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Parties Involved:
Beef Packers, Inc.
Defendant
Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation
Defendant
Cargill, Inc.
Defendant
Steven J. Toal
Plaintiff

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Jill K. Rizzo, SBN 236471 

MECKLER BULGER TILSON MARICK & PEARSON LLP 

575 Market Street, 22nd Floor 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 644-0914 

Facsimile: (415) 644-0978 

Email: jill.rizzo@mbtlaw.com 

Attorneys for Defendants 

CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION and CARGILL, 

INC. 

THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

STEVEN J. TOAL, 

Plaintiff, 

 v. 

BEEF PACKERS, INC., a California 

Corporation; CARGILL MEAT 

SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, a 

Minnesota Corporation; CARGILL, INC., a 

Kansas Corporation; and DOES 1-50, 

inclusive, 

Defendants.

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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 

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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 11.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to 

file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 and 141.1 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: Materials or information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall mean any documents, materials, items, or information designated 

by Plaintiff, Defendants, or any other third party as “Confidential” and is limited to the following 

categories. The materials and information in categories (a) and (d) requires protection because it is 

not disclosed to the public, it is proprietary and commercially sensitive, it is the product of 

Defendants’ experience and expertise in its industry, and the public disclosure of said information 

to the general public and to Defendants’ competitors in particular would place Defendants at a 

competitive disadvantage and harm Defendants’ business. The materials and information in 

categories (b) and (d) require protection in order to safeguard the confidential personal information 

of Defendants’ employees who are not parties to this lawsuit and the dissemination of that 

information has the potential to lead to breach of their legally recognized privacy interests and 

subject them to possible identity theft. The materials in category (c) are recognized as protectable 

under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

(a) any document or item containing information of a proprietary, confidential, 

commercially valuable, and/or competitively sensitive nature which is not in the public domain or 

disclosed to the public including, but not limited to, Defendants’ proprietary business plans, 

facility layouts, operations, and practices; customer information; proprietary computer systems, 

databases, and software; and/or revenue or other financial data and reports; 

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(b) Other than Plaintiff, the personnel information of Defendants’ employees, 

including but not necessarily limited to work histories, hiring and separation documentation; 

performance ratings and/or evaluations; compensation information including salaries, earnings, 

pay, bonuses, stock options, incentive compensation, and tax and benefit information; bank or 

other financial information; contact information including phone numbers, email addresses, and 

home addresses; medical and health-related information; information regarding internal company 

investigations; and information about disciplinary actions, including terminations, taken against 

past or present employees, and reasons for any such actions. 

(c) In accordance with FRCP 5.2(d), social security numbers, taxpayer 

identification numbers, birth dates, minors’ names, and financial account numbers. 

(d) Any portion of deposition transcripts and exhibits thereto, interrogatory 

responses, admissions, or other discovery, testimony, or argument, or any other documents and 

things, and all information otherwise obtained from a party pursuant to discovery and/or trial in 

this litigation which contains to the Confidential Information described in paragraphs (a) through 

(b) above. 

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." 

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. 

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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). More than 

one Party is collectively referred to as “Parties”. 

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." 

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

Producing Party. 

2.15 Action: the above-entitled case, designated as Steven J. Toal v. Beef Packers, Inc. 

et al., Case No. 1:13-cv-01246-AWI-GSA. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material, 

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 any information that is in the 

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

domain after its disclosure to the 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; any 

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information known to the Parties 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. 

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 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 must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral 

or written communications that qualify as Protected Material. If it comes to a Designating Party's 

or Non-Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify 

for protection that Non-Party or 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 or 

as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material must be clearly 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) 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 

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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, 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. 

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

that the Designating Party may identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, 

or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

If the Party or Non-Party offering or sponsoring the testimony does not identify 

protected testimony on the record, the Party or Non-Party that sponsors, offers, or gives the 

testimony shall have up to thirty (30) calendar days following receipt of the final deposition 

transcript to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought. Only 

those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the thirty 

(30) calendar days following receipt of the final deposition transcript shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Order. 

During the period commencing with a deposition session and ending thirty (30) 

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

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

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

during the portions of the deposition testimony so designated. 

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the 

court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” as 

instructed by the Party or Non-Party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 

testimony. 

