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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 15:2(a) Fair Labor Standards Act

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SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

A Limited Liability Partnership

Including Professional Corporations

CHARLES F. BARKER, Cal. Bar No. 70076

cbarker@sheppardmullin.com

DEREK R. HAVEL, Cal. Bar No. 193464

dhavel@sheppardmullin.com

MATTHEW A. TOBIAS, Cal. Bar No. 271291

mtobias@sheppardmullin.com

333 South Hope Street, 43rd Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071-1422

Telephone: 213.620.1780

Facsimile: 213.620.1398

CLIFFORD & BROWN

 A Professional Corporation

 Attorneys at Law

GROVER H. WALDON, ESQ. - SBN 111206

JOHN R. SZEWCZYK, ESQ. - SBN 109981

Bank of America Building

1430 Truxtun Avenue, Suite 900

Bakersfield, CA 93301-5230

Tel: (661) 322-6023 Fax: (661) 322-3508

Attorneys for DRILTEK, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KENNETH WILLIS, an individual, on 

behalf of himself and all others 

similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

ENTERPRISE DRILLING FLUIDS, 

INC.; and DOES 1 through 10,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:15-CV-00688 JLT

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER – CONFIDENTIAL 

DESIGNATION

(Doc. 61)

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STIPULATION RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

This Joint Stipulation is entered into by and between Plaintiff Kenneth 

Willis (“Willis”) and Defendants Enterprise Drilling Fluids, Inc. (“Enterprise”) and

Driltek, Inc. (“Driltek”), (each individually referred to as a “Party” and collectively 

referred to as the “Parties”) based on the fact that discovery in this case will result in 

the production and exchange of documents and other information that either 

constitutes or reveals the Parties’ trade secrets and other confidential and/or 

proprietary information.

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by the Parties, by and through their 

respective attorneys of record and pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 26(c) and 29, that 

discovery of confidential information shall be had on the following terms and 

conditions:

A. DEFINITIONS

1. As used herein, the term “confidential” information means: (a) 

any type of information that has not been made generally available to the public and 

the disclosure of which the disclosing party contends would cause harm to the 

disclosing party’s business operations or interests, which could include, but would 

not be limited to, contracts, customer data, costs of goods or services sold, 

manufacturing or other costs of doing business, employee personnel information, 

sales records, inventory sheets, and business strategies; (b) data derived from such 

confidential information, including any summaries, compilations, quotes, or 

paraphrases thereof; and (c) any other oral, written, or recorded material that 

consists of or contains trade secrets (as defined in CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE 

§ 3426.1(d)) or other confidential research, development, or commercial information 

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and the disclosure of which would result in competitive harm, and for which the 

designating party has taken reasonable measures to maintain their confidential, nonpublic status; and (d) information subject to federal or state privacy rights. 

2. As used herein, the term “attorneys’ eyes only” means

information or material that qualifies as “Confidential” information and that a Party 

further reasonably believes in good faith is of such a highly proprietary and/or 

sensitive nature that its disclosure should be limited strictly to outside attorneys who 

have appeared in this action, and independent experts.

3. As used herein, the terms “document”, “documents”, “tangible 

things”, “recordings”, and “photographs” mean documents, writings, tangible 

things, recordings, and photographs as defined in FED. R. CIV. P. 34(a) and FED. R.

EVID. 1001, and include, but are not limited to, records, exhibits, reports, samples, 

transcripts, video or audio recordings, disks, affidavits, briefs, summaries, notes, 

abstracts, drawings, company records and reports, answers to interrogatories, 

responses to requests for admissions, and motions, including copies or computerstored versions of any of the foregoing.

B. DESIGNATION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

1. This Protective Order applies to all discovery responses, 

documents, testimony, and other materials containing confidential information 

disclosed in this action that are designated by a party or any third party as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, in the manner described below, 

whether such disclosure is by order of the Court, by response to questions in a 

deposition, written interrogatories, requests for the production of documents and 

other tangible things, requests for admission, response to a subpoena, or any other 

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discovery undertaken in this action.

