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Parties Involved:
Chief Jerry Dyer
Defendant
City Of Fresno
Defendant
Sergeant Larry Hustedde
Defendant
Officer Jeffrey Kaiser
Defendant
Idalia J. Morgutia-Johnson
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IDALIA J. MORGUTIA-JOHNSON,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF FRESNO, CHIEF JERRY DYER, 

SERGEANT LARRY HUSTEDDE, OFFICER 

JEFFREY KAISER, and DOES 1 to 10,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-CV-00127-LJO-SKO

ORDER GRANTING REQUEST FOR 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES (Doc. 15, Stipulation for Entry of 

Protective Order Regarding Confidential Documents, or “Stipulation”) filed May 6, 2014, and the 

Court’s inherent and statutory authority, including but not limited to the Court’s authority under the 

applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the United States District Court, Eastern District of 

California Local Rules; after due consideration of all of the relevant pleadings, papers, and records in 

this action; and upon such other evidence or argument as was presented to the Court; good cause 

appearing therefor, and in furtherance of the interests of justice, the Court issues the following 

protective order:

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1. SCOPE OF PROTECTION

The protections conferred by the Stipulation and this Order cover not only protected 

material/confidential documents (as defined in the Stipulation), 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 the Stipulation and this 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. 

Except to the extent specified herein (if any), any use of protected material at trial shall not be 

governed by this Order, but may be governed by a separate agreement or order.

2. DURATION OF PROTECTION

 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.

3. DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL/CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

3.1. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

Each party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under the parties’ 

Stipulation and this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that 

qualifies under the appropriate standards. A designating party must take care to designate for 

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

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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 routine designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown to 

be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 

encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 

other parties), expose the designating party to sanctions.

If it comes to a 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 party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the 

mistaken designation.

3.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. 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.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) For information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions or 

other pretrial or trial proceedings, and regardless of whether produced in hardcopy or 

electronic form), 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) and must specify, for each portion that 

it is “CONFIDENTIAL.” The placement of such “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp on such page(s) 

shall not obstruct the substance of the page’s (or pages’) text or content.

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 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 “CONFIDENTIAL.” When it is 

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

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

producing party may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) 

a right to have up to twenty (20) days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of 

the parties’ Stipulation and this Order.

Transcript pages containing protected material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as instructed by 

the producing party.

(c) For information produced in some form other than documentary, and for any 

other tangible items (including but not limited to information produced on disc or electronic 

data storage device), 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 portions of the information or item warrant protection, the 

producing party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying the 

material as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

3.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected (preferably, though not 

necessarily, within 30 days of production or disclosure of such material), an inadvertent failure to 

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designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” does not, standing alone, waive the 

designating party’s right to secure protection under the parties’ Stipulation and this Order for such 

material. If material is appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” 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 parties’ Stipulation and 

this Order.

3.4. Alteration of Confidentiality Stamp Prohibited. A receiving party shall not alter, edit, 

or modify any protected material so as to conceal, obscure, or remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp or 

legend thereon; nor shall a receiving party take any other action so as to make it appear that protected 

material is not subject to the terms and provisions of the Stipulation and this Order. However, 

nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a receiving party from challenging a 

confidentiality designation subject to the provisions of section 4, infra. 

4. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

4.1. Timing of Challenges. Any party or non-party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time prior to the final pre-trial conference with the Court in the matter. 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.

4.2. Meet and Confer. Prior to challenging a confidentiality designation, a challenging 

party shall initiate a dispute resolution process by providing written notice of each specific 

designation it is challenging, and describing the basis (and supporting authority or argument) 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 

this 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, either in person, telephonically, or by other 

comparable means, but not by correspondence) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 

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In conferring, the challenging party must explain the specific 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.

