Brandstorm, Inc. v. Global Sterilization and Fumigation, Inc.

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: September 20, 2019
• Docket: 3:19-cv-00315
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

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] Ranalli Zaniel Fowler & Moran, LLC David Zaniel, Esq. (SBN 7962) 2 50 West Liberty Street, Suite 1050 FILED EE WED Reno, NV 89501 7 ENTERED ery AN 3 || Telephone: (775) 786-4441 eee SOUNSELILET ES □□□□□ Facsimile: (775) 786-4442 RSELPARTICS OF □□□□□□ 4 E-mail: dzaniel@ranallilaw.com 5 Resident Attorney for Plaintiff BrandStorm, Inc. SEP 20 2619 6 Daley & Heft, LLP CLERK US DISTRICT COURT Attorneys at Law DISTRICT OF NEVADA 7 Matthew E. Bennett, Esq. (SBN 203049) BY: DEPUTY Lee H. Roistacher, Esq. (SBN 179619) cormrermemnncen nase cccne □□□□□□□□□ 8 Heather T. Daiza, Esq. (SBN 323272) 462 Stevens Avenue, Suite 201 9 Solana Beach, CA 92075 Telephone: (858) 755-5666 10 Facsimile: (858) 755-7870 E-mail:mbennett@daleyheft.com 11 lroistacher@daleyheft.com hdaiza@daleyheft.com 12 Attorneys Pro Hac Vice for Plaintiff, BrandStorm, Inc. 13 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEVADA 16 BRANDSTORM, INC., a California Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315 Corporation, 17 Plaintiff, 18 FIRST AMENDED JOINT MOTION Vv. AND STIPULATION FOR 19 PROTECTIVE ORDER AND ORDER GLOBAL STERILIZATION AND 20 FUMIGATION, INC. a Nevada Corporation, BRYAN GARDNER, an 2] individual, and DOES 1-10, Inclusive, 22 Defendants. 23 24 25 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 26 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 27 || confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 28 || disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 || warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the 2 || following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer 3 || blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it 4 || affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are 5 || entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. The parties further 6 || acknowledge, as set forth in paragraph 9.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does 7 || not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule LR IA 10-5 8 || Sealed Documents sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will 9 || be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 10 The following Stipulated Protective Order shall govern the use and disclosure of the 11 || documents and materials listed herein, and any other documents that are designated 12 || “confidential” by the producing party. 13 2. DEFINITIONS 14 “Confidential” information or items is defined as information (regardless of how it is 15 || generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal 16 || Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and for which public disclosure is likely to result in 17 || particularized harm, or is privileged under law, and/or violates privacy or official information 18 || interests recognized by law, or is otherwise entitled to protection. 19 Other items may be included as Confidential for purposes of this order by agreement of 20 || the parties or by court order on noticed motion. This information may include, but is not 21 || limited to: 22 a. Trade secret or intellectual property regarding to Global Sterilization 23 and Fumigation, Inc.’s H2O Express Pasteurization Process; 24 b. Trade secret or intellectual property regarding BrandStorm, Inc.’s 25 corporate strategies from purchase of harvest to later sale in the 26 marketplace; 27 C. Documents, videos, pictures, emails, correspondence, data, and 28 testimony; Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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d. Trade secret or intellectual property of any third parties; and 2 e. other sensitive corporate information. 3 Other items may be included as Confidential for purposes of this order by agreement of 4 || the parties or by court order on noticed motion. 5 3. SCOPE 6 3.1 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 7 || Confidential material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied from 8 || Confidential material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Confidential 9 || material that reveal the source of the Confidential material or that reveal specific information 10 || entitled to confidentiality as a matter of law; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 11 || presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Confidential material. However, the 12 || protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following information: 13. || (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party 14 || or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of 15 || publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 16 || record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior 17 || to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who 18 || obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 19 || Party. Any use of Confidential material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or 20 || order. 21 3.2 The documents, materials, and their contents may be used by the parties and 22 || their counsel only in this litigation and may not be used in separate proceedings or actions at 23 || this time or in the future without first being obtained through proper discovery procedures or 24 || court orders in those separate proceedings or actions. 25 3.3 The documents and their contents may not be disclosed, copied, distributed, 26 |] shown, described, or read to any person or entity (including, but not limited to, media 27 || representatives) by plaintiff or her counsel, representatives or agents, other than (a) the parties 28 |I to this litigation; (b) the parties’ attorneys, paralegals, and legal office staff in this litigation; Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 || (c) the parties’ expert consultants in this litigation for purposes of expert consultation and trial 2 || testimony preparation; (d) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 3 mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 4 |} litigation, and (e) the Court in this action, for purposes of this litigation. 5 3.4 Expert consultants must sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to be 6 || Bound” (Exhibit A, page 1) an executed copy of which will be provided to the opposing 7 || counsel within seven (7) days after formal disclosure of such consultants as expert witnesses in 8 || this litigation. 