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8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, WESTERN DIVISION

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m 11 || Nicholas Green, Case No. 2:21-CV-04077-RGK-AFM

12 Plaintiff, [PROF PSED | ORDER RE

28 TIPULATED PROTECTIVE

a 13 V. ORDER!

22: 14]|| Board of Regents of the University of

z Ze California, Sergeant Paak (#320),

Ze) Officer McIntire (#357), Officer Dodd

=o (#389), Officer Brox ( 388), Officer

2! 16|| Jeffrey Chobanian, Officer K.

3 Gutierrez, Bill Clayton, William Dunne,

FA! 17||and DOES | through 10 inclusive

18 Defendant.

19

20 PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION OF THE PARTIES (‘Stipulation for

21 || Entry of Protective Order re Confidential Documents”), and pursuant to the Court’s

22 ||inherent and statutory authority, including but not limited to the Court’s authority

23 || under the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the United States District

24 || Court, Central District of California Local Rules; after due consideration of all of the

25 || relevant pleadings, papers, and records in this action; and upon such other evidence

26

27 ||

28 ' This Stipulated Protective Order is based substantially on the model protective

order provided under Magistrate Judge Alexander F. MacKinnon’s Procedures.

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1 || or argument as was presented to the Court; Good Cause appearing therefor, and in

2 || furtherance of the interests of justice,

3 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

4\)1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMPTATIONS Discovery in this action is likely to involve

5 || production of confidential, proprietary or private information for which special

6 || protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting

7 ||this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and

8 || petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties

9 || acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or

10 || responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and

es 11 || use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential

» 12 || treatment under the applicable legal principles.

FI 13|}/B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

Z 14 Defendants contend that there is good cause and a particularized need for a

a 15 protective order to preserve the interests of confidentiality and privacy in peace

16 || officer personnel file records and associated investigative or confidential records for

3

FA! 17||the following reasons.

18 First, Defendants contend that peace officers have a federal privilege of

19 || privacy in their personnel file records: a reasonable expectation of privacy therein

20 || that is underscored, specified, and arguably heightened by the Pitchess protective

21 || procedure of California law. See Sanchez v. Santa Ana Police Dept., 936 F.2d 1027,

22 || 1033-1034 (9th Cir. 1990); Hallon v. City of Stockton, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS

23 || 14665, *2-3, 12-13 (E.D. Cal. 2012) (concluding that “while “[f]ederal law applies

24 || to privilege based discovery disputes involving federal claims,” the “state privilege

25 || law which is consistent with its federal equivalent significantly assists in applying

26 || [federal] privilege law to discovery disputes”); Soto v. City of Concord, 162 F.R.D.

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1 || 603, 613 n. 4, 616 (N.D. Cal. 1995) (peace officers have constitutionally-based

2 || “privacy rights [that] are not inconsequential” in their police personnel records); cf:

3 || Cal. Penal Code §§ 832.7, 832.8; Cal. Evid. Code §§ 1040-1047. Defendants

4 || further contend that uncontrolled disclosure of such personnel file information can

5 || threaten the safety of non-party witnesses, officers, and their families/associates.

6 Second, Defendants contend that municipalities and law enforcement

7 || agencies have federal deliberative-executive process privilege, federal official

8 || information privilege, federal law enforcement privilege, and federal attorney-client

9 || privilege (and/or attorney work product protection) interests in the personnel files of

10 || their peace officers — particularly as to those portions of peace officer personnel files

6 11 || that contain critical self-analysis, internal deliberation/decision-making or

12 || evaluation/analysis, or communications for the purposes of obtaining or rendering

FI 13 || legal advice or analysis — potentially including but not limited to

Z 14 || evaluative/analytical portions of Internal Affairs type records or reports,

a 1 15 evaluative/analytical portions of supervisory records or reports, and/or reports

16 || prepared at the direction of counsel, or for the purpose of obtaining or rendering

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FI 17|| legal advice. See Sanchez, 936 F.2d at 1033-1034; Maricopa Audubon Soc’y v.

18 || United States Forest Serv., 108 F.3d 1089, 1092-1095 (9th Cir. 1997); Soto, 162

19 || F.R.D. at 613, 613 n. 4; Kelly v. City of San Jose, 114 F.R.D. 654, 668-671 (N.D.

20 || Cal. 1987); Tuite v. Henry, 181 F.R.D. 175, 176-177 (D. D.C. 1998); Hamstreet v.

21 || Duncan, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89702 (D. Or. 2007); Admiral Ins. Co. v. United

22 || States Dist. Ct., 881 F.2d 1486, 1492, 1495 (9th Cir. 1988). Defendants further

23 || contend that such personnel file records are restricted from disclosure by the public

24 || entity’s custodian of records pursuant to applicable California law and that

25 || uncontrolled release is likely to result in needless intrusion of officer privacy;

26 || impairment in the collection of third-party witness information and statements and

27 || related legitimate law enforcement investigations/interests; and a chilling of open

28 || and honest discussion regarding and/or investigation into alleged misconduct that

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1 || can erode a public entity’s ability to identify and/or implement any remedial

2 ||measures that may be required.

