Simms v. DNC Parks & Resorts at Tenaya, Inc. et al

Filing 32

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Sandra M. Snyder on 3/4/2015. (Rooney, M)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 Heather Appleton, Esq. (SBN 162283) happleton@appletonlg.com Cherryl F. Cercado, Esq. (SBN 249990) ccercado@appletonlg.com APPLETON LAW GROUP, APC 2101 Rosecrans Avenue, Suite 4240 El Segundo, California 90245 Telephone: (310) 474-7022 Facsimile: (310) 474-7023 Attorneys for Plaintiff Timothy Simms 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Joshua A. Rodine, Esq. (SBN 237774) SEYFARTH SHAW, LLP 2029 Century Park East, Suite 3500 Los Angeles, California 90067 Telephone: (310) 27-7200 Facsimile: (310) 201-5219 Attorneys for Defendants DNC PARKS & RESORTS AT TENAYA, INC.; DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES PARKS & RESORTS, INC.; and DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES, INCORPORATED 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – FRESNO DIVISION 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) DNC PARKS & RESORTS AT ) TENAYA, INC, a Delaware ) corporation; DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES PARKS & RESORTS ) ) INC., a Delaware Corporation; DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES, ) ) INCORPORATED, a Delaware ) Corporation; and DOES 1-50, ) inclusive, ) ) Defendants. ) ) TIMOTHY SIMMS, CASE NO.: 1:13-CV-2075-SMS CASE FILED: 12/20/13 ASSIGNED FOR ALL PURPOSES TO HON. SANDRA M. SNYDER STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Order Concurrently Filed Herewith TRIAL DATE: 7/6/15 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Defendants DNC Parks & 2 Resorts at Tenaya, Inc., Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, Inc., and 3 Delaware North Companies, Incorporated (collectively, “Defendants”) and 4 Plaintiff Timothy Simms (“Plaintiff”) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the 5 “Parties”), through their respective counsel of record, that a Protective Order be 6 entered by this Court as follows: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 This Stipulation and Protective Order shall be applicable to and shall apply to the production and exchange of all document requests and documents, interrogatories and answers to interrogatories, depositions, requests for admission and responses to requests for admission, exhibits, and pleadings and all other information exchanged and furnished in this action by the Parties that the Parties customarily treat as confidential, private, proprietary, and/or a trade secret as defined by California Civil Code Section 3426.1. 1. SCOPE (a) The Parties acknowledge that discovery may require disclosure of information that is private and personal or confidential and proprietary, specifically personnel records, personnel policies, employment offers, competitive analyses, income statements, employee, client, or customer personal information (including, but not limited to medical, social security number and contact information), medical records, and financial records and statements, along with other trade secret information as defined in California Civil Code Section 3426.1. As a result, the Parties agree to enter into a Protective Order on the following terms to ensure the continuing confidentiality of such information. The Parties further acknowledge that this Protective Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 2 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 (b) This Protective Order shall limit the use or disclosure of documents, 2 deposition testimony, and related information which are or which embody or 3 disclose any information falling with the scope of Paragraph (1)(a) and designated 4 hereunder as “Confidential,” and shall apply to: 5 (i) All such documents, including those produced by third parties, 6 designated as “Confidential” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order 7 and the applicable legal standards; 8 9 (ii) thereto which include, refer or relate to any Confidential Information; 10 11 Portions of deposition testimony and transcripts and exhibits (iii) All information, copies, extracts and complete or partial summaries prepared or derived from Confidential Information; and 12 (iv) Portions of briefs, memoranda or any writing filed with or 13 otherwise supplied to the Court, which include or refer to any such Confidential 14 Information. 15 (c) Any person designating documents, testimony, or other information as 16 “Confidential” hereunder asserts that he or she believes in good faith that such 17 material is Confidential Information which falls within the scope of Paragraph 18 (1)(a) and is not otherwise available to the public generally. Each Party or non- 19 party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take 20 care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 21 appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for 22 protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written 23 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, 24 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept 25 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 26 2. DESIGNATION OF DOCUMENTS AND DEPOSITIONS 27 (a) Designation of a document as “Confidential” shall be made by 28 stamping or writing CONFIDENTIAL on the document(s). Alternatively, the STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 3 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 Parties may designate documents as “Confidential” by producing the