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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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SMRH:474842390.2 STIP. & PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION;

[PROPOSED] ORDER

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

ELLEN M. BRONCHETTI, Cal. Bar No. 226975 

ebronchetti@sheppardmullin.com 

ALEXANDRA H. HEMENWAY, Cal. Bar No. 297888 

AHemenway@sheppardmullin.com 

Four Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111-4109 

Telephone: 415.434.9100 

Facsimile: 415.434.3947 

THOMAS R. KAUFMAN, Cal. Bar No. 177936 

1901 Avenue of the Stars, 16th Floor 

Los Angeles, California 90067 

Telephone: 310-228-3700 

Facsimile: 310-228-3701 

Email: tkaufman@sheppardmullin.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

KATHY BATTERSBY, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; and DOES 

1 through 50, inclusive, 

Defendant. 

 Case No. 15-CV-04865-JCS 

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION; [PROPOSED] 

ORDER] 

Complaint Filed: September 22, 2015 

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Plaintiff Kathy Battersby (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Wells Fargo Bank, 

N.A. (“Wells Fargo” or “Defendant”), through their respective counsel of record, hereby 

stipulate as follows: 

A. Disclosure and discovery activity in this action has involved, involves, 

and will likely continue to involve, production of confidential, commercially sensitive, 

proprietary, trade secret, or private information (“Confidential Documents”) for which 

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

this matter would be warranted. 

B. The parties acknowledge that documents designated as Confidential 

Documents have already been produced by Defendant, and that all such documents (if 

properly designated under this Agreement) are governed by the terms of this Agreement as 

set forth herein. The parties further agree and understand that any previously produced 

documents will be deemed designated Confidential Documents, as defined below, on the 

effective date of this Agreement. 

C. The parties to this Stipulation and Order, and other parties or nonparties in this litigation, each may assert a claim that documents described herein constitute 

or contain private or confidential information, which claim may be disputed by one or 

more parties; and 

D. The parties hereto desire to agree to a protective order for the 

protection of specified documents produced during the pendency of this action, including 

those previously produced, and thereafter. 

THEREFORE, Plaintiff and Defendant, through their respective counsel of 

record, stipulate and agree as follows: 

1. Terms. The terms defined in this paragraph shall have the meanings 

provided. Defined terms may be used in the singular or plural. 

1.1. “Producing Party” means the party, or person other than a 

party, being asked to produce or asserting a confidentiality interest in documents 

designated by that party or person as Confidential Documents. 

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1.2. “Receiving Party” means that party receiving or requesting 

production of Confidential Documents. 

1.3. “Confidential Documents” means documents pertaining to 

confidential, commercially sensitive, proprietary, trade secret or private information, 

which information the Producing Party believes in good faith to be protected under 

relevant provisions of California law regarding (1) private information of the producing 

party and/or third parties, (2) confidential, commercially sensitive or proprietary 

information, (3) information affecting third-party privacy rights of current or former Wells 

Fargo employees and (4) trade secrets, including all pleadings, motions, affidavits and 

related papers, all documents produced or exchanged in the course of this action or any 

settlement negotiations, and all transcripts and testimony given in depositions, in hearings 

or at trial. 

1.4. “Outside” means a person who is not an employee of the 

Receiving Party, and shall include law firms retained by the Receiving Party. 

1.5. “Termination” means the dismissal of this action, or entry of 

final judgment or expiration of all periods to appeal or seek judicial review of this action. 

2. Use of Confidential Documents. All material designated as 

Confidential Documents may be disclosed only to the following persons: 

2.1. the Court and its personnel; 

2.2. the parties and their counsel, including investigators and 

support staffs employed by counsel or the parties; 

2.3 witnesses at deposition; 

2.4. court reporters or translators; 

2.5. persons retained by the parties as experts or consultants, 

whether designated or being considered for designation; and 

2.6. any other person as to whom the parties agree in writing. 

No Confidential Document may be, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, 

to any individual described in Paragraph 2.5 until the individual has been given a copy of 

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this order and signed a Confidentiality Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 

A, which Confidentiality Agreement shall be retained by Outside counsel of record for 

Receiving Party. 