9 3.5 Any individual who is shown Confidential material must sign the 10 || “Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound” (Exhibit A, page 1), an executed copy of 11 || which must be kept on file by the disclosing attorney’s office, in the event a request by 12 |} opposing counsel is made, in response to which a copy must be provided to opposing counsel 13 || within (7) days of such a request, including as to those individuals identified in paragraph 3.3 14 || (d). This paragraph excludes materials shown to consultants on a confidential basis, however; 15. || as to consultants or experts that are not formally disclosed, the signatories to this protective 16 || order are agreeing, by signing below, to abide by this provision, which expressly requires that 17 || any individual who is shown Confidential material must sign the “Acknowledgment and 18 || Agreement to be Bound” (Exhibit A, page 1). 19 4. DURATION 20 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 21 || this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a 22 || court order otherwise directs. 23 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 24 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each 25 || Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must 26 || take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 27 || standards. The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, 28 | /// Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 || documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify — so that other portions of the 2 || material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not 3 || swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 4 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 5 || shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (€.g., to 6 || unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary 7 || expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 8 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 9 || designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly 10 || notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 11 5.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 12 || Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies 13. || for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 14 || produced. 15 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 16 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing 18 || Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If 19 || only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing 20 || Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings 21 || inthe margins). If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, 22 || the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 23 || appropriate markings in the margins). 24 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that 25 |i the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or 26 || other proceeding, all protected testimony. 27 | // 28 | // Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any 2 || other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the 3 || container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 4 STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER AND ORDER 5 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant 6 || protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 7 || portion(s). 8 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 9 || designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating 10 |} Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of 11 || a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 12 || treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 13 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 14 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 15 || confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 16 || designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 17 | burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to 18 || challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 19 || original designation is disclosed. 20 6.2. Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 21 || process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the 22 || basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the 23 || written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance 24 || with this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each 25 |) challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice 26 || dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of 27 || service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that 28 || the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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| || opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no 2 || change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A 3 | Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has 4 || engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 5 || unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 6 7. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 7 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 8 || Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 9 Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the 10 || unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the 11 || Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were 12 || made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the 13 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A, page 1. 14 8. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 15 PROTECTED MATERIAL 16 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 17 || produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 18 || Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 19 || provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery 20 || order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of 21 || Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of 22 || a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product 23 || protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order 24 || submitted to the court. 25 9. MISCELLANEOUS 26 9.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 27 seek its modification by the court in the future. 28 |] /// Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 9.