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Parties Involved:
Burley D. Tompkins
Plaintiff
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Defendant

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(SPACE BELOW FOR FILING STAMP ONLY) 

STEPHANIE L. QUINN (SBN 216655) 

MARIEL COVARRUBIAS (SBN 274784) 

MURPHY, CAMPBELL, ALLISTON & QUINN

8801 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 230 

Sacramento, CA 95826 

Telephone: (916) 400-2300 

Fax: (916) 400-2311 

Email: squinn@murphycampbell.com

mcovarrubias@murphycampbell.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO 

BURLEY D. TOMPKINS, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a 

corporation, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:12-CV-01481-CMK

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

RE: DISCLOSURE OF UNION PACIFIC 

RAILROAD COMPANY POLICE 

REPORTS 

 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

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

confidential or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and 

from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. The 

specific item of discovery at issue are police reports from UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 

COMPANY’S (“UPRR”) Police Department, which Plaintiff has requested in discovery. 

UPRR has its own police department, which conducts police activities related to UPRR’s 

property and related to trains traveling in interstate commerce. Plaintiff has alleged that he 

was injured in 1998 after being startled by a transient on a UPRR railcar and that UPRR was 

negligent because of the presence of a trespasser on its property. In support of that claim, 

he has requested UPRR records related to police activities by the UPRR Police Department, 

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including police reports. 

 The police reports that Plaintiff has requested be produced in discovery contain 

highly sensitive information regarding UPRR’s police activities, as well as highly sensitive 

information related to criminal suspects or perpetrators, some of which may be juveniles. 

There are security concerns related to the production of UPRR’s Police Department records 

and there is also a need to protect sensitive and private information, which may not be 

adequately protected through redacting of personal identifying information. Because of the 

sensitive nature of this material, a protective order is needed so that the material is only 

used for purposes of this litigation. 

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, 

specifically and only UPRR’s Police Department records. 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; Local Rule 141 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. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order. 

2.2 “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). This includes specifically any and all UPRR Police Reports 

and any spreadsheets identifying said police reports produced in this case. 

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

(as well as their support staff). 

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2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 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. 

2.6 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. 

2.7 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. 

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

legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.9 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. 

2.10 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). 

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, 

and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

Producing Party. 

3. 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 the following information: (a) 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; and (b) any information known 

to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the 

disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of 

confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be 

governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. 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. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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

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

take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

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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. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or 

ordered, 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 

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, 

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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. 

(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 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 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. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 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. 

6.2 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 

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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 

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. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 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. Each 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. 

Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration 

within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality 

designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a 

motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing 

so. 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 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 

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designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality 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. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only 

for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material 

may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in 

this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the 

provisions of section 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location 

and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under 

this Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

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

disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

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

employees of said Outside Counsel 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); 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

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

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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) 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. 

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

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

(h) the Receiving Party. 

(i) witnesses or persons involved in this action to whom disclosure is reasonably 

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

Be Bound” (Exhibit A). 

8. 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; 

(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. 

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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. 

9. 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 NonParties 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 NonParty; 

(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 Non-Party. 

(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 

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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 court1. 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. 

10. 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. 

11. 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 may be established in an ediscovery 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. 

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Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its confidentiality interested in this court. 

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

to seek its modification by the court in the future. 

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective 

Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing 

any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the 

material covered by this Protective Order. 

12.3 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 Local Rule 141. 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 Local Rule 141, 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 Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then 

the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Local Rule 141 

unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

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

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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 4, regarding DURATION. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: April 14, 2015 MURPHY, CAMPBELL, ALLISTON & QUINN 

 

 By: /s/ STEPHANIE L. QUINN 

 STEPHANIE L. QUINN (SBN 216655) 

 MARIEL COVARRUBIAS (SBN 274784) 

Attorneys for Defendant UNION PACIFIC 

RAILROAD COMPANY 

DATED: April 14, 2015 HILDEBRAND McLEOD & NELSON INC. 

 

 By: /s/ RYAN OTIS___________________ 

 ANTHONY PETRU (SBN 91399) 

 RYAN OTIS (SBN 260032) 

Attorneys for Plaintiff BURLEY D. 

TOMPKINS 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 24, 2015 

EXHIBIT A 

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MURPHY, CAMPBELL, ALLISTON 

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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 in April 2015 in the case of Burley D. Tompkins v. Union Pacific Railroad 

Company, United States District Court Case No. 2:12-CV-01481-CMK (Eastern District of 

California). 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. 

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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