal in a writing signed by such Party (or such Party’s Counsel, 

but not including staff of such Counsel) that specifies and itemizes the Disclosure or 

Discovery Material previously designated as Protected Material/Confidential 

Documents that shall no longer be subject to all or some of the provisions of the 

parties’ Stipulation and Order. Such express withdrawal shall be effective when 

transmitted or served upon the Receiving Party. If a Designating Party is withdrawing 

Protected Material from only some of the provisions/protections of the parties’ 

Stipulation and this Order, such Party must state which specific provisions are no 

longer to be enforced as to the specified material for which confidentiality protection 

hereunder is withdrawn: otherwise, such withdrawal shall be construed as a withdrawal 

of such material from all of the protections/provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and 

this Order;

(b) Express Withdrawal on the Record. A Designating Party may withdraw a 

“CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential 

Documents from all of the provisions/protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this 

Order by verbally consenting in court proceedings on the record to such withdrawal –

provided that such withdrawal specifies the Disclosure or Discovery Material 

previously designated as Protected Material/Confidential Documents that shall no 

longer be subject to any of the provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order. A 

Designating Party is not permitted to withdraw Protected Material from only some of 

the protections/ provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order by this method;

(c) Implicit Withdrawal by Publication or Failure to Oppose Challenge. A 

Designating Party shall be construed to have withdrawn a “CONFIDENTIAL” 

designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents from all 

of the provisions/protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order by either 

(1) making such Protected Material/Confidential Records part of the public record –

including but not limited to attaching such as exhibits to any filing with the court 

without moving, prior to such filing, for the court to seal such records; or (2) failing to 

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timely oppose a Challenging Party’s motion to remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” 

designation to specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents. 

Nothing in the parties’ Stipulation and this Order shall be construed so as to 

require any Party to file Protected Material/Confidential Documents under seal, unless 

expressly specified herein. 

5. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.

5.1. 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 preparing, prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation – up to 

and including final disposition of the above-entitled action – and not for any other 

purpose, including any other litigation or dispute outside the scope of this action. Such 

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

conditions described in the parties’ Stipulation and this Order. When the above entitled 

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

section 9, 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 the parties’ Stipulation and its Order.

5.2. 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 such Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation;

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

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of 

whom, by accepting receipt of such Protected Material, thereby agree to be bound by 

the parties’ Stipulation and this Order;

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(c) Experts (as defined in the parties’ Stipulation and this Order) of the 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of 

whom, by accepting receipt of such Protected Material, thereby agree to be bound by 

the parties’ Stipulation and this Order;

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of whom, by accepting receipt of such 

Protected Material, thereby agree to be bound by the parties’ Stipulation and this Order;

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

reasonably necessary – each of whom, by accepting receipt of such Protected Material, 

thereby agree to be bound by the parties’ Stipulation and this Order. Pages of 

transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected 

Material may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under the parties’ 

Stipulation and this Protective Order.

(f) the author or custodian of a document containing the information that 

constitutes Protected Material, or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the 

information.

5.3. Notice of Confidentiality. Prior to producing or disclosing Protected 

Material/Confidential Documents to persons to whom the parties’ Stipulation and this

Order permits disclosure or production (see section 5.2, supra), a Receiving Party shall 

provide a copy of the parties’ Stipulation and Order to such persons so as to put such 

persons on notice as to the restrictions imposed upon them herein: except that, for court 

reporters, Professional Vendors, and for witnesses being provided with Protected 

Material during a deposition, it shall be sufficient notice for Counsel for the Receiving 

Party to give the witness a verbal admonition (on the record, for witnesses) regarding 

the provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order and such provisions’ 

applicability to specified Protected Material at issue.

5.4. Reservation of Rights. Nothing in the parties’ Stipulation and this Order 

shall be construed so as to require any Producing Party to designate any records or 

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materials as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Nothing in the parties’ Stipulation or this Order shall 

be construed so as to prevent the admission of Protected Material into evidence at the 

trial of this action, or in any appellate proceedings for this action, solely on the basis 

that such Disclosure or Discovery Material has been designated as Protected 

Material/Confidential Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in the 

parties’ Stipulation or this Order shall be construed as a waiver of any privileges or of 

any rights to object to the use or admission into evidence of any Protected Material in 

any proceeding; nor shall anything herein be construed as a concession that any 

privileges asserted or objections made are valid or applicable. 

Nothing in the parties’ Stipulation or this Order shall be construed so as to 

prevent the Designating Party (or its Counsel or custodian of records) from having 

access to and using Protected Material designated by that Party in the manner in which 

such persons or entities would typically use such materials in the normal course of their 

duties or profession – except that the waiver of confidentiality provisions shall apply 

(see section 4.4(c), supra).

5.5. Requirement to File Confidential Documents Under Seal. Confidential 

Documents may be submitted in all law and motion proceedings before the Court if 

done so under seal pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 5.2 and 26 and/or 

United States District Court, Eastern District of California Local Rules 141, 141.1, 143, 

230 and/or 251 (as applicable) and pursuant to the provisions of the parties’ Stipulation 

and this Order. If any Receiving Party attaches any Confidential Documents to any 

pleading, motion, or other paper to be filed, lodged, or otherwise submitted to the 

Court, such Confidential Document(s) shall be filed/lodged under seal pursuant to 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 5.2 and 26 and/or United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California Local Rules 141, 141.1, 143, 230 and/or 251 to the extent 

applicable. 

