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Parties Involved:
Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC
Defendant
Richard L. Meissner
Plaintiff
Republic Services, Inc.
Defendant

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MENDELSON, P.C.

5200 North Palm 

Avenue

Suite 302

Fresno, CA 

93704.2225

559.244.7500

Laura E. Devane, Bar No. 314064

ldevane@littler.com

Julie R. Campos, Bar No. 314063

jcampos@littler.com

LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C.

5200 North Palm Avenue

Suite 302

Fresno, California 93704.2225

Telephone: 559.244.7500

Fax No.: 559.244.7525

Attorneys for Defendants

REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. AND ALLIED WASTE 

SERVICES OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RICHARD L. MEISSNER, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; ALLIED WASTE SERVICES OF 

NORTH AMERICA, LLC, a Delaware limited 

liability company; and DOES 1 THROUGH 10, 

inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:24-CV-00086-KES-BAM

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Trial Date: Feb. 10, 2026

Complaint Filed: December 18, 2023

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5200 North Palm 

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Plaintiff Richard Meissner (“Plaintiff”) and Defendants Republic Services, Inc. and Allied 

Waste Services of North America, LLC, (collectively, “Defendants,” and collectively with Plaintiff as 

the “Parties”), by and through their respective counsel of record, hereby submit this Stipulated 

Protective Order (the “SPO”) in the matter of Richard Meissner v. Republic Services, Inc. (the 

“Action”)1.

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this Action are likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, and/or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from 

use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the Parties 

hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following SPO. The Parties acknowledge that 

this SPO 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 SPO does not entitle them to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i) of the United States District Court, Eastern

District of California 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.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

or items under this SPO.

2.2. “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

generated, stored, and/or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure Rule 26(c). Confidential Information or Items include any Documents, Testimony 

or Information as defined below designated as “Confidential” pursuant to the provisions of this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

1 Defendant maintains that Plaintiff never worked for Republic Services, Inc. but was instead 

employed by Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC.

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2.3. Confidential: any information which is in the possession of a Designating Party who believes 

in good faith that such information is entitled to confidential treatment under applicable law. 

2.4. Counsel (without qualifier): 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 

she/he/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, and/or maintained (including, among other things, 

testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), which are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter.

2.7. Documents: (i) any “Writing,” “Original,” and “Duplicate” as those terms are defined 

by California Evidence Code Sections 250, 255, and 260, which have been produced in discovery in 

this Proceeding by any person, and (ii) any copies, reproductions, or summaries of all or any part of 

the foregoing.

2.8. 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.

2.9. 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.

2.10. Information: the content of Documents or Testimony.

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

entity not named as a Party to this Action.

2.12. 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.

2.13. Party: any Party to this Action, including but not limited to all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and/or Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).

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2.14. Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material 

in this Action.

2.15. 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.

2.16. Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.17. Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

2.18. Testimony: all depositions, declarations or other testimony taken or used in this 

Proceeding. 

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this SPO 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 SPO 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 

SPO 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 

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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 SPO 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) 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 designation.

5.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this SPO (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 SPO must be clearly so designated before 

the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this SPO 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).

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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 SPO. Then, before producing the specified 

documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains 

Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins).

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

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

proceeding, all protected testimony.

(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 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 SPO 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 SPO.

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 

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

is disclosed.

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 paragraph of the 

SPO. 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 calendar days of the date of service of the written notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party 

must explain the basis for her/his/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 (discussed 

in Section 6.3) only if she/he/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 motion to retain confidentiality under Civil 

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i) , if applicable) 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 later. 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. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging 

a confidentiality designation within the time limits discussed above 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.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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

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

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

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

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

DISPOSITION).

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

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

7.2. Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless ordered by the court 

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

item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well as employees 

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

this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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

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

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

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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 SPO.

(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 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, within two calendar days of receipt 

of the subpoena or court order. 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 SPO. 

Such notification shall include a copy of this SPO; 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 objects to the subpoena or seeks a protective order, the Party 

served with the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this Action 

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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. 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 SPO 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 SPO. 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 both the Requesting Party and the Non-Party in writing 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 SPO 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 NonParty’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

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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 SPO, the Receiving Party must 

immediately: (a) notify the Designating Party in writing 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 SPO, 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 Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 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 Rules of Evidence Rule 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 SPO 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 SPO, no Party 

waives any right she/he/it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information 

or item on any ground not addressed in this SPO. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on 

any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this SPO.

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

must comply with Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i) 5 of the United States District Court, Eastern District 

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of California. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing 

the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i), a 

sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at issue is 

privileged, protectable as a trade secret, and/or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a 

Receiving Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 

141(e)(2)(i) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i) unless otherwise instructed by the court. A 

Designating Party may always choose to file its own Protected Material in court, in the public record, 

and not under seal. In the event the procedure in this paragraph cannot be completed due to a deadline 

to file a motion or make a filing, the Parties agree to work cooperatively and on an expedited basis 

(e.g., through ex parte filings).

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

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

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

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

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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MENDELSON, P.C.

5200 North Palm 

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Suite 302

Fresno, CA 

93704.2225

559.244.7500

DATED: ___July 25, 2024__________ _/s/ Daniel Lula________________________

Attorney for Plaintiff 

Richard Meissner

DATED: ____July 25, 2024____ _/s/ Julie Campos________________

Attorney for Defendants Republic Services, Inc. and

Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC 

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MENDELSON, P.C.

5200 North Palm 

Avenue

Suite 302

Fresno, CA 

93704.2225

559.244.7500

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 Northern District of California on 

________________ [date] in the matter of Richard Meissner v. Republic Services, Inc., bearing United 

States District Court for the Eastern District of California case number 1:24-CV-00086-KES-BAM. 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.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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MENDELSON, P.C.

5200 North Palm 

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Suite 302

Fresno, CA 

93704.2225

559.244.7500

ORDER

Having considered the above stipulation and finding good cause, the Court adopts the signed 

stipulated protective order with the amendment that Paragraph 6.3 is amended from “the Designating 

Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in 

compliance with Civil Local Rule 141(e)(2)(i) , if applicable)...” to “the Designating Party shall file 

and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Local Rule 251 (and in compliance with Local 

Rule 141(e)(2)(i) , if applicable)...”

The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California, any documents subject to the protective order to be filed under seal 

must be accompanied by a written request which complies with Local Rule 141 prior to sealing. The 

party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required to show good cause for 

documents attached to a non-dispositive motion or compelling reasons for documents attached to a 

dispositive motion. Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). Within 

five (5) days of any approved document filed under seal, the party shall file a redacted copy of the 

sealed document. The redactions shall be narrowly tailored to protect only the information that is 

confidential or was deemed confidential. 

Additionally, the parties shall consider resolving any dispute arising under the protective 

order according to the Court’s informal discovery dispute procedure.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 26, 2024 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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