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Parties Involved:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Plaintiff
First America Automotive
Defendant
Lexus of Serramonte
Defendant
Sonic Automotive, Inc.
Defendant

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WILLIAM R. TAMAYO, SBN 084965 

DAVID F. OFFEN-BROWN, SBN 063321 

ELIZABETH ESPARZA-CERVANTES, SBN 205412 

LINDA S. ORDONIO-DIXON, SBN 172830 

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 

San Francisco District Office 

350 The Embarcadero, Suite 500 

San Francisco, CA 94105-1260 

Telephone No. (415) 625-5658 

Fax No. (415) 625-5657 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION,

 Plaintiff, 

 v. 

LEXUS OF SERRAMONTE, SONIC 

AUTOMOTIVE, INC., AND FIRST 

AMERICA AUTOMOTIVE, 

Defendants.

Case No. C-05-0962 SBA (JL) 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Disclosure and discovery of the employee contact information ordered produced by 

Magistrate Judge Larson on August 9, 2006 may involve production of confidential or private 

information. Pursuant to the Court’s order, the parties hereby stipulate to and request the court to 

enter this 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 

extends only to the employee contact information that the Court ordered Defendants to produce. The 

parties further acknowledge that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be 

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

to file material under seal. 

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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 Employee Contact Information: the contact information of employees that Defendants are 

required to produce per the Court’s August 9, 2006 order. 

2.3 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; private investigators; etc.) and their employees and 

subcontractors.

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only the Employee Contact 

Information (as defined above), but also any 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 Employee Contact 

Information. 

4. DURATION 

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until Defendants agree otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise 

directs.

5. ACCESS TO AND USE OF EMPLOYEE CONTACT INFORMATION 

5.1 Basic Principles. The EEOC may use the Employee Contact Information 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 Employee Contact Information may be 

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When 

the litigation has been terminated, the EEOC must comply with the provisions of section 11, below 

(FINAL DISPOSITION). Employee Contact Information must be stored and maintained by the 

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

authorized under this Order. 

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5.2 Disclosure of Employee Contact Information. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or 

permitted in writing by the Defendants, the EEOC may disclose Employee Contact Information only 

to:

(a) employees of the EEOC to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 

who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(b) the Court and its personnel; 

(c) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors (See Section 2.3, above) to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

6. EMPLOYEE CONTACT INFORMATION SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION 

If the EEOC is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that would

compel disclosure of Employee Contact Information, the EEOC must so notify the Defendants, in 

writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving

the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The 

EEOC also must 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 EEOC must deliver a copy of this Stipulated 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 Defendants in this case an opportunity to try to protect their 

confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Defendants shall 

bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of their confidential material – 

and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging the EEOC in this 

action to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 

7. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF EMPLOYEE CONTACT INFORMATION

If the EEOC learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Employee Contact 

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Information to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 

Order, the EEOC must immediately (a) notify in writing the Defendants of the unauthorized 

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Employee Contact Information, (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. 

8. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Defendants, within sixty days after the 

final termination of this action, the EEOC must destroy all but one archival copy of Employee 

Contact Information.1

 The archival copy will remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 

Section 4 (DURATION), above. 

9. MISCELLANEOUS 

9.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its 

modification by the Court in the future.

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Stipulated Protective Order 4.

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 The EEOC is subject to federal record keeping requirements and must retain one copy of the employee contact

information.

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9.2 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.

August 15, 2006 U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

William R. Tamayo

David F. Offen-Brown 

Elizabeth Esparza-Cervantes

BY: ________/s/____________________

 Elizabeth Esparza-Cervantes

Attorneys for Plaintiff EEOC

August 15, 2006 FINE, BOGGS, COPE & PERKINS, LLP 

John Boggs 

David Hosilyk 

BY: __ /s/____ ______________________

David Hosilyk, Esq. 

Attorneys for Defendants

LEXUS OF SERRAMONTE, SONIC

AUTOMOTIVE, INC., and FIRST

 AMERICA AUTOMOTIVE

 [PROPOSED] ORDER

For good cause showing, the Court hereby enters the Stipulated Protective Order. 

It is so ordered. 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge James Larson

August 18, 2006

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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 Northern District of California on

______________________________ [date] in the case of EEOC v Lexus of Serramonte, et al, Case

No. C-05-0962 SBA (JL). 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 

Northern 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. 

Date: _________________________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 

Printed name: ______________________________ 

[printed name]

Signature: __________________________________ 

[signature]

_____________________________________________________________________

[print or type full address and telephone number]

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