Sanchez Flores v. County of Tehama ( 2023 )

1 DERICK E. KONZ, S.B. #286902 Email: dkonz@akk-law.com 2 ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP 3 Attorneys at Law 601 University Avenue, Suite 150 4 Sacramento, CA 95825 Telephone: (916) 564-6100 5 Telecopier: (916) 564-6263 6 Attorneys for Defendants COUNTY OF TEHAMA, STEPHEN HOAG and SCOTT KELLY 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 CARLOS OMAR SANCHEZ FLORES, ) Case No.: 2:22-cv-01798-MCE-KJN 11 ) Plaintiff, ) PROTECTIVE ORDER 12 ) 13 vs. ) ) 14 COUNTY OF TEHAMA, et al. ) ) 15 Defendant. ) 16 ) ) 17 18 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff and Defendants, by and through 19 their respective counsel of record, that in order to facilitate the exchange of information and 20 documents which are subject to confidentiality limitations based on the law enforcement 21 investigatory privilege and the Defendants’ rights to privacy in their personnel files. This Order 22 shall constitute a protective order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c) and shall be enforceable as set forth 23 therein. The Parties stipulate as follows: 24 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 25 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 26 confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 27 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. 28 Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated -1- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 2 all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure 3 and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 4 under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth below, that this 5 Stipulation and Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; and that 6 Eastern District Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the 7 standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under 8 seal. 9 2. DEFINITIONS 10 2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 11 consultants, retained experts, house counsel and outside counsel (and their support staff). 12 2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 13 medium or manner generated, stored or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 14 transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 15 discovery by any Party in this matter. 16 2.3 Confidential Information or Items: information (regardless of the medium or 17 how generated, stored, or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 18 developed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and/or applicable federal privileges. This 19 material includes, but is not limited to, medical and psychotherapeutic records; as well as peace 20 officer personnel records as defined by California Penal Code sections 832.8, 832.5, 832.7 and the 21 associated case law; and other similar confidential records designated as such. 22 2.4 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 23 Producing Party, including a Party that has noticed or subpoenaed and is taking a deposition or 24 comparable testimony. 25 2.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 26 Material in this action, including a Party that is defending a deposition noticed or subpoenaed by 27 another Party; additionally, for the limited purpose of designating testimony subject to this 28 Stipulation and Order pursuant to section 6.2(b) (infra), a “Producing Party” shall also be construed -2- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 to include a Party that is attending and/or participating in a non-party deposition 2 noticed/subpoenaed by another Party. 3 2.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that 4 it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 5 2.7 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 6 “CONFIDENTIAL” under the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order. (The term 7 “Confidential Document” shall be synonymous with the term “Protected Material” for the 8 purposes of this Stipulation and Protective Order.) 9 2.8 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are retained 10 to represent or advise a Party in this action (as well as their support staffs). 11 2.9 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party (as well as their support 12 staffs). 13 2.10 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 14 support staffs). 15 2.11 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 16 the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 17 consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party and who, at the 18 time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s; 19 as well as any person retained, designated, or disclosed by a Party as an expert pursuant to Federal 20 Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2). 21 2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 22 (e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 23 storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors. 24 3. SCOPE 25 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected 26 Material/Confidential Documents (as defined above), but also: (1) any information copied or 27 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of 28 Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their -3- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this 2 Stipulation and Order do not cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the 3 public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain 4 after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of this 5 Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any 6 information known to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving 7 Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the information lawfully and under no 8 obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall 9 not be governed by this Order, and may be governed by a separate agreement or order. 10 4. DURATION 11 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 12 Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 13 otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of: 14 (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and 15 (2) final judgment herein after the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, 16 remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the time limits for filing any motions or 17 applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law. 18 5. 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 19 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 20 Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take 21 care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 22 standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of 23 material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions 24 of the material, documents, items or communications for which protection is not warranted are not 25 swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 26 Mass, indiscriminate, or routine designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 27 to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 28 encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens -4- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 on other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes to a Party’s or a non- 2 party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for 3 protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non- 4 party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 5 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, 6 or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material that qualifies for protection under this Order must 7 be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. Designation in conformity 8 with this Order requires: 9 (a) for information in documentary form(e.g., paper or electronic 10 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the 11 Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected 12 material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 13 Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 14 markings in the margins). 15 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 16 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material 17 it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the 18 material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting 19 Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must 20 determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, 21 before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” 22 legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material 23 on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 24 portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 25 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 26 proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the 27 record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, 28 and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL.” When it is -5- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when 2 it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Producing Party 3 may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 4 twenty (20) days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Only 5 those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” for 6 protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective 7 Order. Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 8 reporter, who must affix to each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as instructed by the 9 Producing Party. 10 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and 11 for any other tangible items (including but not limited to information produced on disc or 12 electronic data storage device), that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior 13 of the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 14 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing 15 Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying the material as 16 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 17 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected (preferably, though not 18 necessarily, within 30 days of production or disclosure of such material), an inadvertent failure to 19 designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” does not, standing alone, waive 20 the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 21 appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” after the material was initially produced, the 22 Receiving Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure 23 that the material is treated in accordance with this Order. 24 5.4 Alteration of Confidentiality Stamp. A Receiving Party shall not alter, edit, or 25 modify any Protected Material so as to conceal, obscure, or remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp 26 or legend thereon; nor shall a Receiving Party take any other action so as to make it appear that 27 Protected Material is not subject to the terms and provisions of this Stipulation and Order. 28 However, nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a Receiving Party from -6- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 challenging a confidentiality designation subject to the provisions of section 6, infra. 2 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 3 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 4 confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 5 designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 6 burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to 7 challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 8 original designation is disclosed. 9 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 10 process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 11 for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice 12 must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific 13 paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 14 and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of 15 communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, 16 the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was 17 not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, 18 to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis 19 for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge 20 process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the 21 Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 22 6.3 Judicial Intervention. 23 If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court intervention, the Designating Party 24 shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Eastern District Local Rule 230 and 25 251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rules 141 and 141.1, if applicable) within 14 26 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, or by 27 the first day of trial of this matter, whichever date is earlier, unless the parties agree in writing to 28 a longer time. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that -7- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding 2 paragraph. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality 3 designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation 4 of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision 5 must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the 6 meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 7 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 8 Party, regardless of whether the Designating Party is the moving party or whether such Party 9 sought or opposes judicial intervention. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 10 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose 11 the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality 12 designation by failing to oppose a motion to remove confidentiality as described above, all parties 13 shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under 14 the Producing Party’s designation until the court rules on the challenge. 15 6.4. Withdrawal of “CONFIDENTIAL” Designation. At its discretion, a Designating 16 Party may remove Protected Material/Confidential Documents from some or all of the protections 17 and provisions of this Stipulation and Order at any time by any of the following methods: 18 (a) Express Written Withdrawal. A Designating Party may withdraw a 19 “CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential 20 Documents from some or all of the protections of this Stipulation and Order by an express 21 withdrawal in a writing signed by such Party (or such Party’s Counsel, but not including staff of 22 such Counsel) that specifies and itemizes the Disclosure or Discovery Material previously 23 designated as Protected Material/Confidential Documents that shall no longer be subject to all or 24 some of the provisions of this Stipulation and Order. Such express withdrawal shall be effective 25 when transmitted or served upon the Receiving Party. If a Designating Party is withdrawing 26 Protected Material from only some of the provisions/protections of this Stipulation and Order, such 27 Party must state which specific provisions are no longer to be enforced as to the specified material 28 for which confidentiality protection hereunder is withdrawn: otherwise, such withdrawal shall be -8- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 construed as a withdrawal of such material from all of the protections/provisions of this Stipulation 2 and Order. 3 (b) Express Withdrawal on the Record. A Designating Party may withdraw 4 a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation made to any specified Protected Material/Confidential 5 Documents from all of the provisions/protections of this Stipulation and Order by verbally 6 consenting in court proceedings on the record to such withdrawal – provided that such withdrawal 7 specifies the Disclosure or Discovery Material previously designated as Protected 8 Material/Confidential Documents that shall no longer be subject to any of the provisions of this 9 Stipulation and Order. A Designating Party is not permitted to withdraw Protected Material from 10 only some of the protections/provisions of this Stipulation and Order by this method. 11 (c) Implicit Withdrawal by Publication or Failure to Oppose Challenge. A 12 Designating Party shall be construed to have withdrawn a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation made 13 to any specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents from all of the provisions/protections 14 of this Stipulation and Order by either (1) making such Protected Material/Confidential Records 15 part of the public record – including but not limited to attaching such as exhibits to any filing with 16 the court without moving, prior to such filing, for the court to seal such records; or (2) failing to 17 timely oppose a Challenging Party’s motion to remove a “CONFIDENTIAL” designation to 18 specified Protected Material/Confidential Documents. Nothing in this Stipulation and Order shall 19 be construed so as to require any Party to file Protected Material/Confidential Documents under 20 seal, unless expressly specified herein. 21 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 22 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed 23 or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 24 defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 25 the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 26 been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 27 DISPOSITION). Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 28 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under -9- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 this Order. 