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Parties Involved:
County of Tulare
Defendant
William Nulick
Defendant
Natasha P
Plaintiff
Vicky P
Plaintiff
Kari R.
Plaintiff
Maria R.
Plaintiff
Tulare County Sheriff
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MARIA R., an individual; KARI R., an 

individual; VICKY P., an individual; 

NATASHA P., an individual; 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

WILLIAM NULICK, an individual; 

TULARE COUNTY SHERIFF, a 

California governmental entity; 

COUNTY OF TULARE, a California 

governmental entity; and DOES 1 to 50, 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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1. PURPOSE 

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve 

production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than 

prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties, defendants, 

COUNTY OF TULARE and TULARE COUNTY SHERIFF, defendant, WILLIAM 

NULICK, and plaintiffs, MARIA R., KARI R., VICKY P., and NATASHA P., 

hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

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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 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, 

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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 

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 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. 

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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 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order, 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. 

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 Order. Then, before 

producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. 

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(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.” 

5.2 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive 

the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time. 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. 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. 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. 

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

court intervention, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a 

confidentiality designation 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. 

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 

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 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 

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Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 

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

(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. 

(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 

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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. 

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. 

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 

subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall: 

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that 

some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement 

with a Non-Party; 

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

Order in this 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 NonParty. 

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

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within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving 

Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the 

discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 

Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to 

the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the 

court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and 

expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 

writing 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. 

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

with Civil Local Rule 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 

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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. 

DATED: November 4, 2016 LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP

 By: /s/ Michael S. Moss 

 Dana Alden Fox 

Michael S. Moss 

Attorneys for Defendants, COUNTY OF 

TULARE and TULARE COUNTY 

SHERIFF 

DATED: November 4, 2016 KOBATECK BROWN KELLNER LLP

 By: /s/ Benjamin Hakimfar 

 Benjamin Hakimfar 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs, MARIA R., KARI 

R., VICKY P., and NATASHA P. 

DATED: November 4, 2016 LEBEAU THELEN LLP

 By: /s/ Gary Logan 

 Gary Logan 

Attorneys for Defendant, WILLIAM 

NULICK 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 11/8/2016 /s/ John A. Mendez____________ 

 United States District Court 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 Maria R. et al. v. Tulare County Sheriff et al., Case No. 1:15-cv01378-JAM-EPG. 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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