documents 2 with a letter designating the documents by Bates number as “Confidential.” The 3 Parties shall make all reasonable effort to designate as “Confidential” only those 4 documents that they reasonably believe constitute personnel records, personnel 5 policies, employment offers, competitive analyses, income statements, employee, 6 client or customer personal information, medical records, financial records and 7 statements, and trade secret information as defined in California Civil Code 8 Section 3426.1. The failure to designate documents as “Confidential” at the time 9 of production shall not constitute a waiver of the protection of this Order and any 10 Party may, at any time up to 30 days before the actual trial date in this action, 11 designate any documents or information produced as “Confidential” that have not 12 as yet been so designated. Stamping the legend “Confidential” on the cover of any 13 multi-page document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential, 14 unless otherwise indicated by the Designating Party, but only if the entire 15 document is produced in a bound or otherwise intact manner. 16 (b) Designation of a deposition or other pretrial testimony, or portions 17 thereof, as “Confidential” shall be made by a statement on the record by counsel 18 for the Party or other person making the claim of confidentiality at the time of such 19 testimony. The portions of depositions so designated as “Confidential” shall be 20 taken only in the presence of persons qualified to receive such information 21 pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order: the Parties and their attorneys and 22 staff, the court reporter, videographer, the deponent, and the deponent’s attorney. 23 Failure of any other person to comply with a request to leave the deposition room 24 will constitute sufficient justification for the witness to refuse to answer any 25 question calling for disclosure of Confidential Information so long as persons are 26 in attendance who are not entitled by this Protective Order to have access to such 27 information. In order to designate material as Confidential Information, the Parties 28 may, but need not, instruct the court reporter to segregate such portions of the STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 4 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 deposition in a separate transcript designated as “Confidential.” Portions of such 2 deposition transcripts shall be clearly marked as “Confidential” on the cover or on 3 each page, as appropriate. 4 (c) Any Party may designate documents produced or portions of 5 depositions taken as containing Confidential Information even if not initially 6 marked as “Confidential” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order by 7 so advising counsel for each Party in writing and by reproducing said documents 8 with the required confidential designation. Thereafter, each such document or 9 transcript shall be treated in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order; 10 provided, however, that there shall be no liability for any disclosure or use of such 11 documents or transcripts, or the Confidential Information contained therein, which 12 occurred prior to actual receipt of such written notice. Any person who receives 13 actual notice of any such designation of previously produced documents or 14 deposition transcripts as containing Confidential Information shall thereafter treat 15 such information as if it had been designated as “Confidential” at the time he, she, 16 or it first received it in connection with this matter. 17 (d) Inadvertent failure to designate Confidential Information shall not be 18 construed as a waiver, in whole or in part, and may be corrected by the producing 19 party by designating documents produced or portions of depositions taken as 20 containing Confidential Information, even if not initially marked as “Confidential,” 21 in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order and, specifically, Paragraph 22 2(c) above. 23 3. 24 25 LIMITATIONS ON DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION (a) No Confidential Information shall be disclosed by anyone receiving 26 such information to anyone other than those persons designated herein. In no 27 event shall Confidential Information be used, either directly or indirectly, by 28 anyone receiving such information for any business, commercial or competitive STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 5 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 purpose or for any purpose whatsoever other than the direct furtherance of the 2 litigation of this action in accordance with the provisions of this Protective Order. 3 (b) Confidential Information shall not be disclosed by any person who has 4 received such information through discovery in this action to any other person, 5 except to: 6 (i) The Parties; 7 (ii) Attorneys of record for the Parties and their firms’ associates, 8 clerks and other employees involved in the conduct of this litigation, and any court 9 reporters, videographers, or interpreters engaged to assist the parties in discovery; 10 (iii) DNC Parks & Resorts at Tenaya, Inc., Delaware North Parks & 11 Resorts, Inc. and Delaware North Companies, Incorporated, their subsidiaries’, or 12 their affiliates’ in-house counsel; 13 (iv) Non-party experts and consultants engaged by counsel for the 14 purpose of preparing or assisting in this litigation, and those experts’ respective 15 clerks and employees involved in assisting them in this litigation, to the extent 16 deemed necessary by counsel; 17 (v) The Court, its officers, court reporters and similar personnel, 18 provided further that Confidential Information lodged with the Court under seal is 19 subject to further evaluation by the Court; 20 (vi) Any person as to which it is apparent from the face of a 21 document was either an author, recipient, had knowledge of the contents therein, or 22 was otherwise entitled to view the Confidential Information prior to the intended 23 disclosure in this action; and 24 (vii) Any other potential witnesses whose testimony may be used in 25 connection with the present case who has complied with Paragraph 3(c) 26 immediately below. 