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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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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GILLIAN WALKER, an individual, on behalf

of herself and all others similarly situated, all

aggrieved employees, and on behalf of the

general public,

Civil No. 12-cv-0004-WQH (DHB)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT MOTION

FOR ENTRY OF STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

[ECF No. 15]

v.

COREPOWER YOGA LLC, and DOES 1

through 15, inclusive

Defendants.

On May 29, 2012, Plaintiff Gillian Walker and Defendant CorePower Yoga LLC (referred to

individually as a “Party” or collectively as the “Parties”) filed a Joint Motion for Entry of Stipulated

Protective Order Regarding Confidential Information. (ECF No. 15.) Good cause appearing, the

Parties’ request that a Protective Order1

 be entered in the above-entitled matter is hereby GRANTED

and IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

PROTECTIVE ORDER

The Parties recognize that, during the course of discovery and other proceedings in this action,

it may become necessary for them to disclose certain confidential and proprietary information to the

other party, including confidential or private information of third parties. All Parties wish to ensure that

any such confidential and proprietary information shall not be used for any purpose other than this

action, not be made public, or otherwise be disclosed or disseminated beyond the extent necessary for

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The Parties’ proposed Protective Order is adopted with certain modifications.

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purposes of this action. 

Accordingly, the Parties stipulate to and this Court orders the following procedures for protecting

confidential and proprietary information:

A. Definitions

1. For purposes of this Protective Order, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION means any

Document (as defined below) and transcripts of oral testimony or recorded statements, or any portion

thereof, which is designated by any Party as confidential because it contains confidential information,

trade secrets or other confidential research, development, or commercial information as those terms are

used in Rule 26(c)(1)(G) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or contains personal, private, and

confidential information of individuals. By way of example, and not limitation, CONFIDENTIAL

INFORMATION may be included in Documents, portions of Documents, electronic files, transcripts,

answers to interrogatories, briefs, summaries, notes, abstracts, motions, drawings and any instrument,

which comprises, embodies or summarizes matter that any Party considers confidential and desires not

to be made public.

2. The term “Document(s)” shall mean and include, but not be limited to: (a) any

electronically stored information, data, documents, files, programs, emails, and other electronic

communications, regardless of format; (b) printed matter and other writings, including letters,

correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, circulars, catalogs, publications, interoffice and/or

intra-corporate communications, minutes, telegrams, statements, cancelled checks, emails, contracts,

invoices, drafts, maps, charts, specifications, guidelines, manuals, books of accounts, work sheets, notes

of conversations, desk diaries, appointment books, expense accounts; sketches, drawings, notes,

blueprints, disclosures, data, reports, work assignments, instructions, and compilations from which

information can be obtained and translated; and (c) other tangible things, including, photographs, motion

pictures, videotapes, and models.

B. Designation of Information

3. If any Party intends to produce Documents, provide discovery responses or testimony that

the producing Party deems to contain or include CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION and wishes such

Document, discovery responses, or testimony to be subject to this Protective Order, the producing Party

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shall designate confidentiality by marking the Documents, testimony, or discovery responses 

“CONFIDENTIAL” at the time it is provided to the receiving Party. Any copy made of such Documents

or other materials shall also bear on its face the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such designation shall be

made only upon the designating Party’s good faith and well founded belief that the material constitutes

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION as defined above. 

4. Any Party may also designate particularly sensitive Documents and other information as

“CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” by so marking or designating it in good faith. 

All Documents or information designated “CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” are

included within the meaning of “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” as used in this Protective Order

and, except as otherwise provided herein, all provisions set forth in this Protective Order applicable to

“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” also apply to Documents or information designated

“CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” except that “CONFIDENTIAL FOR

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Documents and information shall not be shown, disclosed, or

communicated by the receiving Party in any way to anyone other than those persons described in

paragraphs 9(i) herein. Such designation shall be made only upon the designating Party’s good faith and

well founded belief that the information constitutes highly sensitive financial information, trade secrets

or other highly confidential proprietary or personal information.

5. It is contemplated that one or more of the Parties may make certain Documents available

for review and inspection by the opposing Party, and that such Documents may contain confidential as

well as non-confidential material, and that following such inspection the inspecting Party will request

Documents to be copied and furnished to the inspecting Party. All Documents and their contents made

available for such inspection in this manner shall be treated as containing CONFIDENTIAL

INFORMATION until the producing Party has had the opportunity to designate and mark selected

Documents as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY according

to paragraphs 3 and 4 hereof.

