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1 1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS
2 As the parties have represented that discovery in this action is likely to
3 involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which
4 special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than
5 prosecuting this litigation may be warranted, this Court enters the following
6 Protective Order. This Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures
7 or responses to discovery. The protection it affords from public disclosure and use
8 extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential
9 treatment under the applicable legal principles.
10 B. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT
11 This action is likely to involve customer and pricing lists and valuable
12 development, commercial, financial, and/or proprietary information for which
13 special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than
14 prosecution of this action is warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials
15 and information consist of, among other things, confidential business and financial
16 information, information regarding confidential business practices, other
17 confidential development and commercial information (including information
18 implicating privacy rights of third parties), and information otherwise generally
19 unavailable to the public or which may be protected from disclosure under state or
20 federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to
21 expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over
22 confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties
23 are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable
24 necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to
25 address their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a
26 protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the
27 parties that information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons
28 and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been
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1 maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it
2 should not be part of the public record of this case.
3 C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER SEAL
4 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this
5 Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information
6 under seal; Local Civil Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed
7 and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court
8 to file material under seal.
9 There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial
10 proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions,
11 good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and
12 County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006); Phillips v. Gen. Motors
13 Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002); Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics,
14 Inc., 187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders
15 require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling
16 reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with
17 respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere
18 designation of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not—
19 without the submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the
20 material sought to be filed under seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or
21 otherwise protectable—constitute good cause.
22 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then
23 compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the
24 relief sought shall be narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected.
25 See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For
26 each item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced
27 under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking
28 protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal
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1 justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting
2 the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration.
3 Any document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in
4 its entirety will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted.
5 If documents can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting
6 only the confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document
7 shall be filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their
8 entirety should include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible
9 2. DEFINITIONS
10 2.1 Action: This pending federal lawsuit.
11 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the
12 designation of information or items under this Order.
13 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of
14 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for
15 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in
16 the Good Cause Statement.
17 2.4 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”
18 Information or Items: extremely sensitive “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or
19 Items, the disclosure of which to another Party or Non-Party would create a
20 substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.
21 2.5 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as
22 their support staff).
23 2.6 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or
24 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as
25 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES
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27 2.7 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless
28 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including,
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1 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or
2 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.
3 2.8 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter
4 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as
5 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.
6 2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action.
7 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside
8 counsel.
9 2.10 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or
10 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.
11 2.11 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a
12 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and
13 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm
14 which has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.
15 2.12 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors,
16 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their
17 support staffs).
18 2.13 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or
19 Discovery Material in this Action.
20 2.14 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation
21 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or
22 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium)
23 and their employees and subcontractors.
24 2.15 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is
25 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL --
26 ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.”
27 2.16 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery
28 Material from a Producing Party.
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1 3. SCOPE
2 The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material (as
3 defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected
4 Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material;
5 and (3) any deposition testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their
6 Counsel that might reveal Protected Material, other than during a court hearing or at
7 trial.
8 Any use of Protected Material during a court hearing or at trial shall be
9 governed by the orders of the presiding judge. This Order does not govern the use
10 of Protected Material during a court hearing or at trial.
11 4. DURATION
12 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations
13 imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees
14 otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be
15 deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this Action, with
16 or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and
17 exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this Action,
18 including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time
19 pursuant to applicable law.
20 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
21 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection.
22 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under
23 this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that
24 qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for
25 protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written
26 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents,
27 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept
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1 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations
2 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper
3 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose
4 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating
5 Party to sanctions.
6 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it
7 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must
8 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.
9 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in
10 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise
11 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection
12 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or
13 produced.
14 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:
15 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic
16 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions), that the Producing Party affix
17 at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL --
18 ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” to each page that contains protected material. If
19 only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the
20 Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making
21 appropriate markings in the margins).
22 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection
23 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated
24 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and
25 before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be
26 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the
27 documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which
28 documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then,
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1 before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the
2 “CONFIDENTIAL”, or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES
3 ONLY” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or
4 portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also
5 must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings
6 in the margins).
7 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identifies
8 on the record, before the close of the deposition as protected testimony.
9 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and
10 for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on
11 the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the
12 legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’
13 EYES ONLY.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants protection,
14 the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).
15 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent
16 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive
17 the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material.