27 28 (c) Before any person described in Paragraphs 3(b)(iv) and (vii) receives or is shown any document or information which has been designated as STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 6 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 Confidential, such person shall be given a copy of this Protective Order and shall 2 agree in writing, in the form of the Acknowledgment and Agreement attached 3 hereto as Exhibit A, to be bound by the terms hereof. The original of each such 4 Acknowledgment and Agreement shall be maintained by counsel and, if a witness 5 appears at deposition or at trial and represents that he or she previously executed 6 an Acknowledgment, it shall be produced for inspection by opposing counsel upon 7 request. Any counsel may require the other counsel to provide a copy of the 8 Acknowledgment and Agreement signed by a witness at a deposition before the 9 witness is deposed with regard to any Confidential Information. 10 (d) Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed to require 11 execution of the written Acknowledgment and Agreement referred to in Paragraph 12 3(c) above, or to prevent disclosure of Confidential Information, by the party 13 producing and designating such Confidential Information, or by any employee of 14 such party. 15 (e) The substance or content of Confidential Information, as well as all 16 notes and memoranda relating thereto, shall not be disclosed to anyone other than 17 as set forth in Paragraphs 3(b)(i)-(vii) above. 18 4. FILING DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL 19 (a) If a Party wishes to submit a document to the Court which the other 20 Party has designated as Confidential or which contains Confidential Information 21 and which has not been successfully challenged under Paragraph 5 below, the 22 submitting Party shall notify the Designating Party of the exact material which the 23 Party intends to submit to the Court at least 7 days prior, so as to provide the 24 Designating Party sufficient time to determine whether it needs to bring a motion 25 ordering that the material be filed under seal. Any such motion must comply with 26 the procedures set forth in Local Rules 230 and 141 and must also comply with 27 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1). The written application and proposed 28 order shall be presented to the Court along with the document intended to be STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 7 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 submitted for filing under seal. The original and Court’s copy of the document 2 shall be sealed in separate envelopes with a copy of the title page attached to the 3 front of each envelope. If only a portion of the document is sealable, then both the 4 copy lodged with the Clerk and the Court’s copy shall have the sealable portions 5 identified by notation or highlighting of the text. 6 The Application and Order to Seal, along with the material to be placed 7 under seal, shall not be electronically filed but shall be filed manually in the 8 manner prescribed by Local Rules 230 and 141. A Notice of Manual Filing shall 9 also be electronically filed, identifying all materials being manually filed. 10 (b) Any Party requesting that a record be filed under seal must comply 11 with Local Rule 141. The Parties agree and recognize that Confidential 12 Information or any paper containing Confidential Information cannot be filed 13 under seal based solely upon this stipulated Protective Order. 14 5. 15 Any Party that wishes to challenge the designation of a document or other CHALLENGE TO CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATION 16 information as “Confidential” must identify the documents or information for 17 which it is challenging the designation within 30 days after production, and explain 18 to the Designating Party the basis for the objection. The Designating Party will 19 have 15 days to provide a written response. The Designating Party may, for good 20 cause shown, bring a motion before the Court requesting that the Court confirm the 21 designation of any document or information as “Confidential.” The Party asserting 22 the designation as “Confidential” shall have the burden of establishing good cause 23 for the designation. However, the Court shall be authorized to award the moving 24 party attorneys’ fees as a sanction if the challenge to the “Confidential” 25 designation was made in bad faith or was frivolous. The interested parties or other 26 persons shall attempt to resolve such disagreements before submitting them to the 27 Court pursuant to Local Rule 251(b). Pending resolution of any dispute 28 concerning such designation, all parties and persons governed by this Protective STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 8 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 Order shall treat all documents and information previously designated as 2 “Confidential” as protected from further disclosure by this Protective Order. 