6. If, during the course of discovery in this action, the Parties hereto, or their representatives,

are authorized to inspect another Party’s facilities, processes, or products, any Documents or things

generated as a consequence of any such inspection by the inspecting Party, subject to the other

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provisions of this Protective Order, shall be deemed to comprise or to be CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY as designated by the Party whose facilities,

processes, or products are being inspected, and shall be treated as such.

7. Whenever a deposition taken on behalf of any Party hereto involves a disclosure of

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION of another Party, the following procedure shall be implemented:

(a) During the deposition, counsel for the Party whose CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

is subject to disclosure may state that the testimony is CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY and advise all persons present that

the information is subject to this Protective Order. Only those persons authorized to

receive disclosures of such CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION as provided in

paragraphs 4, 9, and 10 hereof shall be permitted to listen to or read testimony so

designated.

(b) If a designation of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION is not made during a deposition,

a Party may designate the deposition or parts thereof as CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY by written notice to the other

Party and the court reporter within 30 days of the mailing of the official transcript of this

deposition. All persons with copies of the deposition transcript shall then mark their

copies with the above legend. If a Party or its counsel discloses any deposition

transcripts that are subsequently designated as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL

FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY in accordance with this provision, then such Party

and counsel shall make all reasonable and good faith efforts to recover the disclosed

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION and protect it under the terms of this Protective

Order. 

C. Filing Documents Under Seal

8. No Document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a court order allowing the

filing of a Document under seal. An application to file a Document under seal shall be served on

opposing counsel, and on the person or entity that has custody and control of the Document, if different

from opposing counsel. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has custody and control of the

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Document, wishes to oppose the application, he/she must contact the chambers of the judge who will

rule on the application, to notify the judge’s staff that an opposition to the application will be filed. The

Parties shall follow and abide by applicable law, including Civ. L.R. 79.2, Electronic Case Filing

Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual, Section II.j, and the chambers’ rules, with respect to

filing Documents under seal. 

9. In the event that any Party wishes to include matters that are CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY in any Document, including any pleading, motion,

deposition transcript, or other paper filed with this Court, such Party shall take all necessary steps,

pursuant to the rules and procedures of this Court, to request and obtain an order allowing such

Document containing CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY to be filed

under seal or to otherwise restrict access to such Document. 

D. Use of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

10. All material produced by any Party pursuant to pretrial discovery in this action that is

designated by the producing Party as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY, including any summaries, abstracts or other Documents derived in whole or in part from such

Documents, shall be maintained in confidence according to the terms of this Protective Order by the

receiving Party and used solely in the preparation, prosecution, settlement, or trial of this action. Subject

to the provisions of paragraphs 9 and 10 hereof, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION shall only be

disclosed by the receiving Party to:

(a) the Party who designated the Document or materials as CONFIDENTIAL;

(b) a current employee or other representative of a Party who designated the Document or

materials as CONFIDENTIAL and who is authorized by such designating Party to

receive the CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION;

(c) a person or non-Party entity that authored or received the item prior to its production in

this litigation;

(d) outside or in-house counsel of record for either Party (including stenographic, clerical

and paralegal employees of outside counsel) and outside companies engaged by them

such as independent copying companies, temporary services, professional photographers

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and/or photographic studios;

(e) the Court and its officers;

(f) outside independent experts and consultants, subject to the provisions of paragraph 10

of this Protective Order;

(g) court reporters used during the course of this litigation; 

(h) employees of the receiving Party only on a need to know basis; and

(i) Documents and materials designated as CONFIDENTIAL FOR ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY shall be disclosed only to those persons designated in subparagraph (a), (b), (d),

(e), and (g) above.

E. Right to Object to Designation

11. The receipt of any Document or other materials designated as CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY by a Party shall not be construed as an agreement by

any other Party that any such Document or other materials are in fact confidential, and shall not operate

as a waiver of any Party’s right to challenge any such designation as provided herein. 

12. The Parties shall act in good faith in designating information and materials as

CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY. A Party may object to the

designation of particular CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY

information by giving written notice to the Party designating the disputed information within thirty (30)

days of the receiving Party’s receipt of the disputed information. Any objection to the designation shall

be reasonable and in good faith, and the written notice shall identify with reasonable particularity the

information to which the objection is made. If the Parties cannot resolve the objection within ten (10)

business days after the time the notice is received, it shall be the obligation of the Party designating the

information as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY to file an

appropriate motion requesting that the Court determine whether the disputed information should be

subject to the terms of this Protective Order. If such a motion is filed within thirty (30) days after the

Parties were unable to resolve the designation dispute, the disputed information shall be treated as

CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY under the terms of this Protective

Order until the Court rules on the motion. If the designating Party fails to file such a motion within the

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prescribed time, the disputed information shall lose its designation as CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY and shall not thereafter be treated as CONFIDENTIAL

or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY in accordance with this Protective Order. In

connection with a motion filed under this provision, the Party designating the information as

CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall bear the burden of

establishing that good cause exists for the disputed information to be treated as CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.