4.3. Judicial Intervention. If the parties cannot resolve a confidentiality challenge without 

court intervention, the challenging party shall file and serve a motion to remove confidentiality (under 

the applicable rules for filing and service of discovery motions) within 14 days of the parties agreeing 

that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, or by the first day of trial of this 

matter, whichever date is earlier – unless the parties agree in writing to a longer time. 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. 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, 

regardless of whether the designating party is the moving party or whether such party sought or 

opposes judicial intervention. 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 oppose a motion to remove 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.

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4.4. Withdrawal of “CONFIDENTIAL” Designation. At its discretion, a designating party

may remove protected material/confidential documents from some or all of the protections and 

provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order at any time by any of the following methods: 

(a) Express Written Withdrawal. A designating party may withdraw a 

“CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified protected material/confidential 

documents from some or all of the protections of the Stipulation and this Order by an express 

withdrawal in a writing signed by such party (or such party’s counsel, but not including staff 

of such counsel) that specifies and itemizes the disclosure or discovery material previously 

designated as protected material/confidential documents that shall no longer be subject to all 

or some of the provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and Order. Such express withdrawal shall 

be effective when transmitted or served upon the receiving party. If a designating party is 

withdrawing protected material from only some of the provisions/protections of the 

Stipulation and this Order, such party must state which specific provisions are no longer to be 

enforced as to the specified material for which confidentiality protection hereunder is 

withdrawn: otherwise, such withdrawal shall be construed as a withdrawal of such material 

from all of the protections/provisions of the Stipulation and this Order;

(b) Express Withdrawal on the Record. A designating party may withdraw a 

“CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified protected material/confidential 

documents from all of the provisions/protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order by 

verbally consenting in court proceedings on the record to such withdrawal – provided that 

such withdrawal specifies the disclosure or discovery material previously designated as 

protected material/confidential documents that shall no longer be subject to any of the 

provisions of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order. A designating party is not permitted to 

withdraw protected material from only some of the protections/ provisions of the parties’ 

Stipulation and this Order by this method;

(c) Implicit Withdrawal by Publication or Failure to Oppose Challenge. A 

designating party shall be construed to have withdrawn a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation 

made to any specified protected material/confidential documents from all of the 

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provisions/protections of the parties’ Stipulation and this Order by either (1) making such 

protected material/confidential records part of the public record – including but not limited to 

attaching such as exhibits to any filing with the court without moving, prior to such filing, for 

the court to seal such records; or (2) failing to timely oppose a challenging party’s motion to 

remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation to specified protected material/confidential

documents. Nothing in the Stipulation and this Order shall be construed so as to require any 

party to file protected material/confidential documents under seal, unless expressly specified 

herein. 

5. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1. 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 preparing, 

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation – up to and including final disposition of 

the above-entitled action – and not for any other purpose, including any other litigation or dispute 

outside the scope of this action. Such protected material may be disclosed only to the categories of 

persons and under the conditions described in the Stipulation and this Order. When the above entitled 

litigation has been terminated, a receiving party must comply with the provisions of section 10, 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 the Stipulation and 

this Order.

5.2. 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 such counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for 

this litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including house counsel) of the 

receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of whom, 

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by accepting receipt of such protected material, thereby agree to be bound by the parties’ 

Stipulation and this Order;

(c) experts (as defined in the Stipulation and this Order) of the receiving party to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of whom, by accepting 

receipt of such protected material, thereby agree to be bound by the parties’ Stipulation and 

this Order;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation – each of whom, by accepting receipt of such protected 

material, thereby agree to be bound by the Stipulation and this Order;

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary – each of whom, by accepting receipt of such protected material, thereby 

agree to be bound by the Stipulation and this Order. 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 the 

Stipulation and this Order.

(g) the author or custodian of a document containing the information that 

constitutes protected material, or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the 

information.