3. Except as set forth in this Stipulation and Order, all material 

designated as Confidential Documents shall be used solely for the purposes of this 

litigation and shall not be used for any other purpose, including, without limitation, any 

business or commercial purpose, dissemination to the media, or in a manner that interferes 

with the privacy rights of current or former Wells Fargo employees. The terms of this 

Stipulation and Order shall not apply to or restrict the disclosure or use by a Producing 

Party of the Producing Party’s own Confidential Documents. 

4. Confidential Documents shall be designated specifically by either 

marking the document or thing as “CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PROPRIETARY” or by 

designating, in writing, the identity of the document and the Bates stamp number which 

has been assigned to it at the time of production or other use. The parties acknowledge and 

agree that documents designated as Confidential and/or Proprietary (i.e. as Confidential 

Documents) prior to the execution of this Agreement have been properly designated under 

this Agreement and subject to the terms herein. 

5. The inadvertent failure to designate documents as Confidential 

Documents prior to or at the time of disclosure shall not operate as a waiver of a party’s 

right to designate such documents as Confidential Documents within thirty (30) days after 

such disclosure, or after notice of such disclosure, or after execution by the party of this 

Stipulation and Order, whichever is later. In the event that documents are designated as 

Confidential after disclosure but within the thirty (30) day period allowed in this 

Paragraph, the Receiving Party shall employ reasonable efforts to ensure that all 

previously disclosed information is subsequently treated as Confidential Documents 

pursuant to the terms of this Stipulation and Order. 

6. Deposition transcripts may be designated as Confidential Documents 

by indicating on the record at the deposition that the specified part of the testimony 

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(including the entire testimony given or to be given by a witness) and/or all or any part of 

the document or thing marked for identification at such deposition subject of the 

provisions of this Stipulation and Order. The Producing Party may, within 30 days after an 

undesignated deposition transcript is actually received by counsel for each party, 

specifically designate information contained in the transcript as a Confidential Document, 

whether or not previously so designated, by notifying all parties in writing of any specific 

pages and lines of the transcript which contain confidential information. Each party shall 

attach a copy of such written statement to the face of the transcript and each copy thereof 

in its possession, custody or control. Insofar as any designation made of the entire 

testimony or documents, the Producing Party shall use the best practicable efforts to undesignate, as appropriate, portions thereof within 30 days after the transcripts or documents 

is actually received by the Receiving Party. 

7. The Receiving Party shall not be obligated to challenge the propriety 

designation of the Confidential Documents designation at the time made and the failure to 

do so at that time shall not operate as a waiver of its right to request the Court to determine 

the propriety of the designation or in any way preclude a subsequent challenge to such 

designation. If a party disagrees at any stage of these proceedings with the Producing 

Party’s designation of Confidential Documents, the parties shall first try to resolve such 

dispute in good faith on an informal basis, through reasonable meet and confer discussions. 

If a dispute cannot be resolved, the Receiving Party may seek appropriate relief from this 

Court, and the Producing Party shall have the burden of proving that a Confidential 

Document should be confidential. To the extent a party wishes to challenge the 

confidential designation of documents produced prior to the execution of this Agreement, a 

party may do so following the effective date of this Agreement. 

8. Should any Confidential Documents be disclosed, through 

inadvertence or otherwise, to any person or in any circumstances not authorized under this 

Stipulation and Order, then the disclosing party must immediately (a) notify in writing to 

the Producing Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all 

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copies of the Confidential Documents, (c) inform the person or persons to whom 

unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, 

and (d) request such person or persons to execute the Confidentiality Agreement that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

9. If any party objects at any time to specific application of any 

provision of this Stipulation and Order, that party may seek to amend such provision. 

However, before seeking any modification the party shall attempt to resolve the issue with 

other parties by a stipulated amended order. 

10. This Stipulation and Order shall not be construed as a waiver by the 

parties of any objection which might be raised as to the admissibility of any evidentiary 

material. This Stipulation and Order shall be without prejudice to the rights of any person 

to oppose production of any information on any proper ground. 

11. Where any Party to the Stipulation and Order wishes to include any 

Confidential Document (or information derived therefrom) in any motion or other filing, 

that Party shall contact the other to meet and confer on the inclusion of such 

documents/information in the motion or filing. During such meet and confer discussions, 

the Parties will discuss mutually agreeable means of using said Confidential Document(s) 

(or information derived therefrom) without having to seal all or parts of relevant motions 

or filings. By way of examples only, the Parties may meet and confer on mutually 

agreeable redactions, or mutually agreeable exceptions, to avoid the need for a motion to 

seal. 