18 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable
19 efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this
20 Order.
21 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
22 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a
23 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s
24 Scheduling Order.
25 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute
26 resolution process under Local Rule 37-1 et seq.
27 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on
28 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper
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1 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other
2 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating
3 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall
4 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is
5 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the
6 challenge.
7 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
8 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is
9 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this
10 Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such
11 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the
12 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a
13 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 13 below.
14 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a
15 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons
16 authorized under this Order.
17 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless
18 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a
19 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated
20 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
21 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as
22 well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably
23 necessary to disclose the information for this Action;
24 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of
25 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;
26 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom
27 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
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1 (d) the court and its personnel;
2 (e) court reporters and their staff;
3 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional
4 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have
5 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
6 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
7 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
8 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
9 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party
10 requests that the witness sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound”
11 (Exhibit A); and (2) they will not be permitted to keep any confidential information
12 unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A),
13 unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of
14 transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected
15 Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to
16 anyone except as permitted under this Protective Order; and
17 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,
18 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
19 7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES
20 ONLY” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in
21 writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or
22 item designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only
23 to:
24 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well
25 as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary
26 to disclose the information for this Action;
27 (b) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom
28 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
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1 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
2 (c) the court and its personnel;
3 (d) court reporters and their staff;
4 (e) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional
5 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have
6 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);
7 (f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
8 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information, or a
9 deponent or deponents testifying on a Party or Parties’ behalf under Rule 30(b)(6);
10 (g) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
11 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party
12 requests that the witness sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound”
13 (Exhibit A); and (2) they will not be permitted to keep any Protected Material unless
14 they sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless
15 otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of
16 transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected
17 Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to
18 anyone except as permitted under this Protective Order; and
19 (h) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel,
20 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
21 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED
22 PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION
23 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation
24 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as
25 “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES
26 ONLY,” that Party must:
27 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification
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1 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order
2 to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the
3 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include
4 a copy of this Protective Order; and
5 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be
6 pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
7 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with
8 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this
9 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’
10 EYES ONLY” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or
11 order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission, or
12 unless otherwise required by the law or court order. The Designating Party shall
13 bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential
14 material and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or
15 encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action to disobey a lawful directive from
16 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” or “HIGHLY
21 CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Such information produced by
22 Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief
23 provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as
24 prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections.
25 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to
26 produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is
27 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s
28 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 Protective
5 Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific
6 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 a Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 14
10 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 unless otherwise required by the law or court order. Absent a court order to the
16 contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in
17 this court of its Protected Material.
18 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
19 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed
20 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this
21 Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the
22 Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve
23 all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to
24 whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and
25 (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement
26 to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).
27 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR
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1 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain
2 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection,
3 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil
4 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever
5 procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production
6 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and
7 (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a
8 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work
9 product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement into this Protective
10 Order.
11 12. MISCELLANEOUS
12 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any
13 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.
14 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. No Party waives any right it
15 otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item
16 on any ground not addressed in this Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives
17 any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered
18 by this Protective Order.
19 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any
20 Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material
21 may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the
22 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material
23 under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information
24 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.
25 13. FINAL DISPOSITION
26 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in Section 4, within 60
27 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return
28 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in
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1 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,
2 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected
3 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving
4 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same
5 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies
6 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or
7 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,
8 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any
9 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to
10 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing
11 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert
12 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such
13 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or
14 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in
15 Section 4.
16 14. Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures
17 including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.
18 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.
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22 /s/ Kelsey M. Schultz
23 Attorneys for Plaintiff
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27 /s/ Thomas P. Burke Jr.
28 Attorneys for Defendant
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1 EXHIBIT A
2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
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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 Protective Order that was issued
7 by the United States District Court for the Central District of California on
8 _________________________ in the case of Caribbean Blues, Inc. v. Zoetop
9 Business Co., Ltd., et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-05659-DSF-AS. I agree to comply with
10 and to be bound by all the terms of this Protective Order and I understand and
11 acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment
12 in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner
13 any information or item that is subject to this Protective Order to any person or
14 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
16 for the Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this
17 Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of
18 this action. I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full
19 name] of _______________________________________ [print or type full address
20 and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection
21 with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Protective Order.
22 Date: ______________________________________
23 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________
24 Printed name: _______________________________
25 Signature: __________________________________
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