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Parties Involved:
David Barboza
Plaintiff
Kenneth Blanton
Defendant
California Administration Insurance Services, Inc.
Defendant
California Association of Professional Firefighters
Defendant
Dennis Campanale
Defendant
Gene Dangel
Defendant
James Floyd
Defendant
Charles Gluck
Defendant
Brian Pinomaki
Defendant
William Soqui
Defendant

Document Text:

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Geoffrey V. White, State Bar No. 068012

Law Office of Geoffrey V. White 

351 California Street, Suite 1500 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

(415) 362-5658 – Telephone 

(415) 362-4115 – Facsimile 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

David Barboza 

Louis A. Gonzalez, Jr., State Bar No. 157373 

W. Scott Cameron, State Bar No. 229828 

Zach Wadlé, State Bar No. 231404 

weintraub genshlea chediak 

law corporation 

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor 

Sacramento, California 95814 

(916) 558-6000 – Main 

(916) 446-1611 – Facsimile 

Attorneys for Defendants California Association 

of Professional Firefighters, California Association 

of Professional Firefighters Long-Term Disability Plan, 

California Administration Insurance Services, Inc., 

Kenneth Blanton, Dennis Campanale, Gene Dangel, 

James Floyd, Charles Gluck, Brian Pinomaki, 

and William Soqui 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

DAVID BARBOZA, 

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF 

PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS, a 

California corporation; CALIFORNIA 

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL 

FIREFIGHTERS LONG-TERM DISABILITY 

PLAN; CALIFORNIA ADMINISTRATION 

INSURANCE SERVICES, INC., a 

California corporation; and KENNETH 

BLANTON, DENNIS CAMPANALE, GENE 

DANGEL, JAMES FLOYD, CHARLES 

GLUCK, BRIAN PINOMAKI, and WILLIAM 

SOQUI, individually and as Plan 

Directors, 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 2:08-CV-02569-FCD-GGH 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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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 would 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 extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the 

applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. 

 2. DEFINITIONS 

 2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, 

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and 

their support staff). 

 2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, 

regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced 

or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

 2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 

protection under standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c). 

 2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or 

Items: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to 

another Party or non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that 

could not be avoided by less restrictive means. 

 2.5 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party. 

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 2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure 

or Discovery Material in this action. 

 2.7 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.” 

 2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party 

but who are retained to represent or advise a Party in this action. 

 2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

 2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside counsel and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staffs). 

 2.12 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 and who is 

not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a Party’s and 

who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a 

Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial 

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 

support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits 

or demonstrations, organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium, 

etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 

 3. SCOPE 

 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also any information copied or 

extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations 

thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or 

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in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material. 

 4. DURATION 

 Even after the termination 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. 

 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. A Designating 

Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of materials, 

documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other 

portions of the material, documents, items or communications for which 

protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this 

Order. 

 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 

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

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

development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 

parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 

 If it comes to a Party’s or 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. 

 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, material that qualifies for protection under this 

Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

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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), that the Producing 

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). 

 A Party or non-party that makes original documents or 

materials available for inspection need not designate them for protection until 

after the inspecting Party’s counsel has indicated which material it would like 

copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of 

the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting Party’s counsel has 

identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party 

must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection 

under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing 

party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains 

Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page 

qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the 

protected portions(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and 

must specify, for each portion the level of protection being asserted (either 

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

 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrail 

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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 proceedings, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of 

the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

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 Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, 

or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or 

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level 

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

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

 Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be 

separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each page 

the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 

as instructed by the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or 

presenting that testimony. 

 (c) information produced in some form other than 

documentary, and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a 

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

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

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information or 

item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” 

or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an 

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inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If 

material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – 

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving 

Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to 

assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

 6. CHALLENING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

 6.1 Timing of Challenges. 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. 

 6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to 

a Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and 

must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating Party. 

In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the 

confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party 

an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for 

the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to 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 press a challenge 

to a confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the 

Designating Party may file and serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 78-230 (and 

in compliance with Civil Local Rule 39-141, if applicable) that identifies the 

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challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each 

such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that 

the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the 

preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the 

confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet 

and confer dialogue. 

