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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act

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Carol A. Wieckowski, Esq. (SBN 95586) 

Cathleen J. Fralick, Esq. (SBN 146378) 

EVANS, WIECKOWSKI, WARD & SCOFFIELD, LLP 

745 University Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95825 

Telephone: (916)923-1600 

Attorneys for Defendants 

ROCKLIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, 

CHARLES THIBIDEAU, BETTY JO WESSINGER, 

JANNA CAMBRA, KEVIN BROWN, 

ROGER STOCK and DR. TODD CUTLER 

Public Entity-Public Employees – Filing Fees Waived 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

JENNIFER HUGUNIN, PATRICK 

HUGUNIN, D.H., a minor by and through 

his guardian ad litem JENNIFER HUGUNIN; 

KEITH CALDWELL, NICOLE HILL, X.C. 

a minor by and through his guardian ad litem 

KEITH CALDWELL; TRISHIA PITTS, 

CARL PITTS, N.P., a minor by and through 

his guardian ad litem TRISHIA PITTS; 

TODD VROOMAN, LAURA VROOMAN, 

S.V., a minor by and through his guardian 

ad litem TODD VROOMAN; RICHARD 

ROGERS, TERRILL ROGERS, P.R., 

a minor by and through his guardian ad litem 

RICHARD ROGERS; MICHELLE 

MANCOUR and G.I., a minor by and 

through his guardian ad litem MICHELLE 

MANCOUR, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 vs. 

ROCKLIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, 

SHERRY MCDANIEL, CHARLES 

THIBIDEAU, BETTY JO WESSINGER, 

JANNA CAMBRA, KEVIN BROWN, 

ROGER STOCK, DR. TODD CUTLER, 

and Does 1-30, Inclusively, 

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No 2:15-cv-00939-MCE-AC (TEMP) 

Stipulated Protective Order 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiffs TRISHIA PITTS, CARL 

PITTS, N.P., a minor by and through his guardian ad litem TRISHIA PITTS and Defendants 

ROCKLIN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, CHARLES THIBIDEAU, BETTY JO 

WESSINGER, JANNA, CAMBRA, KEVIN BROWN, ROGER STOCK, DR. TODD CUTLER, 

SHERRY McDANIEL, and third party CITY OF ROCKLIN by and through their respective 

counsel of record that in order to facilitate the exchange of information and documents which 

may be subject to confidentiality limitations on disclosure due to federal laws, state laws, and 

privacy rights, the Parties stipulate as follows: 

 1. 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 principle. 

 2. The parties further acknowledge that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle 

them to file confidential information under seal. Eastern District 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. 

 3. DEFINITIONS: 

3.1 "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). 

3.2 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it 

produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as "CONFIDENTIAL." 

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3.3 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. 

3.4 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. 

3.5 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action. 

3.6 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party, but who are retained to 

represent or advise a Party in this action. 

3. 7 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and counsel of record (and their support staffs). 

3.8 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

3.9 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 25 

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

storing retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees or subcontractors. 

3.91 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

"CONFIDENTIAL." 

3.92 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

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 4. The information and materials subject to this protective order are the Rocklin Police 

Department Report No. 14-121-4, and any reports, supplemental reports, e-mails, 

correspondence, notes, videos and audio tapes of interviews of all witnesses, photographs, 

evidenced received by the police and included in the report, and diagrams relating to the 

incident. 

 5. 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 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) Any 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected 

Material. 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. 

 6. 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 

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action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 

pursuant to applicable law. 

 7. By designating documents as "confidential" under the terms of this Order, the 

Designating Party is certifying to the Court that there is a good faith basis in both law and in fact 

for the designation within the meaning of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 (g). 

 8. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

Disclosure of Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 

designated by affixing the legend "CONFIDENTIAL" to each page that contains protected 

material. If any confidential materials cannot be labeled with this marking, those materials shall 

be placed in a sealed envelope or other container that is in turn stamped or affixed 

"CONFIDENTIAL."

 9. Disclosure of Discovery Material designated "confidential" under this Order, the 

information contained therein, and any summaries, copies, abstracts or other documents derived 

in whole or in part from material designated as confidential shall be used only for the purpose of 

this action and for no other purpose. 

 10. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified information or items 

does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party's right to secure protection under this 

Order for such material. 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. 

