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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

* * *

KATHERINE COZAD, an individual, residing 

in California,

Plaintiff,

 vs.

ASTRAZENECA LP, a Delaware Limited 

Partnership, registered to do business in 

California; and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-cv-02049 SKO

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Magistrate Judge: Sheila K. Oberto 

Purposes and Limitations. Disclosure and discovery activity in this action 

are likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which 

special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting 

this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition 

the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that 

protection it affords extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the 

applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as 

set forth in Section 10 below, that this Stipulated Protective Order creates no entitlement to 

file confidential information under seal and that the parties will comply with all applicable 

local rules in the filing of such confidential information under seal.

The purpose of this protective order is to protect the privacy interests of the Plaintiff, 

Katherine Cozad, which include, but are not limited to her personnel medical records and 

other testimony and/or evidence pertaining to her personal and family life. Furthermore, this 

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protective order is necessary to protect Plaintiff’s interest in maintaining the confidentiality of 

a settlement with a third-party, which is related to this action, and mandates Plaintiff make 

reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of the details of that settlement.

Without this protective order, it is possible that confidential private details of the 

Plaintiff’s personal life will be made public, and it is possible that information that is deemed 

confidential via a third-party settlement agreement in a related action is made public. 

This protective order is filed with the Court, as the Parties may need the assistance of 

the Court in determining the appropriate scope of the application of the “Confidential” label, 

and to resolve other disputes pertaining to the scope of the protective order. As the protective 

order covers materials and topics that overlap with the current matter, the Parties request that 

this Protective Order be filed with and interpreted by the Court.

1. Definitions. 

2.1 Party: Any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts and outside counsel (and their support staff).

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner generated, stored or maintained (including, among other things, 

testimony, transcripts or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or 

responses to discovery in this matter.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: Information (regardless of how 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 

developed under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

2.4 “Highly Confidential–Attorney Eyes Only” Information or Items: 

Extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another party or 

non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less 

restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: A party that receives disclosure or discovery material 

from a producing party.

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2.6 Producing Party: A party or non-party that produces disclosure or 

discovery material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: A party or non-party that designates information or 

items that it produces or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential –

Attorney Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: Any disclosure or discovery material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorney Eyes Only.”

2.9 Outside Counsel: Attorneys who are not employees of a party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a party in this action.

2.10 House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party.

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside counsel and house counsel (as well 

as their support staffs).

2.12 Expert: A person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a party or its counsel to serve as an expert 

witness or as a consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a party or 

of a competitor of a party and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

employee of a party or a competitor of a party. This definition includes a professional jury or 

trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations; 

organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium, etc.) and their employees and 

subcontractors.

3. Scope. The protections conferred by this Order cover not only protected material 

(as defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal protected material.

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4. Duration. Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality 

obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a designating party agrees 

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs.

5. Designating Protected Material. 

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

Each party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must 

take care to limit any such designation to a specific material that qualifies under the appropriate 

standards. A designating party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of 

material, documents, items or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions 

of the material, documents, items or communications for which protection is not warranted are 

not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. Mass, indiscriminate or routinized 

designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown to be clearly unjustified, or that have 

been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case 

development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties), expose 

the designating party to sanctions. If it comes to the attention of a party or a non-party that 

information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at all or do not 

qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that party or non-party must promptly notify 

all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of Section 5.2(a) below) or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the 

material is disclosed or produced. Designation in conformity with this Order requires the 

following:

a. For information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of 

depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), the producing party 

should affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” on each page that 

contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material 

on a page qualifies for protection, the producing party must also clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in 

the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection 

being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

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CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY”). A party or non-party 

who makes original documents or materials available for inspection need 

not designate them for protection until after the inspecting party has 

indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the 

inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available 

for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY.” After the inspecting party has identified the 

documents it wants copied and produced, the producing party must 

determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection 

under this Order. Before producing the specified documents, the 

producing party must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY”) on each 

page that contains protected material. If only a portion of the material on 

a page qualifies for protection, the producing party must also clearly 

identify the protected portion (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection being 

asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY”).

b. For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, 

the party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony should identify 

on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the 

testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY.” When it is impractical 

to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to 

protection, and when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony 

may qualify for protection, the party or non-party that sponsors, offers or 

gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or 

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days from the date of 

receipt of the official transcript, to identify the specific portions of the 

testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of 

protection being asserted (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY”). Only those portions of 

the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 

days shall be covered by the provisions of this Order. Transcript pages 

containing protected material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix on each such page the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY 

EYES ONLY,” as instructed by the party or non-party offering or 

sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

c. For information produced in some form other than documentary, and for 

any other tangible items, the producing party should affix in a prominent 

place on the exterior of the container or containers in which the 

information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the producing party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they 

qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL” or as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTLY –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY.”

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items as “CONFIDENTIAL” or as “HIGHLY 

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CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” does not, standing alone, waive the 

designating party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY 

EYES ONLY” after the material was initially produced, the receiving party, on timely 

notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated 

in accordance with this provisions of this Order.

