L'Heureux v. BJ's Restaurant Operations Company ( 2024 )

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Nevada State Bar No. 13484 3 BACKUS | BURDEN 3050 South Durango Drive 4 Las Vegas, NV 89117 T: (702) 872-5555 5 F: (702) 872-5545 jburden@backuslaw.com 6 jacquelynfranco@backuslaw.com Attorneys for Defendant 7 BJ’s Restaurant Operations Company 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEVADA 9 TRACY L’HEUREUX, 10 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK Plaintiff, 11 vs. 12 BJ’S RESTAURANTS OPERATIONS 13 COMPANY d/b/a BJ’S RESTAURANT & BREWHOUSE; DOES I through X; DOE 14 EMPLOYEES I through X; and ROE ENTITITES I through X, inclusive. 15 Defendants. 16 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 17 18 It is being represented to the Court that Defendant BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company, seeks to disclose documents which may involve trade secrets, confidential research, proprietary 19 materials, development and/or commercial information belonging to BJ’s Restaurants Operations 20 Company. 21 Further, BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company is willing to provide these documents for 22 inspection, review and copying only under a Protective Order upon the hereinafter stated terms and 23 conditions. It being represented to the Court that all of the parties are in agreement as to the terms of the 24 said Protective Order; therefore: 1 Case No. 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK 2 It is hereby ORDERED: 3 1. BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company will disclose documents that it designates 4 “Confidential and Proprietary” (meaning they may involve trade secrets, confidential 5 research, proprietary research, proprietary materials and/or development and/or 6 commercial information) to the parties to this suit and their attorneys, only pursuant to this Order and under the conditions that follow. With respect to said documents being 7 designated as “Confidential and Proprietary”, BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company 8 bears the burden of showing good cause why the document contains confidential 9 information which may be set forth in a log and/or set forth in BJ’s Restaurants 10 Operations Company’s disclosure of documents. In designating information or items marked as for protection under this Order, BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company must 11 take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the 12 appropriate standards. 13 2. Any and all of the aforesaid materials disclosed by BJ’s Restaurants Operations 14 Company and the contents thereof shall be maintained in confidence by counsel for 15 Plaintiff to the above-captioned litigation. After their production, the aforesaid materials shall maintain protection and must fully comply with the provisions below. 16 3. Any and all of the aforesaid materials disclosed by BJ’s Restaurants Operations 17 Company and the contents thereof shall be used only in connection with the above- 18 captioned matter and shall not be used for any other purpose whatsoever. 19 4. No person who examines any document produced pursuant to this Order shall 20 disseminate orally, in writing, or by any other means, the document(s) or the information contained therein, to any person not also authorized to examine documents under the 21 terms of this order. Persons authorized to examine documents include counsel, counsel’s 22 staff, the parties, and experts. 23 . . . . 24 . . . . . . . . 1 Case No. 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK 2 5. Counsel for Plaintiff may permit Plaintiff and any expert(s) or consultant(s) hired by 3 Plaintiff to review the documents subject to this Protective Order, but counsel for 4 Plaintiff must first obtain from Plaintiff and said expert(s) and/or consultant(s) a written 5 statement confirming their agreement to comply with every element of this Protective Order. A copy of this Non-Disclosure Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 6 Plaintiff and said experts shall agree that the documents and the contents thereof shall 7 not be disclosed to any other person or entity and said documents shall not be 8 photocopied or reproduced by any means, except for use in association with this lawsuit. 9 Any documents provided to experts or consultants must be returned to counsel for BJ’s 10 Restaurants Operations Company or destroyed within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the above-captioned litigation pursuant to the terms of Paragraph 9 below. Both 11 consulting and testifying experts may review the documents in accordance with the terms 12 of this paragraph, which paragraph does not alter the applicable disclosure requirements 13 and/or privileges. 14 6. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, this Order shall be without prejudice to the 15 right of any party to challenge the propriety of discovery on any grounds including, but not limited to, relevance, privilege, and materiality. 16 7. The inadvertent production of documents or material not designated Confidential and 17 Proprietary will not be deemed a waiver of BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company’s right 18 to so designate such documents or material or to seek such other confidential treatment 19 as may be appropriate. The inadvertent failure to designate such documents or material Confidential and Proprietary shall be corrected by supplemental written notice to the 20 receiving party as soon as practicable, and the receiving party shall make all reasonable 21 efforts to retrieve all copies, if any, of such documents disclosed to any persons not 22 otherwise entitled to view confidential material and to prevent further use or disclosure 23 of Confidential and Proprietary information contained therein by any such persons. 