Shirley Sherrod Subpoena of Christian Adams

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AO ggB (Rev. I2l13) Subpoena ro l,roduce l)ocumcnls, Inforrnation, or Objects or to Pennii lnspection ofPrelnises in a Clvll Aclion

LJNtrep Srerrs Dtsrrucr Counrfor the

District of ColunibiaShirley Sherrod

Plaintillv,

Andrew Breitbart, et al,De/endant

suBpoENATO PRODUCE DOCUMENTS, INFORMATION, OR OBJECTSoRToPER]VIITINSPECTIONoFPREMISEStNACIVILACTION

d production; you ARE CSMMANDED to produce at the time, date, and place set forth below the followingdocumeng, electronically stored information, or objects, and to permit inspection, copying, testing, or sampling of thematerial: See Schedule A

Civil Aclion No. 11-00477 (RJL)

a612612014 10:00 amPlace: "7o Thomas ClareClare Locke LLP902 Prlnce Street. Alexan driaY A 22314

a Inspection of premises: you ARE COMMANDED to permit entry onto the designated premises, land, orother property possessed or controlled by you at the time, date, and location set forth below, so that the requesting partymay inspect, measure, survey, photograph, test, or sample the property or any desiglated object or operation on it'

The following provisions of Fed. R. civ. P. 45 are attached - Rule 45(c), relating to the placeof compliance;Rule 45(d), relating to your protection as a person subject to a subpoena; and Rule 45(e) and (g), relating to your duty torespond to this subpoena and the potential consequences ofnot doing so'Date: 0611012014

CLERKOFCOURT'

Signature of Clerk or DeputY Clerk

The name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number of the affomey representing (name ofpartv) Shirley Sherrod, who issues or requests this subpoena, are:Alex Stege, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 655 Fifteenth Street N.W., Washington, D.C' 20005trmail' alav^nder stege@kirklend nnm Telefrhnnp' (^O?) 8zq-6OOO

Notice to the person who issues or requests this subpoenaA notice and a copy ofthe subpoena must b; served on each party in this case before it is served on the person to whomif ili difected.' Fed; K CiV. Pl45(aX4):

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SCHEDUI,E ADefinitions

For the purposes of this Schedule, the following definitions shall apply:"You" and "Your" means John Christian Adams and each of your present and formeraffiliates, agents, assigns, reprcsentatives, employees, officers, predecessor entities,successor entities, aftorieys, and any person acting or purporting to act on John ChristianAdams's behalf.,,Andrew Breitbart" means Andrew Breitbart, the individual named as a defendant in thelawsuit captioned in the attached subpoena, and each of his present and former affiliates,companies, agents, assigns, representatives, employees, predecessors' successors'attorneys, and any person lcting oi purporting to act on Andrew Breitbart's behalf."Larry O'Connor" means Larry O'Connor, a defendant in the lawsuit captioned in theattached subpoena, and each of ni. present and former affiliates, companies, agents'assigns, repreSentatives, employees, predecessors' successors, attorneys, and any personacting or purporting to act on Larry O'Connor's behalf'"John Doe" means the individual referred to as "John Doe" in the complaint PlaintiffShirley Sherrod filed on February 1l,2}ll, in the Superior court for the District ofColumbia, and each of his or her present and former affiliates, companies' agents'asSignS, representatives, employees, predecessors, successors, attorneyS, and any personacting or purporting to act on John Doe's behalf',.shirley Sherrod,, means Shirley Sherrod, the Plaintiff in the lawsuit captioned in theattached subpoena..,Shirley Sherrod's Speech" means Plaintiff Shirley Sherrod's March 27,2010 speech tothe Coifee County NaaCp during its 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet in Douglas,Georgia."July 19, 2010 Blog Post" means the blog post on BigGovernment'com entitled "Videorroi| The NAAC? Awards Rocism-2010,"hffp;l biggovernment.com / abreitbart/ZO I 0 I Q7 I 19 I video-proof-the-naacp-awards-,u.is*ZdIO/, including the statements, video recordings, and other content embedded or

contained therein.o,Communication" means any oral, written, or electronic utterance, notation, statement, orcommunication of any natuie whatsoever, by and to whomever made, including, but notlimited tO, correspondence, conversations, dialogues, discussions, interviews,consultations, and other understandings between or among two or more persons, whetherface-to-face, or by telephone, fax, letter, email, instant-messenger service, text message,SMS message, MMS message, mobile- or cellular-communication service (e.g',BlackBerry Messenger), website, social-media service, or any other means.