2. A party that provides information may designate it as 

“confidential” or “attorneys’ eyes only” only when such party in good faith believes 

it contains information that merits such designation. A party designating 

information as confidential or attorneys’ eyes only should take reasonable care to 

designate only that information, documents, items or oral or written communications 

that the party reasonably believes to qualify for protection. If it comes to a party’s 

or a non-party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection 

do not qualify for protection, that party or non-party should promptly notify all other 

parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

Any party may protect information it believes constitutes confidential 

information by designating such information as CONFIDENTIAL or 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY prior to or at the time of disclosure of such 

information. Such designation shall be accomplished by placing the notation 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY (or some essentially equivalent 

notation equivalent) on every page of each document or portion thereof so 

designated. In the case of confidential information disclosed in a non-paper medium 

(e.g., videotape, audiotape, computer disks, etc.), the notation CONFIDENTIAL or 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall be affixed to the outside of the medium or its 

container so as to clearly give notice of the designation. Such designation is deemed 

to apply to the document itself and to the confidential information contained therein.

3. Except as set forth in this Protective Order, designated 

confidential or attorneys’ eyes only information 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, or dissemination to the media. 

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Information so designated shall not be disclosed to anyone other than those persons 

permitted by the Protective Order, except as may be ordered by the Court or agreed 

to in writing by the producing party. If any information designated by a party as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY is thereafter used by a party to 

which it has been produced or disclosed as part of a paper filed or lodged with the 

Court in this action or in a response to a discovery request in this action, the party 

using that information shall take all reasonable steps to preserve the continued 

confidentiality of that designated confidential information. 

4. The Parties shall use reasonable care to avoid designating any 

materials as CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY that are (a) not 

entitled to such designation, or (b) are generally available to the public.

5. The terms of this Protective Order shall not apply to or restrict 

the disclosure or use by a producing party or its counsel of the producing party’s 

own confidential information. The voluntary disclosure of confidential information 

by a producing party, however, may provide grounds for an opposing party to 

challenge the confidential designation of the same information pursuant to Section 

E, below.

6. A party serving a subpoena or demanding discovery from any 

third party shall serve a copy of this Protective Order on the third party concurrently 

with the subpoena or discovery demand. 

C. DISCLOSURE OF DESIGNATED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

1. The Parties, counsel for the Parties, and all persons to whom 

confidential information is disclosed under the terms of this Protective Order shall 

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maintain all designated confidential and attorneys’ eyes only information in 

confidence and shall not disclose such information, directly or indirectly, to any 

person except as provided in this Protective Order.

2. Access to information designated as CONFIDENTIAL or shall 

be limited to the following persons:

a. The attorneys for the Parties (including both outside 

counsel and in-house counsel) and their support personnel (e.g., legal assistants and 

copy services);

b. Current and former employees of the Parties involved in 

the prosecution or defense of the litigation, and to whom disclosure of the 

confidential information is reasonably necessary for the purposes of this litigation;

c. The Court and court personnel of any court having 

jurisdiction over any proceedings involved in this litigation;

d. Court reporters, videographers, and their staffs to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for the purposes of this litigation;

e. Consultants and experts, who execute the Declaration 

Confirming Compliance With Stipulated Protective Order Re Confidential 

Information (“Compliance Declaration”) attached to this Protective Order;

f. Any current employee, director, agent or FED. R. CIV. P. 

30(b)(6) designee of the producing party;

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g. Any former employee of a producing party, who executes 

the Compliance Declaration, that the disclosing party reasonably and in good faith 

believes authored, received, or became familiar with the confidential information in 

the ordinary course of his or her employment by the designating party; 

h. Any author, original source, or prior recipient of the 

confidential information;

i. Deposition witnesses who execute the Compliance 

Declaration attached to this Protective Order; 

j. Any other person or entity as to whom the Parties agree in 

writing; and

k. Any other person as to whom the Court orders should have 

access to the confidential information.

