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Parties Involved:
Faysal Abi-Chahine
Defendant
City of San Mateo
Defendant
Jose Galindo
Plaintiff
Sandra Hernandez
Plaintiff
Derrick Jarvis
Defendant
Derrik Jarvis
Defendant

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PANOS LAGOS, ESQ. (SBN: 061821) 

LAW OFFICES OF PANOS LAGOS 

5032 Woodminster Lane 

Oakland, CA 94602 

Telephone: (510) 530-4078 

Facsimile: (510) 530-4725 

Email: panos@panoslagoslaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

JOSE GALINDO and SANDRA HERNANDEZ 

LOUIS A. LEONE, ESQ. (SBN: 099874) 

KATHERINE A. ALBERTS, ESQ. (SBN: 212825) 

CLAUDIA LEED, ESQ. (SBN: 122676) 

LEONE & ALBERTS 

A Professional Corporation 

2175 N. California Blvd., Suite 900 

Walnut Creek, CA 94596 

Telephone: (925) 974-8600 

Facsimile: (925) 974-8601 

Email: lleone@leonealberts.com

 kalberts@leonealberts.com 

 cleed@leonealberts.com

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY OF SAN MATEO, FAYSAL ABI-CHAHINE 

and DERRICK JARVIS 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOSE GALINDO, SANDRA HERNANDEZ,

 Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

CITY OF SAN MATEO, a municipal 

corporation, San Mateo Police Department 

Officers FAYSAL ABI-CHAHINE, 

individually, and DERRICK JARVIS, also 

known as DERRIK JARVIS, individually, 

and DOES 1 to 100, jointly and severally, 

 Defendants. 

Case No.: 3:16-cv-03651-EMC (SK) 

STIPULATION AND[PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR LITIGATION 

HIGHLY SENSITIVE CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

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

the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does 

not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

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

information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal 

principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 14.4, below, that 

this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 

under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file 

material under seal. 

2. 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). 

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

Counsel (as well as their support staff). 

 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” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

 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 

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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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items,” disclosure of which to 

another Party or Non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could 

not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

 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,” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.” 

 2.17 Receiving Party: a person who receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

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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 appropriate standards. To the extent it is practical to do so, the 

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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 at all or do not qualify for the level 

of protection initially asserted, 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” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level of 

protection being asserted. 

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

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

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

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

deemed “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”) 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection 

being asserted. 

 (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 and specify the level 

of protection being asserted. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion 

of testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the 

testimony may qualify for protection, the Designating Party may invoke on the record 

(before the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 

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

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the 

testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 21 days shall be 

covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a 

Designating Party may specify, at the deposition or up to 21 days afterwards if that 

period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

Parties shall give the other parties notice if they reasonably expect a deposition, 

hearing or other proceeding to include Protected Material so that the other parties can 

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ensure that only authorized individuals who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) are present at those proceedings. The use of a 

document as an exhibit at a deposition shall not in any way affect its designation as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”

Transcripts containing Protected Material shall have an obvious legend on the 

title page that the transcript contains Protected Material, and the title page shall be 

followed by a list of all pages (including line numbers as appropriate) that have been 

designated as Protected Material and the level of protection being asserted by the 

Designating Party. The Designating Party shall inform the court reporter of these 

requirements. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 21-day period 

for designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in its entirety unless otherwise agreed. 

After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be treated only as actually 

designated.

 (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 or on the digital media format (thumb drive, DVD, 

CD, etc.) in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”. 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) and specify the level of protection 

being asserted. 

 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. 

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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 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 under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if 

applicable) 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, 

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whichever is earlier.1 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, including a 

challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. 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 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 

 

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 Alternative: It may be appropriate in certain circumstances for the parties to agree to 

shift the burden to move on the Challenging Party after a certain number of challenges 

are made to avoid an abuse of the process. The burden of persuasion would remain on 

the Designating Party. 

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must comply with the provisions of section 15 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) 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); 

 (c) the court and its personnel; 

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

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); 

 (e) 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). 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. 

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

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

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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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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.2

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” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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. 

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 The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence 

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

to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or 

order issued. 

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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” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 NonParty from seeking additional protections. 

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

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

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

information, then the Party shall: 

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 

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

with a Non-Party; 

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 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 

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confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court.3

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 

Receiving Parties may not disclose or in any way use the document(s) pending 

resolution of a challenge to the claim of privilege or other protection. This provision is 

not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order 

that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 

Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of 

disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or 

work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated 

protective order submitted to the court. 

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 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of 

confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to 

protect its confidentiality interests in this court. 

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12. MISCELLANEOUS

 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 Civil Local Rule 79-5. 

Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing 

the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-

5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected 

Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to 

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

seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the Protected Material in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 

79-5(e)(2) 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 

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

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

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

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, 

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

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

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

product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies 

that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as 

set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: February 9, 2017 LAW OFFICES OF PANOS LAGOS 

By: ___/s/ _Panos Lagos__________

PANOS LAGOS, ESQ. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOSE GALINDO and SANDRA HERNANDEZ 

Dated: February 9, 2017 LEONE & ALBERTS 

By: ___/s/ Claudia Leed_________________

LOUIS A. LEONE 

KATHERINE A. ALBERTS 

CLAUDIA LEED 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CITY OF SAN MATEO, FAYSAL ABI-CHAHINE, and 

DERRICK JARVIS 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _____________________ ______________________________________ 

JUDGE EDWARD M. CHEN 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

2/10/2017

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of 

_________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I 

have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was 

issued by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on 

[date] in the case of Galindo, et al. v. City of San Mateo, et al, 3:16-cv-03651 EMC, I 

agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to 

sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not 

disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated 

Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions 

of this Order. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

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

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

action. 

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

_______________________________________ [print or type full address and 

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

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

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

[printed name] 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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