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ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN 

 & DOWD LLP 

DANIEL J. PFEFFERBAUM (248631) 

PHILLIP G. FREEMON (242062) 

100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415/288-4545 

415/288-4534 (fax) 

dpfefferbaum@csgrr.com 

gfreemon@csgrr.com 

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DANIEL S. DROSMAN (200643) 

655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Telephone: 619/231-1058 

619/231-7423 (fax) 

ddrosman@csgrr.com 

Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

In re THE PMI GROUP, INC. SECURITIES 

LITIGATION 

This Document Relates To: 

ALL ACTIONS. 

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Master File No. 3:08-cv-01405-SI 

CLASS ACTION

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may 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 stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order 

(“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. 

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 generated, 

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c). 

2.4 Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

2.5 Producing Party: A Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

2.6 Designating Party: A Party or non-party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.” 

2.7 Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

“Confidential.” 

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2.8 Outside Counsel: Attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

2.9 House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a Party. 

2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs). 

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

connection with this litigation and any participants in a focus group, mock trial or research 

connected with case preparation. 

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

(e.g., contract attorneys; investigators; mediators; 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 Stipulated Protective Order cover not only Protected 

Material (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 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 

Protective 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 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, 

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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 Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protection do not qualify for protection, 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, 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” at 

the top of 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 “CONFIDENTIAL” at the top of 

each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page 

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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 

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. 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 non-party 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 20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which 

protection is sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for 

protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

 (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 

portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, 

shall identify the protected portions. 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate: If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” 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” 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. This section does not apply, 

however, to testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the Party or 

non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony fails to designate for protection within 20 days, as 

specified in Section 5.2(b). 

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 

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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. 

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 include conferring directly with 

Counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must identify the documents 

for which it believes the confidentiality designation was not proper. In the case of mass, routinized 

or indiscriminate designations, the challenging Party need only identify examples of the designations 

that are believed to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose. The 

Designating Party shall within seven (7) calendar days review the designated material, reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, explain the basis for the chosen 

designation. A Designating Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it 

has engaged in this meet and confer process first. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention: If the Designating Party refuses to change a confidentiality 

designation for documents identified by the challenging Party, the Designating Party must file and 

serve a motion within 15 days of the conclusion of the meet and confer process that identifies the 

challenged material and sets forth, on a document by document basis, good cause for protection 

pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26. 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. 

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

Notwithstanding any challenge to the designation of material as Protected Material, all such 

documents shall be treated as such and shall be subject to the provisions hereof unless and until one 

of the following occurs: (a) the Party or non-party who claims that the material is Protected Material 

withdraws such designation in writing; or (b) the Court rules the material is not Protected Material. 

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, 

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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 Protective 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 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; 

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

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(c) Experts 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 or videographers and their staff, mediators and their staff, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 

(f) Witnesses in the action (other than those described in paragraph 7.2(g) or (h)) 

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. “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items 

may be disclosed to a witness who refuses to sign the “Agreement to Be Bound By Protective Order” 

that is attached hereto as Exhibit A if the witness has been told that the “CONFIDENTIAL” 

Information may be protected by federal and applicable state law, and that misuse, misappropriation 

or wrongful disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information might subject the witness to civil and/or 

criminal liability. Witnesses shown “CONFIDENTIAL” Information, who will not sign the 

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“Agreement to Be Bound By Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A shall not be 

allowed to retain copies of the information; 

(g) The author of the document or the original source of the information; 

(h) Any recipient of the information; and 

(i) Any other person only upon order of the Court or upon prior written consent 

of the Producing Party. 

There is no requirement that a Party who discloses information or items designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” disclose the identities of the recipients of such information or produce any 

executed “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order.” 

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,” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if 

possible) immediately and in no event more than five 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 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 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 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. 

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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 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 copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the 

person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Protective 

Order, and (d) request such person or persons to agree to be bound by this Protective Order. 

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a party files a document containing Protected Material with the Court, it shall do so in 

compliance with the Court’s rules for filing documents under seal. If a request to file under seal is 

denied, the Protected Material shall be made part of the public record. 

11. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within 60 days after 

the final termination of this action, including appellate litigation or the time period therefore, each 

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

the Receiving Party’s option. The Producing Party shall bear the cost of return (which cost shall not 

include the cost of gathering, searching for, or retrieving the Protected Material). As used in this 

subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any 

other form of 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 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 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. 

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12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief: It is the present intention of the Parties that the provisions of 

this Stipulated Protective Order shall govern discovery and other pretrial proceedings in this action. 

Nonetheless, each of the Parties or any other proper non-party shall be entitled to seek modification 

of this Stipulated Protective Order by application to the Court on notice to the other Party hereto for 

good cause. 

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 the use in evidence of any of the material covered 

by this Protective Order. 