3. Access to information designated as ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY or shall be limited to the following persons:

a. The Court and Court personnel, including court reporters, 

stenographers, and video reporters who are retained to transcribe or videotape 

testimony, including depositions, in the action;

b. The Parties’ outside counsel of record in the action and 

those employees or agents of the Parties' counsel of record who need to see such 

"Attorneys' Eyes Only Material" in order to perform their jobs, including the 

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paralegal, clerical, secretarial staff, and other support personnel employed or 

engaged by such counsel;

c. Experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff), 

who have signed “Exhibit A” attached hereto, who are not employees of any Party 

and who are retained or employed by any Party solely for the purpose of assisting 

counsel in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, to the extent counsel 

of record in good faith believe such disclosure is required to assist in the 

prosecution, defense or resolution of this litigation on a need-to-know basis;

d. Any person who prepared the "Attorneys' Eyes Only 

Material";

e. Mediators retained by all parties in an attempt to settle this 

matter;

f. Persons who appear on the face of "Attorneys' Eyes Only 

Material" as an author, addressee or recipient thereof

g. Witnesses employed by the Party designating the 

"Attorneys' Eyes Only Material"; 

h. Any other person who has signed "Exhibit A” attached 

hereto and to whom the Parties have agreed in writing or on the record; and 

i. Any insurer for a Party who has signed "Exhibit A" 

attached hereto.

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4. A copy of any Compliance Declaration (Exh. A) executed by any 

person required under this Protective Order shall be maintained by counsel for the 

party making the disclosure of another party’s designated confidential information. 

D. DEPOSITIONS

1. With respect to the examination of witnesses upon oral 

deposition, when designated confidential information is supplied to the deponent, or 

when the deponent’s testimony contains, reflects, or comments on designated 

confidential information, the deposition reporter and/or video operator shall be 

informed of this Protective Order by the party seeking to use or disclose the 

confidential information. The reporter and/or video operator then shall place on the 

cover of any deposition transcript or video that contains any designated confidential 

information the words “CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SUBJECT 

TO A COURT PROTECTIVE ORDER.” Counsel for the Parties then shall take 

appropriate steps to prevent any portions of any deposition transcript or video 

designated CONFIDENTIAL from being disclosed to any person, except as 

provided in this Protective Order.

2. All testimony at a deposition shall be presumed to be designated 

CONFIDENTIAL if this Protective Order is invoked at the deposition until the 

specific pages of the transcript containing designated confidential information are 

identified and designated CONFIDENTIAL as provided below. The designating 

party shall, within thirty (30) days after receiving a copy of the deposition transcript, 

provide all Parties with a written list of the page(s) of the deposition transcript, and 

any exhibits attached thereto, that the party has designated CONFIDENTIAL. Only 

pages containing confidential information shall be so designated. 

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3. If designated confidential information is to be discussed or 

disclosed in a deposition, any party claiming such confidentiality may exclude from 

the room any person who is not entitled to receive such confidential information 

during that portion of the deposition in which the confidential information is 

actually discussed or disclosed. If designated confidential information is to be 

discussed or disclosed at a hearing or at trial, the Parties may request that the Court 

exclude from the courtroom any person who is not entitled to receive such 

confidential information during that portion of the hearing or trial in which the 

confidential information is actually discussed or disclosed.

E. CHALLENGING A DESIGNATION

1. The Parties agree that they will actively work to avoid the 

unnecessary designation of information produced in discovery in this action. If only 

a portion of a document contains confidential information, and if reasonably 

feasible, only that portion will be designated CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.

2. In the event that counsel for any party at any time believes that 

designated confidential information should not be so designated, such counsel shall 

meet and confer with counsel for the other party in an attempt to resolve the dispute. 

3. If counsel for the Parties are unable to resolve the dispute, then 

counsel objecting to the designation of particular information as CONFIDENTIAL 

or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY may make an application to this Court, to be 

lodged conditionally under seal, for an Order that the information subject to the 

dispute be excluded from the protection of the Protective Order. However, unless 

and until an order of this Court sets aside a designation of information as 

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CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, all information so designated 

shall be treated as CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY pursuant to 

the terms of this Protective Order.

