Alejandre v. County of San Joaquin
Trial Court Opinion
1 || Gregory B. Thomas (SBN 239870) E-mail: [email protected] || Michael A. Slater (SBN 318899) E-mail: [email protected] || BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN, LLP 1901 Harrison Street, Suite 900 || Oakland, CA 94612-3501 Tel: 510.273.8780 Fax: 510.839.9104 Attorneys for Defendant || COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA || CINDY M. ALEJANDRE; and DAVID Case No. 2:19-cv-00233-WBS-KJN GONZALEZ II as Co-Successors-in-Interest | to Decedent David Gonzalez III, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 4 Plaintiffs, | COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN, a municipal corporation; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, individually and in their official 17 capacity as Sheriff's Deputies for the San 18 Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, 19 Defendants.
21 | 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 22 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of || confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public || disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted.
25 || 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 E, WILLIAMS & STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER LLP OAK #4848-2304-5545 v1 -1- CASE NO □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ || under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth below, that || this Stipulation and Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; and || that Eastern District Local Rule 141 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.
6 || 2. DEFINITIONS 7 2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, || consultants, retained experts, house counsel and outside counsel (and their support staff).
9 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 by any Party in this matter.
13 2.3 Confidential Information or Items: information (regardless of the medium or || how generated, stored, or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under || standards developed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and/or applicable federal || privileges. This material includes, but is not limited to, medical and psychotherapeutic records; || as well as peace officer personnel records as defined by California Penal Code sections 832.8, || 832.5, 832.7 and the associated case law; and other similar confidential records designated as || such.
20 2.4 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a || Producing Party, including a Party that has noticed or subpoenaed and is taking a deposition or || comparable testimony.
23 2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery || Material in this action, including a Party that is defending a deposition noticed or subpoenaed by || another Party; additionally, for the limited purpose of designating testimony subject to this || Stipulation and Order pursuant to section 6.2(b) (infra), a “Producing Party” shall also be || construed to include a Party that is attending and/or participating in a non-party deposition || noticed/subpoenaed by another Party.
E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 2. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 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.”
3 2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as || “CONFIDENTIAL” under the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order. (The term || “Confidential Document” shall be synonymous with the term “Protected Material” for the || purposes of this Stipulation and Protective Order.)
7 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 (as well as their support staffs).
9 2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party (as well as their support || staffs). ll 2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as || their support staffs).
13 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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party and who, at the || time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a || Party’s; as well as any person retained, designated, or disclosed by a Party as an expert pursuant || to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2).
19 2.12 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.
22 || 3. SCOPE 23 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected || Material/Confidential Documents (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 Onc aguante 3. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain || after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this || Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any || information known to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving || Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no || obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall || not be governed by this Order, and may be governed by a separate agreement or order.
8 || 4. DURATION 9 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: 12 (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and 13 (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.
16 |] 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 17 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, 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.
24 Mass, indiscriminate, or routine 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 E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 4 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || 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.
3 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: 7 (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).
13 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).
24 (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.” When it is || impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when Onc aguante 5. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Producing || Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have || up to twenty (20) days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
4 || Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” for || protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective || Order. Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court || reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as instructed by the || Producing Party.
9 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and || for any other tangible items (including but not limited to information produced on disc or || electronic data storage device), 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, specifying the || material as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
16 5.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected (preferably, though not || necessarily, within 30 days of production or disclosure of such material), 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 this Order.
23 5.4 Alteration of Confidentiality Stamp. A Receiving Party shall not alter, edit, or || modify any Protected Material so as to conceal, obscure, or remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp || or legend thereon; nor shall a Receiving Party take any other action so as to make it appear that || Protected Material is not subject to the terms and provisions of this Stipulation and Order.
27 || However, nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a Receiving Party from || challenging a confidentiality designation subject to the provisions of section 6, infra. aa qasaennessasa 6. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 2 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.
8 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 || atimely manner.
22 6.3 Judicial Intervention.
23 If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, the Challenging Party || shall file and serve a motion to remove confidentiality under Eastern District Local Rule 230 and || 251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rules 141 and 141.1, if applicable) within 14 || days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, or by || the first day of trial of this matter, whichever date is earlier, unless the parties agree in writing to a || longer time. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that Onc aguante 7. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding || paragraph. 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.
7 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating || Party, regardless of whether the Designating Party is the moving party or whether such Party || sought or opposes judicial intervention. 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 oppose a motion to remove confidentiality as described || above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which || itis entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge.
15 6.4. Withdrawal of “CONFIDENTIAL” Designation. At its discretion, a || Designating Party may remove Protected Material/Confidential Documents from some or all of || the protections and provisions of this Stipulation and Order at any time by any of the following || methods: 19 (a) Express Written Withdrawal. A Designating Party may withdraw a || “CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential || Documents from some or all of the protections of this Stipulation and Order by an express || withdrawal in a writing signed by such Party (or such Party’s Counsel, but not including staff of || such Counsel) that specifies and itemizes the Disclosure or Discovery Material previously || designated as Protected Material/Confidential Documents that shall no longer be subject to all or || some of the provisions of this Stipulation and Order. Such express withdrawal shall be effective || when transmitted or served upon the Receiving Party. If a Designating Party is withdrawing || Protected Material from only some of the provisions/protections of this Stipulation and Order, || such Party must state which specific provisions are no longer to be enforced as to the specified E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 8. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || material for which confidentiality protection hereunder is withdrawn: otherwise, such withdrawal || shall be construed as a withdrawal of such material from all of the protections/provisions of this || Stipulation and Order; 4 (b) Express Withdrawal on the Record. A Designating Party may withdraw || a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential || Documents from all of the provisions/protections of this Stipulation and Order by verbally || consenting in court proceedings on the record to such withdrawal — provided that such withdrawal || specifies the Disclosure or Discovery Material previously designated as _ Protected || Material/Confidential Documents that shall no longer be subject to any of the provisions of this || Stipulation and Order. A Designating Party is not permitted to withdraw Protected Material from || only some of the protections/provisions of this Stipulation and Order by this method; 12 (c) Implicit Withdrawal by Publication or Failure to Oppose Challenge.
