Wanderer v. Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. ( 2019 )

1 M micichhaaeel lE.b. rBewreewr@er bakermckenzie.com 2 Baker & McKenzie LLP Two Embarcadero Center, 11th Floor 3 San Francisco, CA 94111-3802 Telephone: +1 415 576 3000 4 Facsimile: +1 415 576 3099 5 Attorneys for Defendant KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO. 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STEPHEN WANDERER, as an individual and No. 2:18-cv-02898-WBS-DB in his representative capacity, 11 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Plaintiff, 12 v. 13 KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO.; and 14 DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, 15 Defendants. 16 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 17 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 18 confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 19 and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, 20 the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective 21 Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 22 disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use 23 extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the 24 applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth below, that this Stipulated 25 Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Eastern District 26 Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied 27 when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 28 1 1.1 Pursuant to Eastern District Local Rule 141.1(c)(1), the types of information eligible 2 for protection include a Party’s trade secrets, confidential, competitive, or proprietary information 3 pertaining to the Party’s business, its employment practices, and/or its employees, which the Party 4 takes appropriate efforts to keep confidential, or information the party is otherwise required to keep 5 confidential by agreement or law. 6 1.2 Pursuant to Eastern District Local Rule 141(c)(2), there is need to protect a Party’s 7 trade secrets, confidential, competitive, or proprietary information pertaining to the Party’s business 8 and/or employment practices because such information could be misused and abused if its use were 9 not limited to this lawsuit. 10 1.3 Pursuant to Eastern District Local Rule 141(c)(3), the parties seek a Protective Order 11 rather than entering into a private agreement because the Proposed Order is a discovery Order of the 12 Court that sets forth procedures for resolving disputes between the Parties and appropriate 13 mechanisms for handling CONFIDENTIAL information that involve the Court. 14 Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed as an admission as to the relevance, 15 authenticity, foundation, or admissibility of any document, material, transcript, or other information. 16 2. DEFINITIONS 17 2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 18 information or items under this Order. 19 2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 20 generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of 21 Civil Procedure 26(c). 22 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well 23 as their support staff). 24 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 25 produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 26 2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 27 or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 28 transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 1 discovery in this matter. 2 2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 3 the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 4 consultant in this action. 5 2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House 6 Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 7 2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 8 entity not named as a Party to this action. 9 2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this action 10 but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on 11 behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 12 2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 13 consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 14 2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 15 Material in this action. 16 2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 17 (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, 18 storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 19 2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 20 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 21 2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 22 Producing Party. 23 3. SCOPE 24 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 25 defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all 26 copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 27 conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 28 However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 1 information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving 2 Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of 3 publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record 4 through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 5 disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 6 information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of 7 Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 8 4. DURATION 9 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 10 Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 11 otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and 12 defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion 13 and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the 14 time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. 15 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 16 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or 17 Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to 18 limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. The 19 Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or 20 oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material, documents, 21 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within 22 the ambit of this Order. 23 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 24 to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 25 encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 26 other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 27 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for 28 protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties 1 that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 2 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 3 (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 4 Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 5 designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 6 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 7 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but excluding 8 transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the 9 legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or 10 portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 11 identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 12 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 13 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it 14 would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material 15 made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has 16 identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 17 documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 18 specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page 19 that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for 20 protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 21 appropriate markings in the margins). 22 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 23 Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 24 proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of 25 testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may 26 qualify for protection, the Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition, 27 hearing, or other proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 21 days to identify the specific 28 portions of the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being 1 asserted. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within 2 the 21 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 3 Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 4 reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as instructed by the 5 Producing Party. 6 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 7 tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or 8 containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a 9 portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 10 practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s). 11 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 12 designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 13 right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 14 designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in 15 accordance with the provisions of this Order. 16 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 17 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 18 confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 19 designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, 20 or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a 21 confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the original 22 designation is disclosed. 23 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process 24 by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each 25 challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must 26 recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph 27 of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must 28 begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication 1 are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging 2 Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and 3 must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 4 circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 5 designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it 6 has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 7 unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 8 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 9 intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 10 Eastern District Local Rule 230 or 251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rule 141.1, if 11 applicable) within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing 12 that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such 13 motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied 14 with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. In addition, the 15 Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is 16 good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any 17 portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a 18 competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 19 requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 20 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 21 Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 22 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. 23 Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to 24 retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question 25 the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court 26 rules on the challenge. 