Cummings v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ( 2021 )

1 ELAINE DEANE, SBN 125439 LAW OFFICES OF GRUNDMAN AND DEANE 2 100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 220 Walnut Creek, California 94596 3 Telephone: (925) 939-1135 Email: Murkeg@aol.com 4 Attorneys for Plaintiff JEANETTE CUMMINGS 5 TIMOTHY L. REED, ESQ., SBN 258034 6 NOAH M. WOO, ESQ., SBN 311123 FORD & HARRISON LLP 7 1901 Harrison Street, Suite 1650 Oakland, California 94612 8 Telephone: (415) 852-6912 Facsimile: (415) 852-6925 9 Email: treed@fordharrison.com Email: nwoo@fordharrison.com 10 Attorneys for Defendants WALMART INC. 11 (erroneously sued as WAL-MART STORES, INC.) and WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 16 JEANETTE CUMMINGS, CASE NO. 2:20-cv-02188-KJM-CKD 17 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 18 vs. 19 WAL-MART STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation, WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, Complaint Filed: December 19, 2019 20 INC., a corporation, AND DOES 1-50, Date of Removal: October 30, 2020 21 Defendants. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 Plaintiff Jeanette Cummings (Plaintiff) and defendants Walmart Inc.1 and Wal-Mart 2 Associates, Inc. (“Defendants”), by and through their respective counsel of record, (collectively 3 “Parties” or when individually referred to “Party”) hereby stipulate and agree to the request for, 4 and entry of, the following Stipulation and Protective Order (the “Protective Order”) in order to 5 facilitate the exchange of information, documents and things which may be subject to 6 confidentiality limitations on disclosure due to federal laws, state laws and privacy rights. 7 Accordingly, the Parties stipulate as follows and petition the Court to enter the following 8 proposed Protective Order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2, 7, and 26, as well as U.S. Dist. Ct., 9 E.D. Cal. L.R. 141, 141.1, 143, and 251 as follows: 10 1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 11 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 12 confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 13 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. 14 Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 15 Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 16 all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure 17 and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 18 under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 19 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 20 information under seal; Eastern District Local Rule 140 and 141 sets forth the procedures that 21 must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the 22 court to file material under seal. 23 2. DEFINITIONS 24 2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 25 information or items under this Order. 26 2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 27 28 1 Walmart Inc. was formerly known as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 1 generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule 2 of Civil Procedure 26(c). 3 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as 4 well as their support staff). 5 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that 6 it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 7 2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 8 medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, 9 testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or 10 responses to discovery in this matter. 11 2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 12 the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 13 consultant in this action. 14 2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. House 15 Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 16 2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 17 entity not named as a Party to this action. 18 2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this 19 action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action 20 on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 21 2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 22 consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 23 2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 24 Material in this action. 25 2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 26 (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and 27 organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and 28 subcontractors. 1 2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 2 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 3 2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 4 Producing Party. 5 3. SCOPE 6 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 7 (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) 8 all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 9 conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 10 However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 11 information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 12 Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as 13 a result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the 14 public record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party 15 prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who 16 obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 17 Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 18 4. DURATION 19 Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by 20 this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court 21 order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 22 claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after 23 the completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 24 including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 25 applicable law. 26 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 27 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party 28 or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care 1 to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. 2 The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents, 3 items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material, 4 documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept 5 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 6 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 7 shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to 8 unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary 9 expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions. 10 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 11 for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other 12 Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 13 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 14 (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 15 Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 16 designated before the material is disclosed or produced. 17 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 18 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 19 excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing 20 Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected material. If only a 21 portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also 22 must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 23 margins). 24 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 25 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which 26 material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all 27 of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the 28 inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party 1 must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. 2 Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 3 “CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or 4 portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 5 identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 6 (b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 7 Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 8 proceeding, all protected testimony. 9 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 10 tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container 11 or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a 12 portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the 13 extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s). 