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9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 HEATHER WILSON, AMANDA Case No. 2:21-cv-8065-DSF-GJS
LUNDBERG, JESUS CAMPOS,
11 JUVEL MAR INGAL, PATRICIA
FOLGER, JEFF FLEISS, MALINA STIPULATED PROTECTIVE
12 TRAN, and SILVIO CURTIS, ORDER1
individuals,
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14 Plaintiff,
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16 L.A. ARENA COMPANY, LLC,
L.A. LIVE PROPERTIES, LLC;
17 CITY OF LOS ANGELES;
OFFICER MARTINEZ, OFFICER
18 ARAMBULA, in their individual
capacities; and DOES 1–10,
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20 Defendant.
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22 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
23 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential,
24 proprietary or private information for which special protection from public
25 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may
26 be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to
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order provided under Magistrate Judge Gail J. Standish’s Procedures.
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1 enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this
2 Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to
3 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends
4 only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment
5 under the applicable legal principles.
6 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT
7 This action involves the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police
8 Department, L.A. Arena Company, LLC, and L.A. Live Properties, LLC,
9 (“Defendants”). Plaintiffs are seeking materials and information that Defendants
10 maintain as confidential, such as Internal Affairs materials and information, video
11 recordings, audio recordings, and information, personnel records and other
12 administrative materials and information currently in the possession of Defendants
13 which may be entitled to special protection from public disclosure and from use for
14 any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation. Additionally, discovery may
15 include sensitive confidential financial and business information, which may require
16 heightened protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other
17 than prosecuting this litigation.
18 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt
19 resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately
20 protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the
21 parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for
22 and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and
23 serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this
24 matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as
25 confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good
26 faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and
27 there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case. This
28 also includes (1) any information copied or extracted from the Confidential
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1 information; (2) copies, excerpts, summaries or compilations of Confidential
2 information; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations that are
3 reasonably likely to reveal Confidential information.
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5 C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER SEAL
6 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this
7 Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information
8 under seal; Local Civil Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed
9 and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court
10 to file material under seal.
11 There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial
12 proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions,
13 good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and
14 County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006), Phillips v. Gen. Motors
15 Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002), Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics,
16 Inc., 187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders
17 require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling
18 reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with
19 respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere
20 designation of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not—
21 without the submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the
22 material sought to be filed under seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or
23 otherwise protectable—constitute good cause.
24 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then
25 compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the
26 relief sought shall be narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected.
27 See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For
28 each item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced
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1 under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking
2 protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal
3 justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting
4 the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration.
5 Any document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in
6 its entirety will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted.
7 If documents can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting
8 only the confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document,
9 shall be filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their
10 entirety should include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible.
11 2. DEFINITIONS
12 2.1 Action: this pending federal lawsuit.
13 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the
14 designation of information or items under this Order.
15 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of
16 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for
17 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in
18 the Good Cause Statement. This also includes (1) any information copied or
19 extracted from the Confidential information; (2) copies, excerpts, summaries or
20 compilations of Confidential information; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or
21 presentations that are reasonably likely to reveal Confidential information.
22 References to “CONFIDENTIAL” information or items in this Protective Order
23 shall also include information or items designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –
24 ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” unless stated otherwise.
25 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as
26 their support staff).
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1 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or
2 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as
3 “CONFIDENTIAL.”
4 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless
5 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including,
6 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or
7 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.
8 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter
9 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as
10 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.
11 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action.
12 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside
13 counsel.
14 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
15 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.
16 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a
17 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and
18 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm
19 that has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.
20 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors,
21 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their
22 support staffs).
23 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or
24 Discovery Material in this Action.
25 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation
26 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or
27 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium)
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1 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is
2 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
3 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery
4 Material from a Producing Party.
5 3. SCOPE
6 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only
7 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or
8 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or
9 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or
10 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that are reasonably likely to reveal
11 Protected Material.
12 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the
13 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.
14 4. DURATION
15 FINAL DISPOSITION of the action is defined as the conclusion of any
16 appellate proceedings, or, if no appeal is taken, when the time for filing of an appeal
17 has run. Except as set forth below, the terms of this protective order apply through
18 FINAL DISPOSITION of the action. The parties may stipulate that they will be
19 contractually bound by the terms of this agreement beyond FINAL DISPOSITION,
20 but will have to file a separate action for enforcement of the agreement once all
21 proceedings in this case are complete.
22 Once a case proceeds to trial, information that was designated as
23 CONFIDENTIAL or maintained pursuant to this protective order used or introduced
24 as an exhibit at trial becomes public and will be presumptively available to all
25 members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by
26 specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance
27 of the trial. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180-81 (distinguishing “good cause”
28 showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons”
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1 standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, for
2 such materials, the terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the
3 commencement of the trial.
4 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
5 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection.
6 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under
7 this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that
8 qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for
9 protection only those parts of material, documents, items or oral or written
10 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items
11 or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably
12 within the ambit of this Order.
13 Mass, indiscriminate or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations
14 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper
15 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose
16 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating
17 Party to sanctions.
18 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it
19 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must
20 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.
21 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in
22 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise
23 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection
24 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or
25 produced.
