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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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Lawrence A. Bohm (CA SBN 208716)

lbohm@bohmlaw.com

Zane E. Hilton (CA SBN 305207)

zhilton@bohmlaw.com

Michael L. Jones (CA SBN 318262)

mjones@bohmlaw.com

BOHM LAW GROUP, INC.

4600 Northgate Blvd., Ste. 210

Sacramento, CA 95834

Telephone: (866) 920-1292

Facsimile: (916) 927-2046

Attorneys for Plaintiff

JAMIE PERKINS

Jason A. Geller (CA SBN 168149)

jgeller@fisherphillips.com

Juan C. Araneda (CA SBN 213041)

jaraneda@fisherphillips.com

FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2050

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: 415/490-9000

Facsimile: 415/490-9001

Attorneys for Defendant

WALMART INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO COURTHOUSE

JAMIE PERKINS,

Plaintiff,

vs.

WALMART, INC.; BRANDON NEELEY, an 

individual; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 2:19-CV-00649-JAM-AC

[Removed from Yuba County Superior Court, 

Civil Case No. CVCV19-00326]

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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WHEREAS, pursuant to Local Rule 141, Plaintiff Jamie Perkins (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant

Walmart Inc., (“Defendant”) hereby enter into this Stipulated Protective Order (“Stipulated 

Protective Order"), and STIPULATE AS FOLLOWS:

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Discovery activity in this action may involve production and disclosure 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 hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Stipulated Protective 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 

permanent seal. Local Rules 140 and 141 and Rules of Civil Procedure 5.2 and 26 set forth the 

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

permission from the Court to file materials under seal or in a redacted form.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

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

2.2 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 responses to discovery in this matter.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of the medium or 

manner generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under this 

Stipulated Protective Order and designated as such by a party. Such “Confidential” information 

shall include the following:

(a) Defendant’s proprietary and non-public procedures or training materials, 

specifically including Career Preference guidelines and procedures;

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(b) Defendant’s proprietary and non-public business information and financial records, 

specifically including Defendant’s compensation guidelines and My$hare plans;

(c) Documents relating to the investigation of Plaintiff’s attendance, including witness 

statements, notes, and attendance records, other than attendance records belonging to Plaintiff, and 

confidential ethics investigation records;

(d) Any documents from the personnel, medical or workers’ compensation file of any 

current or former employee or contractor, other than personnel information belonging to Plaintiff;

(e) Any documents relating to the medical or health information of any of Defendant’s 

current or former employees or contractors, including medical or health information belonging to 

Plaintiff;

(f) Any portions of depositions (audio or video) where Confidential Information is 

disclosed or used as exhibits.

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

sensitive “Confidential Information” whose disclosure to another Party would create a substantial 

risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means. Documents that may be so 

designated as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” may include any documents containing 

corporate trade secrets, nonpublic research and development data, pricing formulas, prospective 

inventory management programs, confidential business information not generally known to the 

general public, and customer-related information. Qualified recipients of documents marked 

“Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only” shall include only the following: House Counsel and 

Outside Counsel for each party and the secretarial, clerical and paralegal staff of each.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Discovery Material in this 

action.

2.7 Designating Party: a Party that designates Discovery Material as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Discovery Material that is designated as “Confidential” or 

as “Highly Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of 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. 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; graphics, translation, design and/or trial consulting 

services, including mock jurors; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective 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 their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Stipulated Protective 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.

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5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

Each Party that designates information or items for protection under this Stipulated 

Protective 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 

portions 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 Stipulated Protective Order.

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 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 Stipulated 

Protective 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 Stipulated Protective Order must be clearly 

so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. Designation in conformity with this 

Stipulated Protective 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” on each page that contains Protected 

Material.

(b) For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party or offering or sponsoring the testimony may 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If the Party offering or sponsoring the testimony does not identify 

protected testimony on the record, the Party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony shall have 

up to twenty (20) calendar days following receipt of the final deposition transcript to identify the 

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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”).

During the period commencing with a deposition session and ending twenty (20) calendar 

days following receipt of the final deposition transcript, the Parties shall afford the information 

disclosed therein the level of protection designated by the Designating Party. Only persons 

authorized under the terms of this Protective Order to receive Protected Material shall be present 

during the portions of the deposition testimony so designated.

