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Parties Involved:
BKG Plumbing
Plaintiff
Ford Motor Company
Defendant
Brien K. Gregg
Plaintiff

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Tionna Dolin (SBN 299010)

Email: tdolin@slpattorney.com (emailservice@slpattorney.com) 

Elizabeth A. LaRocque (SBN 219977)

Email: elarocque@slpattorney.com STRATEGIC LEGAL PRACTICES, APC

1888 Century Park East, Floor 19

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Telephone: (310) 929-4900

Facsimile: (310) 943-3838

Attorneys For Plaintiff

BRIEN K. GREGG and DBA BKG PLUMBING

H. Paul Efstratis (SBN 242373)

Paul.Efstratis@lewisbrisbois.com

Taylor F. Sullivan (SBN 297014)

Taylor.Sullivan@lewisbrisbois.com

LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

45 Fremont Street, Suite 3000

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: 415.362.2580

Facsimile: 415.434.0882

Attorneys for Defendant 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRIEN K. GREGG and DBA BKG 

PLUMBING, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, and 

DOES 1 through 10, inclusive,

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Case No. 2:22-cv-01118-DJC-DMC

Judge: Hon. Daniel J. Calabretta

Magistrate Judge: Hon. Dennis M. 

Cota

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER – DISCOVERY ONLY

 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve 

production of confidential, proprietary, commercially sensitive, personally 

identifiable information (“PII”) or private information for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than 

prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby 

stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective 

Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket 

protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it 

affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or 

items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal 

principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, 

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

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must 

be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission 

from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the 

designation of information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

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

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), including materials that 

contain trade secret or other confidential research, technical, cost, price, 

marketing, or other commercial information, which are, for competitive reasons, 

normally, kept confidential by the parties, as contemplated by Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure 26(c)(1)(G). 

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

Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information 

or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.”

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 non-attorney 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, 

provided that no disclosure shall be made to any expert or consultant who is 

currently employed by a competitor of the Designating Party. 

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.

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).

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2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 

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

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

medium) and their employees and subcontractors.

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.” 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover 

the following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the 

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

after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a 

violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial 

or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source 

who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality 

to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed 

by a separate agreement or order.

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4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be

deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, 

with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of 

time pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for 

Protection. Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for 

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

specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating 

Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, 

items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of 

the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 

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

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

development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 

parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that 

it designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party 

must promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken 

designation.

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5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided 

in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as 

otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies 

for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material 

is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

 (a) For information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” to each page that contains protected 

material. 

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, qualify for protection under this 

Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party 

must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” 

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 identify on the record, before the close of 

the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary 

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

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

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item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE 

ORDER.” 

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 by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after 

the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is 

challenging and describing the basis for each challenged designation by Bates 

number, 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 

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designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in 

designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A 

Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if 

it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the 

Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a 

timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge 

without court intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to 

retain confidentiality within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 

14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve 

their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 

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

confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the 

Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration 

within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the 

confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the 

Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at 

any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the 

designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion 

brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 

parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 

Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to 

retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the 

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material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the 

Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that 

is disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with 

this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. 

Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and 

under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been 

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below 

(FINAL DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at 

a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the 

persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, 

a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as 

well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 

necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the 

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

A;

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

of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A);

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 (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 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

 (d) the court and its personnel;

 (e) court reporters, videographers, and their staff, who are not 

personnel of the court, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A);

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the 

Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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. Nothing in this 

paragraph shall limit the use of Ford documents in deposition of Ford 

representative or employees who have a legitimate need to see the information 

based on the intended subject matter of the deposition.

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

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

provided that these individuals may only be shown the protected information and 

may not retain a copy of the protected information that was produced in this 

case. 

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 

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action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER,” that 

Party must: 

 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by 

the subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall 

include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served 

with the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in 

this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER” 

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.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by 

a Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “SUBJECT 

TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 

connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by 

this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a NonParty from seeking additional protections. 

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

agreement with a Non-Party;

 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 

Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and 

 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the 

Non-Party. 

 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from 

this court within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, 

the Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information 

responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective 

order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or 

control that is subject to the 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.

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has 

disclosed Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized 

under this Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) 

notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use 

its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all 

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the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other 

protection, the 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 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.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of 

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

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 

disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in 

this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on 

any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective 

Order.

12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the 

Designating Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice, or upon 

another timeframe agreeable under the circumstances, to all interested persons, a 

Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A 

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Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Local 

Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. A sealing 

order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at 

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

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

under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Upon final termination of this action, including any and all appeals, counsel for 

each party must, upon request of the producing party, return all confidential 

information to the party that produced the information, including any copies, 

excerpts, and summaries of that information, or must destroy same at the option 

of the receiving party, and must purge all such information from all machinereadable media on which it resides. Notwithstanding the foregoing, counsel for 

each party may retain all pleadings, briefs, memoranda, motions, and other 

documents filed with the Court that refer to or incorporate confidential 

information, and will continue to be bound by this Order with respect to all such 

retained information. Further, attorney work product materials that contain 

confidential information need not be destroyed, but, if they are not destroyed, the 

person in possession of the attorney work product will continue to be bound by 

this Order with respect to all such retained information.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: November 1, 2023 STRATEGIC LEGAL PRACTICES, APC

By /s/ Elizabeth A. LaRocque Elizabeth A. LaRocque

Attorneys for Plaintiff

BRIEN K. GREGG and DBA BKG 

PLUMBING

Dated: November 1, 2023 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

By: /s/ Taylor Sullivan 

Taylor Sullivan

Attorneys for Defendant

FORD MOTOR COMPANY 

FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 1, 2023

____________________________________ 

DENNIS M. COTA

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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

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

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

was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 

California on [ ] in the case of BRIEN K. GREGG and DBA BKG 

PLUMBING v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Case No. 2:22-cv-01118. 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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