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9. "Alteration" uteans any change whatsoever to the form, subslance, conlent, presentation,or medium of any Document, including any additions, changes, modiflcations. deletions,edits, manipulations, production work, revisions, variations, transformations, adaptations,adjustmenti, substituiions, splices, excerpts, convcrsions, and any modification thatwould cause a viewer to see, h"ur or perceive the media differently. "Alteration" includesbut is not limited to the addition oltitles, text, slides, transitions, captioning, comments,statements, or opinion, or combining multiple video or audio segments'"ESI" means electronically stored information',.Document,, is an all-inclusive term with the broadest possible meaning accorded to itunder case taw and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and means the original (or atrue and accurate copy if the original is not available) and each non-identical copy (whichis non-identical because of alterations, attachments, blanks, comments, notes,underlining, or otherwise) of any writing or record (whether in tangible, electronic, or anyother formJ in Your actual or ionstructive possession, custody, or control, including alldocuments You have provided to Your counsel. "Document" shall include, but is notlimited to, an electroni" o. computerized data compilation (including email and,othercomputer-readable files), whetlter or not printed, stored, or displayed, and anypr"li1ninary versions, Orutt, or reviSions thereol Communication, memorandum, letter,"o.."rponi.nce, electronic mail, blog post, internet post, report, note, message slip,telephone log or record, diary, journal, calendar, electronic organizet entry, writing'drawing, sp[adsheet, piesentation, Iedger, minutes, financial report or record, draft,facsimile, contract, invoice, record of purchase or sale, graph, chart, photograph, videO oraudio recording, transcript, index, directory, or any other written, printed, typed,punched, tapedl filmed, or graphic matter however produced, stored, or reproduced'"Document" also includes any post-it, file, folder tabs, and labels appended to orcontaining any Documents, as well as any metadata applicable to any Document'The terms "Relating To" and/or "Reflecting" mean relating to, reflecting, concerning'referring to, constifuting, embodying, connected to, in connection with, comprising,regardirig, evidencing, describing, identif,ing, stating, analyzing, and/or containingirformation concerning. It shall be construed to have the broadest possible meaning.

InstructionsThe following rules of construction apply: (a) the singular shall include the plural andvice versa; 1Uy ttre masculine, feminine, or neutral pronoun shall not exclude othergenders; (c) the connectives "and" and "or" shall be read either disjunctively orIonjunctiveiy as necessary to bring within the scope of these subpoena requests all,.rionr", that might otherwise be construed to be outside their scope; (d) the terms"ury," "all," or t'Jach" shall be read to mean any' all, each, and every; (e) the word"including" shall be read to mean including without limitation; (0 the present tense shallbe construed to include the past tense and vice versa; and (g) references to employees,officers, directors, or agents shall include both current and former employees, officers,directors, and agents.

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2. Thissubpoenacallsfortheproductiono-fDocumentsthatarein.theactualorconstructivepossession, cusrody, J ##;ffi'iln -crrrlrriun edurr. '"gu'dless of location' includingin the posserrion, t"iil' "' **t"r of uny l"ttnt or former attornev(s)' consultant(s)'expert(s), and agent(s). ri,u "opy of u,"qu",-t"a.bo.uIn"ntis-not identical to any other

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writing bv: (a) "ddtJ#";li'"t'""' *ai;; P;";' who prepared or authorizedthe