 11. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material, the information contained therein, and 

any summaries, copies, abstracts or other documents derived in whole or in part therefrom, that 

is disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for 

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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 

paragraph 19 below. 

 12. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated "CONFIDENTIAL" only to counsel for a party, experts retained 

for consultation and/or trial, and the author or recipient of a document containing the information 

who otherwise possessed or knew the information. In the event that Protected Material is given 

to an expert, counsel that retained the expert shall provide a copy of this Order to the expert and 

require and receive an executed acknowledgment of the Order by the expert prior to providing 

the records to any retained expert. 

 13. Pursuant to the requirements of Eastern District Local Rule 140, when filing 

documents counsel and the court shall omit all, or where reference is necessary, partially redact 

the following personal data identifiers, from all pleadings, documents, and exhibits where filed 

electronically or on paper, unless the court orders otherwise, 

(i) Minors' names: In criminal actions, use the minors' initials; in civil actions use 

initials when federal or state law require the use of initials, or when specific identity of 

the minor is not necessary to the action or individual document; 

(ii) Financial account numbers: Identify the name or type of account and financial 

institution where maintained, but use only the last four numbers of the account number; 

(iii) Social Security numbers: Use only the last four numbers; 

(iv) Dates of birth: Use only the year; 

(v) Home addresses in criminal actions only; use only the city and state; and 

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(vi) All other circumstances: Redact when federal law requires redaction. 

 14. The Parties agree that should they desire to file any Protected Material with the Court 

that they shall redact the confidential information and/or seek that it be sealed in compliance 

with the requirements of Eastern District Local Rule 141. 

 15. Nothing in this Order shall in any way limit or prevent Protected Material from being 

used in any deposition or other proceeding in this action. In the event that any Protected Material 

is used in any deposition or other proceeding in this action it shall not lose its confidential status 

through such use. If any Protected Material is used in a deposition then arrangements shall made 

with the court reporter to separately bind such portions of the transcript containing information 

designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" and to label such portions appropriately. In the event that 

Protected Material is shown to any witness during their deposition, counsel disclosing said 

material shall provide a copy of this Order to the witness and require and receive an executed 

acknowledgment of the Order by the witness prior to providing the records to the witness. 

 16. Nothing in this Order shall in and of itself require disclosure of information that is 

protected by the attorney-client privilege, work-product doctrine, or any other privilege, doctrine, 

or immunity, nor does anything in this Order result in any party giving up its right to argue that 

otherwise privileged documents must be produced due to waiver or for any other reason. 

 17. 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. 

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 18. 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 items of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute an 

acknowledgment of the Order. 

 19. This Order shall survive to the final termination of this action, including any and all 

appeals therefrom. After conclusion of said litigation, all documents and materials, in whatever 

form stored or reproduced, containing protected information will remain confidential. Unless 

otherwise agreed to or ordered by the Court, within ninety (90) days following the running of 

any applicable time to appeal any order or ruling entered in this action, attorneys for the 

Receiving Party shall either (i) return to the Producing Party all copies of all protected materials 

disclosed by them, or (ii) certify to the Producing Party that all such materials have been 

destroyed. 

 20. This Order may be changed only by order of the Court, and is without prejudice to the 

rights of a party to seek relief from or variation of any of it Provisions. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: March 17, 2016 Evans Wieckowski Ward & Scoffield, LLP 

 

 By: /s/ 

 Carol A. Wieckowski, Attorney for 

 Defendants Rocklin Unified School 

 District, Charles Thibideau, Betty Jo 

 Wessinger, Janna Cambra, Kevin Brown, 

 Roger Stock and Dr. Todd Cutler 

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Dated: March 17, 2016 Longyear, O’Dea & Lavra, LLP 

 By: /s/ 

 Gregory O’Dea, Esq., Attorney for 

 Defendant Sherry McDaniel 

Dated: March 17, 2016 Hinton Alfert & Kahn, LLP 

 

 By: /s/ 

 Peter Alfert, Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Dated: March 17, 2016 Law Office of Todd Boley 

 By: /s/ 

 Todd Boley, Attorney for Plaintiffs 

Dated: March 17, 2016 By: /s/ 

 Deputy City Attorney DeeAnne Gillick, 

 Attorney for City of Rocklin 

ORDER

 Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: March 21, 2016 

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