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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 29:1801 Farmworker Rights

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GLYNN, FINLEY, MORTL

HANLON & FRIEDENBERG, LLP

JAMES M. HANLON, Jr., Bar No. 214096

MORGAN K. LOPEZ, Bar No. 215513

One Walnut Creek Center

100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 500

Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Telephone: (925) 210-2800

Facsimile: (925) 945-1975

E-mail: jhanlon@glynnfinley.com

mlopez@glynnfinley.com

Attorneys for Defendants

Castlerock Farming and Transport, Inc.

and Albert L. Good

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – FRESNO DIVISION

MARIA G. MORENO, ESTHER L. 

LOPEZ, FRANCISCO OROZCO, 

ABRAHAM ORTIZ, JAVIER GARCIA, 

FLORENCIA GUTIERREZ, and ISRAEL 

LOPEZ on behalf of themselves and all 

other similarly situated, 

Plaintiffs,

vs.

CASTLEROCK FARMING AND 

TRANSPORT, INC., J.L. PADILLA & 

SONS LABOR SERVICE, INC., MELBA 

NUNEZ CONTRACTING (form unknown), 

ALBERT L. GOOD, individual, and Does 

2-20, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No. 1:12-CV-00556-AWI-BAK 

(BAM)

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Trial Date: None Set

Judge: Hon. Anthony W. Ishii

Magistrate Judge: Hon. Barbara A. 

McAuliffe

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This [Proposed] Stipulated Protective Order is lodged for the Court’s approval:

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 petition the Court to enter the following Protective Order 

(“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 

13.3, below, that this Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 

under seal; Civil 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.

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

Material in this action.

2.12 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.

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

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

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

Producing Party. 

2.15 Action: the case entitled Moreno et al. v. Castlerock Farming and Transport, Inc.,

et al. Case No. 1:12-CV-00556-AWI-BAK (BAM), United States District Court, Eastern District 

of California.

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2.16 Class Member: a member of a class that has been certified by the Court in this 

Action.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this 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 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. 

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. MATERIAL PRESUMED CONFIDENTIAL

All documents containing the personal information of Defendant’s employees, including, 

but not limited to, employees’ Social Security Numbers, home addresses, home telephone 

numbers, birth dates, wages, pay roll and tax information, shall be presumed CONFIDENTIAL

and shall be subject to all applicable terms of this protective order, unless the parties otherwise

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stipulate in writing.

6. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

6.1 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.

Unless otherwise set forth in this Agreement, 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.

6.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this

Order (see, e.g., Paragraph 5), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery 

Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the 

material is disclosed or produced.

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 Producing 

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 Producing Party also 

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

margins).

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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 Producing Party 

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

Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or 

portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

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

(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.

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

any other tangible items, that the Producing 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 Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

6.3 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 Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is 

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

7.1 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 

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challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the 

original designation is disclosed.

7.2 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.

7.3 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 141 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 

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declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed by the preceding paragraph.

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. Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to 

file a motion to retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the 

material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s 

designation until the court rules on the challenge.

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

8.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed 

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

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 

section 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and 

in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

8.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may 

disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 

(a) the Receiving 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 

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

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

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

(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 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. 

(h) A Class Member, but only to the limited extent that his or her individual 

personal information is the subject of the Protected Material (i.e., the Class Member may view 

his or her own time-keeping and/or compensation data, but may not view any other Class 

Member’s data and, to the extent the Protected Material contains information regarding 

additional persons, the information regarding the additional persons must be redacted before 

providing the Protected Material to the Class Member). In the event that the Protected Material 

consists of information that the Class Member would not otherwise be legally entitled to view 

pursuant to the California Labor Code and/or the applicable Industrial Welfare Commission 

Wage Order, then prior to receiving the Protected Material, the Class Member must have signed 

the “Class Member Confidentiality Acknowledgment” (Exhibit B).

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9. 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 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 –

and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving 

Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

10. 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 NonParty in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by NonParties 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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(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’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 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 Receiving Party may produce 

the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party 

timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 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.

11. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

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 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 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.

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12. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently 

produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the 

Receiving 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 attorney-client privilege or work product 

protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the protective order submitted to the 

court.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

13.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to 

seek its modification by the court in the future.

13.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. 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 

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. 

13.3 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 141. Protected Material may only be filed 

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

issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, 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 Receiving Party's request to file Protected 

Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then the Receiving 

Party may file the information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 unless 

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otherwise instructed by the court.

14. FINAL DISPOSITION. Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, 

as defined in paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

Producing 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 Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the 

same person or entity, 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 Receiving 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).

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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 Protective Order that was issued by the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of Moreno, et al. v. 

Castlerock Farming and Transport, Inc., 1:12-CV-00556-AWI-BAK (BAM). I agree to comply 

with and to be bound by all the terms of this 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 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 Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 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 Protective Order.

Date: _____________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _______________________________________

Printed name: ___________________________________

[printed name]

Signature: ______________________________________

[signature]

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EXHIBIT B

CLASS MEMBER CONFIDENTIALITY

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I, _______________________________________ [print or type full name], 

understand that I am being shown or provided with documents in connection with a lawsuit 

called Moreno, et al. v. Castlerock Farming and Transport, Inc., 1:12-CV-00556-AWI-BAK 

(BAM) that was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of California. I understand that these 

documents are confidential. I understand and promise that I will not share or disclose these 

confidential documents to any other persons at any time. I also understand that if I share or 

disclose these confidential documents I could be subject to punishment by the federal court.

Date: _____________________________________

Printed name: ___________________________________

[printed name]

Signature: ______________________________________

[signature]

City and State where signed: _______________________________________

ORDER

The Court adopts the stipulated protective order submitted by the parties on May 18, 

2022. (Doc. No. 94.) The parties are advised that pursuant to the Local Rules of the United States 

District Court, Eastern District of California, any documents subject to this protective order to be 

filed under seal must be accompanied by a written request which complies with Local Rule 141 

prior to sealing. The party making a request to file documents under seal shall be required to 

show good cause for documents attached to a non-dispositive motion or compelling reasons for 

documents attached to a dispositive motion. Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n, 605 F.3d 665, 

677-78 (9th Cir. 2009). Within five (5) days of any approved document filed under seal, the 

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party shall file a redacted copy of the sealed document. The redactions shall be narrowly tailored 

to protect only the information that is confidential or was deemed confidential. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 26, 2022 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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