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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1442 Notice of Removal - Suit against Federal Officer

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3:19-cv-02006-JAH-AHG

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOUGLAS TUCKER and HOLLY 

HOLMES,

Plaintiffs,

v.

EXPERIAN INFORMATION 

SOLUTIONS, INC. and INNOVIS 

DATA SOLUTIONS, INC.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 3:19-cv-2006-JAH-AHG

PROTECTIVE ORDER

[ECF No. 13]

This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ Joint Motion for Protective 

Order. ECF No. 13. The Court GRANTS the Motion and accordingly enters the 

following stipulated Protective Order:

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiffs Douglas Tucker 

and Holly Holmes and Defendant Experian Information Solutions, Inc. 

(“Experian”) through their respective attorneys of record, as follows:

Documents and information have been and may be sought, produced or 

exhibited by and among the parties to this action relating to trade secrets, 

confidential research, development, technology or other proprietary information 

belonging to the defendants, and/or personal income, credit and other confidential 

information of Plaintiff. Therefore, an Order of this Court protecting such 

confidential information shall be and hereby is made by this Court on the following 

terms:

1. This Order shall govern the use, handling and disclosure of all 

documents, testimony or information produced or given in this action which are 

designated to be subject to this Order in accordance with the terms hereof.

2. Any party or non-party producing or filing documents or other 

materials in this action may designate such materials and the information contained 

therein subject to this Order by typing or stamping on the front of the document, or 

on the portion(s) of the document for which confidential treatment is designated, 

“Confidential.”

3. No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a court 

order allowing the filing of a document, or portion thereof, under seal. An 

application to file a document under seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and 

on the person or entity that has custody and control of the document, if different 

from opposing counsel. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has 

custody and control of the document, wishes to oppose the application, they must 

contact the chambers of the judge who will rule on the application to notify the 

Court that an opposition to the application will be filed.

4. To the extent any motions, briefs, pleadings, deposition transcripts, or 

other papers to be filed with the Court incorporate documents or information 

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subject to this Order, the party filing such papers shall designate such materials, or 

portions thereof, as “Confidential,” and shall file them with the clerk under seal; 

provided, however, that a copy of such filing having the confidential information 

deleted therefrom may be made part of the public record. Any party filing any 

document under seal must comply with the requirements of Civil Local Rule 79.2. 

Any party may designate deposition testimony as CONFIDENTIAL on the record 

during the deposition, or within 30 days after receiving a deposition transcript.

5. All documents, transcripts, or other materials subject to this Order, and 

all information derived therefrom (including, but not limited to, all testimony given 

in a deposition, declaration or otherwise, that refers, reflects or otherwise discusses 

any information designated “Confidential” hereunder), shall not be used, directly or 

indirectly, by any person, including the other Defendants, for any business, 

commercial or competitive purposes or for any purpose whatsoever other than 

solely for the preparation and trial of this action in accordance with the provisions 

of this Order.

6. Except with the prior written consent of the individual or entity 

designating a document or portions of a document as “Confidential,” or pursuant to 

prior Order after notice, any document, transcript or pleading given “Confidential” 

treatment under this Order, and any information contained in, or derived from any 

such materials (including but not limited to, all deposition testimony that refers to, 

reflects or otherwise discusses any information designated “Confidential” 

hereunder) may not be disclosed other than in accordance with this Order and may 

not be disclosed to any person other than: (a) the jury, Court and its officers; (b) 

parties to this litigation; (c) counsel for the parties, whether retained outside counsel 

or in-house counsel and employees of counsel assigned to assist such counsel in the 

preparation of this litigation, as well as court reporters or attorney service vendors 

as needed for the preparation and trial of this action; (d) fact witnesses subject to a 

proffer to the Court or a stipulation of the parties that such witnesses need to know 

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such information; and (e) present or former employees of the Producing Party in 

connection with their depositions in this action (provided that no former employees 

shall be shown documents prepared after the date of his or her departure). 

7. No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a court 

order allowing the filing of a document, or portion thereof, under seal. An 

application to file a document under seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and 

on the person or entity that has custody and control of the document, if different 

from opposing counsel. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has 

custody and control of the document, wishes to oppose the application, he/she must 

contact the chambers of the judge who will rule on the application to notify the 

Court that an opposition to the application will be filed.

8. All persons receiving any or all documents produced pursuant to this 

Order shall be advised of their confidential nature. All persons to whom 

confidential information and/or documents are disclosed are hereby enjoined from 

disclosing same to any person except as provided herein, and are further enjoined 

from using same except in the preparation for and trial of the above-captioned 

action between the named parties thereto. No person receiving or reviewing such 

confidential documents, information or transcript shall disseminate or disclose them 

to any person other than those described above in Paragraph 5 and for the purposes 

specified, and in no event shall such person make any other use of such document 

or transcript.

9. Nothing in this Order shall prevent a party from using at trial any 

information or materials designated “Confidential.” 

10. This Order has been agreed to by the parties to facilitate discovery and 

the production of relevant evidence in this action. Neither the entry of this Order, 

nor the designation of any information, document, or the like as “Confidential,” nor 

the failure to make such designation, shall constitute evidence with respect to any 

issue in this action.

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11. Within sixty (60) days after the final termination of this litigation, all

documents, transcripts, or other materials afforded confidential treatment pursuant 

to this Order, including any extracts, summaries or compilations taken therefrom, 

but excluding any materials which in the good faith judgment of counsel are work 

product materials, shall be returned to the Producing Party.

12. In the event that any party to this litigation disagrees at any point in 

these proceedings with any designation made under this Protective Order, the 

parties shall first try to resolve such dispute in good faith on an informal basis in 

accordance with Civil Local Rule 26.1 and 83.4. If the dispute cannot be resolved, 

the party objecting to the designation may seek appropriate relief from this Court by 

complying with Chambers Rules governing discovery disputes. During the 

pendency of any challenge to the designation of a document or information, the 

designated document or information shall continue to be treated as “Confidential” 

subject to the provisions of this Protective Order.

13. Nothing herein shall affect or restrict the rights of any party with 

respect to its own documents or to the information obtained or developed 

independently of documents, transcripts and materials afforded confidential 

treatment pursuant to this Order.

14. The Court retains the right to allow disclosure of any subject covered 

by this stipulation.

15. The Court may modify the protective order sua sponte in the interests 

of justice or for public policy reasons.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 5, 2020

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EXHIBIT A

DECLARATION OF COMPLIANCE

I, _____________________________________, declare as follows:

1. My address is 

________________________________________________.

2. My present employer is 

________________________________________.

3. My present occupation or job description is 

_________________________.

4 I have received a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order entered in 

this action on _______________, 20___.

5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

6. I will comply with all provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

7. I will hold in confidence, and will not disclose to anyone not qualified 

under the Stipulated Protective Order, any information, documents or other 

materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order.

8. I will use such information, documents or other materials produced 

subject to this Stipulated Protective Order only for purposes of this present action.

9. Upon termination of this action, or upon request, I will return and 

deliver all information, documents or other materials produced subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order, and all documents or things which I have prepared 

relating to the information, documents or other materials that are subject to the 

Stipulated Protective Order, to my counsel in this action, or to counsel for the party 

by whom I am employed or retained or from whom I received the documents.

10. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of 

enforcing the Stipulated Protective Order in this action.

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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the 

following is true and correct.

Executed this ____ day of _____________, 2020 at __________________.

_______________________________

QUALIFIED PERSON

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