13. If a Party lists a Document subject to this Protective Order on any trial exhibit list or in

a pretrial order, a Party seeking to maintain the protections of this Protective Order must within thirty

(30) days thereof file an appropriate pleading with the Court in support of further protection should such

Party require such for trial on the merits.

14. No Party shall be obligated to challenge the propriety or correctness of the designation

of information as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY and a failure

to do so shall not preclude a subsequent challenge to such status. The burden of proof with respect to

the propriety or correctness in the designation of information as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY shall rest on the designating Party.

F. Information Inadvertently Disclosed

15. If a producing Party inadvertently discloses to a receiving Party any Document or other

materials containing information that the producing Party deems confidential without designating it as

CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, the producing Party shall upon

discovery of such inadvertent disclosure promptly inform the receiving Party in writing that the

Document should be marked as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY

and the receiving Party shall thereafter treat the Document and other materials as CONFIDENTIAL or

CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY under this Protective Order. Notice given within, at

least, thirty (30) days after discovery of the inadvertent disclosure shall be considered prompt notice. 

To the extent such Document or other materials may have been disclosed to persons other than

authorized persons described in this Protective Order, the receiving Party shall make every reasonable

effort to retrieve the Document or other materials promptly from such persons and to limit any further

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disclosure to unauthorized persons.

G. Privileged Materials

16. Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed to require the disclosure of material

that is protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine

and shall not operate as a waiver of any Party’s obligation to prove and/or support any such designation

as provided herein.

17. If a producing Party inadvertently discloses to a receiving Party information that is

privileged or otherwise immune from discovery, said producing Party shall so advise the receiving Party

within ten (10) days of discovery of such disclosure in writing and request that the item or items of

information be returned, and no Party to this action shall thereafter assert that such inadvertent disclosure

waived any privilege or immunity. It is further agreed that the receiving Party will return such

inadvertently produced item or items of information and all copies thereof within ten (10) days of

receiving a written request for the return of such item or items of information. The Party having returned

such inadvertently produced item or items of information may thereafter, without asserting waiver

because of inadvertent production, seek production of any such Documents in accordance with the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

H. Termination of Litigation or Settlement

18. Within ninety (90) days of the conclusion or final settlement of this litigation and any

appeal thereof, all persons subject to the terms hereof shall destroy or assemble and return to the Party

who produced the Documents or other materials designated as CONFIDENTIAL or CONFIDENTIAL

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY, all such Documents and other materials including depositions and

deposition exhibits, and shall destroy any outlines, summaries, abstracts, compilations, memoranda,

Documents and the like, which constitute, embody, contain, or disclose the contents of any

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; except that counsel for the Parties may retain one archival copy

of materials that they believe are required to satisfy their ethical obligations to retain client- or

case-related materials, including, one copy of court filings, deposition and trial transcripts (including one

copy of exhibits thereto), attorney notes and other work product, provided all such retained materials

remain subject to this Protective Order.

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I. Additional Protection of CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

19. Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Protective Order shall be deemed to preclude

any Party from seeking and obtaining, on an appropriate showing, additional protection with respect to

the confidentiality of Documents or other discovery material, or relief from this Protective Order with

respect to particular material designated hereunder.

J. Obligations of Parties

20. Each of the Parties and their counsel of record undertakes to abide by and be bound by

the provisions of this Protective Order and to use due care to see that its provisions are known and

adhered to by those under its supervision or control.

21. Nothing in this Protective Order shall bar counsel from rendering advice to their client

with respect to this litigation and, in the course thereof, relying upon any Documents, things, or

information designated CONFIDENTIAL, provided that such rendering of advice or opinions shall not

unnecessarily reveal the content of such information except pursuant to this agreement or other prior

written agreement with opposing counsel.

K. Modifications of Protective Order by Court

22. The Court may modify the terms and conditions of this Protective Order for good cause,

or in the interest of justice, or on its own order at any time in these proceedings.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: June 1, 2012

DAVID H. BARTICK

United States Magistrate Judge

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