24 1 Case No. 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK 2 8. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the parties shall separately confer regarding 3 the use of Confidential Material at trial and at any hearing, and to the extent an 4 agreement cannot be reached, the Court shall intervene. A party seeking to file a See ord e5r issued confidential document, with any appropriate redactions, under seal must file a motion concurrently herewith to seal and must comply with the Ninth Circuit’s directives in Kamakana v. City and 7 County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2006 and Pintos v. Pacific Creditors 8 Association, 605 F.3d 665, 678 (9th Cir. 2010)). Documents must be filed under seal using the Court’s electronic filing procedures. See Local Rule IA 10-5. Papers filed with 9 the Court under seal must be accompanied with a concurrently filed motion for leave to 10 file those documents under seal. See Local Rule IA 10-5(a). 11 9. The parties understand that the Court will maintain the Confidential Material it receives 12 pursuant to paragraph 8 above under seal in accordance with the local and governing 13 laws and rules. 14 10. If a party challenges the designation of any disclosure marked “Confidential and Proprietary” pursuant to this Protective Order, the challenging party shall provide the 15 designating party written notice of any such challenge and shall identify in such notice 16 the bates number of the documents and/or the deposition transcript at issue. The parties 17 shall make good faith efforts to resolve the dispute. The party defending the designation 18 shall have the burden of demonstrating to the Court that the designation is proper under 19 this Protective Order. If the parties cannot resolve their dispute, it may be submitted to the Court for determination. The confidential information in controversy shall not be 20 disclosed or declassified until required by the Court upon written order, or as agreed in 21 writing by the party who designated the information. If the Court determines that the 22 designation or challenge to such designation was made in bad faith, it may award 23 sanctions. 11. At the conclusion of this lawsuit by settlement, a jury verdict, nonsuit, dismissal, by 24 judgment order or otherwise, all BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company’s materials and | STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 2 Case No. 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK 3 . . . ws . documents, including any and all copies, or renditions made from the materials, must be 4 returned to counsel for BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company or destroyed within thirty 5 (30) days of the conclusion of the above-captioned litigation. 6 12. A breach of the terms of this Order shall entitle counsel for BJ’s Restaurants Operations Company to appropriate sanctions, including but not limited to attorney’s fees and costs 4 incurred in the enforcement of this Order. 8 9 || ITIS SO STIPULATED and agreed as to the terms and conditions of this Protective Order. 10 /s/ Alyssa N. Piraino /s/ Jacquelyn Franco Jacob S. Smith, Esq. Jack P. Burden, Esq. Alyssa N. Piraino, Esq. Jacquelyn Franco, Esq. 12 HENNESS & HAIGHT BACKUS | BURDEN 8972 Spanish Ridge Avenue 3050 South Durango Drive 13 Las Vegas, Nevada 89148 Las Vegas, NV 89117 T: 702.826.8500 Tel.: (702) 872-5555 1411 FB: 702.862.8204 Fax: (702) 872-5545 alyssa@hennessandhaight.com Email: jackburden @backuslaw.com 15 Counsel for Plaintiff Tracy L’Heureux Counsel for Defendant BJ’s Restaurants 16 Operations Company, INC 17 18 19 IT IS SO ORDERED. 20 DATED June 6, 2024 21 22 A, S — a 54 United State agistrate Judge 24 25 1 CSTaIsPeU NLoA.T 2E:2D4 P-cRvO-0T0E0C5T1I-VAER OTR-NDJEKR 2 EXHIBIT A: NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT 3 I, ____________________ (Print Name), being of full age, certify that I have read the 4 Stipulated Protective Order entered in the case entitled, Tracy L’Heureux v. BJ’s Restaurant 5 Operations Company, having Case No. Case No. 2:24-cv-00051-ART-NJK, filed in the United 6 States District Court in and for District of Nevada, and agree to be bound by its terms; to maintain that information designated as “Confidential and Proprietary” in confidence; not to use or disclose 7 information designated as “Confidential and Proprietary” to anyone other than counsel for the 8 parties involved in the action, parties involved in the action or any other expert or consultant that 9 has also executed the Non-Disclosure Agreement; and not to use any documents or information protected by the Stipulated Protective Order except in connection with this case, provided that 10 nothing shall prevent disclosure beyond the terms of this Order if the party claiming confidentiality 11 consents in writing prior to disclosure. I understand that any documents provided to me must be returned to counsel for BJ’s 12 Restaurants Operations Company or destroyed, within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the 13 above-captioned litigation pursuant to the terms of Paragraph 11 of the Stipulated Protective Order. 14 To effectuate my compliance with this Order, I further submit myself to the personal and subject matter jurisdiction of the United States District Court in and for District of Nevada, in this 15 action. 16 I certify that the foregoing statements made by me are true. I am aware that if any of the 17 foregoing statements made by me are willfully false, I am subject to punishment. 18 ____________________________ 19 Signature 20 ____________________________ 21 Print Name 22 ____________________________ 23 Address 24