3 Third, Defendants contend that, since peace officers do not have the same

4 || rights as other private citizens to avoid giving compelled statements, it is contrary to

5 || the fundamental principles of fairness to permit uncontrolled release of officers’

6 || compelled statements. See generally Lybarger v. City of Los Angeles, 40 Cal.3d

7 || 822, 828-830 (1985); cf. U.S. Const., amend V.

8 Accordingly, Defendants contend that, without a protective order preventing

9 ||such, production of confidential records in the case can and will likely substantially

10 || impair and harm defendant public entity’s interests in candid self-critical analysis,

6 11 || frank internal deliberations, obtaining candid information from witnesses,

12 || preserving the safety of witnesses, preserving the safety of peace officers and peace

SF 13 || officers’ families and associates, protecting the privacy officers of peace officers,

Z 14 || and preventing pending investigations from being detrimentally undermined by

a 1 15 publication of private, sensitive, or confidential information — as can and often does

16 || result in litigation.

5 17 1.2. Plaintiff does not agree with and does not stipulate to

18 || Defendants’ contentions herein above, and nothing in this Stipulation or its

19 || associated Order shall resolve the parties’ disagreement, or bind them, concerning

20 || the legal statements and claimed privileges set forth above.

21 However, plaintiff agrees that there is Good Cause for a Protective Order so

22 || as to preserve the respective interests of the parties without the need to further

23 || burden the Court with such issues. Specifically, the parties jointly contend that this

24 || Stipulation and its associated Protective Order may avoid harm to any alleged

25 || privilege interests by permitting the parties to facilitate discovery with reduced risk

26 || that privileged and/or sensitive/confidential information will become matters of

27 || public record.

28 1.3. The parties jointly contend that there is typically a particularized

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1 need for protection as to any medical or psychotherapeutic records, because of the

2 || privacy interests at stake therein. Because of these sensitive interests, a Court Order

3 || should address these documents rather than a private agreement between the parties

4 C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER SEAL

5 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this

6 || Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information

7 || under seal; Local Civil Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed

8 || and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court

9 || to file material under seal.

10 There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial

6 11 || proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions,

12 || good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and

FI 13 || County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006), Phillips v. Gen. Motors

Z 14 || Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002), Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics,

a 15 Inc., 187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders

16 || require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling

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1 —17|| reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with

18 || respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere

19 || designation of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not—

20 || without the submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the

21 || material sought to be filed under seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or

22 || otherwise protectable—constitute good cause.

23 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then

24 || compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the

25 || relief sought shall be narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected.

26 || See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n., 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For

27 || each item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced

28 || under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking

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1 || protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal

2 || justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting

3 || the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration.

4 Any document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in

5 |/its entirety will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted. If

6 || documents can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting

7 || only the confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document,

8 || shall be filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their

9 || entirety should include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible.

10 2. DEFINITIONS

ay dl 2.1 Action: Nicholas Green v. Board of Regents for the University of

» 12 || California, Case No. 2:21-CV-04077-RGK-AFM

FI 13 2.2 Challenging Party: A Party or Non-Party that challenges the

Z 14 || designation of information or items under this Order.

a □ 15 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how

16 |/it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection

3

FA! 17|| under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good

18 || Cause Statement.

19 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as

20 || their support staff).

21 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or

22 || items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as

23 || “CONFIDENTIAL.”

24 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless

25 || of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including,

26 || among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or

27 || generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

28 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter

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1 || pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as

2 || an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.

3 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action.

4 || House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside

5 || counsel.

6 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or

7 || other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

8 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party

9 || to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have

10 || appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm that

es 11 || has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.

12 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors,

FI 13 ||} employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their

Z 14 || support staffs).

a 1 15 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or

16 || Discovery Material in this Action.

□ 17 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support

18 || services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or

19 || demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium)

20 || and their employees and subcontractors.

21 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is

22 || designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

23 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material

24 || from a Producing Party.

25 3. SCOPE

26 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only

27 || Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or

28 || extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or

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1 || compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or

2 || presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.

3 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the

4 || trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

5 4. DURATION

6 Once a case proceeds to trial, information that was designated as

7 || CONFIDENTIAL or maintained pursuant to this protective order used or introduced

8 || as an exhibit at trial becomes public and will be presumptively available to all

9 || members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by

10 || specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance

es 11 || of the trial. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180-81 (distinguishing “good cause”

12 || showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons”

SF 13 || standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, the

Z 14 || terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of the trial.

a 15 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

16 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection.

□ 17 || Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under

18 || this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that

19 || qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for

20 || protection only those parts of material, documents, items or oral or written

21 || communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items

22 || or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably

23 || within the ambit of this Order.

24 Mass, indiscriminate or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations

25 || that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper

26 || purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose

27 || unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating

28 || Party to sanctions.

