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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Case No. CV-08-4735-CW 1

DAVID H. FRY (SBN 189276)

MARL CONRAD (SBN 255667) GERALD A. McINTYRE (SBN 181746)

MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSEN LLP NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZENS LAW CENTER

560 Mission Street, 27th Floor 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2860

San Francisco, CA 94105-2907 Los Angeles, CA 90010-1938

Telephone: 415-512-4000 Telephone: 213-674-2900

Facsimile: 415-512-4077 Facsimile: 213-639-0934

Email: David.Fry@mto.com Email: gmcintyre@nsclc.org

ANNA RICH (SBN 230195)

KEVIN PRINDIVILLE (SBN 235835) Of Counsel

NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZENS LAW CENTER EMILIA SICILIA

1330 Broadway, Suite 525 JENNIFER PARISH

Oakland, CA 94612 URBAN JUSTICE CENTER

Telephone: 510-663-1055 123 William Street, 16th Fl.

Facsimile: 510-663-1051 New York, NY 10038

Email: arich@nclc.org Telephone: 646-602-5668

kprindiville@nclc.org Facsimile: 212-533-4598

Email: wlienhard@urbanjustice.org

Esicilia@urbanjustice.org

Jparish@urbanjustice.org

Of Counsel Cont’d 

MARILYN HOLLE (SBN 61530) CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS (SBN 239556)

DISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY 

3580 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 902 521 East 5th Ave.,

Los Angeles, CA 90010-2522 San Mateo, CA 94402

Telephone: 213-427-8747 Telephone: 650-558-0915

Facsimile: 213-427-8767 Facsimile: 650-558-0673

Email: marilyn.holle@disabilityrightsca.org Email: cdouglas@legalaidsmc.org

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs Mshawver@legalaidsmc.org

JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO (CSBN 118321)

United States Attorney

JOANN M. SWANSON (CSBN 88143)

Chief, Civil Division

MICHAEL T. PYLE (CSBN 172954)

Assistant United States Attorney

VICTORIA R. CARRADERO (CSBN 217885)

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Avenue, 9th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94102-3495

Telephone: (415) 436-7181

Facsimile: (415) 436-6748

Email: victoria.carradero@usdoj.gov

Attorneys for Defendant 

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROSA MARTINEZ, JIMMY HOWARD, ) No. CV-08-4735-CW

ROBERTA DOBBS, BRENT A. ) 

RODERICK, SHARON D. ROZIER, and )

JOSEPH SUTRYNOWICZ, on behalf of ) STIPULATION AND 

themselves and all others similarly situated, ) ORDER RE

 ) CONFIDENTIAL 

Plaintiffs, ) INFORMATION

 )

v. )

 )

MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, ) 

 Commissioner of Social Security, ) 

 )

 ) 

Defendant. )

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Plaintiffs Rosa Martinez, Jimmy Howard, Roberta Dobbs, Brent A. Roderick, Sharon D. Rozier

and Joseph Sutrynowicz (collectively “Plaintiffs”), and Defendant Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner,

Social Security Administration (“Defendant”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby

stipulate as follows:

STIPULATED ORDER

The parties agree that entry of the following protective order is necessary in order for the parties

to exchange and discuss information that the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) considers to be

confidential and proprietary technical information pertaining to SSA’s internal systems. The parties

therefore request that the Court enter the following protective order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil

Procedure 26(c). 

All documents (including but not limited to, email communications) exchanged between the

parties that discuss technical system matters (including, but not limited to, agency systems coding/

programming information) and designated as such, shall be subject to the following restrictions: 

1. All information shall be used only for the purpose of this litigation and not for any other

purpose;

2. Plaintiffs’ counsel shall not disclose the information at any time (verbally or otherwise),

including to the Plaintiffs or to the public. Access to the information is permitted only to the Plaintiffs’

attorneys exclusively for the purpose of reviewing draft documents under the Martinez Stipulation of

Settlement, and not to the Plaintiffs themselves or any other person(s). There shall be no reproduction

of the information by Plaintiffs’ counsel (electronically or otherwise, this includes scanning or emailing)

except for reproduction for purposes of review by Plaintiffs’ counsel. To the extent these matters need

to be raised with the Court, the information shall be submitted to the Court for in camera review only,

and shall not be filed with the Court or become part of the court record or public record. The Court shall

return the information to SSA upon resolution of the specific issue for which the information was

submitted for in camera review. 

3. Within three (3) business days of the conclusion of the time period allotted for Plaintiffs’

counsel to review and comment upon information pursuant to the terms of the Martinez Stipulation of

Settlement, Plaintiffs’ counsel shall make good faith efforts (e.g., double deleting) to delete all

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electronic versions of the information (including, but not limited to, emails and pdfs). Within the same

three (3) business day time frame, Plaintiffs’ counsel will also return any hard copies to Defendant’s

counsel or verify in writing that the documents have been deleted or shredded. In the event that SSA

submits additional similar technical information to Plaintiffs’ counsel for review that is substantively

related to a prior set of draft technical agency system/coding instructions previously submitted to

Plaintiffs’ counsel that Plaintiffs’ counsel has since deleted or returned to SSA pursuant to this

paragraph, SSA will provide the prior draft(s) back to Plaintiffs’ counsel if requested to do so in writing

and if Plaintiffs’ counsel provides reasoning/justification for the request. The parties shall meet and

confer in good faith to resolve any disputes regarding the reasoning/justification for such requests.

4. This Stipulation and Protective Order is without prejudice to the right of any party to seek

modification of it from the Court. It shall remain in effect until such time as it is modified, amended or

rescinded by the Court. Though this litigation has resolved, this Stipulation and Protective Order shall

survive this action. The Court shall have continuing jurisdiction to modify, amend, or rescind this

Stipulation and Protective Order notwithstanding resolution and settlement of this action. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED

Respectfully Submitted,

Dated: March 23, 2010 JOSEPH P. RUSSONIELLO 

United States Attorney

 By: /s/ 

VICTORIA R. CARRADERO 

Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

Dated: March 23, 2010 By: /s/ GERALD McINTYRE

Lead Attorney for Plaintiffs

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 25, 2010 __________________________

The Honorable Claudia Wilken

United States District Court Judge

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