However, this paragraph (¶ 5.5) shall not be construed so as to prevent a 

Designating Party or counsel from submitting, filing, lodging, or publishing any 

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document it has previously designated as a Confidential Document without compliance 

with this paragraph’s requirement to do so under seal (i.e., a producing-disclosing party 

or counsel may submit or publish its own Confidential Documents without being in 

violation of the terms of the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective Order). 

Furthermore, a Receiving Party shall be exempted from the requirements of this 

paragraph as to any specifically identified Confidential Document(s) where – prior to 

the submission or publication of the Confidential Document(s) at issue – the 

Designating Party of such specifically identified Confidential Document(s) has 

waived/withdrawn the protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order (pursuant to 

paragraph 4.4, supra).

A Receiving Party shall also be exempt from the sealing requirements of this 

paragraph (¶ 5.5) where the Confidential Documents/Protected Material at issue is/are 

not documents, records, or information regarding: 

(1) private, personal information contained in peace officer personnel files 

(such as social security numbers, driver’s license numbers or comparable personal 

government identification numbers, residential addresses, compensation or pension or 

personal property information, credit card numbers or credit information, dates of birth, 

tax records and information, information related to the identity of an officer’s family 

members or co-residents, and comparable personal information about the officer or his 

family); 

(2) any internal affairs or comparable investigation by any law enforcement 

agency into alleged officer misconduct; and/or 

(3) the medical records or records of psychiatric or psychological treatment of 

any peace officer or party to this action. 

Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to bind the Court or its authorized 

staff so as to limit or prevent the publication of any Confidential Documents to the jury 

or factfinder, at the time of trial of this matter, where the Court has deemed such 

Confidential Documents to be admissible into evidence. 

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6. 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, preferably (though not 

necessarily) by facsimile or electronic mail. Such notification shall include a copy of 

the subpoena or court order at issue;

(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 the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective Order. Such notification 

shall include a copy of the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective Order; and 

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

all sides in any such situation, while adhering to the terms of the parties’ Stipulation

and this Order.

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.

The purpose of this section is to ensure that the affected Party has a meaningful 

opportunity to preserve its confidentiality interests in the court from which the 

subpoena or court order issued.

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7. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.

7.1. 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 the parties’ 

Stipulation and this 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 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 person or persons consent to be bound by the Stipulation and 

this Order.

7.2. 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.

8. PUBLICATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL PROHIBITED.

8.1. Filing of Protected Material.

Without advance written permission from the Designating Party, or a court order 

secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Receiving 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 the applicable Federal and Local 

Rules.

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8.2. Public Dissemination of Protected Material.

A Receiving Party shall not publish, release, post, or disseminate Protected 

Material to any persons except those specifically delineated and authorized by the 

parties’ Stipulation and this Order (see section 5, supra); nor shall a Receiving Party 

publish, release, leak, post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential Documents 

to any news media, member of the press, website, or public forum (except as permitted 

under this Order regarding filings with the court in this action and under seal).

9. FINAL DISPOSITION.

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 

thirty (30) days after the final termination of this action (defined as the dismissal or 

entry of judgment by the above named court, or if an appeal is filed, the disposition of 

the appeal), upon written request by the Producing Party, each Receiving Party must 

return all Protected Material to the Producing Party – whether retained by the Receiving 

Party or its Counsel, Experts, Professional Vendors, agents, or any non-party to whom 

the Receiving Party produced or shared such records or information. As used in this 

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

summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material, 

regardless of the medium (hardcopy, electronic, or otherwise) in which such Protected 

Material is stored or retained. 

In the alternative, at the discretion of the Receiving Party, the Receiving Party 

may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it – unless such 

Protected Material is an original, in which case, the Receiving Party must obtain the 

Producing Party’s written consent before destroying such original 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) within thirty (30) days of the aforementioned 

written request by the Designating Party that specifically identifies (by category, where 

appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms 

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that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries 

or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected material (in any 

medium, including but not limited to any hardcopy, electronic or digital copy, or 

otherwise). 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of 

all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda filed with the court in this 

action, as well as any correspondence or attorney work product prepared by Counsel for 

the Receiving Party, even if such materials contain Protected Material; however, any 

such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this 

Protective Order as set forth in Section 2, above. This court shall retain jurisdiction in 

the event that a Designating Party elects to seek court sanctions for violation of the 

parties’ Stipulation and this Order. 

10. MISCELLANEOUS.

10.1. Right to Further Relief. Nothing in the parties’ Stipulation or this Order 

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

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

Protective Order pursuant to the parties’ Stipulation, 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 the parties’ Stipulation or this Order. Similarly, no Party 

waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence any of the material covered 

by the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective Order.

The provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Protective Order shall be in 

effect until further Order of the Court. 

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Respectfully Submitted By:

Mildred K. O'Linn (State Bar No. 159055)

Tony M. Sain (State Bar No. 251626)

MANNING & KASS

ELLROD, RAMIREZ, TRESTER LLP

801 S. Figueroa St, 15th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90017-3012

Telephone: (213) 624-6900

Facsimile: (213) 624-6999

Email: mko@manningllp.com; 

tms@manningllp.com 

Attorneys for Defendant,

CITY OF FRESNO

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 19, 2015 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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