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1 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it

2 || designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must

3 || promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.

4 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in

5 || this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise

6 || stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection

7 || under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or

8 || produced.

9 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

10 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents,

es 11 || but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that

» 12 || the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter

FI 13 || “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains protected material. If only a

Z 14 || portion of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also

a | 15||must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings

16 □□ □□ the margins).

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Rt 17 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection

18 || need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated

19 || which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and

20 || before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be

21 || deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the

22 || documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which

23 5.3. The parties therefore stipulate that there is Good Cause for, and hereby

24 || jointly request that the honorable Court issue/enter, a Protective Order re

25 || confidential documents consistent with the terms and provisions of this Stipulation.

26 || However, the entry of a Protective Order by the Court pursuant to this Stipulation

27 || shall not be construed as any ruling by the Court on the aforementioned legal

28 || statements or privilege claims in this section (§ 1), nor shall this section be

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1 || construed as part of any such Court Order.

3 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

4 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a

° designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s

6 Scheduling Order.

7 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute

8 resolution process under Local Rule 37-1 et seq.

? 6.3 Joint Stipulation. Any challenge submitted to the Court shall be via a joint

10 stipulation pursuant to Local Rule 37-2.

: i 6.4 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on

2 12 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper

Be 13 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other

a parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating

= Ss 1D Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall

2 16 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is

mw entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the

18 challenge.

19 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

20 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is

71 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this

22 Action only for prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such

23 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the

24 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a

29 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL

26 DISPOSITION).

27 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a

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1 || location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons

2 || authorized under this Order.

3 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise

4 || ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving

5 || Party may disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

6 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well as

7 ||employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to

8 || disclose the information for this Action;

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

10 || Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

es 11 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom

12 || disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the

FI 13 || “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

Z 14 (d) the court and its personnel;

a 15 (e) court reporters and their staff;

16 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional

3 17 || Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have

18 || signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

19 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

20 || custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

21 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the

22 || Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party

23 || requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto; and (2) they will

24 || not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the

25 || ““Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise

26 || agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed

27 || deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may

28 || be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except

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1 permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and

2 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,

3 || mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.

4 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED

5 || IN OTHER LITIGATION

6 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation

7 ||that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as

8 || “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must:

9 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification

10 || shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

Il (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order

» 12 || to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the

FI 13 || subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include

Z a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and

a 15 () cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be

16 || pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

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Rr 17 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with

18 || the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this

19 || action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the

20 || subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s

21 || permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking

22 || protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions

23 || should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action

24 || to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

25 9. ANON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE

26 || PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

27 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a

28 || Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information

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1 || produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the

2 || remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be

3 || construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.

4 (b) Inthe event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to

5 || produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is

6 || subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s

7 || confidential information, then the Party shall:

8 (c) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that

9 ||some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement

10 || with a Non-Party;

6 11 (d) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated

» 12 || Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably

FI 13 || specific description of the information requested; and

Z 14 (ec) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-

a 1 15 Party, if requested.

16 (f) (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court

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Fl —17]|| within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving

18 || Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the

19 || discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving

20 || Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to

21 || the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the

22 || court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and

23 || expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

24 (g) 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED

25 || MATERIAL

26 (h) Ifa Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has

27 || disclosed Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized

28 || under this Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a)

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1 || notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its

2 || best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform

3 || the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms

4 || of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the

5 ||““Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A

6 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE

7 || PROTECTED MATERIAL

8 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain

9 || inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection,

10 || the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil

6 11 || Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure

12 || may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without

FI 13 || prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar

Z 14 || as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or

a | 15 ||information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the

16 || parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted

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FA! 17]| to the court.

18 12. MISCELLANEOUS

19 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any

20 || person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

21 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this

22 || Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to

23 || disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this

24 || Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any

25 || ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.

26 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any

27 || Protected Material must comply with Local Civil Rule 79-5. Protected Material may

28 || only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the

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1 || specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material

2 || under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information

3 |/in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

4 13. FINAL DISPOSITION

5 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60

6 || days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return

7 || all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in

8 || this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,

9 || summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected

10 || Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving

es 11 || Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same

» 12 || person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies

FI 13 || (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or

Z 14 || destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,

a 1 15 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any

16 || of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to

5 17 || retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing

18 || transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert

19 || reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such

20 || materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or

21 || constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in

22 || Section 4 (DURATION).

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1 14. VIOLATION

2 Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures

3 || including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.

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1 || understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the U.S. District Court

2 || for the Central District of California on [date] in the case of

4 || [insert case name and number]. | agree to comply with and to be bound by all

5 || terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, and J understand and acknowledge that

6 || failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment, including

7 ||contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any

8 || information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person

9 || or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.

10 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the

es 11 || Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this

» 12 || Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after

FI 13 || termination of this action. I hereby appoint [full

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16 || this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective

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