2 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 3 ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may 4 disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 5 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as 6 employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 7 information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 8 Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 9 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 10 Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 11 the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 12 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 13 reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 14 Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 15 (d) the court and its personnel; 16 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, 17 and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and 18 who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 19 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 20 reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 21 (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of 22 transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be 23 separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted 24 under this Stipulated Protective Order; and/or 25 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian 26 or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 27 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 28 OTHER LITIGATION -10- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 2 disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party 3 must: 4 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 5 copy of the subpoena or court order; 6 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in 7 the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to 8 this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; 9 and 10 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 11 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 12 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena 13 or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” 14 before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 15 obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 16 expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these 17 provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 18 disobey a lawful directive from another court. 19 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN 20 THIS LITIGATION 21 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in 22 this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 23 connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 24 Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking 25 additional protections. 26 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non- 27 Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the 28 Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: -11- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non- Party that 2 some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 3 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective 4 Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of 5 the information requested; and 6 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 7 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 8 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the 9 Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely 10 seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession 11 or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 12 determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 13 burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 14 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 15 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 16 Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 17 Order, the Receiving Party must immediately: (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the 18 unauthorized disclosures; (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected 19 Material; (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the 20 terms of this Order; and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 21 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 22 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 23 PROTECTED MATERIAL 24 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 25 produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 26 Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision 27 is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that 28 provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence -12- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 2 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, 3 the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the 4 court. 5 12. PUBLICATION OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 6 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 7 seek its modification by the court in the future. 8 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective 9 Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 10 information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 11 Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered 12 by this Protective Order. 13 12.3. Filing of Protected Material. Without advance written permission from the 14 Designating Party, or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a 15 Receiving Party may not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party 16 that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Eastern District Local Rule 17 141 and/or 141.1, to the extent applicable. 12.2. Public Dissemination of Protected Material. A 18 Receiving Party shall not publish, release, post, or disseminate Protected Material to any persons 19 except those specifically delineated and authorized by this Stipulation and Order; nor shall a 20 Receiving Party publish, release, leak, post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential 21 Documents to any news media, member of the press, website, or public forum (except as permitted 22 under section 12.1 regarding filings with the court in this action and under seal). 23 12.4. Public Dissemination of Protected Material. A Receiving Party shall not publish, 24 release, post, or disseminate Protected Material to any persons except those specifically delineated 25 and authorized by this Stipulation and Order; nor shall a Receiving Party publish, release, leak, 26 post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential Documents to any news media, member of 27 the press, website, or public forum (except as permitted under section 12.1 regarding filings with 28 the court in this action and under seal). -13- PROTECTIVE ORDER 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” including all copies, abstracts, compilations, 5 summaries and any other format reproducing or capturing of the Protected Material. 6 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 7 8 9 Dated: ANGELO, KILDAY & KILDUFF, LLP 10 /s/ Derick E. Konz By ______________________________ 11 Derick E. Konz 12 Attorneys for Defendants COUNTY OF TEHAMA, STEPHEN HOAG, and 13 SCOTT KELLY 14 15 Dated: 16 /s/ Winifred Botha (authorized on 1/13/23) 17 By ______________________________ 18 Winifred Botha Deputy County Counsel 19 Attorneys for Defendant COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 20 21 22 Dated: /s/ Dennis R. Ingols 23 (authorized on 1/13/23) 24 By ______________________________ Dennis R. Ingols 25 Attorneys Plaintiff 26 27 28 -14- PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 ORDER 2 The court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order. (See ECF No. 14). The 3 stipulation comports with the relevant authorities and the court’s applicable local rule. See L.R. 4 | 141.1. The court APPROVES the protective order, subject to the following clarification. The 5 || Local Rules state that once an action is closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the court will not © | retain jurisdiction over enforcement of the terms of any protective order filed in that 7} action.” LR. 141.1(f); see also, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 8 (E.D. Cal., Feb. 03, 2017) (noting that courts in the district generally do not agree to retain 9 jurisdiction for disputes concerning protective orders after closure of the case). Thus, the court 10 | will not retain jurisdiction over this protective order once the case is closed. 1] | IT Is SO ORDERED. 12 | Dated: February 15, 2023 13 Se 14 □□ DNase 15 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 16 | for.1798 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 -15- PROTECTIVE ORDER 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 was issued by the 6 United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on ____________________ 7 [date] in the case of Flores v. County of Tehama, case no. 2:22-cv-01798-MCE-KJN. I agree 8 to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I 9 understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 10 punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner 11 any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or 12 entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of 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, 15 even 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] 18 as my California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings 19 related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 20 21 Date: City and state where sworn 22 and signed: 23 Printed Name: 24 Signature: 25 26 27 28 -16- PROTECTIVE ORDER