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Parties Involved:
Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston
Defendant
Diane R. Tornincasa
Plaintiff

Document Text:

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Jenny H. Wang CA Bar No. 191643

jenny.wang@ogletree.com

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, 

SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.

Park Tower, Fifteenth Floor

695 Town Center Drive

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Telephone: 714-800-7900

Facsimile: 714-754-1298

Attorneys for Defendant

Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

DIANE R. TORNINCASA,

Plaintiff,

v.

LIBERTY LIFE ASSURANCE 

COMPANY OF BOSTON,

Defendant.

Case No. 2:19-CV-02002-MCE-KJN

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

AND PROTECTIVE ORDER

Complaint

 Filed: October 3, 2019

Trial Date: None Set

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Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, by and through their counsel of 

record, with good cause shown, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED as follows:

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 would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby 

jointly move the Court to enter the following Protective 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 extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to 

treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, 

below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be 

followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from 

the court to file material under seal.

Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141(c)(1), the parties state as follows:

(a) Description of the Types of Information Eligible for Protection 

Under this Order: Confidential, proprietary and/or trade secret information 

belonging to Liberty, including but not limited to internal claims handling guidelines, 

training materials and Liberty’s contracts with third parties.

(b) Particularized Need for Protection: The above information 

requires protection insofar as it relates to private business activity of Liberty that 

Liberty does not share with its competitors.

(c) Why the Need for Protection Should be Addressed by Court 

Order: While the parties have cooperated in the drafting of this proposed protective 

order, they seek additional judicial protections as set forth herein in order to protect 

the confidentiality of the private business information described above.

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2. DEFINITIONS.

2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, 

directors, employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and 

their support staff).

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, 

regardless of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained 

(including, among other things, testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that 

are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this 

matter.

2.3 "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).

2.4 "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes Only" Information 

or Items: extremely sensitive "Confidential Information or Items" whose 

disclosure to another party or nonparty would create a substantial risk of 

serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a party or non-party that produces Disclosure 

or Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: a party or non-party that designates 

information or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to 

discovery as "Confidential" or "Highly Confidential Attorneys' Eyes Only."

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as "Confidential" or as "Highly Confidential — Attorneys' Eyes 

Only."

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a party but 

who are retained to represent or advise a party in this action.

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2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party.

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staffs).

2.12 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 and 

who is not a past or a current employee of a party or of a competitor of a 

party's and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

employee of a party or a competitor of a party's. This definition includes a 

professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this 

litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 

support services (e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing 

exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or 

medium; etc.), and their employees and subcontractors.

3. SCOPE.

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also any privileged information copied or 

extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations 

thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in 

court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION.

Even after the termination 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.

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 

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protection under this Order must take care to limit any such designation to 

specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A Designating 

Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, 

documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify so that other 

portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which 

protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this 

Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process, or 

to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties), may expose the 

Designating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a party's or a non-party's attention that information or items that 

it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for 

the level of protection initially asserted, that party or non-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, 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 (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the 

Legend "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY" on 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being 

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asserted (either "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL —

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY").

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" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." 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 

appropriate legend ("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL —

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY") on 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) and must specify, for each portion, the level 

of protection being asserted (either "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL —ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY").

(b) For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings, that the party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony 

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

proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the 

testimony that qualify as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL —

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." When it is impractical to identify separately each 

portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that 

substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the party or nonparty that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record 

(before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to twenty 

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(20) days after receipt of transcripts from the court reporter to identify the specific 

portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level 

of protection being asserted ("CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

— ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY"). Only those portions of the testimony that are 

appropriately designated for protection within the twenty (20) days shall be 

covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by 

the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY," as instructed by the party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness 

or presenting the 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" or "HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY." If only portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS' EYES 

ONLY."

(d) Depositions taken prior to the effective date of this Protective 

Order and discovery produced prior to the effective date of the Protective Order may 

not be retroactively designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY" and are not subject to this 

Order in any way.

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an 

inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL —ATTORNEYS' 

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EYES ONLY" does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's right 

to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL —ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" after the material was 

initially produced, the Receiving Party, on timely notification of the 

designation, 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: Unless a prompt challenge to a 

Designating Party's confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid 

foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a later 

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. However, the 

parties agree that the outer time limit for challenging a confidentiality 

designation shall be 30 days from the date of production.

6.2 Meet and Confer. A party that elects to initiate a challenge to a 

Designating Party's confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and 

must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for the Designating 

Party. 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.

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6.3 Judicial Intervention. A party that elects to press a challenge 

to a confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by 

the Designating Party may file and serve a motion to challenge

confidentiality in compliance with Civil Local Rule 230 or 251 within 21 

days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties 

agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, 

whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and 

confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth 

with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was 

given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, 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.

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 11, 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 

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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 Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

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

of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation 

and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is 

attached hereto as 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 

"Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom 

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

"Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the "Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A". 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; and

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information.