12.3 No Waiver: Entering into, agreeing to, and/or producing or receiving material 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” or otherwise complying with the terms of this Confidentiality 

Order shall not: 

(a) Operate as an admission by any party that any particular material designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” contains or reflects trade secrets, proprietary or commercially sensitive 

information, or any other type of Confidential Information; 

(b) Operate as an admission by any Party that the restrictions and procedures set 

forth herein constitute or do not constitute adequate protection for any particular information deemed 

by any Party to be “CONFIDENTIAL”; 

(c) Prejudice in any way the rights of the Parties to object to the production of 

documents they consider not subject to discovery; 

(d) Prejudice in any way the rights of any Party to object to the authenticity or 

admissibility into evidence of any document, testimony, or other evidence subject to this Protective 

Order; 

(e) Prejudice in any way the rights of a Party to seek a determination by the Court 

whether any information or material should be subject to the terms of this Protective Order; 

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(f) Prejudice in any way the rights of a Party to petition the Court for a further 

protective order relating to any purportedly “CONFIDENTIAL” Information; 

(g) Prevent the Parties to this Protective Order from agreeing in writing or on the 

record during a deposition or hearing in this action to alter or waive the provisions or protections 

provided for herein with respect to any particular information or material; 

(h) Limit a Party’s ability to grant non-parties access to its own documents and/or 

information; 

(i) Be deemed to waive any applicable privilege or work product protection, or to 

affect the ability of a Party to seek relief for an inadvertent disclosure of material protected by 

privilege or work product protection; and/or 

(j) Prevent a Party or third Party from objecting to discovery which it believes to 

be improper, including objections based upon the privileged, confidential, or proprietary nature of 

the Protected Material requested. 

12.4 Subject to Jurisdiction: All persons who have access to information or material 

designated as Protected Material under this Stipulated Protective Order acknowledge that they are 

bound by this Protective Order and submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of 

enforcing this Protective Order. However, this Stipulated Protective Order has no effect upon, and 

shall not apply to, a Producing Party’s use of its own Protected Material for any purpose. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: April 7, 2010 Respectfully submitted, 

ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN 

 & DOWD LLP 

DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

/s/ DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

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655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Telephone: 619/231-1058 

619/231-7423 (fax) 

ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN 

 & DOWD LLP 

DANIEL J. PFEFFERBAUM 

PHILLIP G. FREEMON 

100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415/288-4545 

415/288-4534 (fax) 

Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 

DATED: April 7, 2010 O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

MEREDITH N. LANDY

PETE SNOW 

/s/ MEREDITH N. LANDY

MEREDITH N. LANDY

2765 Sand Hill Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Telephone: 650/473-2600 

650/473-2601 (fax) 

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP 

GEORGE A. RILEY

Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: 415/984-8700 

415/984-8701 (fax) 

Attorneys for Defendants The PMI Group, Inc., 

L. Stephen Smith, Bradley M. Shuster, David H. 

Katkov and Donald P. Lofe, Jr. 

I, DANIEL S. DROSMAN, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file 

this Stipulated Protective Order. In compliance with General Order No. 45, X.B., I hereby attest that 

Meredith N. Landy of O’Melveny & Myers LLP has concurred in this filing. 

/s/ DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

* * * 

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O R D E R

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: _________________________ ____________________________________________

THE HONORABLE SUSAN ILLSTON 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

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EXHIBIT A

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE ORDER

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 In re The PMI Group, Inc. Securities

Litigation, Case No. 3:08-cv-01405-SI. 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. 

I hereby appoint ___________ [print or type full name] of ____________________ [print or 

type full address and telephone number] as my agent for service of process in connection with this 

action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: _______________________________ 

City and state where sworn 

 and signed: 

_______________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: _______________________________ 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on April 7, 2010, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the 

Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail addresses 

denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I have mailed the 

foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF participants 

indicated on the attached Manual Notice List. 

I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed on April 7, 2010. 

 /s/ DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

 DANIEL S. DROSMAN 

ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN 

 & DOWD LLP 

655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101-3301 

Telephone: 619/231-1058 

619/231-7423 (fax) 

E-mail: ddrosman@rgrdlaw.com

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Electronic Mail Notice List

The following are those who are currently on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case. 

Daniel S. Drosman 

DanD@rgrdlaw.com,tholindrake@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sd@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sf@rgrdlaw.com 

Lawrence Timothy Fisher 

ltfisher@bramsonplutzik.com,dschroeder@bramsonplutzik.com 

Meredith N. Landy 

mlandy@omm.com,vtran@omm.com,sfolchi@omm.com,mpaul@omm.com,jcoakley@omm.com 

Jeffrey W. Lawrence 

jeffreyl@rgrdlaw.com,khuang@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sd@rgrdlaw.com,jdecena@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sf@rgrdlaw.com 

Daniel Jacob Pfefferbaum 

DPfefferbaum@rgrdlaw.com,khuang@rgrdlaw.com,gfreemon@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sd@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sf@rgrdlaw.com 

Alan Roth Plutzik 

aplutzik@bramsonplutzik.com 

Port Authority of Allegheny County Retirement and Disability Allowance Plan for Employees Represented by Local 85 of the Amalgamated Transit Union

sward@barrack.com 

George A. Riley 

griley@omm.com,lperez@omm.com,cchiu@omm.com 

Darren Jay Robbins 

e_file_sd@rgrdlaw.com 

Samuel M. Ward 

sward@barrack.com,lxlamb@barrack.com,kisbell@barrack.com 

Shawn A. Williams 

shawnw@rgrdlaw.com,khuang@rgrdlaw.com,travisd@rgrdlaw.com,cwood@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sd@rgrdlaw.com,jdecena@rgrdlaw.com,e_file_sf@rgrdlaw.com 

Manual Notice List

The following is the list of attorneys who are not on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case (who therefore require manual noticing). You may wish to use your 

mouse to select and copy this list into your word processing program in order to create notices or labels for these recipients. 

Catherine J Kowalewski 

Lerach Coughlin et al LLP 

655 W Broadway #1900 

San Diego, CA 92101 

Alan R. Plutzik 

Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP 

2125 Oak Grove Road 

Suite 120 

Walnut Creek, CA 94598 

Dhaivat H. Shah 

O'Melveny & Myers LLP 

2765 Sand Hill Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025

David C. Walton 

Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP 

655 West Broadway 

Suite 1900 

San Diego, CA 92101-3301 

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