6. Challenging Confidentiality Designations.

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a designating party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. A party that elects to initiate a challenge to a 

designating party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the 

process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not 

sufficient) with counsel for the designating party. Upon request by the challenging party, the 

designating party must meet and confer pursuant to this paragraph within five (5) days. In 

conferring, the challenging party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality 

designation was not proper and must give the designating party an opportunity to review the 

designated material, to reconsider the circumstances and, if no change in designation is offered, 

to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging party may proceed to the next 

stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the designating party 

may file and serve a motion under applicable local rules that identifies the challenged material 

and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration that affirms the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in Section 6.2 above and that sets forth with specificity the justification 

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for the confidentiality designation that was given by the designating party in the meet and confer 

dialogue. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the designating 

party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in 

question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the producing party’s designation.

7. Access to and Use of Protected Material

7.1 Basic Principles. A receiving party may use protected material that is 

disclosed or produced by another party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for 

prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this litigation. Such protected material may be 

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. 

When the litigation has been terminated, a receiving party must comply with the provisions of 

Section 11 below (Final Disposition). 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.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the designating party, a receiving party 

may disclose any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

a. The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation;

b. The officers, directors and employees (including house counsel) of the 

receiving party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation;

c. Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation;

d. The Court and its personnel;

e. During their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonable necessary. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or 

exhibits to depositions that reveal protected material must be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as 

permitted under this Order.

f. The author, addressee, and any recipients of the document or the original 

source of the information.

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7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES 

ONLY” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by 

the designating party, a receiving party may disclose any information or item designated 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” only to:

a. The receiving party’s outside counsel of record in this action, as well as 

employees of counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the 

information for this litigation;

b. Experts (as defined in this Order to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and who evidence in writing their willingness 

to abide by the terms of this Order;

c. The Court and its personnel; and

d. The author, addressee, and any recipients of the document or the original 

source of the information.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”

a. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or agreed in writing by the 

designating party, a party that seeks to disclose to an expert (as defined in 

this Order) any information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY” first must make a written 

request to the designating party that (i) identifies the specific HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL information that the receiving party seeks permission to 

disclose to the expert, (ii) sets forth the full name of the expert and the city 

and state of his or her primary residence, (iii) attaches a copy of the 

expert’s current resume, and (iv) identifies the expert’s current employer.

b. A party that makes a request and provides the information specified in 

Section 7.4(a) may disclose the subject protected material to the identified 

expert unless, within seven days of delivering the request, the party 

receives a written objection from the designating party. Any such 

objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

c. A party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer with 

the designating party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to 

resolve the matter by agreement. If no agreement is reached, the party 

seeking to make the disclosure to the expert may file a motion as provided 

by applicable local rules seeking permission from the Court to do so. Any 

such motion must describe the circumstances with specificity, set forth in 

detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the expert is reasonably 

necessary, and assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and 

suggest any additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In 

addition, any such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve the 

matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer 

discussions) and sets forth the reasons advanced by the designating party 

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for its refusal to approve the disclosure. In any such proceeding, the party 

opposing disclosure to the expert shall bear the burden of providing that the 

risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards 

proposed) outweighs the receiving party’s need to disclose the protected 

material to its expert.

8. Protected Material Subpoenaed or Ordered Produced in Other Litigation. If 

a receiving party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that would 

compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEY EYES ONLY,” the receiving party must so 

notify the designating party, in writing (by e-mail or fax, if possible) immediately and in no 

event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must 

include a copy of the subpoena or court order. The receiving party also must immediately 

inform in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that 

some or all the material covered by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Order. In 

addition, the receiving party must deliver a copy of this Order promptly to the party in the other 

action that caused the subpoena or order to issue. The purpose of imposing these duties is to 

alert the interested parties to the existence of this Order and to afford the designating party in this 

case an opportunity to try to protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued. The designating party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of 

seeking protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions 

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a receiving party in this action to disobey a 

lawful directive from another court.

9. Unauthorized Disclosure of Protected Material. If a receiving party learns 

that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed protected material to any person or in any 

circumstance not authorized under this Order, the receiving party must immediately (a) notify in 

writing the designating party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all 

copies of the protected material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized 

disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to 

agree and acknowledge in writing that they will be bound to the terms of this Order.

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10. Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the designating 

party or a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a party may not 

file in the public record in this action any protected material. A party that seeks to file under seal 

any protected material must comply with applicable local rules.

11. Final Disposition. Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the 

producing party, within four years after the final termination of this action, each receiving party 

must either return all protected material to the producing party or destroy all such protected 

material. As used in this subdivision, “all protected material” includes all copies, abstracts, 

compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the protected 

material. With permission in writing from the designating party, the receiving party must 

destroy some or all of the protected material instead of returning it. Whether the protected 

material is returned or destroyed, the receiving party must submit a written certification to the 

producing party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the designating party) by the 60-day 

deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the protected material that was 

returned or destroyed and that affirms that the receiving party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the 

protected material. Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain an archival 

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney 

work product, even if such materials contain protected material. Any such archival copies that 

contain or constitute protected material remain subject to this Order as set forth in Section 4 

(Duration) above.

12. Miscellaneous. 

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Order, 

no party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Order. Similarly, no party waives any 

right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Order.

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Date: November 20, 2015 SUTTON HAGUE LAW CORPORATION

By /s/ S. Brett Sutton1

S. BRETT SUTTON

JARED HAGUE

JOSEPH V. MACIAS

Attorneys for Plaintiff

KATHERINE COZAD

Date: November 16, 2015 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 

By /s/ Allison K. Pierce

BREN K. THOMAS

ALLISON K. PIERCE 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ASTRAZENECA LP 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 20, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

1 Original signatures were affixed to the stipulation filed with the Court at docket no. 17.

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