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Parties Involved:
Noah Brown
Plaintiff
City of Rio Vista
Defendant
Natalie Rafferty
Defendant

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LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

JOHN L. BURRIS, Esq. (SBN 69888)

Airport Corporate Centre

7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120

Oakland, California 94621

Telephone: (510) 839-5200

Facsimile: (510) 839-3882

john.burris@johnburrislaw.com

LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS

K. CHIKE ODIWE, Esq. (SBN 315109)

9701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1000

Beverly Hills, California 90212

Telephone: (310) 601-7070

Facsimile: (510) 839-3882

chike.odiwe@johnburrislaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

NOAH BROWN

DALE L. ALLEN, JR., State Bar No. 145279

dallen@aghwlaw.com

JOHN B. ROBINSON, State Bar No. 297065

jrobinson@aghwlaw.com

ALLEN, GLAESSNER, HAZELWOOD & WERTH, 

LLP

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1200

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 697-2000

Facsimile: (415) 813-2045

Attorneys for Defendant

CITY OF RIO VISTA

A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

Carl L. Fessenden, SBN 161494

Matthew W. Gross, SBN 324007

350 University Ave., Suite 200

Sacramento, California 95825

TEL: 916.929.1481

FAX: 916.927.3706

Attorneys for Defendant 

NATALIE RAFFERTY

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NOAH BROWN, an individual,

 

 Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF RIO VISTA, a municipal 

corporation; NATALIE RAFFERTY, 

individually and in his official capacity as an 

officer for the Rio Vista Police Department; 

and DOES 1-50, inclusive, individually and 

in their official capacity as police officers for 

the Rio Vista Police Department,

 Defendants.

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, 

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

Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from 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 below, that this 

Stipulation and Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; and that 

Eastern District Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the 

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

seal.

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2. DEFINITIONS

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

consultants, retained experts, house counsel 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 by any Party in this matter.

2.3 Confidential Information or Items: information (regardless of the medium or how 

generated, stored, or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 

developed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and/or applicable federal privileges. This 

material includes, but is not limited to, medical and psychotherapeutic records; as well as peace 

officer personnel records as defined by California Penal Code sections 832.8, 832.5, 832.7 and the 

associated case law; and other similar confidential records designated as such. 

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

Producing Party, including a Party that has noticed or subpoenaed and is taking a deposition or 

comparable testimony. 

2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action, including a Party that is defending a deposition noticed or subpoenaed by 

another Party; additionally, for the limited purpose of designating testimony subject to this 

Stipulation and Order pursuant to section 6.2(b) (infra), a “Producing Party” shall also be construed 

to include a Party that is attending and/or participating in a non-party deposition 

noticed/subpoenaed by another Party. 

2.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order. (The term 

“Confidential Document” shall be synonymous with the term “Protected Material” for the purposes 

of this Stipulation and Protective Order.) 

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2.8 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained 

to represent or advise a Party in this action (as well as their support staffs). 

2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party (as well as their support 

staffs). 

2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs).

2.11 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 and who, at the time 

of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s; as 

well as any person retained, designated, or disclosed by a Party as an expert pursuant to Federal

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2). 

2.12 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/Confidential Documents (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 not be governed by this Order, 

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and may be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of:

(1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and 

(2) final judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, 

remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or 

applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 

Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take 

care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards.

A Designating Party must take care to 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 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.

5.2 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:

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

but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing 

Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a 

portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must 

clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

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

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

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

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing 

Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order.

Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. 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 this Stipulation and Protective 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 

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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.”

5.3 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 

designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” 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” 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 this Order.

5.4 Alteration of Confidentiality Stamp. 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 this Stipulation and 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 6, infra.

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 

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for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice 

must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific 

paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

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

communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, 

the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was 

not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, 

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

the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process 

only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party 

is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention.

If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, the Challenging Party 

shall file and serve a motion to remove confidentiality under Eastern District Local Rule 230 and 

251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rules 141 and 141.1, if applicable) 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 

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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.

6.4. 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 this Stipulation and 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 this Stipulation and 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 this 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 this Stipulation and 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 this Stipulation 

and 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 this Stipulation and 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 this 

Stipulation and Order. A Designating Party is not permitted to withdraw Protected Material from 

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only some of the protections/provisions of this Stipulation and 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 provisions/protections 

of this Stipulation and 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 this Stipulation and Order shall 

be construed so as to require any Party to file Protected Material/Confidential Documents under 

seal, unless expressly specified herein.

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 

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

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

(c) 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 and their staff, 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; and/or

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

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

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party 

must:

(a) 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

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

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

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

or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 

obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 

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.” 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 Non-Party 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:

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non- Party that some 

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

Non-Party;

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

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

description of the information requested; and

(3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party.

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 

days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the 

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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 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. PUBLICATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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 

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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 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 Eastern District Local Rule 141 

and/or 141.1, to the extent applicable. 12.2. 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 this Stipulation and Order; 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 section 12.1 regarding filings with the court in this action and under seal).

12.4. 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 this Stipulation and Order; 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 section 12.1 regarding filings with the 

court in this action and under seal).

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. 

As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” including all copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries and any other format reproducing or capturing of the Protected Material.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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Dated: March 30, 2020

 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURRIS

By:. _/s/ Kenneth Chike Odiwe_________

 KENNETH CHIKE ODIWE

Attorney for Plaintiff

NOAH BROWN

Dated: March 28, 2020

ALLEN, GLAESSNER, HAZELWOOD & WERTH 

LLP

By: _/s/ John B. Robinson

 JOHN ROBINSON 

Attorney for Defendant

 CITY OF RIO VISTA

Dated: March 30, 2020

PORTER SCOTT ATTORNEYS

By:/s/_Carl Fessenden_____________

CARL FESSENDEN

Attorney for Defendant

 NATALIE RAFFERTY 

Under Eastern District of California Civil Local Rule 131(e), I attest that I obtained 

concurrence in the filing of this document from all of the above signatories.

Dated: March 30, 2020

 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURRIS

By:. _/s/ Kenneth Chike Odiwe________________

 KENNETH CHIKE ODIWE

Attorney for Plaintiff

NOAH BROWN

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ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED, with the following amendments and clarifications:

1. The parties shall comply with the provisions and procedures of Local Rules 140 and 

141 with respect to sealing or redaction requests. To the extent that the parties’ stipulation 

conflicts with the Local Rules, the Local Rules shall govern. 

2. Prior to filing any motion related to this stipulated protective order or other discovery 

motion, the parties shall first exhaust informal meet-and-confer efforts and otherwise comply with 

Local Rule 251. 

3. Nothing in this order limits the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of certain 

documents, at any court hearing or trial—such determinations will only be made by the court at 

the hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion. 

4. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement 

of the terms of this stipulated protective order after the action is terminated. 

Dated: April 1, 2020

16.stip.2180

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CAROLYN K. DELANEY

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 ____________ [date] in the 

case of Noah Brown. v. City of Rio Vista, et al., case no. 2:19-CV-00233-WBS-KJN. 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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