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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

Leila Narvid, Bar No. 229402 

ln@paynefears.com 

Alexandra L. Pichette, Bar No. 287212 

alp@paynefears.com 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

Attorneys at Law 

One Post Street, Suite 1000 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 398-7860 

Facsimile: (415) 398-7863 

Attorneys for Defendant 

KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. 

Anthony J. Sperber, Bar No. 197962 

anthony@sperberlaw.com 

Law Office of Anthony J. Sperber 

1808 Sixth Street 

Berkeley, CA 94710 

Telephone: (510) 845-8844 

Facsimile: (510) 845-1998 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JUSTIN SHEPHERD 

Kurt W. Dreger, Bar No. 283384 

kurt@dregerlawoffices.com 

Law Office of Kurt W. Dreger 

848 Mohawk Drive 

Livermore, CA 94551 

Telephone: (925) 605-9261 

Facsimile: (925) 294-8012 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JUSTIN SHEPHERD 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JUSTIN SHEPHERD, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC., 

and DOES 1 through 100, 

Defendant. 

 Case No. 1:14-cv-01901-JAM-BAM 

Assigned for All Purposes: 

Judge John A. Mendez

JOINT STIPULATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATION 

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 may 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 the protection it affords from public disclosure 

and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 

information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and 

the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material 

under seal. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how 

it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel 

(as well as their support staff). 

2.4 Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it, or any other Party, produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.’ 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of 

the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other 

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

responses to discovery in this matter. 

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2.6 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. 

2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. 

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to 

this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this 

action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that 

party. 

2.10 Party: any to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

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

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

subcontractors. 

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery material that is designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material 

(as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) 

all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilation of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties of their counsel that might reveal Protected material. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a 

Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a 

result of publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public 

record through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to 

the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained 

the information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any 

use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims 

and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law. 

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 

5.1 Type of Material Eligible for Protection. In general, the parties will 

designate “confidential” sensitive information such as Plaintiff’s medical information and 

personally identifiable information relating to non-party former employees including but not 

limited to names, telephone numbers, addresses, and employment information. 

5.2 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 specific material that qualify under the appropriate standards. 

The Designating Party must 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. 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. The parties will work 

together to provide sufficient review time to avoid the need for mass, indiscriminate, or routinized 

designations. 

If it comes to a Designating party’s attention that information or items that it designated for 

protection do not qualify for protections, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other 

Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation. 

5.3 Manner and Timing of Depositions. Except as otherwise provided in this 

Order (see, e.g. second paragraph or section 5.3(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

Disclosure or Discovery 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: 

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the 

Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page that contains protected 

material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 

Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) e.g., by making appropriate 

markings in the margins). 

A Party or Non-Party that 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 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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. Then, 

before producing the specified documents, the Producing party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” 

legend to each page that contains Protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material 

on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the 

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

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

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PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

proceedings, that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, 

hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and 

for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of 

the container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information or item warrant protection, 

the Producing party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s). 

5.4 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If a Producing Party inadvertently fails 

to designate “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items, that failure does not, standing alone, waive 

the Producing Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material so long as the 

Producing Party promptly makes the designation after learning of the oversight. Upon timely 

correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the 

material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

5.5 Designation by Party other than Producing Party. A Party, other than a 

Producing Party, may designate “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items by giving written 

notice to all Parties within 30 (thirty) days of production of the material. Upon timely designation, 

the Producing Party and Receiving Party will work in good faith with the Designating Party to 

ensure the “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items receive any necessary legends and are treated 

in accordance with the provisions of this Order. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a 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. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing 

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PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the 

written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with 

this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge 

in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. 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 fully engaged in this meet and confer process first or 

establishes that the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in 

a timely manner. When the Challenging Party considers the meet and confer process exhausted, 

the Challenging Party must notify the Designating Party in writing. A Challenging Party who 

behaves unreasonably in the meet and confer process or who fails to fully comply with its meet 

and confer obligations may be subject to sanction. 