14 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 15 designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 16 right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 17 designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 18 treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 19 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 20 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 21 confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s confidentiality 22 designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic 23 burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to 24 challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 25 original designation is disclosed. 26 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 27 process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis 28 for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written 1 notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this 2 specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in 3 good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 4 forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In 5 conferring, the Challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality 6 designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the 7 designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, 8 to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next 9 stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or 10 establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in 11 a timely manner. 12 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 13 intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 14 Eastern District Local Rule 230 and 251 (and in compliance with Eastern District Local Rules 15 141 and 141.1, if applicable) within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 16 process will not resolve their dispute, or by the first day of trial of this matter, whichever is 17 earlier, unless the parties agree in writing to a longer time. Each such motion must be 18 accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 19 and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. In addition, the Challenging Party 20 may file a motion challenging confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for 21 doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions 22 thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent 23 declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 24 imposed by the preceding paragraph. 25 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 26 Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 27 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to 28 sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 1 file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the 2 material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 3 designation until the court rules on the challenge. 4 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 5 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 6 produced by a Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 7 defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 8 the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 9 been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 10 DISPOSITION). 11 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and 12 in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order. 13 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered 14 by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 15 information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 16 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as well as employees 17 of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information 18 for this litigation; 19 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 20 Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; 21 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 22 reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 23 Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 24 (d) the court and its personnel; 25 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 26 Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 27 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 28 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 1 necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 3 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately 4 bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 5 Stipulated Protective Order. 6 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 7 other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 8 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 9 LITIGATION 10 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 11 disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party 12 must: 13 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 14 copy of the subpoena or court order; 15 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the 16 other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this 17 Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 18 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 19 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 20 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the 21 subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as 22 “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order 23 issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party 24 shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – 25 and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving 26 Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 27 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 28 LITIGATION 1 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 2 action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in 3 connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 4 Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking 5 additional protections. 6 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a Non- 7 Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with 8 the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 9 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some or all of 10 the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party; 11 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order in this 12 litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the 13 information requested; and 14 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 15 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 16 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the 17 Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely 18 seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession 19 or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 20 determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 21 burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 22 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 23 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 24 Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective 25 Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the 26 unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the 27 Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were 28 made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the 1 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 2 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 3 MATERIAL 4 11.1 The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, electronically 5 stored information (ESI) or information, whether inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of the 6 privilege or protection from discovery in this case or in any other federal or state proceeding. 7 11.2 This Order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum protection allowed by 8 Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 502(d) and shall be enforceable and granted full faith and credit 9 in all other state and federal proceedings by 28 U.S. Code § 1738. In the event of any subsequent 10 conflict of law, the law that is most protective of privilege and work product shall apply. 11 11.3 Nothing contained herein is intended to or shall serve to limit a party’s right to 12 conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including metadata) for relevance, 13 responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information before production. 