12. Where no mutual agreement is possible under Paragraph 11, above, 

and any Confidential Document (or information derived therefrom) is included in any 

motion or other proceeding governed by the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Parties and any 

involved non-party shall follow those rules. 

13. Except as filed with the Court in accordance with this Stipulation and 

Order, and as produced in deposition pursuant to this Stipulation and Order, all documents 

and things designated Confidential Documents shall be maintained by the parties, their 

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counsel, or a person authorized to view Confidential Documents under Paragraph 2, and 

who has executed the appropriate Confidentiality Agreement. Within 30 days after 

Termination of this action, the original and all copies of each document and thing 

produced by the Producing Party to a Receiving Party or given to any other person 

pursuant to this Stipulation and Order, which contains Confidential Documents, shall be 

returned for destruction to the counsel of record for the Producing Party. The Parties agree 

that the foregoing provision does not apply to notes, summaries, digests and synopses of 

the Confidential Documents which would be protected by the attorney-work product 

doctrine or attorney-client privilege, as well as documents required to be retained as part of 

a client file, but agree that such privileged documents will continue to be treated as 

containing confidential information. After Termination of this action, counsel of record 

for the Receiving Party shall retain all Confidentiality Agreements signed pursuant to 

paragraph 2 above, and shall then deliver a copy thereof to the Producing Party on request 

at any time thereafter. 

14. Insofar as the provision of this Stipulation and Order restrict the use 

or communication of any document or information produced hereunder, this Stipulation 

and Order shall continue to be binding after the Termination of this action and the Court 

shall retain jurisdiction over all persons and parties bound by this Stipulation and Order for 

the purposes of its enforcement. 

15. Nothing in this Stipulation and Order is intended to be construed as 

authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful subpoena 

issued in another action. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

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Dated: February ___, 2016 

 SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By /S/ 

 ELLEN M. BRONCHETTI 

ALEXANDRA HEMENWAY 

Attorneys for Defendant 

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. 

 LAW OFFICES OF RANDAL M. BARNUM 

By /S/ 

 RANDAL M. BARNUM 

CARRIE H. CROXALL 

LINDSAY R. BATCHA 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KATHY BATTERSBY 

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[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Pursuant to and in accordance with the foregoing Stipulation Re Confidential 

Information (“Stipulation”), submitted by the parties to this Court, and good cause 

appearing for the request, the Court hereby GRANTS the parties’ request and enters an 

order that any documents or information designated as confidential (as provided by the 

parties’ Stipulation) shall be subject to the provisions of their Stipulation and this 

Protective Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 

 United States District Court Judge 

 

February 22, 2016

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

GRANTED

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley 

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EXHIBIT A 

CERTIFICATION RE CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIALS

 I hereby acknowledge that I, ___________________________________[NAME], 

______________________________________________ [POSITION AND 

EMPLOYER], am about to receive Confidential Documents supplied in connection with 

the Proceeding, Kathy Battersby v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Case No. 15-CV-04865-JCS. 

I certify that I understand that the Confidential Documents are provided to me subject to 

the terms and restrictions of the Stipulation and Protective Order filed in this Proceeding. 

I have been given a copy of the Stipulation and Protective Order; I have read it, and I 

agree to be bound by its terms. I understand that the Confidential Documents, as defined 

in the Stipulation and Protective Order, including any notes or other records that may be 

made regarding any such materials, shall not be Disclosed to anyone except as expressly 

permitted by the Stipulation and Protective Order. I will not copy or use, except solely for 

the purposes of this Proceeding, any Confidential Documents obtained pursuant to this 

Stipulation and Protective Order, except as provided therein or otherwise ordered by the 

Court. 

 I further understand that I am to retain all copies of all Confidential Documents 

provided to me in the Proceeding in a secure manner, and that all copies of such materials 

are to remain in my personal custody until termination of my participation in this 

Proceeding, whereupon the copies of such materials will be returned to counsel who 

provided me with such materials. 

 I declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California, that the 

foregoing is true and correct. 

DATED:_________________________ BY: _________________________________ 

 Signature 

 _________________________________ 

 Address, City, State, Zip 

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