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Parties Involved:
Anna Carlson
Defendant
Terry Hayes
Defendant
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Defendant
Earl Wells
Plaintiff
Jeff Wilson
Defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Bingham McCutchen LLP

JAMES SEVERSON (SBN 67489)

JACQUELINE S. BRONSON (SBN 222169) Three Embarcadero Center

San Francisco, CA 94111-4067

Telephone: (415) 393-2000

Facsimile: (415) 393-2286

Attorneys for Defendant)

T-MOBILE USA, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EARL WELLS,

Plaintiff,

v.

T-MOBILE USA, INC., ANNA

CARLSON, JEFF WILSON, TERRY

HAYES and DOES 1 through 20,

inclusive

Defendant.

No. C06 7225 TEH

STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Plaintiff Earl Wells (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants T-Mobile USA, Inc.,

Anna Carlson, Jeff Wilson, Terry Hayes (“Defendants”) (collectively “the Parties”)

recognize that certain information pertaining to this action is private, proprietary

and/or otherwise highly confidential. The Parties further recognize that certain

information pertaining to this action may be competitively sensitive and that

Defendants could be competitively harmed in the event such information is 

disclosed or used for purposes other than for the prosecution or defense of this action. 

Therefore the Parties, through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to 

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the following agreement (hereinafter “Protective Order” or “Order”) regarding the

protection of the confidentiality of information disclosed during discovery in

connection with this action:

1. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, or as otherwise

stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be

clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. Any Party may

designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” any document produced in discovery, or any other

document or information disclosed, served, filed or given under oath in this action

(including, without limitation, answers to interrogatories, answers to requests for

admission, responses to requests for production, deposition testimony, and

transcripts of depositions), or any part thereof, at the time of production, 

disclosure, service, copying, filing, or signing, with the word “CONFIDENTIAL” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, if inadvertently

produced without such designation, by promptly furnishing written notice to the

receiving Party that information shall be CONFIDENTIAL under this Protective

Order. 

1.1 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts

of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix

the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that contains protected material. If only a

portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing

Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 

appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level 

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of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials

available for inspection need not designate them for protection until after the

inspecting Party has indicated which material it would like copied and produced. 

During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available

for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or

portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order, then, before producing the

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate legend

(“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion

or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party

also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate

markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection

being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

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

proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony

identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other

proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the

testimony that qualify as either ““CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical to

identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and 

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when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection,

the Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on

the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to

20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). Only those

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated 

for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this

Stipulated Protective Order. 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 or nonparty 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 in a prominent 

place on the exterior of the container or containers in which the information or 

item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information or item warrant

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

portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

1.2 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 Order for such material. If material is

appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

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ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” after the material was initially produced, the

Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable

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

this Order.

2. In exercising the right to designate material as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”, the Parties agree to proceed in good faith. A Party shall not designate

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

EYES ONLY” unless it is of a private or confidential or proprietary nature

deserving of such protection under applicable law. 

Each Party or non-party that designates information or items for

protection under this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific

material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party (also

referred to herein as a “Submitting Party”) must take care to designate for

protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written

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

items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept

unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 

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

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

process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties), expose

the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention

that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for

protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that

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Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the

mistaken designation.

3. This Order does not restrict the right of the Designating Party to

make such use or disclosure of its own material that has been designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”, as it is otherwise entitled to make. As to any CONFIDENTIAL material

disclosed to another Party in this litigation, such material shall not be used or

disclosed by the receiving Party, or by any person granted access thereto under this

Order, for any business or competitive purposes or for any purpose other than the

preparation, trial and appeal of this Action, consistent with the terms of this Order. 

4. Access to any CONFIDENTIAL material, or any part thereof, 

as well as to the matters contained therein, shall be limited to: (a) the judiciary, its

employees and its agents, including jurors; (b) the Parties, and the officers,

employees and agents of the Parties who have a reasonable justification to view the

“CONFIDENTIAL” information or documents; (c) the attorneys for the Parties,

their associates, assistants and agents; (d) court reporters, their transcribers,

assistants and employees; (e) consultants and experts who have been retained by

counsel for any Party, provided that the Protective Order is reviewed and Exhibit A

is reviewed and signed by any such expert and consultant; and (f) deponents or 

trial witnesses, provided that the Protective Order is reviewed and Exhibit A is

reviewed and signed by any such deponent or trial witness. Copies of these

executed Exhibits shall be retained by counsel.

5. With the exception of those persons and entities enumerated in

Paragraph 4 above, no “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” material, or parts thereof, or any matters contained

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therein, or any extracts or summaries thereof, may be disclosed to any person or

entity for any reason without the prior, written consent of the Designating Party. 

