# Blankenship v. Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.

> District Court, E.D. California · December 20, 2021

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## Case

- **Court:** District Court, E.D. California
- **Decided:** December 20, 2021
- **Opinion:** 100trialcourt
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## Opinion text

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2 LAW OFFICES OF BOWMAN & ASSOCIATES
A Professional Law Corporation
3 3230 Ramos Circle
Sacramento, CA 95827
4 Telephone: (916) 923-2800
Facsimile: (916) 358-8689
5 Email: robert@bowmanandassoc.com
Email: lreich@bowmanandassoc.com
6
Attorney for Plaintiff
7 KASEY BLANKENSHIPJACKSON LEWIS P.C.
CAROLYN G. BURNETTE (SBN 191294)
8 KAITLYN L. LAVARONI (SBN 313366)
400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1600
9 Sacramento, CA 95814
Telephone: (916) 341-0404
10 Facsimile: (916) 341-0141
E-mail: carolyn.burnette@jacksonlewis.com
11 E-mail: kaitlyn.lavaroni@jacksonlewis.com
12 Attorneys for Defendant
PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., LP
13
14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
15 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
16

17 KASEY BLANKENSHIP, No. 2:21-cv-01274 KJM DB

18 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER
FOR STANDARD LITIGATION
19 vs.

20 PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO. LP., a
Delaware Corporation doing business in the State
21 of California, and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

22
Defendants.
23
24
25 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
26 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of
27 confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public
28 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted.
1 The parties therefore stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated
2 Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on
3 all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure
4 and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential
5 treatment under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in
6 Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file
7 confidential information under seal; Local Rules of the United States District Court of the
8 Eastern District of California (“Local Rules”) Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be
9 followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to
10 file material under seal.
11 2. DEFINITIONS
12 2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of
13 information or items under this Order.
14 2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is
15 generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of
16 Civil Procedure 26(c).
17 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well
18 as their support staff).
19 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it
20 produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
21 2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the
22 medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things,
23 testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or
24 responses to discovery in this matter.
25 2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to
26 the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a
27 consultant in this action.
28 ///
1 2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House
2 Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.
3 2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal
4 entity not named as a Party to this action.
5 2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this
6 action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action
7 on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party.
8 2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,
9 consultants, retained experts, insurers, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).
10 2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery
11 Material in this action.
12 2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services
13 (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing,
14 storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.
15 2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as
16 “CONFIDENTIAL.”
17 2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a
18 Producing Party.
19 3. SCOPE
20 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material
21 (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all
22 copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony,
23 conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.
24 However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following
25 information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving
26 Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of
27 publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record
28 through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the
1 disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the
2 information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of
3 Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.
4 4. DURATION
5 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this
6 Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order
7 otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of: (1) dismissal of all claims and
8 defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion
9 and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the
10 time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law.
11 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
12 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or
13 Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to
14 limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. The
15 Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or
16 oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material, documents,
17 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within
18 the ambit of this Order.
19 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown
20 to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily
21 encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens
22 on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions.
23 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for
24 protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other
25 Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.
26 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order
27 (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered,
28 Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so
1 designated before the material is disclosed or produced.
2 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:
3 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but
4 excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party
5 affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion
6 or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly
7 identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
8 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection
9 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material
10 it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the
11 material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting
12 Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must
13 determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then,
14 before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL”
15 legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on
16 a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected
17 portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
18 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the
19 Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other
20 proceeding, all protected testimony.
21 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other
22 tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or
23 containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a
24 portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent
25 practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).
26 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to
27 designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s
28 right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a
1 designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated
2 in accordance with the provisions of this Order.
3 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
4 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of
5 confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality
6 designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic
7 burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to
8 challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the
9 original designation is disclosed.
10 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process
11 by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each
12 challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must
13 recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph
14 of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must
15 begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication
16 are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging
17 Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and
18 must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the
19 circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen
20 designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it
21 has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is
22 unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.
23 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court
24 intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under
25 Local Rules 230 and 251 (and in compliance with Local Rule 141, if applicable) within 21 days of
26 the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer
27 process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied
28 by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer
1 requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a
2 motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall
3 automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the
4 Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is
5 good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any
6 portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a
7 competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer
8 requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.
9 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating
10 Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose
11 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions.
12 Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion
13 to retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in
14 question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until
15 the court rules on the challenge.
16 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
17 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or
18 produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting,
19 defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to
20 the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has
21 been terminated, a 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 location and in a
24 secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.
25 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered
26 by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any
27 information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
28 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as
1 employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the
2 information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be
3 Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;
4 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the
5 Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed
6 the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
7 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is
8 reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement
9 to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
10 (d) the court and its personnel;
11 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors,
12 and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who
13 have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
14 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably
15 necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A),
16 unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed
17 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately
18 bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this
19 Stipulated Protective Order.
20 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian
21 or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.
22 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER
23 LITIGATION
24 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels
25 disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party
26 must:
27 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include
28 a copy of the subpoena or court order;
1 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in
2 the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to
3 this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and
4 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the
5 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
6 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena
7 or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL”
8 before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has
9 obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and
10 expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these
11 provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to
12 disobey a lawful directive from another court.
13 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS
14 LITIGATION
15 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this
16 action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in
17 connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order.
18 Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional
19 protections.
20 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non-
21 Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the
22 Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall:
23 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some or
24 all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;
25 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order
26 in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the
27 information requested; and
28 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party.
1 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 days
2 of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the Non-
3 Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a
4 protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control
5 that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the
6 court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of
7 seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
8 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
9 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected
10 Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order,
11 the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the
12 unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected
13 Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the
14 terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and
15 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
16 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED
17 MATERIAL
18 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently
19 produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the
20 Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision
21 is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that
22 provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d)
23 and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or
24 information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the parties may
25 incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the court.
26 12. MISCELLANEOUS
27 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to
28 seek its modification by the court in the future.
1 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order
2 no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any
3 information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no
4 Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by
5 this Protective Order.
6 12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party or
7 a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the
8 public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any
9 Protected Material must comply with Local Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed under
10 seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue.
11 Pursuant to Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the
12 Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to
13 protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal
14 pursuant to Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information
15 in the public record pursuant to Local Rule 141 unless otherwise instructed by the court.
16 13. FINAL DISPOSITION
17 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each
18 Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material.
19 As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,
20 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether
21 the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written
22 certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party)
23 by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material
24 that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,
25 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the
26 Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy
27 of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda,
28 correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant
1 and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival
2 copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set
3 forth in Section 4 (DURATION).
4 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

