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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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JUSTICE FIRST LAW OFFICE OF STEPHEN SCHEAR, 

Jenny C. Huang, SBN 223596 Stephen Schear, SBN 83806 

180 Grand Avenue, Suite 1300 2831 Telegraph Avenue 

Oakland, CA 94612 Oakland, California 94609 

Telephone: (510) 628-0695 Telephone: (510) 832-3500 

Email: jhuang@justicefirst.net Email: steveschear@gmail.com

 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Ryan Kime 

MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 

Barry S. Landsberg, SBN 117284 

Doreen W. Shenfeld, SBN 113686 

Colin McGrath, SBN 286882 

11355 W. Olympic Blvd. 

Los Angeles, CA 90064 

Telephone: (510) 451-6770 

Emails: blandsberg@manatt.com 

 dshenfeld@manatt.com 

 cmcgrath@manatt.com 

Attorneys for Defendants Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital, Inc., 

Medical Staff of St. Helena Hospital Clearlake, and Dr. John Weeks 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

RYAN KIME, M.D., 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

ADVENTIST HEALTH CLEARLAKE 

HOSPITAL, ET AL., 

 Defendants. 

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Case No.: 1:16-cv-04502 (YGR) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

*AS MODIFIED BY THE COURT* 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

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

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

may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court 

to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery 

and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the 

limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the 

applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures 

that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks 

permission from the court to file material under seal. 

2. PROTECTIONS REGARDING PERSONAL, HEALTH AND MEDICAL 

 INFORMATION AND CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL STAFF RECORDS. 

 The parties acknowledge that information produced in discovery, regardless 

of its designation under this Order, may contain information that concerns or relates 

to private, personal health and medical information that is subject to the protections 

of (a) the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) 

and the applicable requirements of the Standards for Privacy of Individually 

Identifiable Health Information and its implementing regulations issued by the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human Services (45 C.F.R. Parts 160-64; HIPAA Privacy 

Regulations) and/or (b) California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act 

(“CMIA”) (California Civil Code § 56 et seq.) (collectively, “Privacy Laws.”). The 

parties also acknowledge that information produced in discovery may include the 

confidential records and proceedings of the Medical Staff of St. Helena Hospital 

Clearlake, which defendants would not voluntarily produce if this matter were pending in 

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California State Court. The parties and all third-party signatories to this Protective 

Order agree to take all measures necessary to comply with the requirements of the 

Privacy Laws and any other applicable laws governing the privacy of health and 

medical information and confidential Medical Staff records and proceedings. Such 

measures include, but are not limited to, the development, implementation, 

maintenance and use of appropriate administrative, technical and physical 

safeguards, in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, to preserve the 

confidentiality and integrity of private health and medical information. 

3. DEFINITIONS 

3.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 

of information or items under this Order. 

3.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection 

under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). To the extent not included, the term 

CONFIDENTIAL shall also include: 

 a. information which concerns or relates to the trade secrets, 

processes, operations, style of works, or apparatus, or to the production, sales, 

shipments, purchases, transfers, identification of customers, inventories, or amount 

or source of any income, profits, losses, or expenditures , or other information of 

commercial value, the disclosure of which is likely to have the effect of impairing or 

hindering the ability to perform its statutory functions, or causing substantial harm 

or cause annoyance or embarrassment; 

 b. protected health information (“PHI”) as that term is defined 

under HIPAA and its implementing regulations (45 C.F.R. § 160.103). 

 c. information that concerns or relates to the records and 

proceedings of the Medical Staff of St. Helena Hospital Clearlake. 

3.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff). 

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

3.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of 

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

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

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

3.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an 

expert witness or as a consultant in this action. 

3.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel. 

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

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

3.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party 

to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have 

appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which 

has appeared on behalf of that party. 

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

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs). 

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

Discovery Material in this action. 

3.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, court reporting, videotaping, translating, preparing 

exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or 

medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 

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3.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

from a Producing Party. 

4. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted 

from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of 

Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties 

or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections 

conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover 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. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by 

a separate agreement or order. 

5. DURATION 

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be 

deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or 

without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion 

of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the time 

limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law. 

6. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this 

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Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies 

under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for protection 

only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that 

qualify – so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications 

for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of 

this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to 

impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating 

Party to sanctions. 