3 6. SURVIVAL OF ORDER - RETURN OF DOCUMENTS 4 (a) The provisions of this Order shall continue in effect until otherwise 5 ordered by the Court, or after notice and an opportunity to be heard is afforded to 6 the parties to this action. The final determination or settlement of this action shall 7 not relieve any person who has received Confidential Information or agreed to be 8 bound by the terms of this Protective Order of his, her, or its obligations under this 9 stipulation and Order. The Court shall retain jurisdiction after such final 10 determination or settlement to enforce the provisions of this Order. Upon 11 completion of the litigation, all documents (including copies of documents) 12 containing Confidential Information shall be destroyed or returned to counsel for 13 the producing party, except that (a) documents on which any person has made 14 notations may be destroyed and not returned, and (b) the Parties’ respective 15 attorneys of record may retain one copy of each such document for use in 16 connection with any disputes which may arise under the Court’s retention of 17 jurisdiction as provided for herein. Within sixty days (60) of the conclusion of this 18 litigation, the attorneys for the receiving party shall provide the attorneys for the 19 producing party a certificate representing that such return or destruction was made. 20 (b) Except as provided in Paragraphs 4 or 6 hereof, documents or things 21 containing the other party’s Confidential Information shall at all times be in the 22 physical possession of those persons qualifying under Paragraph 3 hereunder, or 23 kept by counsel of record at the premises regularly maintained by such counsel of 24 record as and for their respective law offices. 25 7. 26 This Stipulation and Protective Order, except as provided in Paragraph 4, USE OF DOCUMENTS AT TRIAL 27 shall not apply to information designated or marked Confidential hereunder which 28 is used at any evidentiary hearing or trial in this action. The Parties hereby reserve STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 9 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 their rights to use, or seek to limit the disclosure of, confidential information at any 2 such hearing or trial. 3 8. 4 Nothing in this Protective Order shall limit the use by any Party, person or USE OF OWN DOCUMENTS BY PRODUCING PARTY 5 entity of his, her, or its own document or information for legitimate business 6 purposes unrelated to this litigation, even if such documents or information have 7 been designated as “Confidential.” 8 9. APPLICATIONS TO COURT 9 (a) This Protective Order shall not preclude or limit any Party’s right to 10 oppose or object to discovery on any ground which would be otherwise available. 11 This Protective Order shall not preclude or limit any Party’s right to seek in 12 camera review or to seek further and additional protection against or limitation 13 upon production or dissemination of information produced in response to 14 discovery, including documents and their contents. 15 (b) Any person to or by whom disclosure or inspection is made in 16 violation of this Protective Order, and who has knowledge of this Protective Order, 17 shall be bound by the terms hereof. 18 (c) The Parties hereto, and all other persons who receive Confidential 19 Information pursuant hereto, agree that any Party or other person injured by a 20 violation of this Order does not have an adequate remedy at law and that an 21 injunction against such violation is an appropriate remedy. In the event any person 22 shall violate or threaten to violate any terms of this Protective Order, the Parties 23 agree that the aggrieved party may immediately apply to obtain injunctive relief 24 against any such person. In the event the aggrieved party shall do so, the 25 responding person subject to the provisions of this Order shall not employ as a 26 defense thereto the claim that the aggrieved party has an adequate remedy at law. 27 Any persons subject to the terms of this Order agree that the Court shall retain 28 jurisdiction over it and them for the purposes of enforcing this Order, including but STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 10 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 not limited to issuing an injunction. In addition to injunctive relief, as specified 2 herein, the Court may impose monetary and/or issue sanctions, as well as other 3 relief deemed appropriate under the circumstances for a violation of this Protective 4 Order. 5 (d) If any deponent required under the terms of this Protective Order to 6 execute the written Acknowledgment and Agreement described in Paragraph 3(c) 7 above refuses to do so, the Parties may complete the deposition on other matters 8 and/or adjourn it and move the Court for any appropriate relief, including (without 9 limitation) relief from this Protective Order as to that deponent, or an order that the 10 deponent shall execute the written agreement described in Paragraph 3(c) above, or 11 an order that deponent shall be bound by the terms of this Protective Order. Any 12 non-party whose Confidential Information is the subject of such a motion shall be 13 given notice thereof. 14 10. 