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Parties Involved:
Joyce Avenell
Plaintiff
Bank of America Corporation
Defendant
Karen Short
Defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION (CASE NO. 2:07 CV-01715-LEW-DAD) 

ETAN E. ROSEN (State Bar No. 173728) 

Email: erosen@bprlaw.net

BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN 

3230 Ramos Circle 

Sacramento, CA 95827 

Telephone: (916) 369-9750 

Facsimile: (916) 369-9760 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOYCE AVENELL 

PATRICIA K. GILLETTE (State Bar No. 74461) 

pgillette@orrick.com

KRISTEN M. JACOBY (State Bar No. 243857) 

kjacoby@orrick.com

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

The Orrick Building 

405 Howard Street 

San Francisco, CA 94105-2669 

Telephone: 415-773-5700 

Facsimile: 415-773-5759 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

(erroneously sued as “Bank of America Corporation”) and 

KAREN SHORT 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOYCE AVENELL, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION, 

KAREN SHORT, an individual, and DOES 1 

through 50, inclusive,, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 2:07 CV-01715-LEW-DAD 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER CONCERNING THE 

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION 

The parties, Plaintiff Joyce Avenell and Defendant Bank of America, National 

Association (erroneously sued as “Bank of America Corporation”) and Karen Short, through their 

attorneys of record, hereby stipulate and request that the Court order as follows: 

1. Any party involved in this litigation, or counsel for such party, may 

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designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” any document, testimony, information or material disclosed, or 

to be disclosed, through formal or informal discovery or otherwise in the course of this litigation 

in the manner hereinafter set forth. Counsel are permitted to designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

only those documents as to which counsel entertains a good faith belief that such document is 

entitled to confidentiality. Such designation shall, without more, subject the information 

produced or provided under said designation to the provisions of this Protective Order. 

2. Any writing, document, or other information produced by any party or 

person in this litigation may be designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” by stamping the word 

“CONFIDENTIAL” on the face of the writing, document or other information. 

3. Any party, or counsel for such party, may designate deposition testimony 

or any portion of deposition testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL” by advising the reporter and 

counsel of such designation during the course of the deposition or within 45 days of receipt of the 

deposition transcript. Portions of any deposition designated “CONFIDENTIAL” are to be 

marked as such by the reporter and are also to bear substantially the following designation: 

“Portions of this deposition were taken subject to the Protective Order of the Court. These 

portions shall remain confidential and shall be treated according to the requirements of the 

Court’s Order.” Whenever any writing designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” is identified as an 

exhibit in connection with testimony given in this litigation, it shall be so marked and it shall be 

subject to all of the requirements of the Court’s order. 

4. Any party to this litigation, or counsel for such party, may designate as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” its responses to interrogatories or to requests for admission by labeling each 

response “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

5. “CONFIDENTIAL” material includes all material designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to the terms of this Order, as well as summaries and compilations 

derived from such materials, including but not limited to charts, tables, graphs and models. 

6. Whenever any writing, testimony, information or material designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” is used or submitted to the court in conjunction with any discovery filing or 

proceeding in this litigation, it shall be so marked and shall be filed separately under seal with the 

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Clerk of the Court. For all non-discovery filings or proceedings in which confidential material is 

used or submitted to the Court, it shall be done so in accordance with the applicable law 

governing the filing of records under seal. 

7. Except upon prior written consent of the party or counsel for the party 

asserting “CONFIDENTIAL” treatment, or upon further order of this court, documents, 

testimony, information or material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be held in strictest 

confidence, shall be kept securely, and shall be used solely for the purpose of prosecution or 

defense of this litigation and not for any business purpose whatsoever. 

8. Access to “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, testimony, information or 

materials, as well as written or oral summaries or accounts thereof, shall be limited to: 

(a) Counsel for the respective parties (including in-house counsel and cocounsel) and employees of said counsel who are assisting in the prosecution or defense of this 

litigation; 

(b) Experts and consultants (including independent experts and consultants and 

employees or clerical assistants of said experts) who are employed, retained or otherwise 

consulted by counsel or a party for the purpose of analyzing data, conducting studies or providing 

opinions to assist in such litigation; 

(c) Officers, Directors or employees of the respective parties; 

(d) Parties to the litigation; and 

(e) The Court and officers of the Court. 

9. No party (including all individuals mentioned in ¶8(a)) shall, for itself or 

any person or person acting on its behalf, make more copies of any “CONFIDENTIAL” 

information or material than are reasonably necessary to conduct this litigation. 

10. Each person other than counsel and their staff or parties to whom a party 

discloses material marked “CONFIDENTIAL” by the opposing party shall be shown a copy of 

this Stipulation and Protective Order prior to such disclosure and shall acknowledge in writing his 

or her consent to be bound by its terms. The party disclosing any “CONFIDENTIAL” material 

pursuant to this paragraph shall be required to maintain such written acknowledgments, but shall 

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not be required to disclose the identities of persons having reviewed the “CONFIDENTIAL” 

material. 

11. If any party, or such party’s counsel, objects to the designation of any 

document, testimony, information or material as “CONFIDENTIAL” the parties shall meet and 

confer in an effort to resolve any such dispute. If the parties are unable to resolve such dispute, 

the objecting party may bring a motion to have the contested information declared non 

”CONFIDENTIAL.” Unless and until an order is entered to the contrary, the documents, 

testimony, information or material shall be given the “CONFIDENTIAL” treatment initially 

assigned to it and provided for in this Protective Order. 

12. Nothing in this Stipulation and Protective Order shall be construed as 

prohibiting a party, or its counsel, from using or disclosing material it has designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

13. Upon termination of this litigation, upon request of producing party, all 

originals and copies of “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, testimony, information or material (and 

all summaries thereof) shall be returned to counsel for the producing party or destroyed (if the 

documents are not originals and are subject to privilege rights of the party to whom the 

confidential information was produced) unless otherwise ordered by the court for good cause 

shown. 

14. All persons who are granted access to “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, 

including any party to this action, their attorneys, or others who acknowledge their consent to be 

bound by this protective order but fail to comply with its provisions may be held in contempt for 

violation of this Court’s order. 

Dated: February 21, 2008 BEYER, PONGRATZ & ROSEN 

 By:__________/s/_______________________ 

ETAN E. ROSEN 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

JOYCE AVENELL 

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Dated: February 22, 2008 ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

 By:____________/s/______________________ 

PATRICIA K. GILLETTE 

KRISTEN M. JACOBY 

Attorneys for Defendants 

BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL 

ASSOCIATION and KAREN SHORT 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 02/25/2008 

/s/ Ronald S. W. Lew________________________

THE HON. RONALD S. W. LEW 

JUDGE OF UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

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