# Opinion

> District Court, C.D. California · April 10, 2026

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## Case

- **Full name:** Daniel Litman and Paige Lopynski, collectively P/K/A “Bonnie X Clyde” v. Lowly Palace, LLC, Create Music Group, Inc. and CBMG, LLC
- **Court:** District Court, C.D. California
- **Decided:** April 10, 2026
- **Opinion:** 100trialcourt
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## Opinion text

1 ELLIOT GIPSON PC
ELLIOT B. GIPSON (State Bar No. 234020)
2 EGipson@elliotgipson.com
BRIANNA N. LOGAN (State Bar No. 347947)
3 BLogan@elliotgipson.com
15260 Ventura Blvd., Suite 835
4 Los Angeles, California 91403
Telephone: 310.817.1268
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6 Attorneys for Defendants Lowly Palace, LLC,
Create Music Group, Inc. and CBMG, LLC
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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DANIEL LITMAN, an Case No. 2:26:cv-03404-JLS-RAO
13 individual, and PAIGE
LOPYNSKI, an individual,
14 collectively P/K/A “BONNIE STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER1
X CLYDE”
15 DISCOVERY MATTER
Plaintiffs
16 Judge: Hon. Jospehine L. Staton
v. Courtroom: 8A, 8th Floor
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LOWLY PALACE, LLC, a Magistrate: Hon. Rozella A. Oliver
18 Delaware limited liability Courtroom: 590, 5th Floor
company, CRATE MUSIC
19 GROUP, INC., a Delaware FAC filed: March 24, 2026
corporation, and CBMG, LLC, Removal filed: March 30, 2026
20 a Delaware limited liability Trial Date: TBD
company, DOES 1-18
21 inclusive,