(c) In the case of information produced on electronic media, such as disks, CDs, 

tapes, etc., designation shall be made by placing the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend on the exterior of 

the disk, CD, tape, or other media, and such designation shall apply to all contents of the disk, CD, 

tape or other media. When information is printed out from such media, the Receiving Party shall 

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ensure that each page of all copies of the printed-out material bears the legend. 

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. 

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. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to challenge the confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a 

motion under Local Rules 230 and 251 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rules 141 and 141.1, 

if applicable) that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the 

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challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 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 jurisdiction for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

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 12 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION). 

7.2 Disclosure of "CONFIDENTIAL" Information or Items. Confidential information 

may be disclosed by the Receiving Party only to: 

(a) The Parties and their officers, directors and employees, including the 

Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of Record in this action, if applicable, and House Counsel; 

(b) Experts; 

(c) the court and its personnel; 

(d) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(e) during their depositions, stenographic reporters, videographers and 

witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary. 

(f) non-party deponents may be shown Protected Material provided they agree 

to be bound to this Stipulated Protective Order. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or 

exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound in a transcript and 

clearly marked on each page with the notation “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.” All other 

copies of such transcripts and exhibits, to the extent they pertain to or contain Confidential 

Information or summaries or extracts thereof, shall themselves be treated as Confidential 

Information pursuant to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

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

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

Each person referred to in paragraph 7.2 hereof to whom Confidential Information is to be 

given, shown, disclosed, made available or communicated in any way, except personnel falling 

within paragraphs 7.2(a), 7.2(c) or 7.2(e) above (except deponent witnesses), shall execute an 

agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, before said disclosure or communication of 

Confidential Information is made, stating that he or she agrees to be bound by and fully comply 

with the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. Said declarations shall be retained by the 

attorneys who procured the agreement and, upon request by a Party, be made available for 

inspection. 

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) immediately, and in no event more than three court days after receiving the 

subpoena or order, 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. 

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 

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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. 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 reasonable effort 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. 

10. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR 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). Pursuant to 

Federal Rule of Evidence 502, inadvertent production of any attorney-client communications or 

attorney work product will not result in a waiver of any protections over the material or subject 

matter. Upon written notice by the Producing Party that privileged material(s) were produced, the 

Receiving Parties shall return all privileged material within five (5) business days and destroy all 

copies including electronic copies of any privileged material(s). The Producing Party shall provide 

the Receiving Parties with a description of the privileged material(s) produced so that the 

Receiving Parties can identify promptly and accurately all privileged materials. Within five (5) 

business days of making the demand for the return of any privileged materials the Producing Party 

must produce a privilege log. 

11. MISCELLANEOUS 

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

seek its modification by the court in the future. 

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11.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to this Protective Order no Party 

waives any right it 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 in litigation or at trial of any of the material covered by 

this Protective Order. 

11.3 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 Confidential Information. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Confidential Information must comply with Local Rule 141 and General Order 164. Protected 

Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 

specific Protected Material at issue. 

12. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 20 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 20 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, 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). 

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13. 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 NonParty 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 this Stipulated 

Protective Order, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the 

information requested; and make the Non-Party’s confidential 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 NonParty 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 court. (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 

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protect its confidentiality interests.) Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear 

the burden and expense of seeking protection of its Protected Material. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: August 6, 2014 /s/ Roger D. Wilson 

Law Office of Roger D. Wilson 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Dated: August 8, 2014 /s/ Jill K. Rizzo

Jill K. Rizzo 

Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ORDER 

The Court has reviewed the stipulation outlined above and adopts the stipulation except that 

the terms related to judicial intervention outlined in paragraph 6.3 will not be automatic, rather, the 

Court will determine on a case-by-case basis whether judicial intervention is warranted. Relatedly, 

the parties are strongly encouraged to resolve any disputes arising from this agreement 

independently and without court involvement. 

Dated: August 11, 2014 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

 United States Magistrate Judge 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, ____________________ of ________________________________ 

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 STEVEN J. TOAL v. BEEF PACKERS, INC., 

United States District Court, Eastern District, Case No. 1:13-cv-01246-AWI-GSA. 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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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned certifies that the foregoing document filed via the Electronic Case Filing 

(ECF) system in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California was served 

on all parties registered for e-filing in this matter on this the 8th day of August 2014. 

 /s/ Jill K. Rizzo 

 

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