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Parties Involved:
Best Buy Stores, L.P.
Plaintiff
LF2 Rock Creek LP
Defendant

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WILLIAM J. GOINES (SBN 61290) 

CINDY HAMILTON (SBN 217951) 

ALICE Y. CHU (SBN 264990) 

GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 

1900 University Avenue, 5th Floor 

East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2283 

Telephone: (650) 328-8500 

Facsimile: (650) 328-8508 

Attorneys for Defendant LF2 Rock Creek LP 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BEST BUY STORES, L.P., 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

LF2 ROCK CREEK LP, 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 2:13-CV-00433-MCE-AC

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 

Complaint Filed: March 5, 2013 

Trial Date: None 

Plaintiff BEST BUY STORES, L.P., and Defendant LF2 ROCK CREEK LP (collectively, the 

“Parties”), by and through their respective undersigned counsel and subject to this Court’s approval, 

hereby stipulate and agree as follows: 

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 confidential treatment. The Parties further acknowledge, 

as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file 

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confidential information 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. 

2.3 Confidential: “Confidential” information or items shall be limited to those materials that 

are believed in good faith to contain or constitute information that is subject to protection under the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or other applicable rules as proprietary, trade secret, private or 

otherwise commercially sensitive information. The “Confidential” designation shall not include any 

material that has been placed in the public domain and/or has been made available as a matter of public 

record. 

2.4 Highly Confidential: “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information or items 

shall be limited to extremely sensitive “Confidential” information or items the disclosure of which 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. 

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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 current employee of a Party or of a current 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. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulated Protective 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 Stipulated Protective Order do not cover any information that is in the 

public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or that becomes part of the public domain 

after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this 

Stipulated Protective 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 court order. 

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, re-hearings, 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 or Non-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. 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 Stipulated Protective Order. Mass, indiscriminate, or routine 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. 

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 is to be clearly so 

designated before disclosure or production. 

Designation in conformity with this Stipulated Protective 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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” on 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, such as “REDACTED”). 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not 

designate them for protection until after the Receiving Party has indicated which material it would like 

copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made 

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available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

After the Receiving Party has identified the material it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party 

must determine which material, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Stipulated Protective 

Order, then, before producing the specified material, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate 

legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) on each 

page or item that contains Protected Material. 

In the event that a Party redacts any information from a document, the redacted material shall be 

labeled “REDACTED” so that the location from which the information was redacted is clear. 

(b) For testimony given in deposition or in other proceedings outside of open court or trial, 

that any Party or non-party believes should be designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” that Designating Party or non-party shall 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”). The 20-day period shall run from the receipt by the Designating Party 

of the deposition transcript. 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. The 

Designating Party shall be required to provide notice to the court reporter detailing those sections of the 

deposition transcript that are being designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” To the extent feasible, the court reporter shall separate those sections 

before producing an official transcript and shall produce the pages designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in a separately bound section. If this is 

not feasible or if the official transcript has already been completed, then the notice from the Designating 

Party shall be affixed by the court reporter to the official transcript provided to any party. The Parties 

may agree to waive the 20-day designation period to enable disclosure of the transcript, or portions 

thereof, to their clients or for use of the transcript, or portions thereof, for non-confidential court filings 

before the 20-day period has expired. The Parties agree not to withhold agreement unreasonably. 

(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 

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containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If corrected within a reasonable period of time, an 

inadvertent failure to designate 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” within a reasonable period of time 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. 

Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall require production of information which a party 

contends is protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or the work product immunity. If 

information subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege or work product immunity is nevertheless 

inadvertently produced, such production shall in no way prejudice or otherwise constitute a waiver of, or 

estoppel as to, any claim of privilege or work product immunity for such information. Compliance with 

the foregoing shall not prevent the Producing or Receiving Party from seeking further relief from the 

Court. The Parties acknowledge that, by this paragraph, they are not seeking to alter the Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure. 

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 challenging Party must explain the basis for its 

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

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opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in 

designation is offered, to explain the basis for maintaining 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 continue 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 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. 

In connection with any motion filed under this provision, the Designating Party shall bear the 

burden of establishing that the material in question is entitled to the confidentiality designation sought by 

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 Designating Party’s designation. 