5.3. Notice of Confidentiality. Prior to producing or disclosing protected 

material/confidential documents to persons to whom the Stipulation and this Order permits disclosure 

or production (see section 5.2, supra), a receiving party shall provide a copy of the Stipulation and 

Order to such persons so as to put such persons on notice as to the restrictions imposed upon them 

herein: except that, for court reporters, professional vendors, and for witnesses being provided with 

protected material during a deposition, it shall be sufficient notice for counsel for the receiving party

to give the witness a verbal admonition (on the record, for witnesses) regarding the provisions of the 

parties’ Stipulation and this Order and such provisions’ applicability to specified protected material at 

issue.

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5.4. Reservation of Rights. Nothing in the Stipulation and this Order shall be construed so 

as to require any producing party to designate any records or materials as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

Nothing in the Stipulation or this Order shall be construed so as to prevent the admission of protected 

material into evidence at the trial of this action, or in any appellate proceedings for this action, solely 

on the basis that such disclosure or discovery material has been designated as protected 

material/confidential documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in the Stipulation or this

Order shall be construed as a waiver of any privileges or of any rights to object to the use or 

admission into evidence of any protected material in any proceeding; nor shall anything herein be 

construed as a concession that any privileges asserted or objections made are valid or applicable. 

Nothing in the Stipulation or this Order shall be construed so as to prevent the designating party (or 

its counsel or custodian of records) from having access to and using protected material designated by 

that party in the manner in which such persons or entities would typically use such materials in the 

normal course of their duties or profession – except that the waiver of confidentiality provisions shall 

apply (see section 4.4(c), supra).

5.5. Requirement to File Confidential Documents Under Seal. Confidential documents

may be submitted in all law and motion proceedings before the Court if done so under seal pursuant 

to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 5.2 and 26 and/or United States District Court, Eastern District of 

California Local Rules 141, 141.1, 143, and 251 (as applicable) and pursuant to the provisions of the 

parties’ Stipulation and this Order. If any receiving party attaches any confidential documents to any 

pleading, motion, or other paper to be filed, lodged, or otherwise submitted to the Court, such 

confidential document(s) shall be filed/lodged under seal pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure 5.2 and 26 and/or United States District Court, Eastern District of California Local Rules 

141, 141.1, 143, and 251 to the extent applicable. 

However, this paragraph (¶ 5.5) shall not be construed so as to prevent a designating party or

counsel from submitting, filing, lodging, or publishing any document it has previously designated as a 

confidential document without compliance with this paragraph’s requirement to do so under seal (i.e., 

a producing-disclosing party or counsel may submit or publish its own confidential documents

without being in violation of the terms of the Stipulation and this Order). 

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Furthermore, a receiving party shall be exempted from the requirements of this paragraph as 

to any specifically identified confidential document(s) where – prior to the submission or publication 

of the confidential document(s) at issue – the designating party of such specifically identified 

confidential document(s) has waived/withdrawn the protections of the Stipulation and this Order 

(pursuant to paragraph 4.4, supra).

A receiving party shall also be exempt from the sealing requirements of this paragraph (¶ 5.5) 

where the confidential documents/protected material at issue is/are not documents, records, or 

information regarding: 

(1) private, personal information contained in peace officer personnel files (such as social 

security numbers, driver’s license numbers or comparable personal government identification 

numbers, residential addresses, compensation or pension or personal property information, 

credit card numbers or credit information, dates of birth, tax records and information, 

information related to the identity of an officer’s family members or co-residents, and 

comparable personal information about the officer or his family); 

(2) any internal affairs or comparable investigation by any law enforcement agency into 

alleged officer misconduct; and/or 

(3) the medical records or records of psychiatric or psychological treatment of any peace 

officer or party to this action. 

Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to bind the Court so as to limit or prevent the 

publication of any confidential documents to the jury or fact finder, at the time of trial of this matter, 

where the Court has deemed such confidential documents to be admissible into evidence. 

6. 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

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(a) promptly notify in writing the designating party, preferably (though not necessarily) by 

facsimile or electronic mail. Such notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order at 

issue;

(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 the 

Stipulation and this Order. Such notification shall include a copy of the Stipulation and this Order; 

and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by all sides in 

any such situation, while adhering to the terms of the Stipulation and this Order.