4. The designating party bears the burden of establishing that the 

documents designated are entitled to protection. 

5. No party shall be obliged to challenge the propriety of a 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY designation, and a failure to do 

so shall not preclude a subsequent attack on the propriety of such designation.

F. INADVERTENT FAILURE TO DESIGNATE

1. The inadvertent failure to designate confidential information as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY prior to or at the time of 

disclosure shall not operate as a waiver of a party’s right to designate such 

information as CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY after such 

disclosure.

2. In the event that confidential information is designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY after disclosure, the receiving 

party shall employ reasonable efforts to ensure that all previously disclosed 

information is subsequently treated as CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY, as appropriate, pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order.

3. Should any document or information designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY be disclosed, through 

inadvertence or otherwise, to any person or party not authorized to see such 

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materials under this Protective Order, then the disclosing party shall immediately 

procure the return of the material, and inform counsel for the designating party 

whose confidential information has thus been disclosed of all relevant information 

concerning the nature and circumstances of such disclosure. The disclosing party 

shall also take all reasonable measures promptly to ensure that no further or greater 

unauthorized disclosure of the Confidential Information occurs. 

G. CUSTODY AND DISPOSITION OF CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY INFORMATION

1. Confidential information designated CONFIDENTIAL or 

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall be maintained in the custody of counsel for the 

Parties, except for information in the custody of: (a) the Court; (b) any court 

reporter transcribing testimony given in this action, for the limited purpose of 

rendering his or her normal transcribing services; and (c) persons to whom the 

confidential information may be disclosed pursuant to the terms of the Protective 

Order, including consultants and experts, to the extent necessary for their 

involvement in the litigation. Except for the Court, a person with custody of 

information designated CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall 

maintain it in a manner that limits access to it to only those persons entitled under 

this Protective Order to examine it.

2. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, at the conclusion of this 

litigation, whether by settlement or final decision of the Court of last resort, the 

Parties, counsel for the Parties, and all persons who executed the Compliance 

Declaration agree that they will destroy or return to the producing party all copies of 

any documents, other than attorney work product, containing designated 

confidential information produced by a party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, 

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counsel of record shall be permitted to retain a file copy of all pre-trial, trial, and 

post-trial materials, depositions and deposition exhibits, and document databases. 

Such file copies must be maintained under the conditions of maintaining 

CONFIDENTIAL documents as set forth above.

H. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

1. The provisions of this Protective Order apply to all proceedings 

in this action, including all appeals, arbitrations, mediations, and proceedings upon 

remand, unless the matter proceeds to trial. The Parties will work with the Court to 

determine whether evidence proffered at trial should continue to be treated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY and, if so, what protection, if 

any, may be afforded to such information at trial.

2. A designation of confidentiality pursuant to this Protective Order 

shall be effective and shall be respected by the Parties and all persons in any way 

involved in these proceedings or to whose attention confidential information shall 

come unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court or stipulated by the Parties. 

These obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure shall survive the conclusion 

of this action unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court, or until the producing 

parties stipulate that designated confidential information may be disclosed.

3. By entering into this Protective Order, no party waives any 

objections it might have to the production of documents covered by this Protective 

Order. 

4. No party to this action, by entering into this Protective Order, by 

designating certain information as CONFIDENTIAL or ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

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ONLY, or by acquiescing in any other party’s designation, shall be deemed to have 

admitted or agreed that any such designated information is, in fact, a trade secret or 

other confidential research, development, or commercial information.

5. The Court retains jurisdiction even after termination of this 

action to enforce this Protective Order and to make such deletions from or 

amendments, modifications, and additions to the Protective Order as the Court may 

from time to time deem appropriate. The Parties, and any producing party, reserve 

all rights to apply to the Court at any time, before or after termination of this action, 

for an order modifying this Protective Order or seeking further protection against 

disclosure or use of claimed confidential information.