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 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 the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” legend on a prominent place on the exterior of 

the container or containers in which the information or item is stored. If only portions of the 

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

the protected portion(s).

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 Stipulated Protective 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 Stipulated Protective 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 with 

counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the Party challenging the designation 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 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 set forth in the preceding paragraph.

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 Party challenging the 

designation to sanctions. Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall afford the material 

in question the level of protection originally designated.

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 only in connection with prosecuting, defending, or 

attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories 

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of persons and under the conditions described in this Stipulated Protective Order. When the 

litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 12

below (DISPOSITION OF MATERIALS AT CONCLUSION OF CASE).

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 Stipulated 

Protective 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 by the other Party as “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, House Counsel and

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

litigation;

(b) The officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Stipulated Protective Order) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (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, only after being informed of the provisions of this Stipulated 

Protective Order and agreeing to abide by its terms;

(f) The author of the document or the original source of the information;

(g) Mediators or other Alternative Dispute Resolution neutrals (including their 

employees, agents and contractors) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, 

only after being informed of the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order and agreeing to abide 

by its terms;

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(h) During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

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.

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 Protected Material, the Receiving Party must:

(a) Promptly notify in writing the Designating Party within three (3) days or reasonably 

possible. Such notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

(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 

Stipulated 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 Protected 

Material before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the 

Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. 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. DISCOVERABILITY AND ADMISSIBILITY OF INFORMATION AND 

DOCUMENTS

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed to affect either the 

discoverability or admissibility at trial of any document, recording or thing, nor shall any party’s 

entry into this Stipulated Protective Order be deemed to waive either its right to object to the 

production of documents, recordings or things on appropriate grounds, or to move to compel the 

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production of documents, recordings or things wrongfully withheld from production.

No provision of this Stipulated Protective Order shall require any person, corporation or 

entity to respond to discovery outside the scope of this litigation except as otherwise provided by 

law as no provision of this Stipulated Protective Order shall be deemed to enlarge or restrict the 

right of any party to conduct discovery. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be 

interpreted to compel disclosure of discovery which is protected by the attorney-client privilege, the 

attorney work-product doctrine or any other applicable privileges or doctrines.

10. USE IN COURT PROCEEDINGS - FILING OF COURT PAPERS

(a) Nothing contained in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be construed to prejudice 

any Party's right to use at trial or in any hearing before the court any Protected Material, provided 

that reasonable notice of the intended use of such material shall be given to all counsel of record in 

writing in order to enable the parties to arrange for appropriate safeguards, and provided that the 

rules applicable to sealing records, as further addressed below, are followed. Likewise, nothing in 

this Stipulated Protective Order shall be dispositive of any issues of relevance, discoverability or 

admissibility.

(b) The submission of any materials designated as Protected Material pursuant to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to the Court in this litigation under seal or in a redacted form must 

comply with Local Rules 140 and 141. If a document for which sealing or redaction is sought relates 

to a motion to be decided by Judge John A. Mendez, the request to seal or redact shall be directed 

to him and not the assigned magistrate judge. In the event a Receiving Party wishes to use any 

Protected Material in a filing that includes such material, the Receiving Party shall give counsel for 

the Designating Party sufficient notice (via telephone, email, or written correspondence) in advance 

of the filing, but in no event less than seven days before the filing. The notice is intended to allow 

the Designating Party sufficient time to move the Court or to apply ex parte for an order to seal or 

redact the Protected Material. Plaintiff agrees that he will not oppose any motion or ex parte

application by Defendant to seal or redact any Confidential Material included with a filing.

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11. UNAUTHORIZED OR INADVERTENT 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 circumstances 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 “Acknowledgement and Agreement to 

Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Attachment A.

Inadvertent disclosure of any document or other information covered by the attorney-client 

privilege, work-product or other applicable privileges during discovery in this matter, or inadvertent 

disclosure of confidential information without appropriate designation, shall be without prejudice 

to any claim that such document or other information is privileged or confidential, and no party shall 

be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent disclosure. If the Producing Party claims that 

document or other information was inadvertently disclosed, the Receiving Party shall not use the 

inadvertently produced material for any purpose and shall immediately return such material to the 

Producing Party. The inadvertent, unintentional, or in camera disclosure of Protected Material shall 

not, under any circumstances be deemed a waiver, in whole or in part, of any claims of privilege or 

confidentiality.

