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Parties Involved:
American Zurich Insurance Company
Plaintiff
Bradley C. Burks
Cross Claimant
ESG Republic II, LLC
Defendant
ESG Republic, Inc.
Cross Defendant
Jeffrey D. Thorn
Cross Defendant
Thorn Insurance Services LLC
Cross Claimant
Vensure Employer Services, Inc.
Cross Claimant
Vensure HR, Inc.
Cross Claimant
WL Acquisitions, LLC
Cross Claimant
Worklogic HR Insurance Services
Cross Claimant

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR STANDARD LITIGATION 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF CALIFORNIA

EASTERN DISTRICT, FRESNO 

CASE NO. 1:23-cv-00643-KES-CDB

[Assigned to Hon. Kirk E. Sherriff, 

District Judge, and Hon. Christopher 

D. Baker, Magistrate Judge]

DISCOVERY DOCUMENT: 

REFERRED TO MAGISTRATE 

JUDGE CHRISTOPHER D. BAKER

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR 

STANDARD LITIGATION

Complaint filed: April 27, 2023

Trial date: May 6, 2025

AMERICAN ZURICH INSURANCE 

COMPANY, 

 

 Plaintiff,

vs.

ESG REPUBLIC, INC., ESG 

REPUBLIC II, LLC, WORKLOGIC HR 

INSURANCE SERVICES, THORN 

INSURANCE SERVICES LLC, 

BRADLEY C. BURKS, JEFFREY D. 

THORN, VENSURE EMPLOYER 

SERVICES, INC., VENSURE HR, INC., 

WL ACQUISITIONS, LLC, and DOES 

1 to 10, inclusive,

 

 Defendants,

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR STANDARD LITIGATION 

The Court, having received the STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

FOR STANDARD LITIGATION, executed by Plaintiff AMERICAN ZURICH 

INSURANCE COMPANY (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants JEFFREY D. THORN, 

VENSURE EMPLOYER SERVICES, INC., VENSURE HR, INC., THORN

INSURANCE SERVICES LLC dba WORKLOGIC HR INSURANCE

SERVICES, and BRADLEY C. BURKS (“Defendants,” collectively “the 

Parties”), (Doc. 43)having considered the representations set forth therein, and 

finding good cause thereof, orders as follows:

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION AND FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, 

A PROTECTIVE ORDER IS ENTERED AS FOLLOWS:

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 Court enters 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 

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

confidential information under seal; the applicable Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure and local rule must be followed and the standards that will be applied 

when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the 

designation of information or items under this Order.

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2.2 “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).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 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 

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 or as a consultant in this action.

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

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel.

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, 

or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 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.

2.10 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).

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2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.12 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 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.

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4. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

This action is likely to involve trade secrets, internally developed policies 

and procedures, confidential logs and business records, and other valuable 

research, development, commercial, technical, or proprietary information for 

which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other 

than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such confidential and proprietary 

materials and information consist of, among other things, confidential business or 

financial information, information regarding confidential business practices

(including standards, procedures, and documents developed internally by the 

parties), or other confidential research, development or commercial information 

(including information implicating privacy rights of third parties), information 

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. Such information and documents include business 

records and work logs developed, researched, drafted, created, and/or prepared 

internally by the Parties for use in their business or trade; internal policies and 

procedures; confidential communications, documents, or information involving 

private or personal information of the parties or third parties; and/or documents 

marked confidential and not made available for the public at large. Accordingly, to 

expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes 

over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the 

parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted 

reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of 

trial, to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and serves the ends of 

justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the 

intent of the Parties that information will not be designated as confidential for 

tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it 

has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause 

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why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

5. 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.

6. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 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.

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.

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6.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 6.2(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).

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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.” 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).

6.3 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.

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

7.1 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.

7.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging 

and describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a 

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challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to 

confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the 

Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of 

notice. 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 or establishes 

that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process 

in a timely manner.

7.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

confidentiality within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of 

the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, 

whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party 

to make such a motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 

days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for 

each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion 

challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for 

doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any 

portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied 

with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

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

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose 

(e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may 

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has 

waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain 

confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge.

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

8.1 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 14 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.

8.2 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;

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(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 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.

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9. 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 

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

this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

10. 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 

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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 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 NonParty 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.

11. 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) 

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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.

12. 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.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the court in the future.

13.2 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.

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13.3 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 the public record in this action any Protected 

Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply 

with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the applicable local rule. 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 Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure and the applicable local rule, 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 Federal Rules of 

Civil Procedure and the applicable local rule is denied by the court, then the 

Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure and the applicable local rule unless otherwise instructed 

by the court.

14. 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. 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 60 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. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain 

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR STANDARD LITIGATION 

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 5 (DURATION).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 17, 2024 ___________________ _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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