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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Employment Discrimination

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LYNNE C. HERMLE (STATE BAR NO. 99779)

SHANNON B. SEEKAO (STATE BAR NO. 267536)

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

1000 Marsh Road

Menlo Park, California 94025

Telephone: 650-614-7400

Facsimile: 650-614-7401

lchermle@orrick.com

sseekao@orrick.com

Attorneys for Defendant

FREMONT GROUP MANAGEMENT, L.P.

ALAN ADELMAN (STATE BAR NO. 170860)

LAW OFFICES OF ALAN ADELMAN

240 Stockton Street, 4th floor

San Francisco, California 94108

Telephone: 415-956-1376

Facsimile: 415-358-4060

alan@alanadelmanlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

SIGRID MALICDEM

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SIGRID MALICDEM,

Plaintiff,

v.

FREMONT GROUP, L.L.C.; FREMONT 

GROUP MANAGEMENT, L.P.,

Defendant.

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ORDER APPROVING STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE ORDER WITH

AMENDMENTS1

Re: ECF No. 24

 

1 The Court has adopted the parties’ proposed order in its entirety, with the exception of Sections 

6.2 and 6.3. As to those sections, the Court has adopted the counterpart sections of the Court’s 

Model Protective Order.

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1. 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 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 79-5 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 produces or receives 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 party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

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

2.11 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.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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 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 Party or 

becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a 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 Party prior to the disclosure or obtained by the 

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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 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 qualifies 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.

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 a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protection do not qualify for protection that Designating 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, 

or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for 

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protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced except as otherwise stated in this Order.

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 Designating 

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 Designating Party also 

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

margins). The identification of information as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be made at a time when 

a response to an interrogatory or a response to a request for admission is served, when a copy of a 

document is provided to the other party, within 45 days of receipt of a copy of a document from 

the other party or from a third party, and when an inspection of premises or tangible things is 

made. Any party may designate any document produced prior to the date of entry of this Order 

within 45 days after the date of entry of this Order.

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 Designating 

Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this 

Order and must designate them as “CONFIDENTIAL” in accordance with the time limits in the 

preceding paragraph. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of 

testimony that is entitled to protection and it appears that substantial portions of the testimony 

may qualify for protection, the Designating Party may have up to 45 days after receipt of the 

deposition transcript to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

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sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated for protection within the 45 days shall be covered by the 

provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. Alternatively, a Designating Party may specify, at 

the deposition or up to 45 days after receipt of the deposition transcript, that the entire transcript 

shall be treated as “CONFIDENTIAL”. Any party may designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

deposition testimony taken before the date of entry of this Order within 45 days after the date of 

entry of this Order. Any transcript that is prepared before the expiration of a 45-day period for 

designation shall be treated during that period as if it had been designated “CONFIDENTIAL” in 

its entirety unless otherwise agreed. After the expiration of that period, the transcript shall be 

treated only as actually designated, subject to Section 5.3 below. 

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

other tangible items, that the Designating 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 Designating Party, 

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

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. 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 parties must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 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.

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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 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 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.

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 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, 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 earlier. Each such motion must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant 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. In 

addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any 

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

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

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet 

and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

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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. All parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to 

which it is entitled under the Designating Party’s designation until the court rules on the 

challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. Protected Material may only be used in connection with this 

casefor 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, the parties must comply with the provisions of section 

13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained 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 Party may disclose any 

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the 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 Party to 

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

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

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the 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;

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(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 or order is subject to this 

Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(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 expense of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material –

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and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a 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 NonParty’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 Non-Party 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. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 

days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Party may produce the NonParty’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely 

seeks a protective order, the 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. 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 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 Party 

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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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be 

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

When a Party gives notice that certain inadvertently produced material is subject to a 

claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 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 attorneyclient privilege or work product protection, 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 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 Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be 

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

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at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request 

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or 

otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Party's request to file Protected Material under 

seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Party may file the 

information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed 

by the court. Any documents which the Court declines to order sealed, do not lose their status as 

Protected Material as a result thereof.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

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

Party must return all Protected Material to the Designating Party or destroy such material. 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 or destroyed, the Party must submit a written certification to the 

Designating Party by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all 

the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Party has not 

retained any 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 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: September 8, 2015 /s/ Alan Adelman **

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: September 8, 2015 /s/Shannon B. Seekao

Attorneys for Defendant

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**I hereby attest that I have been authorized by Alan Adelman to execute on his behalf 

this Stipulation and Protective Order Regarding Confidential Information.

Executed this 8th day of September, 2015, at Menlo Park, California.

By: /s/ Shannon B. Seekao

Shannon B. Seekao

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: __September 11, 2015________________________________________________

Jon S. Tigar

United States District Judge

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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 Northern District of California on [date] in the case of ___________ [insert formal name of 

the case and the number and initials assigned to it by the court]. 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 

Northern 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 where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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