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Parties Involved:
Advanced Recycling Equipment, Inc.
Counter Claimant
Bio-Mass Energy Concepts, LLC
Counter Claimant
Burnham Brown
Movant
Donald Kunkel
Counter Claimant
Pacific MDF Products, Inc.
Counter Defendant

Document Text:

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

PACIFIC MDF PRODUCTS, INC.,

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BIO-MASS ENERGY CONCEPTS, LLC, 

ADVANCED RECYCLING EQUIPMENT, 

INC. and DONALD KUNKEL,

Defendants. 

No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Complaint Filed April 1, 2005 

Trial Date: March 27, 2007 

AND RELATED COUNTER-CLAIM 

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 response to discovery and that the protection it affords 

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

Clark J. Burnham, State Bar No. 041792

Robert M. Bodzin, State Bar No. 201327 

Andrew R. Shalauta, State Bar No. 186821 

BURNHAM BROWN 

A Professional Law Corporation 

P.O. Box 119 

Oakland, California 94604 

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1901 Harrison Street, 11th Floor 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 444-6800 

Facsimile: (510) 835-6666 

Email Addresses: cburnham@burnhambrown.com

 rbodzin@burnhambrown.com

 ashalauta@burnhambrown.com 

Attorneys for DEFENDANTS/COUNTER-CLAIMANTS 

BIO-MASS ENERGY CONCEPTS, LLC., ADVANCED 

RECYCLING EQUIPMENT, INC. and DONALD KUNKEL

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 2 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in 

Section 10, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 39-141 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. 

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 response 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. 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. 

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 response 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.” 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 3 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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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; for Plaintiff Pacific 

MDF Products, Inc., this includes William Gregory. 

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 Parry or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or 

as a consultant in this action and who is not 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 

trail consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

2.13 Professional vendors: persons or entitled that provide litigation support service 

(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 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. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 4 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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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 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 routinized 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 produced. 

Designation in conformity with this order requires: 

 (a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial or trail 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 makings in the margins) and must specify, for each 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 5 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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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 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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 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 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 

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and 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 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 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is 

entitled to protected, 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 proceedings 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 testimony that are appropriately 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 6 No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM 

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designated for protection with 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 such 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 the 

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 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 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. CHALLENGING 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 id disclosed. 

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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 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. 

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 the local rules (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 39-141, if 

applicable) that identifies the 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 proceeding 

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 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 11, 

below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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

 (b) 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); 

 (c) the Court and its personnel; 

 (d) 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; 

 (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) the author of the document or the original source of the information. 

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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 Part 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 the 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 

receiving 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 Protected Material to the identified Expert unless, 

within seven court days of delivering the request the Party receiving 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 seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert 

may file a motion as provided in local rules (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 

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and confer discussions) and sets forth the reasons in 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) 

immediately and in no event more than three court 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 to 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 alter 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 is issued. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the 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 

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unauthorized disclosures, (b) use it 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 “Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order” 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 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 termination 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, event 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: May 11, 2006. 

By__/s/Burnham Brown

BURNHAM BROWN 

Attorneys for DEFENDANTS/COUNTERCLAIMANTS 

Robert M. Bodzin, CASB#201327 

1901 Harrison Street, 11th Floor 

Oakland, CA 94612 

Telephone: (510) 444-6800 

Facsimile: (510) 835-6666 

DATED: May 10, 2006. 

 

By___s/s Thomas G. Redmon

WILKE, FLEURY, HOFFELT, GOULD & 

BIRNEY, LLP 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

Thomas G. Redmon, CASB# 47090

400 Capital Mall, Twenty-Second Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 441-2430 

Facsimile: (916) 442-6664 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 23, 2006. 

/s/John F. Moulds 

United States Magistrate Judge 

 

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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

Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Pacific MDF Products, Inc. v. Bio-Mass 

Energy Concepts, et al., U.S.D.C. - Eastern Distr. No. 2:05-CV-00642, LKK-JFM. 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. This agency will terminate when judgment is 

entered, this case is settled and/or it is dismissed. 

Date: ___________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: ____________________________ 

Printed Name: _____________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: _____________________________________ 

[signature] 

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