15 The Parties hereto and their respective attorneys of record agree that, when 16 one Party’s attorney requests a deponent to sign the written Acknowledgment and 17 Agreement described in Paragraph 3(c) above, the other Party’s attorney will join 18 in such request, unless that attorney has a good faith basis for refusing to join in 19 such a request; provided, however, that this requirement shall not apply with 20 respect to any deponent who is represented at his or her deposition by an attorney 21 of record for any Party hereto (including any member or associate of their 22 respective law firms). An attorney’s request to sign such Acknowledgment 23 pursuant to this Paragraph shall not be construed to constitute legal advice to the 24 deponent, but shall and may be stated to be simply a request to facilitate discovery 25 in this action. AGREEMENT TO COOPERATE 26 11. 27 Neither entering into this Stipulation for Protective Order, nor receiving any 28 documents or other information designated as “Confidential” shall be construed as NO ADMISSIONS STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 11 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 an agreement or admission: (1) that any document or information designated as 2 “Confidential” is in fact Confidential Information; (2) as to the correctness or truth 3 of any allegation made or position taken relative to any matter designated as 4 “Confidential”; or (3) as to the authenticity, competency, relevancy or materiality 5 of any information or document designated as “Confidential.” 6 12. 7 8 NO WAIVER OF PRIVILEGES OR OBJECTIONS TO ADMISSIBILITY Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed as requiring disclosure of 9 Confidential Information, including, but not limited to, materials subject to 10 protection under the attorney-client privilege and/or attorney work product 11 doctrine, the trade secrets privilege, or under any other applicable privileges or 12 rights of privacy, or requiring disclosure of Confidential Information that is 13 otherwise beyond the scope of permissible discovery. Further, nothing in this 14 Protective Order shall be construed as a waiver by a Party of any objections that 15 might be raised as to the admissibility at trial of any evidentiary materials. 16 13. 17 If any Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than in the DISCLOSURE IN VIOLATION OF ORDER 18 manner authorized by this Protective Order, the party responsible for the disclosure 19 must immediately, in writing, notify the opposing party and the Designating Party 20 of all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure, and without prejudice to the rights 21 and remedies of the Designating Party, make every effort to prevent further 22 unauthorized disclosure. 23 14. 24 Nothing contained herein shall preclude any Party from seeking from a 25 Court modification of this Stipulated Protective Order upon proper notice, nor shall 26 anything contained herein be construed as to preclude the Parties from entering 27 into other written agreements designed to protect Confidential Information. 28 MODIFICATION - FURTHER AGREEMENTS /// STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 12 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 15. 2 This Stipulation for Protective Order may be executed in counterparts, each COUNTERPARTS 3 of which shall be deemed an original and which together shall constitute one 4 instrument. 5 6 7 8 DATED: March 3, 2015 APPLETON LAW GROUP, APC 9 10 11 12 By: 13 14 /s/ Cherryl F. Cercado CHERRYL F. CERCADO Attorneys for Plaintiff Timothy Simms 15 16 17 DATED: March 3, 2015 SEYFARTH SHAW LLP 18 19 By: 20 21 22 23 24 /s/ Joshua A. Rodine JOSHUA A. RODINE Attorneys for Defendants Defendants DNC Parks & Resorts at Tenaya, Inc.; Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, Inc.; and Delaware North Companies, Incorporated 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 13 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF PROTECTIVE ORDER 3 REGARDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 4 AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND THEREBY 5 6 I hereby acknowledge receipt of and that I have read a copy of the 7 Stipulation for Protective Order and Order (the “Order”), which I understand was 8 made on _________________, 2015, in the action entitled TIMOTHY SIMMS v. 9 DNC PARKS & RESORTS AT TENAYA, INC., ET AL., Case No. 1:13-CV- 10 2075-SMS, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. I 11 agree that I will be bound by the provisions of the Order with respect to any 12 Confidential Information provided to me under the terms thereof. I agree that, if I 13 receive any Confidential Information, I will not make any copies thereof nor 14 disclose such Confidential Information except as permitted by the Order. I further 15 understand that if I fail to comply with the terms of the Order, I may be subject to 16 sanctions by the Court, and I hereby consent to personal jurisdiction in the State of 17 California with respect to any matter relating to or arising out of the Order. 18 19 Executed this _____day of ________, 20___ at ______________________, 20 ____________________________. 21 22 Name: 23 Affiliation: 24 Address: 25 26 27 Telephone Number: 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 14 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC} 1 2 3 4 ORDER GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby approves this Stipulation and Protective Order. IT IS SO ORDERED. 5 6 Dated: 3/4/2015 /s/ SANDRA M. SNYDER UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 15 {Client Files/SIMM01/001/00058245.DOC}

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