7.3 Disclosure of "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY" Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the 

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

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disclose any information or item designated "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL —

ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY" only to:

(a) the Receiving Party's Outside Counsel of record in this action, as 

well as employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be Bound by 

Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

(b) House Counsel of a Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who has signed the "Agreement to be 

Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the "Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A";

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom 

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

"Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order" that is attached hereto as Exhibit "A"; 

and

(f) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION.

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other 

litigation that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in 

this action as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS' 

EYES ONLY," the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in 

writing (by fax or electronic mail, if possible), immediately and in no event more 

than three (3) court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification 

must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The Receiving Party also must 

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immediately inform, in writing, the party who caused the subpoena or order to 

issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the subpoena 

or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party 

must deliver a copy of this Protective Order promptly to the party in the other 

action that caused the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the 

existence of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an 

opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the 

expenses 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. 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 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.”

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL.

Documents designated "CONFIDENTIAL" or "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

— ATTORNEYS' EYES ONLY," and all information contained therein or 

derived therefrom, may be discussed or referred to in pleadings, motions, 

affidavits, briefs and other papers filed with the Court, or attached as exhibits 

thereto, provided that such "confidential" documents and information, and any 

portion of any paper filed with the Court that discusses or refers to them, are 

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stamped "confidential" and separately filed provisionally under seal with the 

Clerk of the Court. The parties recognize that Civil Local Rule 141 governs the 

filing of documents under seal with the Court. The parties hereby agree either 

party can request that the Court file documents under seal through an ex-parte 

application through which the party obtains a hearing date for such a motion on 

shortened time as allowed by the Court. The non-moving party will be provided 

notice of the ex-parte application and the motion that is the subject of the 

application.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION.

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, upon 

final termination of this action, each Receiving Party shall have fifteen (15) days 

to return or destroy any Protected Material to the Producing Party. As used in this 

subdivision, "Protected Material" includes all hard and electronic copies, abstract, 

compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. All electronic copies of Protected Material shall be destroyed 

in the agreed-upon timeframe and the Receiving Party shall provide a written 

certification of the destruction. With permission in writing from the Designating 

Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Protected Material 

existing in hard copy format instead of returning it. 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 fifteen (15) day deadline that identifies (by category, 

where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and 

that affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or, other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material.

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy 

of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or 

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attorney 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"), above.

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.

IT IS SO STIPULATED

DATED: March 23, 2020 OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & 

STEWART, P.C.

By: /s/ Jenny H. Wang

Jenny H. Wang

Attorneys for Defendant

Liberty Life Assurance Company of 

Boston

DATED: March 23, 2020 ERISA LAW CENTER

By: /s/ Robert J. Rosati

Robert J. Rosati

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Diane R. Tornincasa

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ORDER

The Court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, which 

complies with the relevant authorities and the Court’s applicable local rule. See L.R. 

141.1(c);1see also Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 

1206, 1210 (9th Cir. 2002) (“Generally, the public can gain access to litigation 

documents and information produced during discovery unless the party opposing 

disclosure shows ‘good cause’ why a protective order is necessary.”) Therefore, the 

Court GRANTS the request subject to the following clarification.

It is unclear as to the parties’ intent concerning the duration of the Court’s 

jurisdiction regarding this protective order. The Local Rules indicate that once this 

action is closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the Court will not retain jurisdiction over 

enforcement of the terms of any protective order filed in that action.” L.R. 141.1(f). 

Courts in the district generally do not agree to retain jurisdiction after closure of the 

case, and the Court sees no reason to do so here. See, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. 

Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., February 03, 2017). Thus, for clarity, 

the undersigned informs the parties that once the case is closed, the Court will not 

retain jurisdiction over any disputes regarding this protective order.

Dated: March 27, 2020

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The Court’s Local Rules instruct the parties, when requesting a protective order, to include in their 

submission: 

(1) A description of the types of information eligible for protection under the order, with the 

description provided in general terms sufficient to reveal the nature of the information (e.g., 

customer list, formula for soda, diary of a troubled child);

(2) A showing of particularized need for protection as to each category of information proposed to 

be covered by the order; and

(3) A showing as to why the need for protection should be addressed by a court order, as opposed 

to a private agreement between or among the parties.

Local Rule 141.1(c).

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EXHIBIT “A”

______________________, declare as follows:

1. My address is

2. My present employer is

3. My present occupation or job description is I received a copy of the 

Confidentiality Agreement and Protective Order for the matter of Diane R. Tornincasa 

v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et. al, United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:19-CV-02002-MCE-KJN ("Protective 

Order").

4. I have carefully read this Protective Order and certify that I understand 

its provisions.

5. I agree to comply with all the provisions of this Protective Order.

6. Subject to the terms of the Protective Order, I will hold in confidence, 

and will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the Protective Order, any 

information contained in the Protected Material that is disclosed to me in this case.

7. Subject to the terms of the Protective Order, I will use such information 

that is disclosed to me only for purposes of this case.

8. Upon request, I will return and deliver all Protected Material that comes 

into my possession, and all documents or things that I have prepared relating thereto, 

to my counsel in this action, or to counsel for the party by whom I am employed or 

retained or from whom I received the Protected Material.

9. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purpose of 

enforcing the Protective Order in this case.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California 

that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this day of, 2020, at [City], 

[State].

________________________________

Signature (Name)

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