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Parties Involved:
Robert Chavez
Defendant
City Of Fresno
Defendant
Jerry Dyer
Defendant
Gabrielle Rodriguez
Plaintiff

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Rosemary T. McGuire, Esq. Bar No. 172549

WEAKLEY, ARENDT, MCGUIRE, LLP

1630 E. Shaw Avenue, Suite 176

Fresno, CA 93710

Telephone: (559) 221-5256

Facsimile: (559) 221-5262

Attorneys for Defendants, CITY OF FRESNO, JERRY DYER, and ROBERT CHAVEZ

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GABRIELLE RODRIGUEZ, 

Plaintiff,

vs.

CITY OFFRESNO, JERRY DYER, ROBERT

CHAVEZ and DOES 1 to 20, inclusive, 

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 1:09-CV-01176-AWI-GSA

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE

ORDER AUTHORIZING LIMITED

DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL

FRESNO POLICE DEPARTMENT

RECORDS

Complaint Filed: 07/16/09

Trial Date: March 29, 2011

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED between the parties, through their respective counsel, and

ordered by this Court, that the following documents will be disclosed pursuant to this stipulation and

protective order:

1. Fresno Police Department Standing Orders regarding relevant policies and

procedures;

2. Relevant Fresno Police Department Training Materials;

3. Recordings of Dispatch Communication and 911 calls; and

4. Photographs of and toxicology reports related to Danny Hernandez.

The above-named documents which aremaintained bythe Fresno CityPolice Department and

requested by plaintiff through discovery, may be disclosed to counsel for the parties pursuant to the

protective order detailed below. The documents requested by plaintiff contain information which is

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Stipulated Protective Order

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deemed confidential. The release of these documents pursuant to this Stipulation and Protective

Order does not waive the confidentiality privilege protecting the above-named document from general

disclosure.

Based on the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED:

1. The “Confidential” documents shall be used solely in connection with this litigation

in the preparation and trial of this case, or any related proceeding, and not for any other purpose or

in any other litigation. The party producing the documents described above may designate them by

affixing a mark labeling the documents as “Confidential - Subject to Protective Order” (with the

exception of photographs) provided that such marking does not obscure or obliterate the content of

any document. In the event an issue arises regarding a document’s designation, the parties will

attempt to resolve it informally before seeking the Court’s intervention. 

2. The documents identified in this protective order may be disclosed only to the

following persons: 

a) the counsel for any party to this action;

b) paralegal, stenographic, clerical, and secretarial personnel regularly employed by

counsel referred to in (a); 

c) court personnel including stenographic reporters engaged in proceedings as are

necessarily incidental to preparation for the trial of this action; 

d) any outside expert or consultant retained in connection with this action and not

otherwise employed by either party;

e) any in-house expert designated by defendants to testify at trial in this matter;

f) witnesses may have the information disclosed to them during deposition

proceedings; the witnesses shall be bound by the provisions of paragraph 3;

g) the finder of fact at the time of trial subject to the court’s rulings on in limine

motions and objections of counsel;

3. Each person to whom the “confidential” documents or anyportion thereof is provided,

with the exception of counsel who are presumed to know of the contents of this protective ordershall,

prior to the time of disclosure, be provided by the person furnishing him/her such information, a copy

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Stipulated Protective Order 2

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of this order, and shall agree on the record or in writing that he/she has read the protective order and

that he/she understands the provisions of the protective order. Such person must also consent to be

subject to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California with

respect to any proceeding related to enforcement of this order, including without limitation, any

proceeding for contempt. Plaintiff’s counsel shall be responsible for internally tracking the identities

of those individuals to whom copies of documents marked “Confidential” are given. The defendants

may not request the identities of said individuals, however, until the final termination of the litigation

or if defendants, in good faith, are able to demonstrate that Plaintiff, or an agent thereof, has breached

the Stipulated Protective Order. Provisions of this order insofar as they restrict disclosure and use

of the material shall be in effect until further order of this Court. Should the case proceed to trial, the

designation and treatment of the confidential information will be revisited. This stipulation and

protective order shall not be used as a basis for excluding any evidence at the trial of this matter.

4. Confidential information and/or documents that a party intends to use in support of

or in opposition to a pre-trial filing with the Court must be filed in accordance with the Eastern

District of California Local Rules relating to under seal filings. Any document filed with the Court

that includes confidential information shall be submitted under sealed label with a cover sheet as

follows: "This document is subject to a protective order issued by the Court and may not be copied

or examined except in compliance with that order." Such document shall be kept by the Court under

seal and made available only to the Court or counsel.

5. Should any document designated confidential be disclosed, through inadvertence or

otherwise, to any person not authorized to receive it under this Protective Order, the disclosing

person(s) shall promptly (a)inform the City of Fresno of the recipient(s) and the circumstances of the

unauthorized disclosure to the relevant producing person(s) and (b) use best efforts to bind the

recipient(s) to the terms of this Protective Order. No information shall lose its confidential status

because it was disclosed to a person not authorized to receive it under this Protective Order.

6. After the conclusion of this litigation, the documents, in whatever form stored or

reproduced, containing “confidential” information will remain confidential, and if filed with the

Court, shall remain under seal. All parties also ensure that all persons to whom “confidential”

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documents were disclosed shall return the documents to counsel for the producing party. The

conclusion of this litigation means termination of the case following applicable post-trial motions,

appeal and/or retrial. Afterthe conclusion of this litigation, all confidential documents received under

the provisions of this Protective Order, including all copies made, shall be tendered back to the

attorneys for the defendants in a manner in which the City of Fresno will be able to reasonably

identify that all documents were returned.

IT IS SO STIPULATED:

DATED: May 19, 2010 WEAKLEY, ARENDT & McGUIRE, LLP

By: /s/ Rosemary T. McGuire 

Rosemary T. McGuire

Attorney for Defendants

DATED: May 19, 2010 BRACAMONTES & VLASAK, P.C.

By: /s/ Michael R. Bracamontes 

Michael R. Bracamontes

Attorney for Plaintiff

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 20, 2010 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

6i0kij UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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