5 Dated: December 1, 2021 LAW OFFICES OF BOWMAN & ASSOCIATES

6
By:/s/ Laura Reich (as authorized on 12/13/21)
7 Laura Reich

8 Attorneys for Plaintiff
KASEY BLANKENSHIP
9

10
11 Dated: December 13, 2021 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.
12

13
By: /s/ Kaitlyn L. Lavaroni
14 KAITLYN L. LAVARONI

15
Attorneys for Defendant
16 PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., LP

17

18
19 ORDER
20 Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.
21 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT:
22 1. Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who will
23 decide the matter related to that request to seal.
24 2. The designation of documents (including transcripts of testimony) as confidential
25 pursuant to this order does not automatically entitle the parties to file such a document with the
26 court under seal. Parties are advised that any request to seal documents in this district is governed
27 by Local Rule 141. In brief, Local Rule 141 provides that documents may only be sealed by a
28 written order of the court after a specific request to seal has been made. L.R. 141(a). However, a
1 mere request to seal is not enough under the local rules. In particular, Local Rule 141(b) requires
2 that “[t]he ‘Request to Seal Documents’ shall set forth the statutory or other authority for sealing,
3 the requested duration, the identity, by name or category, of persons to be permitted access to the
4 document, and all relevant information.” L.R. 141(b).
5 3. A request to seal material must normally meet the high threshold of showing that
6 “compelling reasons” support secrecy; however, where the material is, at most, “tangentially
7 related” to the merits of a case, the request to seal may be granted on a showing of “good cause.”
8 Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096-1102 (9th Cir. 2016); Kamakana
9 v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-80 (9th Cir. 2006).
10 4. Nothing in this order shall limit the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of
11 certain documents, at any court hearing or trial – such determinations will only be made by the
12 court at the hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion.
13 5. With respect to motions regarding any disputes concerning this protective order which
14 the parties cannot informally resolve, the parties shall follow the procedures outlined in Local Rule
15 251. Absent a showing of good cause, the court will not hear discovery disputes on an ex parte
16 basis or on shortened time.
17 6. The parties may not modify the terms of this Protective Order without the court’s
18 approval. If the parties agree to a potential modification, they shall submit a stipulation and
19 proposed order for the court’s consideration.
20 7. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement
21 of the terms of this Protective Order after the action is terminated.
22 8. Any provision in the parties’ stipulation that is in conflict with anything in this order is
23 hereby DISAPPROVED.
24 DATED: December 17, 2021 /s/ DEBORAH BARNES
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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1 EXHIBIT A
2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
3 I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print or
4 type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the
5 Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern
6 District of California on [date] in the case of Kasey Blankenship v. Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.,
7 Case No. 2:21-cv-01274-KJM-DB. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this
8 Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could
9 expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not
10 disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to
11 any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.
12 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern
13 District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even
14 if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.
15 I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of
16 _______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number]
17 as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings
18 related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.
19
20 Date: ______________________________________
21 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________
22
23 Printed name: _______________________________
24
25 Signature: __________________________________
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