The Receiving Party is prohibited and estopped from arguing that:

a. the disclosure or production of the Protected Material acts as a waiver of an 

applicable privilege or evidentiary protection;

b. the disclosure of the Protected Material was not inadvertent;

c. the Producing Party did not take reasonable steps to prevent the disclosure of the 

Protected Material; or

d. the Producing Party failed to take reasonable or timely steps to rectify the error.

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12. DISPOSITION OF MATERIALS AT CONCLUSION OF CASE

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within thirty (30) days 

after the final termination of this litigation, (following settlement, the entry of a request for dismissal 

or final judgment, including exhaustion of appeals), 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 thirty-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.

13. RETENTION OF JURISDICTION

The Court shall retain jurisdiction over all persons to be bound by the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, during the pendency of this action and for such time thereafter as is needed to 

carry out its terms.

14. MISCELLANEOUS

(a) Right to Further Relief

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges the right of any person or entity to seek 

its modifications by the Court in the future.

(b) Right to Assert Other Objections

By stipulating to the entry of this Stipulated 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 the material covered by this Stipulated Protective Order.

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(c) Injunctive Relief.

In the event any person or entity violates or threatens to violate the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, the aggrieved designating party may immediately apply to obtain injunctive relief 

against any person or entity violating or threatening to violate any of the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

(d) No Bar to Other Agreements.

Entering into, agreeing to and/or producing or receiving Protected Material or otherwise 

complying with the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order shall not prevent the parties from 

agreeing to alter or waive the provisions or protections provided for herein with respect to any 

particular Protected Material.

15. COUNTERPARTS

This Stipulated Protective Order may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which 

together constitute one single document. A copy of this Stipulated Protective Order signed and sent 

via facsimile transmission to counsel for the other Party to this Stipulated Protective Order shall be 

deemed an original copy binding the party so signing.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: January 22, 2020 FISHER & PHILLIPS LLP

By: /s/ Juan C. Araneda

Jason A. Geller

Juan C. Araneda

Attorneys for Defendant

WALMART INC.

DATED: January 22, 2020 BOHM LAW GROUP, INC.

By: /s/ Michael L. Jones*

*as authorized on January 22, 2020

Lawrence A. Bohm

Zane E. Hilton

Michael L. Jones

Attorneys for Plaintiff JAMIE PERKINS

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 22, 2020

/s/ John A. Mendez____

Hon. John A. Mendez

U. S. District Court Judge

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ATTACHMENT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

BY STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], 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 Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of 

Jamie Perkins v. Walmart Inc., Case No. 2:19-CV-00649-JAM-AC. 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 Eastern 

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.

DATED: ________________ SIGNATURE: ____________________________

PRINT NAME: ________________________

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, am employed in the County of San Francisco, State of California. I am 

over the age of 18 and not a party to the within action; am employed with the law offices of 

Fisher & Phillips LLP and my business address is One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2050, San 

Francisco, California 94111.

On January 22, 2020 served the foregoing documents entitled JOINT STATUS REPORT

on all the appearing and/or interested parties in this action in accordance with Rule 5 of Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure as follows as follows: 

Lawrence A. Bohm (CA SBN 208716)

lbohm@bohmlaw.com

Zane E. Hilton (CA SBN 305207)

zhilton@bohmlaw.com

Michael L. Jones (CA SBN 318262)

mjones@bohmlaw.com

BOHM LAW GROUP, INC.

4600 Northgate Blvd., Ste. 210

Sacramento, CA 95834

Telephone: (866) 920-1292

Facsimile: (916) 927-2046

Attorneys for Plaintiff JAMIE PERKINS

 [by ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION] I served the above listed document(s) described via 

the United States District Court’s Electronic Filing Program on the designated recipients 

via electronic transmission through the CM/ECF system on the Court’s website. The 

Court’s CM/ECF system will generate a Notice of Electronic Filing (NEF) to the filing 

party, the assigned judge, and any registered users in the case. The NEF will constitute 

service of the document(s). Registration as a CM/ECF user constitutes consent to 

electronic service through the court’s transmission facilities.

I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this Court at whose 

direction the service was made.

Executed on January 22, 2020, at San Francisco, California.

Maristella Roque

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