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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA)

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Jody I. LeWitter #l24794 

Latika Malkani #184301 

Sarah C. Beard #240340 

SIEGEL & LeWITTER 

1939 Harrison Street, Suite 307 

Oakland, California 94612 

(510) 452-5000 

(510) 452-5004 (fax) 

firm@sl-employmentlaw.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Alisa H. Reff (admitted pro hac vice) 

Gregory W. Homer (admitted pro hac vice) 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH, LLP 

Suite 1100, 1500 K. Street, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20005-1209 

(202) 842-8800 

(202) 942-8465 (fax) 

Email: alisa.ref@dbr.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BLAINE JOHNSTON, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

SOFTWARE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, 

INC., 

 Defendant. 

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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 

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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 an 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. 

 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). 

 2.4 “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 “Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

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

“Confidential” or as “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 a current employee of a Party or of a competitor 

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

or a competitor of a Party’s. 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. 

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. 

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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 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 “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY” at the top of each page or on the first 

page of any pleading 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 

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portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“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 “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 

“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 “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 “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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 “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 

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 (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 “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 “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 “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 

“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 . 

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 by meeting, telephone, email or other correspondence 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 

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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. 

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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

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litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" 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 “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (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 “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 

Protected Material may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

 (g) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

 (h) neutrals such as mediators, judges, or other third parties jointly retained or 

used by the Parties in connection with an alternative dispute resolution process. 

 7.3 Disclosure of “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 “CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

 (a) the Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached 

hereto as Exhibit A; 

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 (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 

 (e) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

 (f) neutrals such as mediators, judges, or other third parties jointly retained or 

used by the Parties in connection with an alternative dispute resolution process. 

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 “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 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 

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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. A party that seeks to file any material protected 

under this Agreement shall meet and confer with the non-filing party as to whether the Protected 

Material needs to be filed under seal. 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, 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) an 

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 

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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 m Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: August 14, 2006 /s/ Sarah C. Beard

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

DATED: August 14, 2006 /s/ Alisa Reff

 Attorneys for Defendant 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: Saundra Brown Armstrong 

United States District Judge 

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August 22, 2006

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE 

United States Magistrate Judge

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

 I, ___________________ [print or type full name ], of ___________________________ 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 

understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for 

the Northern District of California on ___________ [date ] in the case of Johnston v. Software 

House International, case no. C006-02297 (SBA). 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: ______________________________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: _________________________________________________ 

 [ signature ] 

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