I. FILING OR LODGING UNDER SEAL

1. When a party wishes to include information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” in any papers filed with the 

Court, the party submitting the information shall submit the information “UNDER 

SEAL” and shall make a motion to the Court seeking to seal same pursuant to the 

procedures set forth in Eastern District Local Rule 141. 

2. Where the filing party is not the Designating Party and is not 

seeking to have the record containing such information sealed, the party shall lodge 

the materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” with 

the Court in a sealed envelope labeled “CONDITIONALLY UNDER SEAL.” The 

filing party shall also affix to the sealed envelope a cover sheet that contains the 

case caption and states that the enclosed record is subject to a motion to file the 

record under seal. Any affected party or non-party may then file a motion to seal, 

pursuant to the procedures set forth in Eastern District Local Rule 141, subsection j, 

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within fifteen (15) business days after the document(s) are provided to the Court. 

Such document(s) will not be filed with the Clerk of Court until the Court rules on 

the motion to seal. If no party or non-party files a motion to seal, the document(s) 

will be filed, unsealed, after the expiration of fifteen (15) business days. 

3. Where one party wishes to file or lodge any documents or things 

with the Court under seal, the other party shall not unreasonably withhold agreement 

to such filing or lodging under seal. If such agreement is provided, the Parties shall 

submit to the Court a stipulation and proposed order for such filing or lodging under 

seal. If no such agreement is provided, then the filing or lodging party shall submit 

an application and proposed order to the Court pursuant to the procedures set forth 

in Eastern District Local Rule 141.

J. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

Pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 26(c), good cause exists for entry of this 

Protective Order because the Parties to this action (1) either have sought or might 

seek the discovery of certain information in this action that the Parties believe is 

sensitive or confidential, (2) believe that unrestricted disclosure or dissemination of 

such information could cause them business or commercial injury, (3) desire an 

efficient and practicable means to designate such information as confidential and 

control its disclosure or dissemination, and (4) have agreed to such means as set 

forth herein.

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Dated: July 27, 2016

SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP

By

/s/ Matthew A. Tobias

CHARLES F. BARKER

DEREK R. HAVEL

MATTHEW A. TOBIAS

Attorneys for Defendant

DRILTEK, INC.

THE DION-KINDEM LAW FIRM

Dated: July 27, 2016

By /s/ Peter Dion-Kimden

Peter R. Dion-Kindem

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KENNETH WILLIS

LAW OFFICES OF LEBEAU • THELEN, LLP

Dated: July ___, 2016

By

/s/ Kelly A. Lazerson for

Daniel K. Klingenberger

Ravpreet K. Bhangoo

Attorneys for Defendant

ENTERPRISE DRILLING FLUIDS, INC.

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ORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby approves this Stipulation and Protective 

Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 11, 2016 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

DECLARATION CONFIRMING COMPLIANCE WITH STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

I, ___________________________, hereby declare:

1. My address is ________________________________________. 

My telephone number is (______) ______ - ________.

2. I have read, understand and agree to be bound by the terms of the 

Stipulated Protective Order Re Confidential Information (“Protective Order”), 

entered in this action, Kenneth Willis v. Enterprise Drilling Fluids, Inc., et al. Case 

No. 1:15-CV-00688- TLN-JLT, in the United States District Court, Eastern District 

of California.

3. I understand that this Protective Order requires me not to 

disclose any information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY”, which is provided to me in the course of my involvement in this 

litigation, to any person not authorized by this Protective Order to receive such 

information.

4. I agree that I shall return or destroy all documents containing any 

information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

that have been provided to me, together with any work product including such 

information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”, 

upon demand by the Court or the counsel or party who furnished such information 

to me.

5. I consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Eastern 

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District of California with respect to any actions of any kind whatsoever relative to 

the enforcement of the Protective Order.

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

America that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on _______________________________, 20__ at 

____________________________ (city), __________________________(state).

Signature

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