6. Any time a Party submits material to the Court that has been

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order (or

material that contains or discloses information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” pursuant to the

terms of this Protective Order) either of the following procedures shall be 

followed: 

(a) If a Party (the “Submitting Party”) submits material to the

Court which contains material that the Submitting Party has designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”,” the Submitting Party shall, in accordance with applicable federal rules and

Local Rule 79-5 et seq., submit a written application and proposed order to the

Court along with the documents submitted for filing under seal. The proposed order

shall address both the sealing of the application and order itself, if appropriate. The

original and judge’s copy of the document shall be sealed in separate envelopes with

a copy of the title page attached to the front of the envelope. The documents shall

remain lodged with the Court in accordance with federal and local rules, pending an

order of the Court that the material be filed under seal; or 

(b) If the Submitting Party submits material to the Court

which contains material designated by another Party (the “Designating Party”) as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”, the Submitting Party and Designating Party shall comply with the

requirements of Local Rule 79-5(d). shall: (i) lodge the material with the court

conditionally under seal pursuant to federal and local rules, pending an order of the

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Court that the material be filed under seal; and (ii) on or before the date such

material is lodged with the Court, serve on the Designating Party notice that the

Submitting Party is lodging or will lodge material to the Court designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”. If within thirty (30) days of the date of filing, the Designating Party has

not filed a noticed motion to file the material under seal pursuant to Local Rule 79-5

et seq., the material shall be filed unsealed and will become part of the public

record. 

7. Parties submitting purportedly “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” material to the 

Court shall endeavor in good faith to restrict their filings or other submissions to

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” material that is reasonably necessary for the Court to consider in connection

with the issue or matter for which the “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” material is

submitted.

8. The execution of this Order, and the entry of a Protective Order

pursuant hereto, shall not, in itself:

(a) constitute a waiver of any Party’s right to seek at a future

time from the Court an order restricting access to specific material designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” to a more limited group of individuals or entities than described herein, or

granting access to specific material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to specific

individuals; or

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(b) preclude any Party from (i) claiming that any document or

matter designated hereunder is not entitled to the protections of this Protective

Order, or (ii) applying to the Court for an Order permitting disclosure or use of

information or documents otherwise prohibited by this Protective Order; or

(c) constitute a waiver of any objection to any discovery

request; or

(d) be construed as an admission or agreement that any

material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”, is in fact, confidential, or contains sensitive

information, or otherwise is entitled to any protective relief whatsoever.

9. If any Party claims that any matter designated hereunder is not

entitled to the protections of this Protective Order, that Party may serve on the

Designating Party an objection to the designation. 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. 

A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are

not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging

Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not

proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated

material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered,

to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to

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the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer

process first. 

A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality designation

after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and

serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule

79-5, if applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail 

the basis for the challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and

confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with

specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. The burden of persuasion in 

any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. The material shall

remain “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” as designated unless and until the Designating 

Party agrees in writing to remove the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” designation, or the Court 

orders the material is not “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. 

10. The terms of this Protective Order are applicable to

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” information submitted or produced by a non-party, and such information

produced by a non-party in connection with this litigation is protected by the

remedies and relief provided by this Protective Order. A non-party providing

information to all the Parties through either formal or informal discovery means

shall (a) have the same right as a Party to designate any such information under 

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this Protective Order, and (b) shall have the standing to enforce the terms of this

Protective Order with respect to disclosure and use of that non-party’s designated

information.

11. At the conclusion of litigation between the Parties, all

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” material disclosed in this action, whether or not filed, or identified as an

exhibit in the proceeding, including all copies, shall be returned within thirty (30)

days after the conclusion of the litigation.

IT IS SO AGREED.

DATED: March 19, 2007

Bingham McCutchen LLP

By: /s/ James Severson

Attorneys for Defendants T-Mobile USA, Inc., Anna Carlson, Jeff

Wilson and Terry Hayes

DATED: March 19, 2007

LAW OFFICES OF DOUGLAS N.

THOMASON

By: /s/ Douglas N. Thomason

Attorneys for Plaintiff Earl Wells

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 21, 2007

 

Hon. Thelton E. Henderson

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EXHIBIT A

PROMISE OF CONFIDENTIALITY

I have read and understand the Stipulated Protective Order (the

“Order”) in the case of Earl Wells v. T-Mobile USA Inc., Anna Carlson, Jeff 

Wilson, Terry Hayes, and Does 1-20 inclusive, United States District Court,

Northern District of California, No. C 06-07225 THE, and I agree to be bound by all

of its terms.

I further understand that disclosures or discovery material produced in

this action (i.e., documents, testimony, written discovery responses, and other

information provided in the course of pretrial discovery, and any information

contained therein or derived therefrom) and designated “CONFIDENTIAL” may not

be disclosed to anyone, except as authorized by this Order, and may not be 

used for any purpose other than the purposes of this litigation, as defined by this

Order.

I consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court,

Northern District of California for any proceeding to enforce this agreement.

Executed this __ day of __________, at __________________,

____________________________________________.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States

and the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.

_______________________________

(Signature)

_______________________________

(Type or Print Name)

_______________________________

(Address)

_______________________________

(Telephone Number)

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