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Parties Involved:
Cingular Wireless
Defendant
Alvin Jackson
Plaintiff
Steven Jaeger
Defendant

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LAW OFFICES OF STEPHEN M. MURPHY

STEPHEN M. MURPHY (No. 103768)

JEREMY A. GRAHAM (No. 234166)

180 Montgomery Street, Suite 940

San Francisco, CA 94104

Tel: (415) 986-1338

Fax: (415) 986-1231

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ALVIN JACKSON

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALVIN JACKSON, 

 Plaintiff, 

v.

CINGULAR WIRELESS, STEVEN

JAEGER, and DOES ONE through

TWENTY, inclusive, 

 

 Defendants. 

 

 

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NO. C 06-03234 SI

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

REGARDING CONFIDENTIAL

INFORMATION

Plaintiff Alvin Jackson (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Cingular Wireless (“Cingular”) and

Steven Jaeger, by and through their respective undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and agree to,

and request entry of, the following Protective Order:

1. The Order shall be applicable to and govern all discovery taken pursuant to the Federal

Rules of Civil Procedure, including documents and other tangible objects produced in response

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to requests for production or as part of initial disclosures, answers to interrogatories, responses to

requests for admissions, and depositions.

2. A party or third party may designate as “Confidential” any material that the party in good

faith believes constitutes or includes proprietary business or financial information, personal

information or information furnished to it in confidence by any third-party, which 

information is not known or freely accessible to the general public. Good faith also exists where

the disclosure would violate the legitimate privacy interests of either party or third parties. 

3. Information or materials designated as “Confidential” may be disclosed to the

parties for the purposes of the litigation, but must be protected against disclosure to third parties. 

Absent a specific order by this Court, once designated as “Confidential,” such designated

information shall be used solely in connection with this litigation, and not for any business,

competitive, governmental, or other purpose or function, and such information shall not be

disclosed to anyone except as provided herein.

4. The designation of information or material as “Confidential” for purposes of this

Protective Order shall be made in the following manner by the party or nonparty seeking

protection:

(a) in the case of documents, exhibits, briefs, memoranda, interrogatory

responses, responses to requests for admission, or other materials (apart from depositions or

other pretrial or trial testimony): by affixing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to any document

containing any confidential information or material; 

(b) in the case of depositions by a statement on the record, by counsel, during

such deposition that the entire transcript or a portion thereof shall be designated as

“Confidential” hereunder. If any document or information designated as “Confidential” is used

during the course of a deposition, that portion of the deposition record reflecting such

confidential information shall be stamped “Confidential,” and access thereto shall be limited

pursuant to the other terms of this Protective Order.

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5. Information or material designated as “Confidential,” or copies or extracts

therefrom and compilations and summaries thereof, may be disclosed or made available in whole

or in part only to the following persons:

(a) parties’ outside counsel of record in this action and regular and temporary

employees of such counsel to whom it is necessary that the information or material be shown for

the purposes of this litigation;

(b) the parties and employees of the parties, including in-house counsel,

whose assistance is needed by counsel for the purposes of this litigation;

(c) subject to the provisions of paragraph 7 herein, outside experts, advisors,

and consultants (including their employees and support staff) retained by counsel of record in this

litigation, provided that such experts, consultants, or investigators shall not be employees of a

party or otherwise working for or on behalf of a party in connection with that party’s business. 

Outside experts, advisors, and consultants must be retained solely for the purpose of advising and

assisting outside counsel or giving expert testimony in this action or any other action between the

parties; 

(d) the Court, 

(e) court reporters employed in connection with this action;

(f) graphics or design services retained by counsel for a party for purposes of

preparing demonstrative or other exhibits for deposition, trial, or other court proceedings in this

action, subject to and conditioned upon compliance with Paragraph 7 herein;

(g) non-technical jury or trial consulting services retained by counsel for a

party, subject to and conditioned upon compliance with Paragraph 7 herein;

(h) witnesses, including non-party witnesses, in preparation for, and in the

course of, depositions or interviews, or at trial, if, in the reasonable good faith opinion of the

parties’ counsel, examination with respect to such information is necessary for legitimate

discovery or trial purposes; and

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(i) any other person only upon order of the Court or upon written consent of

the party producing the confidential information or material, subject to and conditioned upon

compliance with Paragraph 7 herein.

6. The persons receiving “Confidential” material are enjoined from disclosing it to

any other person, except as permitted by this Order.

7. If a party wishes to submit to the Court any “Confidential” material, the party

shall attempt to obtain agreement from the party that designated the material “Confidential” that

the material need not be filed under seal. If no agreement is reached, the party that designated the

material as “Confidential” shall have ten (10) calendar days to file a motion to seal the subject

material. The parties agree that such motion may be filed ex parte and on shortened time. The

parties agree that no opposition will be filed to any motion filed pursuant to this paragraph. 

Nothing in this section shall prevent a party from filing its own “Confidential” material not under

seal. 

8. A party or third party shall not be obligated to challenge the propriety of a

“Confidential” designation at the time made, and failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent

challenge. A party may challenge the other party’s designation by serving a written objection

upon the producing party. The producing party shall notify the challenging party in writing of the

bases for the asserted designation within ten (10) days after receiving any written objection. The

parties shall confer in good faith as to the validity of the designation within five (5) days after the

challenging party has received the notice of the bases for the asserted designation. To the extent

the parties are unable to reach an agreement as to the designation, the objecting party may make

an appropriate application to this Court within fifteen (15) days after conferring with the

producing party, with confidential portions thereof to be filed provisionally under seal, requesting

that specifically identified documents, information, and/or deposition testimony be excluded

from the provisions of this Protective Order or downgraded in terms of the degree of protection

provided. Failure to make an application within this period shall constitute a waiver of the

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objection. Until a dispute over the asserted designation is finally resolved by the parties or the

Court, all parties and persons shall treat the information or materials in question as designated.

