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Parties Involved:
City of Bakersfield
Defendant
Jeffrey Dibbern
Plaintiff
Nghia Duong
Defendant
Anthony Kidwell
Defendant
Jeffrey King
Defendant
Fabian Salazar
Defendant
Garett Sanford
Defendant
Jaime Velazquez
Defendant

Document Text:

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BURRIS, NISENBAUM, CURRY, AND LACY LLP

JOHN L. BURRIS, Esq. (SBN 69888)

Airport Corporate Centre

7677 Oakport Street, Suite 1120

Oakland, California 94621

Telephone: (510) 839-5200

Facsimile: (510) 839-3882

john.burris@bncllaw.com

BURRIS, NISENBAUM, CURRY, AND LACY LLP

DEWITT M. LACY, Esq. (SBN 258789)

JULIA N. QUESADA, Esq. (SBN 337872)

LENA P. ANDREWS, Esq. (SBN 342471)

9701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1000

Beverly Hills, California 90212

Telephone: (310) 601-7070

Facsimile: (510) 839-3882

dewitt.lacy@bncllaw.com

julia.quesada@bncllaw.com

lena.andrews@bncllaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff,

Jeffrey Dibbern

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEFFREY DIBBERN, an individual, 

 

 Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, a municipal entity; 

ANTHONY KIDWELL, individually and in his 

official capacity as a police officer for the 

Bakersfield Police Department; JEFFREY 

KING, individually and in his official capacity 

as a police officer for the Bakersfield Police 

Department; JAIME VELAZQUEZ, 

individually and in his official capacity as a 

police officer for the Bakersfield Police 

Department; NGHIA DUONG, individually and 

in his official capacity as a police officer for the 

Bakersfield Police Department; FABIAN

SALAZAR, individually and in his official 

capacity as a police officer for the Bakersfield 

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ORDER GRANTING STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Police Department; GARETT SANFORD, 

individually and in his official capacity as a 

police officer for the Bakersfield Police 

Department; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, 

individually and in their official capacity as 

police officers for the Bakersfield Police 

Department,

 Defendants. 

TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

By and through their counsel of record in this action, Plaintiff JEFFREY DIBBERN

("Plaintiff"), and Defendants CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, ANTHONY KIDWELL, JEFFREY 

KING, JAIME VELAZQUEZ, NGHIA DUONG, FABIAN SALAZAR, and GARETT 

SANFORD ("Defendants") – the Parties – hereby stipulate for the purpose of jointly requesting 

that the honorable Court enter a protective order regarding the confidential documents in in this 

matter [and pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2, 7, and 26; U.S. Dist. Ct., E.D. Cal., Local Rules

141.1, 143, and 302(c)(2); and any applicable Orders of the Court] as follows: 

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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

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

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

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The Parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 

all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure 

and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, 

below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 

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under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 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.

1.2 GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

The parties maintain that good cause exists for entry of a protective order in this action. 

Oliner v. Kontrabecki, 745 F.3d 1024, 1026 (9th Cir. 2014). This civil rights action arises out of 

the events set forth in Plaintiff’s Operative Complaint which seeks damages for: (1) Violation of 

the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution- Excessive Force; (2) Violation of the Fourteenth 

Amendment of the U.S. Constitution- Denial of Medical Care; (3) Monell- Municipal Liability for 

Unconstitutional Custom or Policy; (4) Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights; (5) Violation of 

Caifornia Civil Code § 52.1; (6) Battery/Assault; (7) Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress; 

and (8) Negligence. 

This litigation is in the early stages of discovery. The Parties contend that some of the 

documents and information that will be produced during the discovery process contain confidential 

information. Specifically, Defendant Officers are peace officers whose personnel records are 

confidential under California law. Portions of police personnel records may be disclosed, as well 

as documents reflecting policies, functioning, training, schedules, or other operational details of 

law enforcement, and these must also be protected from public disclosure in order to ensure the 

safety and security of law enforcement and the public. The personnel records warrant special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this 

action. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, 

confidential employment and personnel information relating to a peace officer which is otherwise 

generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged or otherwise protected from 

disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. 

