Shirley Garcia et al v. County of Riverside et al
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ORDER APPROVING AMENDED PROTECTIVE ORDER by Magistrate Judge Kenly Kiya Kato re Stipulation for Protective Order 22 (SEE ORDER FOR DETAILS) (dts)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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SHIRLEY GARCIA and ANTHONY ) CASE NO.: 16-cv-01820-TJH-(KKx)
GARCIA, as surviving heirs and
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successor in interest to decedent
) Hon. Terry J. Hatter, Jr.
Joseph Anthony Garcia,
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) AMENDED [PROPOSED]
) PROTECTIVE ORDER RE: PEACE
Plaintiffs,
) OFFICER PERSONNEL FILES
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v.
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) NOTE CHANGES MADE BY THE COURT
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, AARON )
MARTIN, an individual, KRISTINE )
ZANETEL, an individual, SCOTT )
OVERTON, an individual, ADRIAN )
COTOLA, and individual, and DOES )
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Defendants.
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Pursuant to the Parties Stipulation filed on February 8, 2017, IT IS HEREBY ORDERD AS
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A. PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS
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Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or
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private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any
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purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby
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stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties
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acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to
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discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the
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limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal
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principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated
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Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule
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79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a
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party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.
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This action is likely to involve information for which special protection from public
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disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such
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confidential and materials and information consist of, among other things, information contained
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within a peace officer's personnel file, which information may not be disclosed without court order
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under state law, information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be
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privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case
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decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the
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prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect
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information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted
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reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address
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their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such
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information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be
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designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good
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faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good
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cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case.
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DEFINITIONS
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Action: SHIRLEY GARCIA v. COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, Case No.: 16-
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CV-01820-TJH-(KKx).
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Challenging Party: A Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of
information or items under this Order.
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“CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is
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generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of
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Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement.
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Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support
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Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it
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produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”
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Disclosure or Discovery Material:
all items or information, regardless of the
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medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things,
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testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or
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responses to discovery in this matter.
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Expert: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a manner pertinent
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to the litigation who has been retained by a Part or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a
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consultant in this Action.
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House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. House
Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.
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Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or other legal
entity not named as a Party to this action.
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Outside Counsel of Record: Attorneys who are not employees of a party to this
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Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have appeared in this
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Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that
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party, and includes support staff.
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Party: Any part to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,
consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs).
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Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery
Material in this Action.
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Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support services
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(e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing,
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storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors.
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Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as
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Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material form a
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Producing Party.
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The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material
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(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Materials; (2)
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all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony,
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conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material.
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Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the trial judge.
This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.
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Once a case proceeds to trial, all of the information that was designated as confidential or
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maintained pursuant to this protective order becomes public and will be presumptively available to
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all members of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by specific
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factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance of the trial. See
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Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180-81 (9th Cir. 2006) (distinguishing
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“good cause” showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from “compelling reasons”
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standard when merits-related documents are part of court record). Accordingly, the terms of this
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protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of trial.
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Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this
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Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order
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otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims
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and defenses in this Action, with or without prejudice, and (2) final judgment herein after the
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completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials or reviews of this Action,
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including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to
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applicable law.
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DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL
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Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party
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or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to
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limit any such designation to specific material that qualified under the appropriate standards. The
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Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, items or
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oral or written communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items
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or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the
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ambit of this Order.
Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited.
Designations that are
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shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to
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unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and
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burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating Party to sanctions.
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If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for
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protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other
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Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.
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5.2 Manner and Timing of Designation. Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see,
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e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or
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Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated
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before the material is disclosed or produced.
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Designation in conformity with this Order requires:
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for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but
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excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party
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affix at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to
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each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page
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qualified for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s)(e.g.,
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by making appropriate markings in the margins).
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A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection need not
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designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents it
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would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the
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material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting
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Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must
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determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then,
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before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL
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legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material
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on a page qualified for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected
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portions(s)(e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).
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for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identify the Disclosure
or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition all protected testimony.
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for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other
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tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container
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or containers in which the information is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion
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or portions of the information warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable,
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shall identify the protected portion(s).
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Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to
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designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s
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right to secure protection under this Order for such materials.
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designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated
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in accordance with the provisions of this Order.
Upon timely correction of a
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CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS
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Timing of Challenge. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of
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confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order.
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Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process
under Local Rule 37.1 et seq.
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The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceedings shall be on the
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Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass
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or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to
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sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation,
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all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is
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entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the challenge.
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ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
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Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or
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produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this Action only for prosecuting,
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defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the
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categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been
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terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL
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DISPOSITION).
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Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in
a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.
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7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by
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the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any
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information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:
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The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well as
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employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the
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information for this Action;
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The officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the
Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;
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Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure
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is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement
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to be Bound” (Exhibit A);
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The court and its personnel;
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Court reporters and their staff;
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Professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors and Professional Vendors
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to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the
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“Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound” (Exhibit A);
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The author or recipient of a document containing the information or a
custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;
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During their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the
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Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party requests that
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the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit 1 hereto hereto; and (2) they will not be permitted to
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keep any confidential information unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to be
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Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court.
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Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material
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may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as
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permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and
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agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.
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any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, mutually
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PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN
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If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels
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disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party
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must:
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Promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a
copy of the subpoena or court order.
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Promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue int
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eh other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to
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this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order;
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Cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the
Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.
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If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena
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or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL”
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before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has
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obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and
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expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these
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provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action to
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disobey a lawful directive from another court.
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A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED
IN THIS LITIGATION
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The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in
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this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in
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connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order.
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Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking
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additional protections.
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In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non-
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Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the
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Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall:
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Promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some
or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party.
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Promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective
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Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the
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information requested; and
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Make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party, if
If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 14 days of
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receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the Non-
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Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks
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a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce3 any information in its possession or
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control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination
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by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense
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of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.
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If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected
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Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective
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Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the
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unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected
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Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the
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terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and
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Agreement to be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL
INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE
PROTECTED MATERIAL
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When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently
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produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the
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Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B).
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provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order
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that provides for production without prior privilege review.
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Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a
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communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection,
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the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the
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court.
This
Pursuant 6to Federal Rules of
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Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to
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seek its modification by the Court in the future.
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Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective
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Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any
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information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no
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Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by
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this Protective Order.
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Filing Protect Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material
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must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant
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to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party’s
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request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may
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file the information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.
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After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 days of a
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written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material
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to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, "all Protected
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Material" includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries and any other format reproducing
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or capturing any of the Protected Material.
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destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if
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not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies
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(by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned destroyed and (2)
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affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or
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any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this
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provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial,
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deposition and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits,
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expert rep01ts, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such
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materials contain Protected Material.
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Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).
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Whether the Protected Material is returned or
Any such archival copies that contain or constituted
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including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.
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The Protective Order is GRANTED.
IT IS SO ORDERED
Dated: February 13, 2017
HON. KENLY KIYA KATO
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
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I, _________________________[print or type full name], of __________________, [print
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or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and
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understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for
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the Central District of California on [date] in the case of [insert formal name of the case and the
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case number]. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the te1ms of this Stipulated
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Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to
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sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in
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any manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any
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person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.
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I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the
Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective
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Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. I hereby
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appoint
[print or type full name] of_________, [print or type full address] as my California
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agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to
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enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.
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Date:
City and State where sworn and signed: ______________________________________
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Printed name: _________________________________________
Signature: ____________________________________________
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