9. All counsel for the parties who have access to information or material designated

as “Confidential” under this Protective Order acknowledge they are bound by this Order and

submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of enforcing this Order.

10. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or producing or receiving information or material

designated as “Confidential” or otherwise complying with the terms of this Protective Order,

shall not:

(a) operate as an admission by any party that any particular information or

material designated as “Confidential” contains or reflects trade secrets, or proprietary or

commercially sensitive information, or any other type of confidential information;

(b) operate as an admission by any party that the restrictions and procedures

set forth herein constitute or do not constitute adequate protection for any particular information

deemed by any party to be “Confidential”;

(c) prejudice in any way the rights of the parties to object to the production of

documents they consider not subject to discovery;

(d) prejudice in any way the rights of any party to object to the authenticity or

admissibility into evidence of any document, testimony, or other evidence subject to this

Protective Order;

(e) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to seek a determination by the

Court whether any information or material should be subject to the terms of this Protective

Order;

(f) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to petition the Court for a further

protective order relating to any purportedly confidential information;

(g) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to make a showing that

information or materials of proprietary or competitive value, but which is not specifically

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included in the categories of “Confidential” information or materials itemized in Paragraph 4

above, is properly designated “Confidential”; or

(h) prevent the parties to this Protective Order from agreeing in writing or on

the record during a deposition or hearing in this action to alter or waive the provisions or

protections provided for herein with respect to any particular information or material.

11. This Protective Order has no effect upon, and shall not apply to, a party’s use or

disclosure of its own confidential information for any purpose. Nothing contained herein shall

impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of documents, information or material

designated as “Confidential” obtained lawfully by such party independently of any proceedings in

this action, or which:

(a) was already known to such party by lawful means prior to acquisition

from, or disclosure by, the other party in this action;

(b) is or becomes publicly known through no fault or act of such party; or

(c) is rightfully received by such party from a third party which has authority

to provide such information or material and without restriction as to disclosure.

12. In the event that information requested from a party contains a third-party’s

confidential or proprietary information, the producing party will make a good faith attempt to

obtain consent of the non-party prior to disclosing such information. If the producing party

cannot obtain the third-party’s consent, the producing party will notify the requesting party of (a)

the existence of the information, and (b) the identity of the non-party. If possible, the producing

party may also redact the third party’s confidential information to protect the third-party’s

interests. Nothing in this Protective Order shall be interpreted to affect any party’s obligation to

produce responsive documents or information, notwithstanding the fact that it may contain a

third-party’s confidential or proprietary information.

13. It is the present intention of the parties that the provisions of this Protective Order

shall govern discovery and other pretrial and trial proceedings in this action. Nonetheless, each

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of the parties hereto shall be entitled to seek modification of this Protective Order by application

to the Court on notice to the other party hereto for good cause.

14. The parties agree to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order pending its

entry by the Court, or pending the entry of an alternative thereto which is satisfactory to all

parties, and any violation of its terms shall be subject to the same sanctions and penalties as if the

Protective Order had been entered by the Court.

15. The provisions of this Protective Order shall, absent written permission of the

producing party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout and after the

conclusion of this action, including without limitation any appeals therefrom. Within sixty (60)

days of the final resolution of all related litigation between the parties covered by this Protective

Order, all “Confidential” material and all copies thereof, shall be (1) upon request, returned to the

party that produced it, or (2) destroyed.

16. In the event that any information or material designated as “Confidential”

hereunder is used in any court proceeding in this action or any appeal therefrom, such

information or material shall not lose its status as “Confidential” through such use. Counsel for

the parties shall confer on such procedures as are necessary to protect the confidentiality of any

documents, information, and transcripts used in the course of any court proceedings, and shall

incorporate such procedures, as appropriate, in the pre-trial order, subject to court approval. 

17. If any party (a) is subpoenaed in another action, (b) is served with a discovery

demand in another action to which it is a party, or (c) is served with any other legal process by

one not a party to this action, seeking information or material which was produced or designated

as “Confidential” by someone other than that party, the party shall give prompt actual written

notice, by hand or facsimile transmission, within ten (10) days of receipt of such subpoena,

demand, or legal process, to those who produced or designated the information or material

“Confidential.” Should the person seeking access to the information or material take action

against the party or anyone else covered by this Protective Order to enforce such a subpoena,

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demand, or other legal process, the party shall respond by setting forth the existence of this

Protective Order. Once notification is given pursuant to this provision, it shall be the obligation

of the party or person that designated the information or materials at issue to challenge such a

subpoena, demand, or other legal process, and not the obligation of the party or person that

received the subpoena, demand, or other legal process.

DATED: October 18, 2006 PERKINS COIE LLP

By: _________/s/_________

 David R. Burtt

Attorneys for Defendants

CINGULAR WIRELESS and STEVEN

JAEGER

DATED: October 18, 2006

LAW OFFICES OF STEPHEN M. MURPHY

By: __________/s/___________

 Jeremy A. Graham

 Attorneys for Plaintiff

 ALVIN JACKSON

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 

_____________________________________

 United States District Court Judge

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