26 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:
27 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic
28 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial
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1 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend
2 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES
3 ONLY” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains
4 protected material. If only a portion of the material on a page qualifies for
5 protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s)
6 (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
7 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection
8 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated
9 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and
10 before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be
11 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL” (not “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’
12 EYES ONLY”). After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants
13 copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or
14 portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the
15 specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL legend”
16 to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion of the material on a
17 page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the
18 protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
19 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identifies
20 the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the
21 deposition all protected testimony. Any Party also may designate information
22 disclosed at a deposition as “CONFIDENTIAL” (or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –
23 ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) by notifying all Parties in writing, not later than 30
24 days after receipt of the transcript, of the specific pages and lines of the transcript
25 that should be treated thereafter as “CONFIDENTIAL.” All deposition transcripts
26 shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” (not “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –
27 ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”) for a period of 30 days after initial receipt of the
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1 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and
2 for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on
3 the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the
4 “CONFIDENTIAL legend.” If only a portion or portions of the information
5 warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the
6 protected portion(s).
7 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent
8 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive
9 the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material.
10 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable
11 efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this
12 Order.
13 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
14 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a
15 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s
16 Scheduling Order.
17 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute
18 resolution process under Local Rule 37.1 et seq.
19 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on
20 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper
21 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other
22 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating
23 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall
24 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is
25 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the
26 challenge.
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1 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
2 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is
3 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this
4 Action only for prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such
5 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the
6 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a
7 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL
8 DISPOSITION).
9 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a
10 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons
11 authorized under this Order.
12 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless
13 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a
14 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated
15 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
16 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as
17 well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably
18 necessary to disclose the information for this Action;
19 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of
20 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;
21 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom
22 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
23 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
24 (d) the court and its personnel;
25 (e) court reporters and their staff;
26 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, and mock jurors, to whom
27 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
28 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
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1 (g) Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for
2 this Action, and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be
3 Bound” (Exhibit A) within 30 days of the provision of services;
4 (h) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
5 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
6 (i) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
7 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party
8 requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto; and (2) they will
9 not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the
10 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise
11 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed
12 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may
13 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except
14 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and
15 (j) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,
16 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
17 7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES
18 ONLY” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in
19 writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or
20 item designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only
21 to the persons listed in Paragraphs 7.2(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (j) above and
22 House Counsel of the Receiving Party.
23 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED
24 IN OTHER LITIGATION
25 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation
26 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as
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1 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification
2 shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;
3 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order
4 to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the
5 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include
6 a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and
7 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be
8 pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
9 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with
10 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this
11 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the
12 subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s
13 permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking
14 protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions
15 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action
16 to disobey a lawful directive from another court.
17 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE
18 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION
19 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a
20 Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information
21 produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the
22 remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be
23 construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.
24 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to
25 produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is
26 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s
27 confidential information, then the Party shall:
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1 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party
2 that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality
3 agreement with a Non-Party;
4 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated
5 Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably
6 specific description of the information requested; and
7 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the
8 Non-Party, if requested.
9 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within
10 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party
11 may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery
12 request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall
13 not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to the
14 confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court.
15 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and
16 expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
17 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
18 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed
19 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this
20 Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in
21 writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts
22 to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or
23 persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order,
24 and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and
25 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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1 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE
2 PROTECTED MATERIAL
3 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain
4 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection,
5 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil
6 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever
7 procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production
8 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e)
9 the inadvertent disclosure or production of documents protected by the attorney-
10 client privilege or work-product protection will not constitute a waiver of the
11 privilege or protection by the disclosing Party in either the litigation pending before
12 the Court, or any other federal or state proceeding.
13 12. MISCELLANEOUS
14 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any
15 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.
16 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this
17 Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to
18 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this
19 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any
20 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.
21 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any
22 Protected Material must comply with Local Civil Rule 79-5. Protected Material
23 may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the
24 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material
25 under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information
26 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.
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1 13. FINAL DISPOSITION
2 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60
3 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return
4 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in
5 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,
6 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected
7 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving
8 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same
9 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies
10 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or
11 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,
12 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any
13 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to
14 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing
15 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert
16 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such
17 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or
18 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in
19 Section 4 (DURATION).
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1 || 14. VIOLATION
2 || Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures including,
3 || without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.
5 || ITIS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.
7 || Dated: May 24, 2022 LAW OFFICE OF JEROLD D. FRIEDMAN
8 /s/Jerold D. Friedman
Jerold D. Friedman, Esq.
9 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
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11 || Dated: May 24, 2022 MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
12 /s/Emily F. Evitt
Emily F. Evitt, Esq.
13 Attorneys for Defendants L.A. Live Properties,
4 LLC, L.A. Arena Company, LLC
1S |) Dated: May 24, 2022 MICHAEL N. FEUER, City Attorney
SCOTT MARCUS, Chief Assistant City Attorney
16 CORY M. BRENTE, Sr. Assistant City Attorney
7 DORDANEH GHAEMI, Deputy City Attorney
/s(Dordaneh Ghaemi
18 Dordaneh Ghaemi, Deputy, City Attorney
19 Attorneys for Defendant City of Los Angeles
20 |} FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED.
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HON. GAIL J. STANDISH
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1 EXHIBIT A
2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
3 I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of
4 _________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury
5 that I have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that
6 was issued by the United States District Court for the Central District of California
7 in the case of Heather Wilson, et al v. L.A. Arena Company, LLC, et al., Case No.
8 CV21-8065-DSF (GJSx), I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of
9 this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so
10 comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I
11 solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that
12 is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict
13 compliance with the provisions of this Order.
14 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
15 Central District of California for enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective
16 Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.
17 I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of
18 _______________________________________ [print or type full address and
19 telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with
20 this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective
21 Order.
22 Date: ______________________________________
23 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________
24 Printed name: _______________________________
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26 Signature: __________________________________
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