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective 2 || Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing 3 || any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. 4 || Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the 5 || material covered by this Protective Order. 6 9.3. Filing Confidential Material. Without written permission from the Designating 7 || Party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not 8 || file in the public record in this action any Confidential material. A Party that seeks to file under 9 || seal any Confidential material must comply with Civil Local Rule LR IA 10-5. Confidential 10 {| material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 1] specific Confidential material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule LR IA 10-5, a sealing order 12 || will issue only upon a request establishing that the Confidential material at issue is privileged, 13 || and/or violates privacy or official information interests recognized by law, or is otherwise 14 || entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Confidential material 15 || under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule LR IA 10-5 is denied by the court, then the Receiving 16 || Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule LR IA 10-5 17 j| unless otherwise instructed by the court. 18 Unless otherwise permitted by statute, rule, or prior court order, papers filed with the 19 || court under seal shall be accompanied by a contemporaneous motion for leave to file those 20 |} documents under seal and shall be filed consistent with the court’s electronic filing procedures 21 || in accordance with Local Rule IA 10-5. Notwithstanding any agreement among the parties, the 22 || party seeking to file a paper under seal bears the burden of overcoming the presumption in favor 23 || of public access to papers filed in court. Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.2d 24 || 1172 (9th Cir. 2006); Pintos v. Pac. Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.2d 665, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2010). 25 10. RETURN OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL 26 Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and 27 || defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 28 completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 |) including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 2 || applicable law. Within 90 days after the final disposition of this action, upon written notification 3 |) served by Producing or Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Confidential 4 || material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all 5 || Confidential material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other 6 || format reproducing or capturing any of the Confidential material. Whether the Confidential 7 | material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the 8 || Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 90-day 9 || deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Confidential material that 10 || was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 11 || abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the 12 || Confidential material. 13 11. REMEDIES 14 Any party believing that this order is being violated may move for a court order of 15 || enforcement. The motion shall be subject to all local rules governing motions concerning 16 || discovery disputes, including but not limited to meet and confer requirements. Said motion may 17 || be brought at any time up to final entry of judgment in this matter. The Court will not maintain 18 || jurisdiction over any disputes arising from the protective order following entry of final 19 || judgment. 20 12. STATEMENT OF INFORMATION SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE 21 ORDER 22 The parties state as follows: 23 (1) The information eligible for a protective order in this case is: 24 a. trade secrets regarding a party’s sterilization process techniques not 25 readily available in the market, a party’s strategy regarding harvest 26 production to sale in the marketplace, and a third party’s harvesting 27 process that would otherwise be privileged; 28 b. intellectual property, if any; Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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l c. confidential information concerning the privacy of third parties and/or 2 their trade secrets to this lawsuit. 3 (2) A particularized need exists as to these categories as follows: 4 a. These records contain confidential and personal information; 5 b. These records contain information that may constitute official 6 information and could risk the integrity and economic value of the 7 businesses if there is public dissemination of intellectual property or trade 8 secrets; 9 c. These records contain information of third parties to this lawsuit that are 10 confidential and personal in nature. 11 | // 12 |} // 4 // 14 | // 1S || // 16 || /// 17 | /// 18 | /// 19 |] /// 20 || /// 21 |} // 22 | /// 23 yf /// 24 | /// 25 | /// 26 || // 27 | /// 28 | 10 Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 (3) A court order is needed to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of this 2 information is enforceable after the litigation has ended. 3 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 4 Dated: September 19, 2019 Daley & Heft, LLP 6 By: /s/ Lee H. Roistacher Matthew E. Bennett, 7 mbennett@daleyheft.com Lee H. Roistacher, 8 lroistacher@daleyheft.com Heather T. Daiza, 9 hdaiza@daleyheft.com 10 462 Stevens Avenue, Suite 201 Solana Beach, CA 92075 11 Telephone: (858) 755-5666 Facsimile: (858) 755-7870 12 Attorneys for Plaintiff BrandStorm, Inc. 13 14 Dated: September 19, 2019 Castronova Law Offices, PC 15 16 17 By: /s/ Stephen G. Castronova 18 Stephen G. Castronova, Esq. [SBN 7305] 605 Forest Street 19 Reno, NV 89509 20 Tel: (775) 323-2646 Fax: (775) 323-3181 21 SGC@CastronovaLaw.com Attorneys for Defendants Global Sterilization 22 and Fumigation and Bryan Gardner 23 24 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 25 26 paren] / 2214 7 ! ‘ted States Magistrate Judge 28 11 Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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1 Re: | Brandstorm Inc. v. Global Sterilization and Fumigation, Inc., et al. USDC, Northern District Case No. 3:19-cv-00315 EXHIBIT INDEX 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 12 Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

