ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP 1 MARTIN KOCZANOWICZ, State Bar No. 128290 [email protected] 2 GLEN E. TUCKER, State Bar No. 54709 [email protected] 3 JOHN FOX, State Bar No. 171426 [email protected] 4 JOSHUA IMERI-GARCIA, State Bar No. 346901 [email protected] 5 3701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 725 Los Angeles, California 90010 6 Telephone: (310) 527-6660 Facsimile: (949) 223-1180 7 Attorneys for Defendants, OFFICER 8 NICHOLAUS D. DILDA and CITY OF RIDGECREST 9

10 LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH D. BUSSONE JOSEPH D. BUSSONE, State Bar No. 108168 11 [email protected] 4208 Cactus Street, Suite B 12 Lake Isabella, California 93240 Telephone: (760) 531-3191 13 Facsimile: (760) 531-3192

14 Attorney for Plaintiff, STEVE J. TODD

15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION 17 18 STEVE J. TODD, Case No. 1:23-cv-00913-ADA-CBD

19 Plaintiff, Assigned to: Hon. Ana de Alba, Ctrm. 1 20 v. [PROPOSED] STIPULATED 21 NICHOLAUS D. DILDA; CITY OF PROTECTIVE ORDER RIDGECREST; and DOES 1 - 10, 22 Defendants. 23

24 25 / / / 26 / / / 27 1 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between Plaintiff STEVEN A. 2 TODD (“Plaintiff”), on the one hand, and Defendants CITY OF RIDGECREST 3 AND NICHOLAS DILDA( (“Defendants”), on the other hand, by and through their 4 respective counsel of record, that the following Stipulated Protective Order (the 5 “Protective Order”) may be entered by the Court: 6 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 7 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 8 proprietary or private information for which special protection from public 9 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may 10 be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 11 enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 12 Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 13 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 14 only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 15 under the applicable legal principles. 16 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 17 This action is likely to involve materials and information that were acquired 18 in confidence by public employees in the course of their duties and have not been 19 officially disclosed or made open or available to the public. Such confidential 20 materials and information consist of, among other things: (1) confidential police 21 personnel files and accompanying materials maintained by the City of Ridgecrest 22 Police Department; (2) law enforcement investigative reports and records which 23 may contain personal contact information of third party witnesses; (3) information 24 otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged or 25 otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statues, court rules, case 26 decisions, or common law. Defendants contend that individual officers have an 27 interest in protecting their own privacy rights to information in their personnel files 1 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt 2 resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately 3 protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the 4 parties are permitted reasonably necessary uses of such material in preparation for 5 and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and 6 serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this 7 matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as 8 confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good 9 faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and 10 there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case. 11 C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER SEAL 12 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this 13 Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 14 under seal; Local Civil Rule 141et seq. sets forth the procedures that must be 15 followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from 16 the court to file material under seal. 17 There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial 18 proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions, 19 good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and 20 County of Honolulu,

(9th Cir. 2006), Phillips v. Gen. Motors 21 Corp.,

, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002), Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics, 22 Inc.,

(E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders 23 require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling 24 reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with 25 respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere 26 designation of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not— 27 without the submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the 1 otherwise protectable—constitute good cause. 2 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then 3 compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the 4 relief sought shall be narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected. 5 See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n,

(9th Cir. 2010). For 6 each item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced 7 under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking 8 protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal 9 justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting 10 the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration. 11 Any document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in 12 its entirety will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted. 13 If documents can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting 14 only the confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document, 15 shall be filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their 16 entirety should include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible. 17 2. DEFINITIONS 18 2.1 Action: this pending federal lawsuit. 19 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the 20 designation of information or items under this Order. 21 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 22 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 23 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 24 the Good Cause Statement. 25 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 26 their support staff). 27 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 1 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 2 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 3 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 4 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 5 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 6 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 7 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 8 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action. 9 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 10 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 11 counsel. 12 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or 13 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 14 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a 15 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and 16 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm 17 that has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff. 18 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 19 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 20 support staffs). 21 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 22 Discovery Material in this Action. 23 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 24 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 25 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 26 and their employees and subcontractors. 27 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 1 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 2 Material from a Producing Party. 3. SCOPE 3 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 4 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 5 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 6 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 7 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 8 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the 9 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial. 10 4. DURATION 11 FINAL DISPOSITION of the action is defined as the conclusion of any 12 appellate proceedings, or, if no appeal is taken, when the time for filing of an appeal 13 has run. Except as set forth below, the terms of this protective order apply through 14 FINAL DISPOSITION of the action. The parties may stipulate that the they will be 15 contractually bound by the terms of this agreement beyond FINAL DISPOSITION, 16 but will have to file a separate action for enforcement of the agreement once all 17 proceedings in this case are complete. 18 Once a case proceeds to trial, information that was designated as 19 CONFIDENTIAL or maintained pursuant to this protective order used or introduced 20 as an exhibit at trial becomes public and will be presumptively available to all 21 members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by 22 specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance 23 of the trial. See Kamakana,

