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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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Debra J. Albin-Riley (SBN # 112602) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

333 South Grand Avenue 

Los Angeles, CA 90071-1543 

Telephone: (213) 615-1700 

Facsimile: (213) 615-1750 

Email: driley@winston.com

Amanda L. Groves (SBN # 187216) 

Leda M. Mouallem (SBN # 221258) 

WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

101 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111-5894 

Telephone: (415) 591-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 591-1400 

Email: agroves@winston.com

Email: lmouallem@winston.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

T-MOBILE USA, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

RUSSELL BRADBERRY, individually and on 

behalf of a class of similarly situated 

individuals, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

T-MOBILE USA, INC., a Delaware corporation

Defendant. 

 

Case No. C 06 6567 CW 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Judge: Hon. Claudia Wilken 

Complaint Filed: October 20, 2006 

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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 would 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 extends only to the limited information or 

items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties 

further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates 

no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets 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. 

2. DEFINITIONS

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

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or 

tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this 

matter, except those items or information shown by a Party to be in its possession independent of the 

Producing Party's Disclosure. However, as to these items and information, the Parties agree that 

they continue to maintain their confidential status to the extent provided by the Parties' prior 

purchase orders' terms and conditions and non-disclosure agreements. 

 2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated, stored 

or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under 

F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

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 2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: extremely 

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or non-Party would 

create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

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

Producing Party. 

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material 

in this action. 

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-Party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential — 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

2.12 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 and who is not a past or current employee of a Party or a current employee 

of a competitor of a Party and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g., 

photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, 

retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

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3. SCOPE

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

4. DURATION

 Even after the termination 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. 

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 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 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 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. 

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, material that 

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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), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of 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 

(either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

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 Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party 

must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of 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 (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

(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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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ONLY.” 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 Party or non-Party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before 

the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being 

asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 

days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the Party or non-Party offering 

or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 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” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information 

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

portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, 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 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 timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, 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. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

directly with counsel for the Designating Party. 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. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a 

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that 

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such 

motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied 

with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with 

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating 

Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding 

shall be on the Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, 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. 

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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 11, 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. 

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 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; 

(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 “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the Court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal 

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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 the document, as designated by the face of the 

document, or the original source of the information. 

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 to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 

for this litigation; 

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” 

(Exhibit A); 

(c) the Court and its personnel; 

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and the author of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION

 If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that 

would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the 

Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately 

and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification 

must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The Receiving Party also must immediately 

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inform in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that 

some or all the material covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In 

addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the 

party in the other action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. The purpose of imposing these 

duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this Protective Order and to afford the 

Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court 

from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the 

expenses 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. 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 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 to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

10. 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. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

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

Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy 

some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. 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 sixty day deadline that 

identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

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

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 

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

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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 (DURATION), above. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS

Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its 

modification by the Court in the future. 

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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

DATED: September 6, 2007 WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 

By ____________________________ 

 Debra J. Albin-Riley 

 Amanda L. Groves 

 Leda M. Mouallem 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 T-MOBILE USA, INC. 

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Dated: September ____, 2007 THE JACOBS LAW FIRM, CHTD. 

By ____________________________ 

 John G. Jacobs 

 Brian G. Kolton 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

 RUSSELL BRADBERRY

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: September 12, 2007 

 THE HONORABLE CLAUDIA WILKEN 

 U.S. District Court Judge 

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EXHIBIT" A" 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________, of _________________, 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 RUSSELL 

BRADBERRY v. T-MOBILE USA, INC., Case No. C 066567 CW. 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 

__________________________ of _______________________________________ 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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