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.

The purpose of this section is to ensure that the affected party has a meaningful opportunity to 

preserve its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or court order issued.

7. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 

LITIGATION

(a) The terms of the Stipulation and 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 the 

Stipulation and 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 nonparty’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: 

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(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 Stipulation and this 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 nonparty’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 confidentiality agreement with the non-party before a determination by the court.

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.

8. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

8.1. 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 the Stipulation and this Order, the 

receiving party must immediately:

(a) notify in writing the designating party of the unauthorized disclosures; 

(b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the protected material;

(c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms 

of this Order; and 

(d) request such person or persons consent to be bound by the Stipulation and this Order.

8.2. 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 e-discovery order that provides for production 

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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.

9. PUBLICATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL PROHIBITED

9.1. Filing of Protected Material.

Without advance written permission from the designating party, or a court order secured after 

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a receiving 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 the applicable Federal and Local Rules.

9.2. Public Dissemination of Protected Material.

A receiving party shall not publish, release, post, or disseminate protected material to any 

persons except those specifically delineated and authorized by the Stipulation and this Order (see 

section 5, supra); nor shall a receiving party publish, release, leak, post, or disseminate protected 

material/confidential documents to any news media, member of the press, website, or public forum 

(except as permitted under section12.1 regarding filings with the court in this action and under seal).

10. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the producing party, within thirty (30) days 

after the final termination of this action (defined as the dismissal or entry of judgment by the above 

named court, or if an appeal is filed, the disposition of the appeal), upon written request by the 

producing party, each receiving party must return all protected material to the producing party –

whether retained by the receiving party or its counsel, experts, professional vendors, agents, or any 

non-party to whom the receiving party produced or shared such records or information. As used in 

this subdivision, “all protected material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or 

any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the protected material, regardless of the medium 

(hardcopy, electronic, or otherwise) in which such protected material is stored or retained. 

In the alternative, at the discretion of the receiving party, the receiving party may destroy 

some or all of the protected material instead of returning it – unless such protected material is an 

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original, in which case, the receiving party must obtain the producing party’s written consent before 

destroying such original 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) within thirty (30) days of the aforementioned written request by the designating party that 

specifically identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the protected material that was returned or 

destroyed and that affirms that the receiving party has not retained any copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected material (in 

any medium, including but not limited to any hardcopy, electronic or digital copy, or otherwise). 

Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, 

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda filed with the court in this action, as well as any 

correspondence or attorney work product prepared by counsel for the receiving party, even if such 

materials contain protected material; however, any such archival copies that contain or constitute 

protected material remain subject to this Order as set forth in Section 2, above. This court shall retain 

jurisdiction in the event that a designating party elects to seek court sanctions for violation of the 

Stipulation and this Order. 

11. MISCELLANEOUS

11.1. Right to Further Relief. Nothing in the Stipulation or this Order abridges the right of 

any person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

11.2. Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Order pursuant to 

the Stipulation, 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 the Stipulation or this Order. Similarly, no 

party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence any of the material covered by the 

Stipulation and this Order.

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The Court has reviewed the Stipulation, and given the likelihood that this action will involve 

the production of confidential medical and psychotherapeutic records which should be shielded from 

public or other disclosure, finds good cause to issue this protective order, the terms of which were set 

forth above. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c). 

Accordingly, the Court HEREBY ORDERS as follows:

1. The Stipulation for Entry of Protective Order Regarding Confidential Documents

(Doc. 15, “Stipulation”) is hereby incorporated into this Order; and

2. The Court retains jurisdiction over the confidentiality obligations imposed by the 

Stipulation and this Order until final disposition of this case, as defined in the 

Stipulation (Doc. 15, ¶ 5) and Section 10 above.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 8, 2014 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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