EXHIBIT A

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1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 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 6 || for the Northen District of Nevada on [date] in the case of 7 | BrandStorm, Inc. v. Global Sterilization and Fumigation, Inc.; Bryan Gardner; Does | through 8 || 10, 3:19-cv-00315-MMD-CBC. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 9 || Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could 10 || expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will 11 |) not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective 12 || Order to any person or 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 of Nevada, 14 | Northern District of Nevada for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 15 || Order, 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 18 | number] as my California or Nevada agent for service of process in connection with this action 19 || or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 20 Date: _ 21 City and State where sworn and signed: 22 Printed name: 23 Signature: 24 25 26 27 28 ee Case No: 3:19-cv-00315 EXHIBIT A, PAGE 1

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l Ranalli Zaniel Fowler & Moran, LLC David Zaniel, Esq. (SBN 7962) 2 50 West Liberty Street, Suite 1050 Reno, NV 89501 3 Telephone: (775) 786-4441 Facsimile: (775) 786-4442 4 E-mail: dzaniel@ranallilaw.com 5 Resident Attorney for Plaintiff BrandStorm, Inc. 6 Daley & Heft, LLP Attorneys at Law 7 Matthew E. Bennett, Esq. (SBN 203049) Lee H. Roistacher, Esq. (SBN 179619) 8 Heather T. Daiza, Esq. (SBN 323272) 462 Stevens Avenue, Suite 201 9 Solana Beach, CA 92075 Telephone: (858) 755-5666 10 Facsimile: (858) 755-7870 □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ 11 lroistacher@daleyheft.com hdaiza@daleyheft.com 12 Attorneys Pro Hac Vice for Plaintiff, BrandStorm, Inc. 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEVADA 1S BRANDSTORM, INC., a California Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315 16 Corporation, CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 17 Plaintiff, 18 Vv. 19 GLOBAL STERILIZATION AND FUMIGATION, INC. a Nevada 20 Corporation, BRYAN GARDNER, an individual, and DOES 1-10, Inclusive, 21 Defendants. 22 ee 23 1, Heather Grady, declare: 24 I. That | am and was at the time of service of the papers herein referred to, over the 25 || age of 18 years, and not a party to the action; and I am employed in the County of San Diego, 26 |) California, in which county the within-mentioned mailing occurred. My business address is 462 27 || Stevens Avenue, Suite 201, Solana Beach, California 92075 and my electronic address is 28 | hgrady@daleyheft.com. Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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| On September 19, 2019, 1 served the following documents described as: 2 | FIRST AMENDED JOINT MOTION AND STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER AND ORDER; AND EXHIBIT A on all interested parties in this action addressed as follows: Castronova Law Offices, PC 5 || Stephen G. Castronova, Esq. 605 Forest Street 6 || Reno, NV 89509 T: (775) 323-2646 7 | F: (775) 323-318) E: sge@castronovalaw.com 8 || Attorneys for Defendants, Global Sterilization and Fumigation, Inc. and Bryan Gardner x BY ELECTRONIC SERVICE: On the date stated above, I served the documents 10. via CM/ECF described above on designated recipients through electronic transmission of said documents; a certified receipt is issued to filing party 1] acknowledging receipt by CM/ECF's system. Once CM/ECF has served all designated recipients, proof of electronic service is returned to the filing party. 12 13 BY FACSIMILE: By use of a facsimile machine, telephone number (858) 755- 7870, at approximately a.m./p.m. on , I served a copy of the 14 documents described above on all designated recipients. The facsimile machine | used complied with California Rules of Court, Rule 2033(3) and no error 15 was reported by the machine, 16 BY E-MAIL: On the date stated above, I caused to be served the document via 7 Email described above on designated recipients.

. BY MAIL: By placing an envelope for collection and mailing following our 18 ordinary business practices. | am readily familiar with the office's practice of 9 collecting and processing of documents for mailing. Under that practice it would be deposited with the United States Postal Service on the same day in a sealed envelope with first-class postage prepaid at Solana Beach, California in the 20 ordinary course of a business day. 21 BY OVERNIGHT DELIVERY: [ enclosed the documents in an envelope or package provided by an overnight delivery carrier and addressed to the persons at 22 . the addresses above. I placed the envelope or package for collection and overnight 23 delivery at an office or a regularly utilized drop box of the overnight delivery carrier, 24 | /// | /// 26 | /// 27 | Hil 28 | /// Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315

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{ declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that 2 || the foregoing is true and correct. 4 |) Executed on this 19th day of September, 2019. 5 Aeacnbyep ‘ Heathe/Grfly, declarant 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 co es . Case No.: 3:19-cv-00315