(distinguishing “good cause” 24 showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons” 25 standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, for 26 such materials, the terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the 27 1 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 2 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 3 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under 4 this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that 5 qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for 6 protection only those parts of material, documents, items or oral or written 7 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items 8 or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably 9 within the ambit of this Order. 10 Mass, indiscriminate or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 11 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 12 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose 13 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating 14 Party to sanctions. 15 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 16 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 17 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation. 18 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 19 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 20 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 21 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 22 produced. 23 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 24 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 25 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 26 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend 27 “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that 1 protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) 2 (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 3 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection 4 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 5 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 6 before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 7 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the 8 documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 9 documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, 10 before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 11 “CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a 12 portion of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also 13 must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings 14 in the margins). 15 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identifies 16 the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the 17 deposition all protected testimony. 18 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and 19 for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on 20 the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the 21 legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information 22 warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 23 protected portion(s). 24 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 25 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 26 Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon 27 timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to 1 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 2 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 3 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s 4 Scheduling Order. 5 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 6 resolution process under Local Rule 251 et seq. 7 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on 8 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 9 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 10 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 11 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall 12 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is 13 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the 14 challenge. 15 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 16 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 17 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 18 Action only for prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such 19 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 20 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a 21 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 22 DISPOSITION). 23 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 24 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 25 authorized under this Order. 26 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 27 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 1 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 2 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as 3 well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 4 necessary to disclose the information for this Action; 5 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of 6 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action; 7 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 8 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 9 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 10 (d) the court and its personnel; 11 (e) court reporters and their staff; 12 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional 13 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have 14 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 15 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 16 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 17 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the 18 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party 19 requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they 20 will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the 21 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise 22 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 23 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may 24 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except 25 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 26 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 27 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 1 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 2 IN OTHER LITIGATION 3 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 4 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 5 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 6 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification 7 shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 8 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order 9 to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the 10 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include 11 a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 12 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 13 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 15 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 16 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 17 subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 18 permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 19 protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions 20 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action 21 to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 22 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 23 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 24 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 25 Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 26 produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 27 remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 1 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 2 produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 3 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 4 confidential information, then the Party shall: 5 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 6 that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 7 agreement with a Non-Party; 8 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 9 Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 10 specific description of the information requested; and 11 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the 12 Non-Party, if requested. 13 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 14 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party 15 may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery 16 request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall 17 not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to the 18 confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. 19 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and 20 expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 21 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 22 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 23 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 24 Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 25 writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 26 to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 27 persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 1 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 2 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 3 PROTECTED MATERIAL 4 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 5 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 6 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 7 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever 8 procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 9 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and 10 (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 11 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work 12 product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated 13 protective order submitted to the court. 14 12. MISCELLANEOUS 15 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 16 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 17 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 18 Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 19 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 20 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 21 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 22 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 23 Protected Material must comply with Local Civil Rule 141. Protected Material may 24 only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 25 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material 26 under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information 27 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court. 1 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 2 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 3 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return 4 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in 5 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 6 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 7 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving 8 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same 9 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies 10 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 11 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 12 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any 13 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 14 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing 15 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert 16 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such 17 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 18 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 19 Section 4 (DURATION). 20 14. VIOLATION 21 Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures including, 22 without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions. 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 27 1 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 2 3 DATED: August 23, 2023 ALESHIRE & WYNDER, LLP MARTIN KOCZANOWICZ 4 GLEN E. TUCKER 5 JOHN FOX JOSHUA IMERI-GARCIA 6 7 8 By: /s/: John Fox 9 JOHN FOX Attorneys for Defendants, OFFICER 10 NICHOLAUS D. DILDA and CITY OF RIDGECREST 12 13. || DATED: 2023 LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH D. BUSSONE 4 JOSEPH D. BUSSONE

15 16 By: /s/ 17 JOSEPH D. BUSSONE ig Attorneys for Plaintiff, STEVEN J. TODD

19 || tT Is SO ORDERED. Dated: _ August 24, 2023 | V Vv D 21 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 01251 0111/011456 2 -145-

1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 4 I, ________________________ of _______________________________________, 5 declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the 6 Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for 7 the Eastern District of California on ______________ in the case of Steve J. Todd v. 8 Nicholaus D. Dilda; City of Ridgecrest; Case No. 1:23-cv-00913-ADA-CBD. I 9 agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective 10 Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me 11 to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I 12 will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 13 Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with 14 the provisions of this Order. 15 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 16 Eastern District of California for enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 17 Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 18 I hereby appoint ______________________________________________________ 19 as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any 20 proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 21 Date: _______________________ 22 City and State where sworn and signed: 23 Printed name: 24 25 Signature: ___________________________________ 26 27 PROOF OF SERVICE Steven J. Todd v Nicholaus D. Dilda, et al 2 U.S.D.C. Eastern District; Case No. 1:23-cv-00913-ADA-CBD 3 || STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 4 At the time of service, I was over 18 years of age and not a party to this action. I am employed in the County of Los Angeles, State of California. My business address is 3701 5 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 725, Los Angeles, CA 90010. 6 On August 23, 2023, I served true copies of the following document(s) described as [PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER on the interested parties in this action 7 as follows: 8 || J oseph D. Bussone, Beg. Attorney for Plaintiff LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH D. BUSSONE STEV J. TODD 9 || 4208 Cactus Street, Suite B Lake Isabella, CA 93240 10 || Phone: (760) 531-3191 Fax: (760) 531-3192 11 |) Email: [email protected] Mobile: (630) 965-8858 BY CM/ECF NOTICE OF ELECTRONIC FILING: [electronically filed the 13 document(s) with the Clerk of the Court by using the CM/ECEF system. Participants in the case who are registered CM/ECF users will be served by the CM/ECE system. Participants in the case 14 |) who are not registered CM/ECF users will be served by mail or by other means permitted by the court rules. 15 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 16 || foregoing is true and correct and that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this 7 Court at whose direction the service was made.

18 Executed on August 23, 2023, at Los Angeles, California.

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