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Parties Involved:
Bank of America, N.A.
Defendant
Gary L. Cooksey
Plaintiff
Carol R. Cooksey
Plaintiff
Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.
Defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:14-cv-01237-KJM-KJN

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ERIC ANDREW MERCER (SBN 248707)

eric@ericmercerlaw.com

LAW OFFICE OF ERIC ANDREW MERCER 

770 L Street, Suite 950 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 361-6022 

Facsimile: (916) 361-6023 

Attorney for Plaintiffs

THOMAS A. WOODS (SB #210050)

tawoods@stoel.com

BRYAN L. HAWKINS (SB #238346)

blhawkins@stoel.com

Stoel Rives LLP

500 Capitol Mall, Suite 1600

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 447-0700

Facsimile: (916) 447-4781

Attorneys for Defendant

SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING, INC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

GARY L. COOKSEY, an individual and 

CAROL R. COOKSEY, an individual,

Plaintiffs,

v.

SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING, INC., 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; and DOES 1 

through 20 inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:14-cv-01237-KJM-KJN

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Courtroom: 25

Judge: Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve the 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, Plaintiffs Gary L. and Carol R. Cooksey (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant Select 

Portfolio Systems, Inc. (“SPS”) (collectively, the “Parties”, each individually a “Party”) hereby 

stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order (“Protective 

Order” or “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 

Sections 12.3 and 12.4 below, that this Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 140 and 141 and General Order 164 set 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.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

information or items under this Order.

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 

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responses to discovery in this matter, including but not limited to answers to interrogatories, 

responses to requests for production, responses to requests for admission, deposition and exhibits, 

and transcripts of depositions and hearings (or portions of such transcripts).

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. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation.

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).

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 and his, her or its Counsel of Record in this litigation 

that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

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3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Protective 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 Protective Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a 

result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 

record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to 

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained 

the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any 

use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

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

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

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

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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.

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. Nothing in this Order concerning 

designation for protection, however, shall be interpreted as controlling the form of production of 

any material by any Designating Party. 

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 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 Protected Material. 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 legend 

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“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);

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

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

proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of 

testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may 

qualify for protection, a Designating Party may specify, at the deposition that the entire transcript 

shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL;” and 

(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).

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If any “CONFIDENTIAL” information or 

items are inadvertently provided to a discovering party without being marked appropriately as 

Protected Material in accordance with this Order, the Producing Party may thereafter designate 

such material(s) as “CONFIDENTIAL” and the initial failure to so mark the material shall not be 

deemed a waiver of its confidentiality. 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.

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6.2 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 challenge has been made, the written 

notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 

specific Section 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 fourteen (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.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a noticed motion pursuant to Civil Local 

Rule 251 to retain confidentiality (in compliance with Civil Local Rules 140 and 141, if 

applicable) within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of written notice from the Challenging Party 

that the Parties have not resolved the challenge to a confidentiality designation, unless the Parties 

mutually agree to a longer period. 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 Section. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion 

including the required declaration within twenty-one (21) days (or a longer period if the Parties 

agree) 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 

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must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the 

meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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. All Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

which it is entitled under the Designating 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 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, as defined in Section 4, 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, House Counsel, 

and employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary and only for the purpose of 

conducting or assisting in this litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees 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);

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(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; or

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

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Receiving 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” the Receiving 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 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.

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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 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 NonParty;

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

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

the information requested; and 

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

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

fourteen (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 

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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 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 Protective Order. Similarly, no Party 

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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 the public record in this action any Protected Material, except as provided in section 12.4. A 

Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rules 140 

and 141 and General Order 164. 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 Rules 140 and 141 and General Order 164, 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. 

12.4 Sealing and Protective Orders: No document will be sealed, nor shall a redacted 

document be filed, without the prior approval of the court. If a document for which sealing or 

redaction is sought relates to the record on a motion to be decided by Judge Mueller, the request to 

seal or redact should be directed to her and not the assigned Magistrate Judge. All requests to seal 

or redact shall be governed by Local Rules 141 (sealing) and 140 (redaction); protective orders 

covering the discovery phase of litigation shall not govern the filing of sealed or redacted 

documents on the public docket. The court will only consider requests to seal or redact filed by 

the proponent of sealing or redaction. If a party plans to make a filing that includes material an 

opposing party has identified as confidential and potentially subject to sealing, the filing party 

shall provide the opposing party with sufficient notice in advance of filing to allow for the seeking 

of an order of sealing or redaction from the court. If the Designating Party fails to make a request 

to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rules 140 and 141 and General Order 

164 prior to a deadline to file by the Filing Party, imposed by the Federal Rules or by order of the 

court; or if Designating Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the court, 

then the Filing Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rules 

140 and 141 unless otherwise instructed by the court.

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13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed-to in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty (60) 

days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in Section 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 sixty (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).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: October 1, 2015 By: /s/ Eric Andrew Mercer (authorized on October 

1, 2015

ERIC ANDREW MERCER 

Attorney for Plaintiffs

Dated: October 1, 2015 By: /s/ Bryan L. Hawkins

THOMAS A. WOODS 

BRYAN L. HAWKINS 

Attorneys for Defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:14-cv-01237-KJM-KJN

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ORDER

Upon reading the foregoing Stipulation, and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS SO 

ORDERED.

Dated: October 7, 2015

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 2:14-cv-01237-KJM-KJN

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ____________________________________________[print or type full name], 

of_________________________________________________________ [print or type full 

address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the 

Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California on ____________________ [date] in the case of Cooksey v. Bank of 

America, N.A., et al., Case No. 2:14-cv-01237-KJM-KJN. I agree to comply with and to be bound 

by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure 

to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly 

promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions 

of this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint ________________________________________ [print or type full 

name] of ____________________________________________________________ [print or type 

full address and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection 

with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Dated: ______________________________________________________________, 20______

City and State where

sworn and signed: _____________________________________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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