27 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 28 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 1 produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 2 defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 3 the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 4 been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 5 DISPOSITION). 6 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a 7 secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 8 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. “CONFIDENTIAL” 9 Information or Items shall be held in confidence by each qualified recipient to whom it is disclosed, 10 shall be used only for purposes of this action, and shall not be used for any business purpose. Unless 11 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party 12 may disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 13 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees of 14 said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for 15 this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is 16 attached hereto as Exhibit A; 17 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving Party 18 to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 19 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 20 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 21 reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 22 to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 23 (d) the court and its personnel; 24 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 25 Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 26 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 27 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 28 necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 1 unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 2 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately 3 bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 4 Stipulated Protective Order; and 5 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or other 6 person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 7 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 8 LITIGATION 9 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 10 disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party 11 must: 12 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a copy 13 of the subpoena or court order; 14 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the 15 other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this 16 Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 17 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 18 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 19 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena 20 or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” 21 before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 22 obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 23 expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these 24 provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 25 disobey a lawful directive from another court. 26 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 27 LITIGATION 28 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 1 action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 2 connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 3 Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional 4 protections. 5 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non- 6 Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the 7 Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 8 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some or all of the 9 information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 10 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order in this 11 litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the information 12 requested; and 13 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 14 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 days 15 of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the Non- 16 Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a 17 protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control 18 that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the 19 court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of 20 seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 21 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 22 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 23 Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, 24 the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized 25 disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 26 inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 27 Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 28 Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 1 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 2 MATERIAL 3 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently produced 4 material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties 5 are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to 6 modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 7 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the 8 parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by 9 the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement 10 in the stipulated protective order submitted to the court. 11 12. MISCELLANEOUS 12 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek 13 its modification by the court in the future. 14 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order 15 no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 16 information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 17 Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by 18 this Protective Order. 19 12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party or a 20 court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the 21 public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected 22 Material must comply with Eastern District Local Rule 141 and/or 141.1. Protected Material may 23 only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected 24 Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a written 25 order of the Court, upon the showing required by applicable law. If a Receiving Party’s request to 26 file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141(b) is denied by the court, then the 27 Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the 28 court. 1 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 2 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 3 Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. 4 As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 5 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether 6 the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written 7 certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) 8 by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material 9 that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 10 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 11 Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 12 pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 13 correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant 14 and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies 15 that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 16 Section 4 (DURATION). 17 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 18 FOOS GAVIN LAW FIRM, PC. 19 Dated: November 20, 2019 20 By:/s/ Rachel Renno 21 Rachel Renno Attorneys for Plaintiff 22 STEPHEN WANDERER 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 D ated: November 20, 2019 BAKER & M KENZIE LLP 2 3 By:/s/ Michael E. Brewer Michael E. Brewer 4 Attorneys for Defendant KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO. 5 6 7 ORDER 8 9 Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 10 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT: 11 1. Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who will 12 decide the matter related to that request to seal. 13 2. The designation of documents (including transcripts of testimony) as confidential 14 pursuant to this order does not automatically entitle the parties to file such a document with the court 15 under seal. Parties are advised that any request to seal documents in this district is governed by 16 Local Rule 141. In brief, Local Rule 141 provides that documents may only be sealed by a written 17 order of the court after a specific request to seal has been made. L.R. 141(a). However, a mere 18 request to seal is not enough under the local rules. In particular, Local Rule 141(b) requires that 19 “[t]he ‘Request to Seal Documents’ shall set forth the statutory or other authority for sealing, the 20 requested duration, the identity, by name or category, of persons to be permitted access to the 21 document, and all relevant information.” L.R. 141(b). 22 3. A request to seal material must normally meet the high threshold of showing that 23 “compelling reasons” support secrecy; however, where the material is, at most, “tangentially related” 24 to the merits of a case, the request to seal may be granted on a showing of “good cause.” Ctr. for 25 Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096-1102 (9th Cir. 2016); Kamakana v. City 26 and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-80 (9th Cir. 2006). 27 //// 28 //// 1 4. Nothing in this order shall limit the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of 2 certain documents, at any court hearing or trial – such determinations will only be made by the court 3 at the hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion. 4 5. With respect to motions regarding any disputes concerning this protective order which the 5 parties cannot informally resolve, the parties shall follow the procedures outlined in Local Rule 251. 6 Absent a showing of good cause, the court will not hear discovery disputes on an ex parte basis or on 7 shortened time. 8 6. The parties may not modify the terms of this Protective Order without the court’s 9 approval. If the parties agree to a potential modification, they shall submit a stipulation and 10 proposed order for the court’s consideration. 11 7. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement of 12 the terms of this Protective Order after the action is terminated. 13 8. Any provision in the parties’ stipulation that is in conflict with anything in this order is 14 hereby DISAPPROVED. 15 DATED: December 9, 2019 /s/ DEBORAH BARNES UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 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 that I have read in its entirety and 5 understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the 6 Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of STEPHEN WANDERER v. KIEWIT 7 INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO., Case No. 2:18-cv-02898-WBS-DB. I agree to comply with and 8 to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge 9 that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I 10 solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 11 Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of 12 this Order. 13 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern 14 District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even 15 if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 16 I hereby appoint __________________________ [print or type full name] of 17 _______________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as 18 my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related 19 to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 20 Date: ______________________________________ 21 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 22 Printed name: _______________________________ 23 24 Signature: __________________________________ 25 26 27 28