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Parties Involved:
R. Adair
Defendant
M. Agbayani
Defendant
M. Franco
Defendant
John David Gann
Plaintiff
J. Harmon
Defendant
M. Moody
Defendant
A. Rodriguez
Defendant
Jennifer Amelia Rose
Plaintiff

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JENNIFER AMELIA ROSE (aka John 

David Gann),

Plaintiff,

v.

R. ADAIR, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:18-cv-01384 NONE JDP

ORDER RE STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

(ECF No. 34)

Plaintiff Jennifer Amelia Rose (aka John David Gann) and Defendants R. Adair, M. Franco, 

J. Harmon, M. Moody, A. Rodriguez, and M. Agbayani (Defendants) by and through their 

respective attorneys of record, hereby stipulate and jointly request the Court enter a protective 

order regarding confidential information, including but not limited to video and audio evidence, 

investigative reports, staff records, and prison operational documents, exchanged for purposes of 

the February 21, 2020 settlement conference only, pursuant to Eastern District of California Civil 

Local Rules 141.1, and 143.

The parties agree that there is good cause for a protective order for purposes of the 

February 21, 2020 settlement conference. The parties file the proposed protective order based on 

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the Northern District of California’s model protective order, but modified it to reflect that this 

case involves inmate litigation and is venued in the Eastern District of California.

[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this case is likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information, and records of the California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation (CDCR) that concern prison management; investigational tactics, policy, and 

protocol; reflect the personal information of inmates, officers, and prison staff; or that would 

threaten prison safety and security for which special protection from disclosure to the inmate 

Plaintiff, public disclosure, disclosure not authorized by law, and from use for any purpose other 

than pursuing settlement of this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby 

stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order.

This Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery 

and 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. This protective order does not permit the Parties to file confidential information under 

seal, nor does it otherwise limit or contravene Civil Local Rule 141, which 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. This protective order governs informal 

discovery and information exchanged for the purposes of settlement at the February 21, 2020 

settlement conference only.

This protective order does not dispose of, nor curtail any Party’s ability to object to 

production of documents on the ground of any privilege, including but not limited to the right to 

privacy and the official-information privilege. Nor does this order affect the Parties’ right to 

withhold the production of privileged or confidential documents and information. No party will 

be held in contempt of this protective order for any objections or withholding of documents 

asserted under this section.

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The Defendants shall only designate materials as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY under this Protective Order if the material has been deemed 

confidential by the CDCR for safety and security reasons, and has been restricted from general 

distribution, including but not limited to inmates, parolees, and the public.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: the party that challenges the designation of information or 

items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Material: 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) and California state law, including but not limited to, CDCR and Kern Valley 

State Prison documents regarding prison management, personnel files, safety, and security.

2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Material: 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) and California state law and constitute or 

contains information that threatens prison safety or security as determined by CDCR or Kern 

Valley State Prison. The criteria for such a designation shall be whether the Party has a goodfaith belief that the information is entitled to protection from disclosure to non-attorneys, 

including any inmate, because such information threatens inmate, staff, or institutional safety and 

security.

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates any produced material as 

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

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, made available for inspection, or 

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.6 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 

under Federal Rules of Evidence 702, 703, or 705, or as a retained, undisclosed consultant in this 

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action.

2.7 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other 

legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.8 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who 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.

2.9 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).

2.10 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

2.11 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.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” and that is not 

subject to any privilege, including attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

2.13 Receiving Party: a Party that inspects or receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

This order shall only apply to the production and exchange of all documents, testimony, 

discovery, video, audio, and other information, regardless of whether such production or 

exchange is made informally or in response to formal discovery requests or mechanisms, for the 

purposes of the February 21, 2020 settlement conference.

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. 

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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.

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) 180 days after the 

dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) 180 days 

after the final judgment herein after the completing 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 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 

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encumber or delay 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 material designated for protection does

not qualify for protection, that Designating 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, 

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 Designating

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

ONLY” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion of the material on a page 

qualifies for protection, the Designating Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) 

by special notations next to or covering the 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 –

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 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” label to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion 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).

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(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 item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only a portion or portions of the 

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

identify the protected portion(s).

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.

5.4 Personal Information of CDCR Employees and Other Inmates. Personal information 

of current and former CDCR employees including but not limited to first names, social security 

numbers, telephone numbers, and home addresses of the CDCR employee and their family, shall 

be redacted from all discovery documents regardless of their designated protected status. 

Additionally, identification information, including but not limited to names, nicknames, CDCR 

numbers, addresses, and telephone numbers, of non-Plaintiff inmates or parolees shall be redacted 

from all discovery materials produced.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

Neither Party may challenge the confidentiality designations made pursuant to this 

Order for the purposes of the February 21, 2020 settlement conference.

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 settlement of 

this litigation at the February 21, 2020 settlement conference. Such Protected Material may be 

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disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. If no 

settlement agreement is reached at the February 21, 2020 settlement conference, 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 – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Material. 