13 || A Designating Party shall be construed to have withdrawn a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation || made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents from all of the || provisions/protections of this Stipulation and Order by either (1) making such Protected || Material/Confidential Records part of the public record — including but not limited to attaching || such as exhibits to any filing with the court without moving, prior to such filing, for the court to |} seal such records; or (2) failing to timely oppose a Challenging Party’s motion to remove a |} “CONFIDENTIAL” designation to specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents.
20 || Nothing in this Stipulation and Order shall be construed so as to require any Party to file || Protected Material/Confidential Documents under seal, unless expressly specified herein.
22 || 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 23 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 || CFINAL DISPOSITION). Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 9. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || at a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized || under this Order.
3 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: 6 (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 and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be || Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 10 (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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 13 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom || disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment || and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 16 (d) the court and its personnel; 17 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock || jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation || and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 20 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is || reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” || (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of || transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be || separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted || under this Stipulated Protective Order; and/or 26 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a || custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.
28 || /// E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 10- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 2 OTHER LITIGATION 3 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: 6 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a || copy of the subpoena or court order; 8 (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 12 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the || Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
14 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the || subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as || “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order || issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party || shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material — || and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving || Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.
21 || 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN 22 THIS LITIGATION 23 (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-Patties in || connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order.
26 || Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking || additional protections.
28 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante “- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || 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: 3 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non- Party that 4 some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement 5 with a Non-Party; 6 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 7 Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific 8 description of the information requested; and 9 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party.
10 (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 || Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely || seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession || or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a || determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the || burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
17 | 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 18 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 || “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
25 || 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 26 PROTECTED MATERIAL 27 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 Onc aguante “10- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || 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.
8 || 12. PUBLICATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 9 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.
11 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.
16 12.3. Filing of Protected Material. Without advance written permission from the || Designating Party, or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a || Receiving 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/or 141.1, to the extent applicable. 12.2. Public Dissemination of Protected Material. A || Receiving Party shall not publish, release, post, or disseminate Protected Material to any persons || except those specifically delineated and authorized by this Stipulation and Order; nor shall a || Receiving Party publish, release, leak, post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential || Documents to any news media, member of the press, website, or public forum (except as || permitted under section 12.1 regarding filings with the court in this action and under seal).
26 12.4. Public Dissemination of Protected Material. A Receiving Party shall not || publish, release, post, or disseminate Protected Material to any persons except those specifically || delineated and authorized by this Stipulation and Order; nor shall a Receiving Party publish, E, WILLIAMS & Onc aguante “13. STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER || release, leak, post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential Documents to any news media, || member of the press, website, or public forum (except as permitted under section 12.1 regarding || filings with the court in this action and under seal).
4 | 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 5 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” including all copies, abstracts, || compilations, summaries and any other format reproducing or capturing of the Protected Material.
9 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.
10 || Dated: December 16, 2019 BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN, LLP 11 By: /s/ Gregory B. Thomas Gregory B. Thomas 12 Michael A. Slater Attorneys for defendants COUNTY OF 13 SAN JOAQUIN || Dated: December 16, 2019 THE LAW OFFICES OF JOHN BURRIS 16 By: /s/ Chike Odiwe John Burris 17 Dewitt M. Lacy Chike Odiwe 18 Attorneys for Plaintiffs CINDY M.
ALEJANDRE; and DAVID GONZALEZ 19 II as Co-Successors-in-Interest to Decedent David Gonzalez III 71 Under Eastern District of California Civil Local Rule 131(e), I attest that I obtained || concurrence in the filing of this document from all of the above signatories.
24 || Dated: December 16, 2019 BURKE, WILLIAMS & SORENSEN, LLP 25 By: /s/ Gregory B. Thomas Gregory B. Thomas 26 Michael A. Slater Attorneys for COUNTY OF SAN 27 JOAQUIN E, WILLIAMS & STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER LLP OAK #4848-2304-5545 v1 -14- CASE NO □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 1 ORDER 2 The Court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, and | GRANTS the request subject to the following authorities and exceptions. Under || “duration,” the parties have stipulated to enforcement of the protection “[e]ven after || final disposition of this litigation.” However, the Local Rules clearly 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 will not do so here. See, e.g., || MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., February |) 03, 2017).
12 Despite this inadequacy, the Court approves the parties’ protective in order to || facilitate the exchange of discovery. Counsel of record should take note of the || above authorities for future proceedings.
15 || Dated: December 17, 2019 Aectl Aharon 17 KENDALL J. NE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE alej.233 WILLIAMS & aa qasaennessasa 15- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, [print or type full □□□□□□ of 4 [print or type full address], declare under penalty of || perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was || issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on || [date] in the case of Cindy Alejandre, et al. v. County of San Joaquin, et al., case no. 2:19-CV- || 00233-WBS-KJN. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated || Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to || sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in || any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any || person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.
13 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the || Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective || Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.
16 I hereby appoint [print or type full name] of 17 [print or type full address and telephone || number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any || proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.
21 Date: 22 City and State where sworn and signed: 24 Printed name: 26 Signature: WILLIAMS & Onc aguante 16- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER
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