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Civil Local Rule 251 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 141, if applicable) within 21 days 

of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer 

process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is later. Each such motion must be accompanied 

by a competent declaration affirming that the Designating Party has complied with the meet and 

confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make 

such a motion, including the required declaration, within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. Concurrently 

with the motion, each Party shall set forth their differences and the bases therefor in a Joint 

Statement regarding the Discovery Disagreement. 

 In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality 

designation if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must 

be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the Challenging Party has fully 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in Section 6.2. 

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to 

sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, 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 until the court rules on the challenge. 

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 the 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 

13 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 said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to 

disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of 

the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

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signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(d) the court and its personnel; 

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, 

mock jurors and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure 

is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. 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 Stipulated Protective Order. 

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party 

must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification 

shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena is 

subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated 

Protective Order; and 

/ / / 

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(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena 

or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

before a determination by the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has 

obtained the designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and 

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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 

Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by 

Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by 

this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from 

seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an 

agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the non-Party’s confidential information, then the 

Party shall: 

1. promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the NonParty that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a 

Non-Party; 

2. promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 

specific description of the information requested; and 

3. make the information requested available for inspection by 

the Non-Party. 

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(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective from this court 

within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may 

produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the NonParty timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its 

possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court.1 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 

burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

10. 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 Stipulated Protective 

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 unauthorized 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 execute the “Acknowledgement and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL 

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order 

that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 

communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, 

 

1

 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of 

confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect its 

confidentiality 

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the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted to the 

court. 

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 

Protective 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 Stipulated Protective 

Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to the use in evidence of any 

of the material covered by this Protective Order. 

12.3 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 Civil Local Rules 141 and 141.1. Protected Material may 

only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected 

Material at issue. If a Receiving Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in 

the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party, destroy such material, 

or put such material in a sealed envelope marked “CONFIDENTIAL PURSUANT TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER.” As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all 

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of 

the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned, sealed 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 (1) identifies (by category, 

where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned, sealed or destroyed and (2) affirms 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

that the Receiving Party has not retained any unsealed copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries 

or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this 

provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an unsealed archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, 

trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial 

exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if 

such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute 

Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD: 

DATED: April 8, 2015 PAYNE & FEARS LLP

 By: /s/ Leila Narvid 

 LEILA NARVID 

Attorneys for Defendant 

KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. 

DATED: April 8, 2015 LAW OFFICE OF ANTHONY J. SPERBER 

 By: /s/ Anthony Sperber 

 ANTHONY J. SPERBER 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JUSTIN SHEPHERD 

DATED: April 8, 2015 LAW OFFICE OF KURT W. DREGER 

 By: /s/ Kurt Dreger 

 KURT W. DREGER 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JUSTIN SHEPHERD 

/ / / 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

ATTESTATION OF E-FILED SIGNATURE 

I, Leila Narvid, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this Joint 

Stipulation and [Proposed] Protective Order. I hereby attest that Kurt W. Dreger, Esq. and 

Anthony J. Sperber, Esq. have read and approved this Joint Stipulation and [Proposed] Protective 

Order and consent to its filing in this action. 

DATED: April 8, 2015 PAYNE & FEARS LLP

 By: /s/ Leila Narvid 

 LEILA NARVID 

Attorneys for Defendant 

KOHL’S DEPARTMENT STORES, INC. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: April 8, 2015 

 /s/ John A. Mendez____________ 

 Hon. John A. Mendez 

 United States District Court Judge 

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JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

PAYNE & FEARS LLP 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

ONE POST STREET, SUITE 1000 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94104 

(415) 398-7860 

EXHIBIT A 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of 

__________________________ [print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I 

have read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the 

United States District Court for the Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of Justin 

Shepherd v. Kohl’s Department Stores, Inc., Case No. 1:14-cv-01901-JAM-BAM. I agree to 

comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand 

and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the 

nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or 

item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 

compliance with the provisions of this Order. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

I hereby appoint [print or type full name] of 

__________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as my 

California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to 

enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

Date: 

City and State sworn and signed: 

Printed name: 

Signature: 

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