14 11.4 If the receiving party has reason to believe that a produced document or other 15 information may reasonably be subject to a claim of privilege, then the receiving party shall 16 immediately sequester the document or information, cease using the document or information and 17 cease using any work product containing the information, and shall inform the producing party of 18 the beginning BATES number of the document or, if no BATES number is available, shall 19 otherwise inform the producing party of the information. 20 11.5 A producing party must give written notice to any receiving party asserting a claim 21 of privilege, work-product protection, or other ground for reclaiming documents or information (a 22 “clawback request”). After a clawback request is received, the receiving party shall immediately 23 sequester the document (if not already sequestered) and shall not review or use that document, or 24 any work product containing information taken from that document, for any purpose. The parties 25 shall meet and confer regarding any clawback request. 26 11.6 A producing party may withdraw a clawback request for Protected Material upon 27 providing advance written notice to the receiving party. This withdrawal request can be made at 28 any time, up to and during trial. 1 12. MISCELLANEOUS 2 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 3 seek its modification by the court in the future. 4 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective 5 Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 6 information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 7 Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered 8 by this Protective Order. 9 12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party 10 or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in 11 the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 12 Protected Material must comply with Eastern District Local Rule 141 and/or 141.1, to the extent 13 applicable. 14 A Receiving Party shall not publish, release, post, or disseminate Protected Material to 15 any persons except those specifically delineated and authorized by this Stipulation and Order; nor 16 shall a Receiving Party publish, release, leak, post, or disseminate Protected Material/Confidential 17 Documents to any news media, member of the press, website, or public forum except permitted as 18 agreed and under seal. 19 12.4 Breach of System. If there is ever a data breach in the parties’ system that 20 compromises the security and information contained in any Protected Material, the party whose 21 system is breached must notify the other party within 24 hours of the custodial party’s knowledge 22 of the breach and take necessary measures to mitigate any harm that may have resulted from the 23 breach. 24 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 25 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 26 Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 27 material. The Receiving Party must also send written confirmation that the Protected Material 28 was either destroyed or returned to the Producing Party. The Receiving Party, to the extent 1 possible, should furnish necessary proof to the Producing Party that Protected Materials were 2 properly destroyed or returned. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all 3 copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of 4 the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving 5 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or 6 entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where 7 appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the 8 Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other 9 format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 10 Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 11 pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 12 correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and 13 consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such 14 archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective 15 Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 16 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 17 18 Date: April 15, 2021 FORD & HARRISON LLP 19 By: /s/ Noah M. Woo 20 Timothy L. Reed Noah M. Woo 21 Attorneys for Defendants WALMART INC. (erroneously sued as WAL- 22 MART STORES, INC.) and WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 Dated: April 15, 2021 LAW OFFICES OF GRUNDMAN AND DEANE 2 3 By: /s/ Elaine Deane 4 Elaine Deane Attorneys for Plaintiff 5 JEANETTE CUMMINGS 6 SIGNATURE ATTESTATION 7 As required by Local Rules of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, Rule 8 131, the undersigned counsel has received permission, concurrence, and approval from the above- 9 referenced signatories to e-sign this document with a /s/ signature. 10 11 Date: April 15, 2021 FORD & HARRISON LLP 12 By: /s/ Noah M. Woo 13 Timothy L. Reed Noah M. Woo 14 Attorneys for Defendants WALMART INC. (erroneously sued as WAL- 15 MART STORES, INC.) and WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. 16 /// 17 /// 18 /// /// 19 /// /// 20 /// /// 21 /// 22 /// /// 23 /// /// 24 /// /// 25 /// 26 /// /// 27 /// /// 28 1 ORDER 2 The court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, which generally comports 3 || withthe relevant authorities and the court’s applicable local rule. See L.R. 141.1(c);? see also 4 | Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210 (9th Cir. 2002) 5 | (“Generally, the public can gain access to litigation documents and information produced during 6 | discovery unless the party opposing disclosure shows ‘good cause’ why a protective order is 7 || necessary.”). Therefore, the court GRANTS the request subject to the following clarification. 8 This court’s Local Rules indicate that once this action is closed, “unless otherwise 9 | ordered, the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement of the terms of any protective 10 || order filed in that action.” L.R. 141.1(f). Courts in the district generally do not agree to retain 11 | jurisdiction after closure of the case. See, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 12 | WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., Feb. 03, 2017). Based on this rationale, the court will not retain 13 || jurisdiction over this protective order once the action is closed. 14 | Dated: April 15, 2021 fri 4 f +) / , i KM. Let ae Cano Kk. sees ee eee ee ge 15 CAROLYN K. DELANEY 16 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 17 18 19 19, cumm.2188 ——-@— ? The court’s Local Rules instruct the parties, when requesting a protective order, to include in 21 | their submission: 22 (1) A description of the types of information eligible for protection under the order, with the description provided in general terms sufficient to reveal the 3 nature of the information (e.g., customer list, formula for soda, diary of a 24 troubled child); (2) A showing of particularized need for protection as to each category of 25 information proposed to be covered by the order; and (3) A showing as to why the need for protection should be addressed by a court 26 order, as opposed to a private agreement between or among the patties. 27 | Local Rule 141.1(c). The instant protective order makes little effort to address these subjects, but when construed at the broadest level, the court finds the protective order’s contents sufficient to 28 satisfy the court’s Local Rules. & HARRISON -15- STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ 4 [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 5 understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for 6 the Eastern District of California in the case of Jeanette Cummings v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., 7 et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Case No. 2:20-CV-02188- 8 KJM-KJN. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective 9 Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions 10 and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any 11 manner any information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or 12 entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order. 13 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 14 Eastern District of California 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 agent for service of process in connection with this action or any 19 proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 20 21 Date: ______________________________________ 22 City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________ 23 Printed name: _______________________________ 24 Signature: __________________________________ 25 26 27 28