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Parties Involved:
AgReserves, Inc.
Defendant
Leonel Rojas Rivera
Plaintiff
South Valley Almond Company, LLC
Defendant

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Richard D. Marca, Bar #127365

Richard.Marca@GreshamSavage.com

Jamie Wrage, Bar #188982

Jamie.Wrage@GreshamSavage.com

Jeff T. Olsen, State Bar #283249

Jeff.Olsen@GreshamSavage.com

GRESHAM SAVAGE NOLAN & TILDEN,

A Professional Corporation

3750 University Avenue, Suite 250

Riverside, CA 92501-3335

Telephone: (951) 684-2171

Facsimile: (951) 684-2150

Attorneys for Defendants,

AGRESERVES, INC. dba SOUTH VALLEY 

FARMS

GREGORY N. KARASIK

Greg@karasiklawfirm.com

KARASIK LAW FIRM

11835 W. Olympic Blvd. #1275

Los Angeles, CA 90064

Tel. (310) 312-6800

Fax (310) 943-2582 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LEONEL ROJAS RIVERA, individually and on 

behalf of other persons similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

vs.

AGRESERVES, INC. dba SOUTH VALLEY 

FARMS; and SOUTH VALLEY ALMOND 

COMPANY, LLC; and DOES 1 through 10,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 1:15-CV-00613-JLT

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or 

private information for which special protection from public disclosures and from use for any 

purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby 

stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated 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 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 10 below, that this Stipulated 

Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; 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. 

Good Cause Statement. This action is likely to involve trade secrets, competitively 

sensitive technical, marketing, financial, sales or other confidential or proprietary business 

information, private or confidential personal or personnel information, information received in 

confidence from third parties, or other information which the producing party otherwise believes 

in good faith to be entitled to protection under Rule 26(c)(1)(G) of the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure. With respect to the foregoing, special protection from public disclosure and from use 

for any purpose other than protection of this action is warranted. Such confidential and 

proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, confidential business or 

financial information, information regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential 

research, development, or commercial information (including information implicating privacy 

rights of third parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may 

be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, 

case decisions, or common law. 

Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of 

disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties 

are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary 

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uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at 

the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is 

justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as 

confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that 

it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it 

should not be part of the public record of this case. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Material in this action. 

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

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

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

subcontractors. 

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE 

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 

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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

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 PROTECED MATERIAL

5.1. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection.

Each Party or Non- Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order 

must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 

appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of 

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

portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 

shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 

unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary 

expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes to a 

Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not 

qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is 

withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. 

Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) 

below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for 

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protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced. 

Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 

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

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

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

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

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

margins). A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for 

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

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

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and 

produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for 

protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing 

Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If 

only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party 

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

margins). 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

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

proceeding, all protected testimony. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the 

container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, 

the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s). 

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5.3 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. 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 

paragraph 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 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 motion to retain confidentiality under 

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Eastern District Local Rule 251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rule 141 and 

General Order 164, if applicable) 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 

affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the 

preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the 

required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the 

confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party 

may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time 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.

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. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the 

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation until the court rules on the challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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 

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Party at a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 

authorized under this Order. 

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by 

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

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

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

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

for this litigation; 

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

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the following written assurance to 

be bound by this Order:

WRITTEN ASSURANCE

“I, ___________________________________________ (insert name, business 

position and address), declare under penalty of perjury, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

1746, that I reside at ________________________________________, in the 

City of __________________________, State of ________________________; 

that I have read and fully understand the Order dated _______________, and am 

engaged as a(n) ___________________________________ (insert description of 

position), on behalf of _____________________________________ in the 

preparation and conduct of the action entitled Leonel Rojas Rivera v. AgReserves, 

Inc, et al., NO. 1:15-CV-00613-JLT (E.D. Cal.); that I am fully familiar with and 

agree to comply with and be bound by the provisions of said Protective Order; 

and that I will not divulge information concerning this matter to persons other 

than those specifically authorized by said Protective Order except as expressly 

permitted by the Court on pain of contempt.

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Dated at _________________________ this _____ day of _____________, 

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(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; 

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

necessary, 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 or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of 

this Stipulated Protective Order; and (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures 

sought to be pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. If the 

Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena or court 

order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a 

determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 

obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 

expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these 

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provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 

disobey a lawful directive from another court.

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

THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 

action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 

connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 

Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking 

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 Non-Party. (c) 

If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 days of 

receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the NonParty’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely 

seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession 

or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court. The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the 

existence of confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to 

protect its confidentiality interests in this court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the NonParty shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected 

Material.

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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 Written 

Assurance as enumerated in Paragraph 7.2(c) above.

11. INADVERTANT 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.

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. 

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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 Eastern District Local Rule 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 Eastern District Local Rule 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 

Eastern District Local Rule 141 and General Order 164 is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Eastern District Local Rule 141(d) 

unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 

material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must 

submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the 

Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all 

the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has 

not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 

retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, 

legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work 

product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected 

Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to 

this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

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GRESHAM|SAVAGE

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 3750

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: September 17, 2015 GRESHAM SAVAGE NOLAN & TILDEN, 

A Professional Corporation

By:/s/ Jeff Olsen

Richard D. Marca

Jamie Wrage

Jeff Olsen

Attorneys for Defendants,

AGRESERVES, INC. dba SOUTH VALLEY 

FARMS

Dated: September 17, 2015 KARASIK LAW FIRM

By:/s/ Gregory N. Karasik

Gregory N. Karasik

Attorneys for Plaintiff,

LEONEL ROJAS RIVERA

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 18, 2015 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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