7. ACCESS TO AND DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may disclose Protected Material that is 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 Stipulated Protective 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 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 

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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 litigation; 

(b) 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 Stipulated Protective 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; 

(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) or who 

have agreed on the record at the deposition to be bound. If a deposition transcript will contain testimony 

or exhibits that reveal Protected Material, but such transcript has not yet been prepared, pages or 

depositions that reveal Protected Material must, to the extent possible, 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 an original recipient of a document; and 

(h) any current employee of a Party or a Party affiliate who was an author or original recipient 

of a document. 

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

(b) House Counsel of the Receiving party to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

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information for this litigation who has signed the “Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order” (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 “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 

(f) the author of, the original source for the information within or an original recipient of a 

document; 

 (g) if the Parties agree on the record at the deposition, the Parties may agree to permit 

disclosure to witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary. If a deposition 

transcript will contain testimony or exhibits that reveal Protected Material, but such transcript has not yet 

been prepared, pages or depositions that reveal Protected Material must, to the extent possible, be 

separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

(h) any current employee of a Party or a Party affiliate who was an author or original recipient 

of a document. 

7.4 Outside Counsel and Experts. Any Outside Counsel or Expert who has been afforded 

access to information or items from a Producing Party which has been designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” particularly information or items relating 

to Producing Party’s business, sales and marketing activities, shall not disclose, use or apply such 

information or items for any purpose other than for work or services performed within the scope of 

prosecuting, defending, and/or settling this case. 

7.5 Parties’ Own Confidential Information. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall 

limit a Party's ability to use or disclose its own Protected Material. 

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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 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 non-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 Stipulated 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 of the existence of this 

Stipulated Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to 

maintain 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 

relative to 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 

Stipulated Protective Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the 

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

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If a Receiving Party learns that it has received from a Disclosing Party a document or thing 

that appears on its face to contain privileged material that has been inadvertently disclosed, the 

Receiving Party shall immediately notify the Disclosing Party of the identity of the material that 

appears on its face to be privileged. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” is incorporated into or attached to a pleading filed with the Court, arrangements shall be 

made (a) to file an application to file the documents under seal, (b) to separately bind those exhibits, as 

well as confidential portions of the pleading, and (c) to place them in a sealed envelope on which the 

following statement is displayed: 

Filed under seal pursuant to the Protective Order dated [INSERT DATE]. 

Contains confidential documents filed in Best Buy Stores, L.P. v. LF2 Rock 

Creek LP, Case No. 2:13-CV-00433-MCE-AC. Not to be opened or the 

contents thereof displayed or revealed except to persons authorized to 

inspect them. 

If the confidential portion of the pleading or transcript cannot be conveniently segregated, the entire 

pleading or transcript shall be deemed confidential. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION 

11.1 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 or destroy it. 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. 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 Protected Material in pleadings, motion papers, 

transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials 

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contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material 

remain subject to this Stipulated Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

12. MISCELLANEOUS 

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order abridges the right 

of any person to seek the modification of this Stipulated Protective Order by the Court in the future. 

12.2 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 of the 

material covered by this Stipulated Protective Order. 

 13. THIRD PARTY DOCUMENTS PRODUCED PURSUANT TO SUBPOENA 

 13.1. For documents produced pursuant to subpoena or subpoena duces tecum or in other 

proceedings outside of open court or trial, that any Party or non-party believes should be designated 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," that 

Designating Party shall have a right up to 20 days to designate the document to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted ("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). The 20-day period shall run from the receipt 

by the Designating Party of the documents from the third party. During the initial 20-day period 

documents produced by a third party shall be treated as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - 

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" until the 20-day designation period has expired. Only those 

documents that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. The Designating Party shall be required to 

provide notice detailing those documents 

that are being designated "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY." 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:13-CV-00433-MCE-AC 

FTL 109418753v1 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.. 

DATED: , 2013. ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI L.L.P. 

 By: 

 Michael A. Geibelson, Esq. 

 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff Best Buy Stores, L.P. 

DATED: , 2013. GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 

 By 

William J. Goines 

Cindy Hamilton 

Alice Y. Chu 

Attorneys for Defendant LF2 Rock Creek LP 

 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 

Dated: March 26, 2014 

 

 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:13-CV-00433-MCE-AC 

FTL 109418753v1 

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 Eastern District of California 

on ________________[date] in the case of Best Buy Stores, L.P. v. LF2 Rock Creek LP, Case No. 2:13-

CV-00433-MCE-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 Stipulated Protective 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 the action. 

Date: __________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ________________________________ 

Signature: ___________________________________ 

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