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Parties Involved:
Casey Easterwood
Plaintiff
Family Dollar, Inc.
Defendant

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PROTECTIVE ORDER

Case No. 1:19-CV-00350-AWI-SKO

THARPE & HOWELL, LLP

15250 Ventura Boulevard, Ninth Floor

Sherman Oaks, California 91403-3221

CHARLES D. MAY, ESQ.; SBN: 129663

ANDREA BREUER, ESQ.: SBN: 161819

 THARPE & HOWELL, LLP

15250 Ventura Blvd., Ninth Floor

Sherman Oaks, California 91403

(818) 205-9955; (818) 205-9944 fax

E-Mail: cmay@tharpe-howell.com

E-Mail: abreuer@tharpe-howell.com

Attorneys for Defendant,

FAMILY DOLLAR, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CASEY EASTERWOOD,

Plaintiff(s),

v.

FAMILY DOLLAR, INC., and DOES 

1 TO 50

Defendant(s).

Case No.: 1:19-CV-00350-AWI-SKO

Assigned to the Hon. Anthony W. Ishii, 

Courtroom 2

(Superior Court, County of Kings, Case No. 

19C-0066)

PROTECTIVE ORDER

(Doc. 19)

The Court having read the parties’ Joint Stipulation for Entry of a Protective 

Order in this matter, finding no objection and good cause appearing,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Joint Stipulation for Entry of a Protective 

Order is GRANTED, and the following protective order is entered:

1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Discovery in this action is 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 

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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 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.

B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26(c)(1) states in pertinent part, that the 

Court, upon a showing of good cause may “issue an order to protect a party from 

annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense.” Fed.R.Civ.P. 

26(c)(1). In the instant matter, Defendant Family Dollar, Inc.’s Confidential 

Documents contain proprietary and confidential trade secret information relating to 

Defendant Family Dollar, Inc.’s business practices and its safety protocol. Defendant 

Family Dollar, Inc. (“Defendant” or “Family Dollar”) derives independent economic 

value from maintaining the confidentiality of the policies and procedures set forth in 

these Confidential Documents. 

Defendant is a retailer in the home goods industry. The home goods industry is 

very competitive. As a result of years of investing time and money in research and 

investigation, Defendant developed the policies contained in the Confidential 

Documents for the purposes of maintaining the security and accessibility of its 

merchandise, providing quality customer service, and ensuring the safety of its 

employees and customers. These policies and procedures, as memorialized in the 

Confidential Documents, were created and generated by Family Dollar for Family 

Dollar, and are used for the purposes of maintaining safety at its stores and creating 

efficient and organized work environments for its employees. As a result, Defendant 

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is able to minimize the waste of any resources, which is a key factor in generating 

profitability for its business.

Defendant derives economic value from maintaining the secrecy of its 

Confidential Documents. If disclosed to the public, the trade secret information 

contained in Defendant’s Confidential Documents would reveal Defendant’s internal 

operations and could potentially be used by competitors as a means to compete for its 

customers, interfere with its business plans and thereby gain unfair business 

advantages. If Defendant’s safety protocol were revealed to the general public, it 

would hinder Defendant’s ability to effectively resolve and minimize liability claims, 

and its goal of protecting its customers and employees from theft and other crimes. 

Unrestricted or unprotected disclosure of such information would result in prejudice 

or harm to Defendant by revealing Family Dollar’s competitive confidential 

information, which has been developed at the expense of Family Dollar and which 

represents valuable tangible and intangible assets. 

Defendant’s employee/personnel files and records are confidential records, 

subject to the privacy rights of the employees. Defendant’s employees have a 

fundamentally protected right to privacy under both our state and federal Constitutions 

which enjoys special safeguard from governmental interference. Cal. Const., art. I, §§ 

1, 2, 3; U.S. Const., 1st Amend. California law provides protections for parties when 

their private information is subpoenaed, even when the information sought is relevant 

and not privileged. Defendant’s employee/personnel records and the information 

contained therein, such as salary data, background checks, work history, health 

insurance information, social security number, financial information including 

sensitive tax information, and wage information are highly sensitive, the disclosure of 

which would be an invasion of Defendant’s employees’ right of privacy. Such 

employee/personnel files are maintained by Defendant Family Dollar as confidential 

and are not disclosed or otherwise made available to the general public.

Furthermore, discovery in this case will involve the production of Plaintiffs’ 

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financial, tax, and other records that contain sensitive and confidential information. 

Unrestricted or unprotected disclosure of such information would result in prejudice 

or harm to the Plaintiffs. Accordingly, the parties respectfully submit that there is 

good cause for the entry of this Protective Order. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Action: this pending federal law suit. 

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), and as specified above in the Good Cause 

Statement. 

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 

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 

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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, and includes support staff. 

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. 

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.15 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. 

If counsel for any party plans to file a motion or other document with the court 

that will include any of Protected Material as exhibits or attachments, said counsel 

must first notify the producing party’s counsel in writing at least 21 days before filing 

said motion or other document with the court so the producing party’s counsel has the 

ability to move to seal the Confidential Documents under applicable law and rules.

Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the trial 

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judge. 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 the case development process or to impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may 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 inapplicable 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 

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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 at a minimum, the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “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). 

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

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

which documents 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 tor 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 depositions that the Designating Party identify 

the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition 

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 is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants 

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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 that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process under Local Rule 37.1 et seq. 

6.3 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 

or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, 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. 

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 

Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 

Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 

conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, Receiving 

Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 

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

and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized 

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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 Action; 

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

the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action; 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action 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; 

(f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional 

Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have 

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

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 

(h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in

the Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing 

party requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they 

will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign 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 may be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted 

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under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 

mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 

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 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 NonParty in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

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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 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 Non-Party; 

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

Protective Order in this Action, 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, if requested. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to 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 

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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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may 

only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific 

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Protected Material at issue. If a Party's request to file Protected Material under seal is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 

days of a written request by the Designating Party, 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 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). 

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15250 Ventura Boulevard, Ninth Floor

Sherman Oaks, California 91403-3221

14. Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 

measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 

sanctions. 

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 7, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _______________________, [print or type full name] of 

_______________________________________, [type or print 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 the case of Casey Easterwood v. 

Family Dollar, Inc., et al., Case No.: 1:19-CV-00350-AWI-SKO, 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 ________________________ [type and print 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: _________________________________

Signature: ____________________________________

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