This Protective Order is intended to and does preclude Counsel of Records from disclosing 

documents and information designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to 

Plaintiff, members of Plaintiff’s family, friends, or associates of Plaintiff, or to any other inmate 

or parolee, or to the public.

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, 

only the Counsel of Record (as well as support staff) of the Receiving Party, and the Court and its 

personnel, may have access to and review any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL 

– ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” It is further agreed by the Parties and ordered by the Court that 

the information designated “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” shall not be 

disseminated to or discussed with any inmates, including a party or a witness, parolee, and the 

public in this case or in any other capacity, unless by written agreement of the parties or on order 

of the Court under the procedures set forth in section 6.

7.3 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Material.

This Protective Order is intended to and does preclude Counsel of Record from allowing 

Plaintiff to possess or retain a copy of any information designated “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

However, this Protective Order is not intended to and does not preclude Counsel of Record from 

displaying, disclosing or discussing the contents of such information or items to Plaintiff. The 

Parties agree that information or items labeled “CONFIDENTIAL” may be displayed or disclosed 

to or discussed between Counsel of Record and Plaintiff to the extent necessary to facilitate 

settlement discussions.

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In addition to the above, unless otherwise ordered by this 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 Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees of 

said Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for 

purposes of settlement (as well as support staff);

(b) the officers, directors, and employees of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary for purposes of settlement 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 purposes of settlement 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 purposes of settlement

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.

(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

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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” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” 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 “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 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

9.1 Production of Protected Material by a Non-Party

The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 

action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY.” 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. 

9.2 Production of a Non-Party’s Protected Material by a Party

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(a) 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 Non-Party that 

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

(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. 

(b) 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 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.

In the event the Receiving Party believes that documents labeled “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” have been viewed or obtained by persons 

not authorized by this protective order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing 

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the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) identify the person or person to whom 

unauthorized disclosures were made, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized 

disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) use its best efforts to retrieve all 

unauthorized copies of the Protected Material.

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 agree to a disclosure of such information under the terms of this 

Protective Order.

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. This Protective Order does not deny or abrogate 

the parties’ rights to object to disclosure or production of any information on any ground not 

mentioned in this Protective Order. Similarly, this Protective Order does not deny or abrogate a 

party’s 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. Under no circumstances will any Protected Materials be 

filed with the Court. The parties agree that Protected Materials may be provided to the Court 

with the Confidential (Unfiled) Settlement Conference Statement.

12.4 Access to Protected Material by Authorized Government Officials. Nothing in this 

Order is intended to prevent officials or employees of the State of California or other authorized 

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government officials from having access to Protected Material to which they have access in the 

normal course of their official duties.

12.5 Inmate Access to Inmate Files. This Order is not intended to abrogate the existing 

rights of inmates to inspect their own records – specifically, the non-confidential portion of their 

central files in addition to their unit health records – pursuant to Department Operations Manual § 

13030.16. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, permitted in writing by the Designating Party, 

or with appropriate valid authorization, any information or item appropriately designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under the terms of this Order shall not be disclosed or discussed with any 

other inmate other than the inmate to whom the information or item pertains. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the Court, permitted in writing by the Designating Party, or with appropriate valid 

authorization, any information or item appropriately designated “CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” under the terms of this Order shall not be disclosed or discussed 

with any inmate.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

(a) Within 15 days of the settlement conference, regardless of whether settlement has 

been reached, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or 

destroy such material, subject to the exceptions set forth in section 13(b). As used in this 

subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and 

any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 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 15 day 

deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was 

returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material, other than exceptions set forth in section 13(b).

(b) Notwithstanding section 13(a), Counsel of Record are entitled to retain an 

archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, 

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and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. In 

addition, Counsel of Record is not required to destroy or return copies of Protected Material that 

may be stored on back-up tapes created in the Receiving Party’s normal course of business and 

retained for disaster-recovery purposes, but Counsel of Record should make an attempt to 

destroy or return such copies as feasible. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute 

Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

(DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD:

DATED: December 19, 2019 ____/s/ Kevin Love Hubbard ___

Kevin Love Hubbard

Medina Orthwein LLP

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: December 19, 2019 ____/s/ Le-Mai D. Lyons ______

Le-Mai D. Lyons

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendants

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ORDER

The Court has reviewed and considered the parties’ proposed protective order and 

believes that it is appropriate for use in this case for purposes of the settlement conference only. 

The Court, therefore, approves and adopts the stipulated protective order supplied by the parties, 

and for good cause orders the parties to conduct themselves in accordance with the following 

protective order provisions.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The above stipulated protective order is entered; and

2. The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States 

District Court, Eastern District of California, any documents which are to be 

filed under seal will require a written request which complies with Local Rule 

141.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 7, 2020 

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 Rose v. Adair, et al., Case No. 1:18-cv-01384 LJO JDP. 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: _______________________________

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Signature: __________________________________

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