In light of the nature of the claims and allegations in this case and the Parties’ 

representations that discovery in this case will involve the production of confidential records and 

information, and in order to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of 

disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties 

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are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the Parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses 

of such material in connection with this action, to address their handling of such material at the 

end of the litigation, and to serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is 

justified in this matter. The Parties shall not designate any information/documents as confidential 

without a good faith belief that such information/documents have been maintained in a 

confidential, non-public manner, and that there is good cause or a compelling reason why it should 

not be part of the public record of this case.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Action: Jeffrey Dibbern v. City of Bakersfield, et al., Case No.: 1:22-cv-00723-

CDB, pending in the United States District Court, Eastern District of California. 

2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: 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).

2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support 

staff).

2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that 

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

2.6 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 or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter.

2.7 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.

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House 

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Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

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

entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this 

action but 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.

2.11 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).

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

Material in this action.

2.13 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.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

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. 

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 

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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.

This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

4. DURATION

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

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

otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims 

and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care 

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

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 encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses 

and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

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If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protection do 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 Producing Party 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under 

this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or 

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

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

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

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony. 

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tangible items, the Producing Party must affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container 

or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only 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.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 

designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 

burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to 

challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 

original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Objecting to Designation and Judicial Intervention. A party may at any time object 

to the designation of Information as CONFIDENTIAL and move the Court for an order declaring 

that such Information not be designated CONFIDENTIAL. No motion relating to the designation 

of Information as CONFIDENTIAL shall be filed without first completing the following steps. 

First, the moving party SHALL confer with the opposing party in a good faith effort to resolve the 

dispute. Second, if the good faith effort is unsuccessful, the moving party promptly shall seek a 

telephonic hearing with all involved parties and the Magistrate Judge. It shall be the obligation of 

the moving party to arrange and originate the conference call to the court. Counsel must comply 

with the Court’s procedures and Local Rule 251 or the motion will be denied with prejudice and 

dropped from calendar.

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7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in 

a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered 

by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 

employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 

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

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

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, 

and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who 

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

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

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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; and 

(h) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually agreed 

on by any of the Parties engaged in settlement discussions or appointed by the Court.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION 

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

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

must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in 

the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to 

this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; 

and 

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

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

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

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

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

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

expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these 

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provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 

disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 

LITIGATION

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

this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 

connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 

Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking 

additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a NonParty’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the 

Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 

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

or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;

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

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

information requested; and 

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

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

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

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 

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Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 

Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the 

unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected 

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

terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision 

is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that 

provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, 

the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the 

court.

12. 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. 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.

12.3 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 

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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 143. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at 

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 143, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing 

that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled 

to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal 

pursuant to Civil Local Rule 143 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 143 unless otherwise instructed by 

the Court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

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

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

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

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel 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, and consultant and expert 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).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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Dated: April 18, 2023 BURRIS, NISENBAUM, CURRY, & LACY 

By: /s/ Julia N. Quesada

JOHN L. BURRIS

DeWITT M. LACY

JULIA N. QUESADA

LENA P. ANDREWS

Attorneys for Plaintiff, 

Jeffrey Dibbern

Dated: April 18, 2023 MARDEROSIAN & COHEN 

By: /s/ Heather S. Cohen

MICHAEL G. MARDEROSIAN 

HEATHER S. COHEN 

Attorneys for Defendants,

City of Bakersfield, 

Anthony Kidwell, Jeffrey King,

Jaime Velazquez, Nghia Duong, 

Fabian Salazar, and Garett Sanford

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 20, 2023 ___________________ _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [full name], of _________________ [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 U.S. District Court for the Central District 

of California on [date] in the case of ___________ [insert case name and number]. I agree to 

comply with and to be bound by all terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, and I understand 

and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment, 

including 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 U.S. District Court for the Central 

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 

__________________________ [full name] of 

_______________________________________ [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 signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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