Document; (b) date of preparatio, o, *unr*i"nai; ic) suuje-:t matter:(d) number of pages'

attachments, o' uro*[t;;;?' att .peruon''i" i'i'"*"aistributed; (0 date of loss' ordestruction; and (g);i^;;;t';ytd' '1" *'*"t of destruction' reason for destructton'Persons authorizing a"'t*"ti""' and Persons destroying the Document'AllDocumentsaretobeproduc:9t"llti:entirety'withoutabbreviationorexpurgation'includingbothbacku,ono,.thereof,*i,t,utt,attachmentsorothermattersaffixedthereto.YoushallproduceresponsiveDocumentsastheyhave.bellkeptintheusualcourseofbusiness or shall *r;"'l#';; i;;i;;"* ;;;6;"d to the enumerated Items Subiectto Subpoena. rf tnere is no Documen, r.rririrr;;;t particular category' You shall sostate in writing' _ 1-.- .ts native format, or asJJ.lJf [+ii$Tily"J,i:'ff"""'1"::#iH""l]0"#'l'lo'*t*'h;;;il"".r'srIf You object to any part of this subpoena' You 'l'J :'"t forth Your basis for theobiection una,"'po'lJt#ti;il;;;;bp*'ato which You do not object'IfinthecourseofrespondingtothissubpoenaYoySn,coulrteranyambiguityinadefinition or in an i;rffiffi Jxplain'**du,- vou find to be ambiguous and whatconst u"tion You used in providing Your answer'Ifproductionofanyrequested.Docull{.isobjectedtoonthegroundsthatproductionisunduly burdensome, describe the undue burden'IfanyinformationcalledforbythissubpoenaiswithheldbecauseYouclaimthatsuchinformation t, pro,.i"i*frJrn iir.ou.,v 6il;;;"y work product doctrine or by anyprivilege or protection from disclosrr",.o/"uii*iu a"r"riptio, ,f the basis of the claimedorivilege or protectiJn ;;;';ll i;fb*"ti""l.t.tt".y forthS court and

Plaintifr to assessihe claim of privileg-e r" ""*ro"r." *itlr."ppri""LJ"'r"a"*l and local rules' including:

(a)the rype orno,u*J'it;'it) ;.;;*;i'l ;'bj:$ #;;' ;;il Do'u'n'n" (c) the date ortheDocument; and (d) such other inror*uti'o'i';;-;rffi"ient to identis the Document'including, where appropriate' the autho-r'-a"i;;;' custodian' and any other recipient ofrhe Document, and where not uppur.,i]lt'"*'"iutionship of the author' addressee'custodian, and any other recipient to each other'

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ll. No paragraph of the ltems Subject to Subpoenaother paragraph for purposes of lirnitation.12. The specificity of any request herein shall not

reach ofany other request herein.

shall be construed with reference to any

be construed to limit the generality or

13. Unless otherwise stated, the time period for these Requests shall be March 27,2010 tothe present.

Items Subject to SubPoenal. All Documents Relating To Shirley Sherrod'Z. All Documents Relating To Shirley Sherrod's Speech, including but not limitcd to anyvideo recording, audiJrecording, excerpt, broadcast, blog post, or news afticles ofShirley Sherrod",s Speech and/or about Shirley Sherrod's Speech, and any Alterations or

media response thereto.3. All l)ocuments Relating To the July 19, 2010 Blog Post, including AII DocumentsRelating To or Reflectirig any Alteraiion of the July 19,2010 Blog Post after its initialpublication onfuty lg, fil},- including the addition of the statement "Correction: WhileMs. Sherrod made the remarks captured in the first video featured in this post while sheheld a federally appointed position, the story she tells refers to actions she took before she

held that federal Position."4. AII Documents Relating To or Reflecting any Communication by' between, or amongyou, Andrew Breitbartl Larry O'Connor, John Doe, and/or any employec, officer, orother person acting on uehalf of Breitbart.com, BigGovernment.com, or any otherBreitbart enterprise"Relating To (a) Shirley Sherrod, (b) Shirley Sherrod's Speech, and/or(c) the July 19,2010 BIog Post.5. All Documents Relating To or Reflecting any Communication by, between, or amongyou and any other p..rJ, Relating To (a) Shirley Sherrod, (b) Shirley Sherrod's Speech,

and/or (c) the July 19, 2010 Blog Post.your production of these materials to Thomas Clare at the offices of Clare LockeLLP at902 Prince Street, Alexandria,VA22314 on June 26,2014 at 10:00 a'm' will beexcused if you send copies of the requested materials on or prior to that date and time to:

Alex StegeKirkland & Ellis LLP655 Fifteenth Street N.W.Washington, D.C.20005Telephone: (202) 879-5000Email: [email protected]

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