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Parties Involved:
Larry Adams
Defendant
Brycon Cooper
Plaintiff
Kaelyn Cooper
Plaintiff
Donita Cooper
Plaintiff
Professional Bureau of Collections
Defendant

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Mark E. Ellis – 127159

Theresa M. La Voie - 143773

ELLIS, COLEMAN, POIRIER, LaVOIE

 & STEINHEIMER, LLP

555 University Avenue, Suite 200 East

Sacramento, CA 95825

Tel: (916) 283-8820

Fax: (916) 283-8821

Attorneys for Defendant

PROFESSIONAL BUREAU OF COLLECTIONS, INC.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DONITA COOPER, KAELYN COOPER and 

BRYCON COOPER,

Plaintiffs, No. CIV S-06-0251 FCD KJM

vs.

PROFESSIONAL BUREAU OF COLLECTIONS, STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE 

INC.; LARRY DOE aka LARRY ADAMS; ORDER

DOE ABC Company, a corporation; DOES 3 

through 10, inclusive, (Approved as is)

Defendants.

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I. 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 Protective Order. This Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or

responses to discovery and the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or

items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. As set

forth in Section 10, below, this Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential

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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.

II. DEFINITIONS

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. Disclosure of 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 in this matter. This includes the production of class member information.

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.P.26(c). 

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.

5. Receiving Party: a Party or the Class Administrator that receives Disclosure or

Discovery Material from a Producing Party, including a class list.

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

Material in this action. 

7. Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential

– Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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8. Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”, as well as Class member

information 

9. Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

10. House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

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

support staffs).

12. 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 Party or a current employee of a Party or of a

competitor 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. This definition includes a professional jury or trial

consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

13. 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.

14. Class Member Information: excluding information regarding Plaintiff, names and

contact information regarding putative or actual class members, as well as the putative or actual

class members’ financial and medical information, including but not limited to whether and to

whom a person owes money, the identity of a person’s medical provider, medical procedures

contemplated or performed, and social security numbers.

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III. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this 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 compilation thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or

counsel to or in court or in other setting that might reveal Protected Material.

IV. 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.

V. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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 random 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 possible 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.

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2. Manner and Timing of Designation. 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 trial 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 markings in the margins) and must specify, for each

portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”).

“Documentary form” includes electronic files. Electronic files must also be

affixed with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’

EYES ONLY” at the top of each page that contains protected material, although such

designation may be in a header. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page of an

electronic file qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must print the file, to the extent

possible and then clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings

in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). If a

printed version is produced, the electronic version need not be. 

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

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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 as described above. If only a portion or

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party must annotate the

material as described above under documentary form. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings,

that the Party or nonparty 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 protection, and then 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 proceeding 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 the testimony that are appropriately

designated for protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated

Protective Order.

(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

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practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

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.

VI. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

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 is disclosed.

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 to 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 first.

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

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serve a motion under Civil Local Rule 78-230 (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 preceding

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.

VII. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

1. Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed

or produced by another Party or by a non-party, if permitted under this Stipulated Protective

Order, 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).

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.

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 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;

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(b) the Receiving Party and 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);

(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 “Agreement to Be

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel, including a jury at trial of this matter;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

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

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A). 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 Protective Order.

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

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

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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, including a jury at trial of this matter;

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and

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

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 Party 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

received 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 receives a written objection from the

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

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(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 Civil Local Rule 78-230 (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

and confer discussions) and sets forth the reasons 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.

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

counsel. 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.

XIII. 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 five court days after receiving the subpoena or order. 

Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

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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 of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must

deliver a copy of this 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 alert 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 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.

IX. 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 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 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. With respect to information that

relates to a non-party, but was produced by a Party, the Receiving Party shall also bear the cost

of any notice to the non-party or non-parties as is required by law.

X. 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.

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XI. 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. The parties have agreed that financial information produced by

defendant within 14 days of the execution of this protective order by the parties will be return,

including but not limited to all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of

reproducing or capturing any of financial information produced by defendant within 14 days of

the execution of this protective order by the parties. 

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 deadline

to return the documents 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, even 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.

XII. MISCELLANEOUS.

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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2. Right to Assert Other Objections. 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 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.

DATED: March 1, 2007 ELLIS, COLEMAN, POIRIER, LA VOIE &

STEINHEIMER LLP

By ________________/s/____________________

 Theresa M. LaVoie

 Attorneys for Defendant PROFESSIONAL

 BUREAU OF COLLECTIONS, INC.

DATED: March 1, 2007 LAW OFFICE OF ERIC F. FAGAN.

 By _______________/s/____________________

 Eric F. Fagan

 Attorney for Plaintiffs

 DONITA COOPER, KAELYN COOPER

 and BRYCON COOPER

GOOD CAUSE EXISTING, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 9, 2007. 

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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 understood the Protective Order that was issued by the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of California on ____________[date] in the case of Cooper v.

Professional Bureau of Collections, Inc., 2:06-CV-00251 – FCD KJM. 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 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 agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings

related to enforcement of this Protective Order.

Date: ___________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _____________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________________

[printed name]

Signature: _________________________________________

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