 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be 

on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 

 7. ACCESS TO 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 11, 

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 in 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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary 

to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement 

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to Be Bound by Protective Order: that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

 (b) the officers, directors, employees (including House 

Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to be Bound by Protective 

Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

 (d) the Court and its personnel; 

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

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (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. 

 (g) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

 7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to: 

 (a) the Receiving party’s Outside Counsel of record in this 

action, as well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary 

to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement 

to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

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 (b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to 

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set 

forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed; 

 (c) the Court and its personnel; 

 (d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and 

 (e) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information. 

 7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”

 (a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in 

writing by the Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as 

defined in this Order) any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” first must make a written request to the 

Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information 

that Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the Expert, (2) sets forth the full 

name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence, (3) 

attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current 

employer(s), (5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has 

received compensation for work in his or her areas of expertise or to whom the 

expert has provided professional services at any time during the preceding five 

years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and 

location of court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has provided 

any professional services during the preceding five years. 

 (b) A Party that makes a request and provides the 

information specified in the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject 

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Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, within seven court days of 

delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the Designating 

Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based. 

 (c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must 

meet and confer with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice 

dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, 

the Party seeing to make the disclosure to the Expert may file a motion as 

provided in Civil Local Rule 78-230 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 39-

141, if applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion 

must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for 

which the disclosure to the Expert is reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm 

that the disclosure would entail and suggest any additional means that might be 

used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be accompanied by 

a competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to 

resolve the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet 

and confer discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the Designating 

party for its refusal to approve the disclosure. 

 In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert 

shall bear the burden of proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would 

entail (under the safeguards proposed) outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to 

disclose the Protected Material to its Expert. 

 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION. 

 If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in 

other litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items 

designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”, the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, 

in writing (by fax, if possible) immediate and in no event more than three court 

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days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order. 

 The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party 

who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all 

the material covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective 

Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of this Stipulated 

Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the 

subpoena or order to issue. 

 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. The Designating Party shall bear the 

burdens and expenses 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 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 to execute the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

 10. 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 

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Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material 

must comply with Civil Local Rule 39-141. 

 11. FINAL DISPOSITION. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by 

the Producing Party, within sixty days after the final determination of this action, 

each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party. 

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. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the 

Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of 

returning it. 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 sixty day deadline 

that 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. Notwithstanding this 

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

papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 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), above. 

 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. 

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 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. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: October 20, 2009 Respectfully submitted, 

 LAW OFFICE OF GEOFFREY V. WHITE

 /s/ Geoffrey V. White 

 Geoffrey V. White 

 State Bar No. 068012 

Dated: October 20, 2009 Respectfully submitted 

 WEINTRAUB GENSHLEA CHEDIAK 

 Law Corporation 

 By: /s/ Louis A. Gonzalez, Jr. 

 Louis A. Gonzalez, Jr. 

 State Bar No. 157373 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

 California Association of Professional 

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 Firefighters, California Association of 

 Professional Firefighters Long-Term 

 Disability Plan, California 

Administration 

 Insurance Services, Inc., Kenneth 

Blanton, 

 Dennis Campanale, Gene Dangel, 

 James Floyd, Charles Gluck, 

 Brian Pinomaki, and William Soqui 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, and with the modification below, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Any request to seal a document(s) must demonstrate good cause for sealing, or 

in dispositive proceedings, compelling reasons to seal the document(s). See

Pintos v. Pacific Creditors, 565 F.3d 1106, 1115-1116 (9th Cir. 2009). Modifies 

paragraph 10. 

Dated: November 5, 2009 

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

 ____________________________________ 

 U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

Barboza.po 

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EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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

_________________________________ [print or type full address], declare under 

penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated 

Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California on _____________________ [date] in the case of David Barboza 

v. California Association of Professional Firefighters, et al, United States District 

Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. CIV S-08-02569 FCD GGH. 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 phone 

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: 

_____________________________________________ 

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Printed name: _____________________________ 

Signature: ____________________________________________ 

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