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Defendants.
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1 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
2 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential,
3 proprietary or private information for which special protection from public
4 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may
5 be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to
6 enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this
7 Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to
8 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends
9 only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment
10 under the applicable legal principles.
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12 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT
13 This action is likely to involve confidential, non-public contracts, revenue
14 statements, and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial,
15 technical and/or proprietary information for which special protection from public
16 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is
17 warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of,
18 among other things, confidential business or financial information, information
19 regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential research,
20 development, or commercial information (including information implicating privacy
21 rights of third parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or
22 which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or
23 federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to
24 expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over
25 confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties
26 are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable
27 necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to
1 protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the
2 parties that information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons
3 and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been
4 maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it
5 should not be part of the public record of this case.
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7 C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER SEAL
8 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this
9 Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information
10 under seal; Local Civil Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed
11 and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court
12 to file material under seal.
13 There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial
14 proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions,
15 good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and
16 County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006); Phillips v. Gen. Motors
17 Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002); Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics,
18 Inc., 187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders
19 require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling
20 reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with
21 respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere
22 designation of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not—
23 without the submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the
24 material sought to be filed under seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or
25 otherwise protectable—constitute good cause.
26 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then
27 compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the
1 See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For
2 each item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced
3 under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking
4 protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal
5 justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting
6 the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration.
7 Any document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in
8 its entirety will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted.
9 If documents can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting
10 only the confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document
11 shall be filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their
12 entirety should include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible.
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14 2. DEFINITIONS
15 2.1 Action: Daniel Litman et al v. Lowly Palace, LLC et al (Case No. 2:26-
16 CV-03404-JLS-RAO).
17 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the
18 designation of information or items under this Order.
19 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” Information or
20 Items: information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or
21 tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
22 26(c), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.
23 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as
24 their support staff).
25 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or
26 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as
27 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.”
1 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including,
2 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things) that are produced or
3 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.
4 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter
5 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as
6 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.
7 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action.
8 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside
9 counsel.
10 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
11 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.
12 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a
13 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and
14 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm
15 that has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.
16 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors,
17 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their
18 support staffs).
19 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or
20 Discovery Material in this Action.
21 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation
22 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or
23 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium)
24 and their employees and subcontractors.
25 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is
26 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.”
27 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery
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2 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.
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11 4. DURATION
12 Once a case proceeds to trial, information that was designated as
13 CONFIDENTIAL or maintained pursuant to this protective order used or introduced
14 as an exhibit at trial becomes public and will be presumptively available to all
15 members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by
16 specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance
17 of the trial. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180-81 (distinguishing “good cause”
18 showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons”
19 standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, the
20 terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of the trial.
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22 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
23 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection.
24 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under
25 this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that
26 qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for
27 protection only those parts of material, documents, items or oral or written
1 or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably
2 within the ambit of this Order.
3 Mass, indiscriminate or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations
4 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper
5 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose
6 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating
7 Party to sanctions.
8 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it
9 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must
10 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.
11 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in
12 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise
13 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection
14 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or
15 produced.
16 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:
17 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic
18 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial
19 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend
20 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDNETIAL” (collectively, hereinafter
21 “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains protected material. If only a
22 portion of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also
23 must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings
24 in the margins).
25 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection
26 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated
27 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and
1 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” After the
2 inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the
3 Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for
4 protection under this Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the
5 Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that
6 contains Protected Material. If only a portion of the material on a page qualifies for
7 protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s)
8 (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
9 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identifies
10 the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the
11 deposition all protected testimony.
12 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and
13 for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on
14 the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the
15 legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or
16 portions of the information warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent
17 practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).
18 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent
19 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive
20 the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material.
21 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable
22 efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this
23 Order.
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25 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
26 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a
27 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s
1 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute
2 resolution process under Local Rule 37.1 et seq.
3 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on
4 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper
5 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other
6 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating
7 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall
8 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is
9 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the
10 challenge.
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12 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
13 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is
14 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this
15 Action only for prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such
16 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the
17 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a
18 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL
19 DISPOSITION).
20 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a
21 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons
22 authorized under this Order.
23 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless
24 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a
25 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated
26 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
27 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as
1 necessary to disclose the information for this Action;
2 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of
3 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;
4 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom
5 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
6 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
7 (d) the court and its personnel;
8 (e) court reporters and their staff;
9 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional
10 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have
11 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
12 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
13 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
14 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
15 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party
16 requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they
17 will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the
18 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise
19 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed
20 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may
21 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except
22 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and
23 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,
24 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
25 7.2A
26 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
27 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as
1 necessary to disclose the information for this Action;
2 (b) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom
3 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
4 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
5 (c) the court and its personnel;
6 (d) court reporters and their staff;
7 (e) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional
8 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have
9 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
10 (f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
11 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
12 (g) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
13 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party
14 requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they
15 will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the
16 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise
17 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed
18 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may
19 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except
20 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and
21 (h) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,
22 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
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25 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED
26 IN OTHER LITIGATION
27 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation
1 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must:
2 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification
3 shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;
4 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order
5 to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the
6 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include
7 a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and
8 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be
9 pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
10 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with
11 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this
12 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the
13 subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s
14 permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking
15 protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions
16 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action
17 to disobey a lawful directive from another court.
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19 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE
20 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION
21 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a
22 Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY
23 CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with
24 this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order.
25 Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from
26 seeking additional protections.
27 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to
1 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s
2 confidential information, then the Party shall:
3 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party
4 that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality
5 agreement with a Non-Party;
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7 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated
8 Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably
9 specific description of the information requested; and
10 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the
11 Non-Party, if requested.
12 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within
13 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party
14 may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery
15 request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall
16 not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to the
17 confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court.
18 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and
19 expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
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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.
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3 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE
4 PROTECTED MATERIAL
5 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain
6 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection,
7 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil
8 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever
9 procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production
10 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and
11 (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a
12 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work
13 product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated
14 protective order submitted to the court.
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16 12. MISCELLANEOUS
17 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any
18 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.
19 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this
20 Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to
21 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this
22 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any
23 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.
24 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any
25 Protected Material must comply with Local Civil Rule 79-5. Protected Material
26 may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the
27 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material
1 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.
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3 13. FINAL DISPOSITION
4 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60
5 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return
6 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in
7 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,
8 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected
9 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving
10 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same
11 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies
12 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or
13 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,
14 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any
15 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to
16 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing
17 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert
18 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such
19 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or
20 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in
21 Section 4 (DURATION).
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23 14. VIOLATION
24 Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures including,
25 without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.
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1 || ITIS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.
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3 || DATED
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5 || /s/ Abraham A. Sanchez Siqueiros
Sanchez Siqueiros Law
6 || Attorneys for Plaintiff
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DATED: April 10, 2026
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/s/Brianna Logan
11 || Brianna Logan
Elliot Gipson PC
12 || Attorneys for Defendant
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FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED.
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DATED: April 10, 2026
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19 || HON. ROZELLA A. OLIVER
50 United States Magistrate Judge
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1 EXHIBIT A
2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
3
4 I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of
5 _________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury
6 that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that
7 was issued by the United States District Court for the Central District of California
8 on [date] in the case of Daniel Litman, et al v. Create Music Group, Inc. et al (Case
9 No. 2:26-cv-03404-JLS-RAO). I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the
10 terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that
11 failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of
12 contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any
13 information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person
14 or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.
15 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
16 Central 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 __________________________ [print or type full name] of
19 _______________________________________ [print or type full address and
20 telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with
21 this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective
22 Order.
23 Date: ______________________________________
24 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________
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26 Printed name: _______________________________
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