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 

promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

6.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 6.2(a) below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 

under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each 

page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a 

page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the 

protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for 

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

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indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 

before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 

deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents 

it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, 

or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend 

to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins). 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, 

that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, 

hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, or by marking within fifteen 

(15) days after the receipt of a final transcript of such deposition the portions of the 

transcript to be designated as Confidential. During the deposition, if Confidential 

information or material is to be disclosed, prior to such disclosure any person not 

authorized to receive Confidential information shall be excluded from the deposition 

until testimony regarding those matters has been concluded. If any testimony in a 

deposition or any writing or information used during the course of a deposition is 

designated as Confidential, the portion of the deposition record reflecting such 

material shall be stamped with the appropriate designation and access thereto shall be 

limited pursuant to the terms of this Order. The terms of this Order shall apply to 

videotaped depositions, and DVDs, video cassettes or other video containers shall be 

labeled in accordance with the terms of this Order. 

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

any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the 

exterior of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item 

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

protected portion(s). 

6.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order. 

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

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

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

Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial 

unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the 

litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by 

electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

7.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging 

and describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a 

challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to 

confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the 

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

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

of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In 

conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the 

confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an 

opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if 

no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A 

Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has 

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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. 

7.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, the parties shall follow the Court’s Standing Order in Civil Cases 

regarding Discovery and Discovery Motions. The parties may file a joint letter brief 

regarding retaining confidentiality within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or 

within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve 

their dispute, whichever is earlier. Failure by a Designating Party to file such 

discovery dispute letter within the applicable 21 or 14 day period (set forth above) 

with the Court shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each 

challenged designation. If, after submitting a joint letter brief, the Court allows that a 

motion may be filed, any 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. The Court, in its discretion, may 

elect to transfer the discovery matter to a Magistrate Judge. 

In addition, the parties may file a joint letter brief regarding a challenge to 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. If, after 

submitting a joint letter brief, the Court allows that a motion may be filed, 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 Court, in its discretion, may elect to refer 

the discovery matter to a Magistrate Judge. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose 

(e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may 

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived 

the confidentiality designation by failing to file a letter brief to retain confidentiality 

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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. 

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

8.1 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, or in any related 

state medical board investigations or proceedings. 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 14 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. 

8.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” 

only to: 

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

as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

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

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 

who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary 

for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(f) professional jury or trial consultants and mock jurors to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed that 

“Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered 

by the court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that 

reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not 

be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; 

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

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; and 

(i) the staff and/or attorneys of any state Medical Board and/or any state 

agency reviewing, investigating, or conducting a hearing concerning or relating to Dr. 

Kime arising from the events described in the Complaint or resulting from 

information reported by Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital or its medical staff 

regarding Dr. Kime’s hospital privileges. 

9. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 

that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall 

include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

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(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to 

issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or 

order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this 

Stipulated Protective Order; and 

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

by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 

the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 

action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 

protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions 

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 

disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

10. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED 

IN THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 

Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 

subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall: 

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 

that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement 

with a Non-Party; 

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(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 

Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 

specific description of the information requested; and 

(3) make the information requested available for inspection by the NonParty. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving 

Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the 

discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 

Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to 

the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. 

Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense 

of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

11. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 

writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 

to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 

and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

12. 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 

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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. 

13. MISCELLANEOUS 

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the court in the future. 

13.2 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. 

13.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the 

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested 

persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. 

A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil 

Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that 

the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise 

entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected 

Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then 

the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil 

Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

14. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 

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4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or 

destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes 

all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or 

destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing 

Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day 

deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material 

that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not 

retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this 

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

papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, 

deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and 

expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such 

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

Protective Order as set forth in Section 5 (DURATION). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: November 4, 2016 JUSTICE FIRST

 Oakland, California Attorneys for Plaintiff Ryan Kime 

 By: 

 ______/s/ Jenny Huang____________ 

 Jenny C. Huang 

 180 Grand Avenue, Suite 1300 

 Oakland, CA 94612 

Dated: November 4, 2016 MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP

 Los Angeles, California Attorneys for Defendants 

 By: 

 _____/s/ Doreen Shenfeld___________ 

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 Barry S. Landsberg 

Doreen W. Shenfeld 

Colin McGrath 

11355 W. Olympic Blvd. 

Los Angeles, CA 90064 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: November 8, 2016 ____________________________________ 

The Honorable Yvonne Rogers Gonzalez 

 United States District Court Judge 

 

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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 Kime v. Adventist Health 

Clearlake Hosp., Case No. 16-cv-04502 (YGR). I agree to comply with and to be 

bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and 

acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment 

in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner 

any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any 

person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. I further 

agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this 

action. I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and 

telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with 

this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

Date: ______________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________

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