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Parties Involved:
Bank of America Corporation
Defendant
Bank of America, N.A.
Defendant
Antonio Esquivel
Plaintiff
Beatriz Esquivel
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO DIVISION

ANTONIO ESQUIVEL AND BEATRIZ 

ESQUIVEL, individually, on behalf of all 

others similarly situated, and on behalf of 

the general public

Plaintiffs,

v.

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:12-CV-02502-GEB-KJN

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

DANIEL J. MULLIGAN, SBN 103129

JENKINS MULLIGAN & GABRIEL LLP

10085 Carroll Canyon Road, Ste. 210

San Diego, CA 92131

Telephone: (415) 982-8500

Facsimile: (415) 982-8515

Email: dan@jmglawoffices.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs ANTONIO AND 

BEATRIZ ESQUIVEL; and the putative class.

JAMES W. MCGARRY (PRO HAC VICE)

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

Exchange Place

53 State Street

Boston, MA 02109

Telephone: (617) 570-1000

Facsimile: (617) 523-1231

Email: jmcgarry@goodwinprocter.com

Attorneys for BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and 

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

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, Plaintiffs Antonio Esquivel and Beatriz Esquivel, and defendants Bank of America, 

N.A. and Bank of America Corporation (collectively, the “Parties”, each individually a “Party”)

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 Section 12.3, 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), including:

(a) information that constitutes a trade secret in accordance with the Uniform 

Trade Secrets Act;

(b) non-public communications with regulators or other governmental bodies 

that are protected from disclosure by statute or regulation;

(c) information, materials, and/or other documents reflecting non-public 

business or financial strategies, and/or confidential competitive information which, if 

disclosed, would result in competitive harm to the Designating Party;

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(d) information subject to federal or California privacy rights;

(e) individual personal information that is protected from disclosure under state 

or federal law, including identifying personal financial information, about any Party, and 

employee of any Party, or any third party; 

(f) borrower specific and/or credit applicant specific information, including 

private consumer information that contains identifying contact or private financial 

information provided by a consumer to a financial institution resulting from any 

transaction with the consumer or any service performed for the consumer, or otherwise 

obtained by the financial institution, including any list, description, or other grouping of 

consumers (and publicly available information pertaining to them) that is derived using 

any nonpublic personal information, including any “nonpublic personal information” such 

as that identified by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6801 et seq.; and

(g) information regarding any individual’s banking or lending relationships, 

including, without limitation, information regarding the individual’s mortgage or credit 

history.

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, including but not limited to answers to interrogatories, 

responses to requests for production, responses to requests for admission, deposition and exhibits, 

and transcripts of depositions and hearings (or portions of such transcripts).

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 

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a consultant in this action. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained 

in connection with this litigation.

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 and his, her or its Counsel of Record in this litigation 

that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Protective 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 Protective Order do not cover the following 

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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

Absent written agreement of the Designating Party that Protected Material (or specific 

portions thereof) need not be maintained as such under the terms of this Order or an order of this 

Court, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect even after final 

disposition of this litigation. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of 

all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; or (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.

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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 (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. Nothing in this Order concerning 

designation for protection, however, shall be interpreted as controlling the form of production of 

any material by any Designating Party. 

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 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 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 

Protected Material. 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 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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(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial proceedings, that the 

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

other proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify separately 

each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial 

portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, a Designating Party may specify, at 

the deposition or up to thirty (30) days from receipt of the transcript from the court 

reporter if that period is properly invoked, that the entire transcript shall be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”

(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 any “CONFIDENTIAL” information or 

items are inadvertently provided to a discovering party without being marked appropriately as 

Protected Material in accordance with this Order, the Producing Party may thereafter designate 

such material(s) as “CONFIDENTIAL” and the initial failure to so mark the material shall not be 

deemed a waiver of its confidentiality. 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.

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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 Section of the Protective Order. 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 fourteen (14) days of the date of service of 

notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for 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 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.

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

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a noticed motion pursuant to Civil Local 

Rule 251 to challenge confidentiality (in compliance with Civil Local Rules 140 and 141, if 

applicable) within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of written notice from the Challenging Party 

that the Parties have not resolved the challenge to a confidentiality designation, unless the Parties 

mutually agree to a longer period. 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 Section. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion 

including the required declaration within twenty-one (21) days (or a longer period if the Parties 

agree) shall automatically waive any challenge to the confidentiality designation. 

