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Parties Involved:
BSI Financial Services
Defendant
Christopher Ryan
Plaintiff
Jill Ryan
Plaintiff
Servis One, Inc.
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

CHRISTOPHER RYAN and JILL RYAN,

individually and on behalf of all others 

similarly situated,

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

SERVIS ONE, INC. dba BSI 

FINANCIAL SERVICES,

 Defendant. 

Case No. 2:16-CV-00078-KJM-AC

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO 

LOCAL RULE 141.1 

Judge: Hon. Allison Claire 

Complaint Date: January 14, 2016 

Trial Date: Not Yet Assigned 

 

Eric Andrew Mercer (State Bar No. 248707)

LAW OFFICE OF ERIC ANDREW 

MERCER 

770 L Street, Suite 950 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Telephone: (916) 361-6022 

Facsimile: (916) 361-6023 

Email: eric@ericmercerlaw.com 

Kai Richter (MN State Bar No. 0296545) 

(admitted pro hac vice) 

Eleanor E. Frisch (SBN 304408) 

NICHOLS KASTER, PLLP 

4600 IDS Center 

11 80 South 8th Street 

Minneapolis, MN 55402 

Telephone: (612) 256-3200 

Facsimile: (612) 215-687 

Email: krichter@nka.corn 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Christopher Ryan and Jill Ryan 

MICHAEL J. STEINER (State Bar No. 112079) 

mjs@severson.com 

REBECCA S. SAELAO (State Bar No. 222731) 

rss@severson.com 

ELIZABETH HOLT ANDREWS 

(State Bar No. 263206) 

eha@severson.com 

SEVERSON & WERSON, P.C. 

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 398-3344 

Facsimile: (415) 956-0439 

JARLATH M. CURRAN II 

(State Bar No. 239352) 

jmc@severson.com 

SEVERSON & WERSON, P.C. 

19100 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 700 

Irvine, California 92612 

Telephone: (949) 442-7110 

Facsimile: (949) 442-7118 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Servis One, Inc. 

d/b/a BSI Financial Services 

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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 CHRISTOPHER RYAN and JILL RYAN (“Plaintiffs”) and Defendant SERVIS ONE, 

INC. dba BSI FINANCIAL SERVICES (“Defendant” or “BSI”) (collectively referred to as the 

“Parties”) 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. 

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

consultant in this action. 

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

Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

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

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this 

action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action 

on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 

2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

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

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

Material in this action. 

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, 

storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

3.1 General Considerations. The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order 

cover not only Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected 

Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that 

might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order 

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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. 

3.2 Representations Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(c). The parties jointly make these 

additional representations in accordance with Local Rule 141.1(c). 

3.2.1 Types of Information Eligible for Protection. During the course of the 

litigation, the Parties may exchange commercially sensitive business information, confidential 

personal information, or proprietary or personal financial information and documents, including (1) 

bank accounts, loan files, monthly/annual statements, and servicing records pertaining to Plaintiffs 

and other members of the putative class; (2) internal policies and procedures of BSI and/or third 

party vendors with whom BSI maintains business relations; (3) contracts, applications, reports, tax 

records, photographs, audio recordings, and other information exchanged between BSI and third 

party vendors, and/or between BSI and Plaintiffs or other members of the putative class; and (4) 

confidential documents of the named Plaintiffs containing personal financial information or other 

sensitive personal information. This type of information may be designated as Protected Material 

and is eligible for protection to the extent that it would qualify for protection under Fed. R. Civ. P. 

26(c). 

3.2.2 Particularized Need for Protection. This case concerns a dispute over 

BSI’s mortgage loan servicing practices and procedures. Based on the confidentiality of the 

documents and information being sought by the Parties, together with the Parties’ desire to review 

all such documents and information, regardless of their sensitive financial nature, it is necessary to 

enter into this Order. 

3.3.3. Why the Need for Protection Should be Addressed by Court Order. In 

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instances impossible to predict at the outset of disclosure, some portions of the Protected Material 

described herein may eventually be submitted to and filed with the Court, pursuant to a sealing 

motion under Local Rule 141 and/or a redaction request under Local Rule 140. Consequently, it is 

necessary that the protection of such Protected Material be maintained by Court 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 

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 

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(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. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party 

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion 

or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 

A Party or Non-Party that voluntarily makes original documents or materials available for 

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

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the 

Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under 

this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or 

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 

(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 

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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, subject to Local Rule 251’s time constraints. 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. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. In accordance with Local Rule 251(b), the parties must make a 

reasonable attempt to resolve any dispute regarding confidential designations without Court 

involvement. In advance of the filing of any motion challenging a designation pursuant to this 

Order, or otherwise challenging a term of this Order, or in advance of the hearing of such a motion, 

counsel for all interested parties shall confer in a good faith effort to resolve the differences that are 

the subject of the motion. Counsel for the moving party or prospective moving party shall be 

responsible for arranging the conference, which shall be held at a time and place and in a manner 

mutually convenient to counsel. 

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

intervention, the Designating Party may seek to retain confidentiality by initiating this Court’s 

process for motions dealing with discovery matters as set forth in Local Rule 251(a)–(f). 

The burden of persuasion in any such 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 Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge. 

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

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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 otherwise 

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may 

disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

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

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

this litigation; 

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

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(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 

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(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. 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 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 

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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 Non-Party; 

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

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

information requested; and 

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

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 30 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 

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 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 

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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. 

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. 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. In accordance with Paragraph 10 of the Standing 

Order filed in this case on January 14, 2016 (Docket [3-1]), “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 

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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.” 

In furtherance of the Standing Order, the parties stipulate to the following schedule for 

contexts in which a party plans to make a filing that includes material that a Designating Party has 

identified as confidential. No later than 14 days before the filing party intends to file its 

pleading(s), the filing party shall provide the Designating Party with a written list of the Protected 

Material(s) that the filing party intends to use in its filing. If the Designating Party determines that 

all or part of the items on the filing party’s list require sealing or redaction before they may be filed 

in the public record, the Designating Party will file a request with the appropriate judge, no later 

than 7 days before the filing party’s intended filing date, for redaction and/or sealing pursuant to 

Local Rules 140 and/or 141. 

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 

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copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set 

forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 

DATED: May 26, 2016 

Respectfully submitted, 

SEVERSON & WERSON 

A Professional Corporation 

By: /s/ Michael J. Steiner 

 Michael J. Steiner 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SERVIS ONE, INC. d/b/a BSI FINANCIAL SERVICES

DATED: May 26, 2016 NICHOLS KASTER, PLLP 

By: /s/ Eric Andrew Mercer 

 Eric Andrew Mercer 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

CHRISTOPHER RYAN & JILL RYAN 

Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1 and the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: May 26, 2016 

 The Honorable Allison Claire 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

 

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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 Ryan v. Bank of America, 

N.A., et al., Case No. 2:16-cv-00078-KJM-AC. 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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