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. All Parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

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which it is entitled under the Designating 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, as defined in Section 4, 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, House 

Counsel, and employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary and only for 

the purpose of conducting or assisting in this litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees 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);

(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);

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(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.

7.3 Regardless of designation pursuant to this Protective Order, if a document or 

testimony makes reference to the actual or alleged conduct or statements of a person who is a 

potential witness, Counsel may discuss such conduct or statements with such witness without 

revealing any portion of the information or discovery material other than that which specifically 

refers to such conduct or statements, and such discussion shall not constitute disclosure within the 

terms of this Order.

7.4 Limitations on Use of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information. A Receiving Party, 

including, his, her or its Counsel, receiving “CONFIDENTIAL” information shall use them (and 

any information derived from them) solely for purposes of this litigation and/or in any settlement 

negotiations between the Parties with respect to this litigation; and shall not use them for any 

other purpose, including, without limitation, (a) in connection with any other present or future 

disputes, proceedings or litigation (including, without limitation, any lawsuit against Bank of 

America, N.A. or Bank of America Corporation (or any of its current or former affiliated entities 

under Bank of America Corporation)); (b) to prosecute, amend and/or conduct discovery in any 

other present or future litigation or lawsuit against Bank of America, N.A. or Bank of America 

Corporation (or any of its current or former affiliated entities under Bank of America 

Corporation) involving any of Plaintiffs’ counsel or their respective firms; and/or (c) to contact 

absent class members absent a Court order permitting such contact, or until a class is certified. 

Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit Counsel’s ability to communicate with any 

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named plaintiff or with current or former borrowers who contact Plaintiffs’ Counsel, or to receive 

any information from such current or former borrowers who contact Plaintiffs’ Counsel. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION

If a Receiving 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” the Receiving Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party and in any event no more 

than three (3) court days after receiving the subpoena or 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 Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this 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. 

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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 writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some 

or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a NonParty;

(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 

fourteen (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 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.

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11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Party inadvertently produces information that it later discovers, or in good faith later 

asserts, to be subject to any legal privileges, including but not limited to, the attorney-client 

privilege or work product doctrine, or is otherwise protected from disclosure, the production of 

that information will not be presumed to constitute a waiver of any applicable privileges or other 

protections. In these circumstances, the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). The Producing Party must immediately notify all 

parties in writing of the inadvertent production and the basis for the claim of privilege or other 

protection from production, and request in writing the return or confirmed destruction of the 

privileged or protected information. Within five (5) days of receiving such notification, and in 

compliance with the Receiving Parties’ ethical obligations under the law, all Receiving Parties 

who have not already reviewed such materials or who have reviewed the materials but do not 

contest the applicability of the privilege asserted must return or confirm destruction of all such 

materials, including copies and/or summaries thereof. However, should a Receiving Party contest 

the applicability of a privilege asserted with respect to an inadvertently produced document which 

the Receiving Party has already reviewed, the Receiving Party may temporarily retain the 

document or documents at issue, segregated and not further copied or disseminated, for the sole 

purpose of contesting the applicability of the privilege asserted. Within two (2) business days of 

the issuance of a court order deeming the contested documents at issue privileged, or protected 

from production, the Receiving Party must return or confirm destruction of all such materials, 

including copies and/or summaries thereof.

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 Protective Order. Similarly, no Party 

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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 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. If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to 

Civil Local Rules 140 and 141 and General Order 164 is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rules 140 and 141

unless otherwise instructed by the court.

12.4 No Modification of Privileges. Nothing in this Protective Order shall modify the 

law regarding the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work-product privilege, the joint defense 

privilege, and any other applicable privilege or reason for non-disclosure with respect to trade 

secrets or other Confidential Information.

12.5 Agreements and Local State and Federal Law Regarding “Confidential 

Information”. No Party may be deemed to violate any federal, state or local laws or agreements 

governing the disclosure of confidential, personal or proprietary information by producing any 

such information in this litigation, and compliance with this Order.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed-to in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty (60)

days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in Section 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 

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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 sixty (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.

DATED: June 5, 2014 /s/ Daniel J. Mulligan

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Beatriz and Antonio Esquivel

DATED: June 5, 2014 /s/ Robert B. Bader

Attorneys for Defendants Bank of America N.A.

and Bank of America Corporation

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ORDER

Upon reading the foregoing Stipulation, and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS SO 

ORDERED.

Dated: June 12, 2014

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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 Esquivel v. Bank of America, N.A., et al, 

Case No. 12-CV-2502-GEB-KJN. 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:

City and State where sworn and signed:

Printed name:

[printed name]

Signature:

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