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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 29:206 Collect Unpaid Wages

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WESTERMAN LAW CORP

JEFF WESTERMAN (94559)

jwesterman@jswlegal.com

1875 Century Park East, Suite 2200

Los Angeles, California 90067

Tel: (310) 698-7880

Fax: (310) 775-9777

LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP

EDUARD KORSINSKY 

(to be admitted pro hac vice)

ek@zlk.com

CHRISTOPHER J. KUPKA 

(admitted pro hac vice)

ckupka@zlk.com

MICHAEL B. ERSHOWSKY 

(to be admitted pro hac vice)

mershowsky@zlk.com

30 Broad Street, 24th Floor

New York, New York 10004

Tel: (212) 363-7500

Fax: (212) 363-7171

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

KLEIN, DENATALE, GOLDNER,

COOPER, ROSENLIEB & 

KIMBALL, LLP

DAVID J. COOPER (047615)

dcooper@kleinlaw.com

VANESSA FRANCO CHAVEZ (266724)

vchavez@kleinlaw.com

4550 California Avenue, Second Floor

Bakersfield, California 93309

Telephone: 661/ 395-1000

Facsimile: 661/ 326-0418

Attorneys for Defendants Ensign United 

States Drilling (California) Inc., Ensign 

Energy Services, Inc., and, Ensign United 

States Drilling Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEPHEN HALE and O’BRIAN 

RANGEL Individually, on Behalf of 

Themselves, and All Others Similarly 

Situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

ENSIGN ENERGY SERVICES, INC., 

ENSIGN UNITED STATES

DRILLING INC., and ENSIGN 

UNITED STATES DRILLING 

(CALIFORNIA) INC., 

 Defendants.

Case No: 1:15-CV-01042-MCE-JLT

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

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1. PREAMBLE

1.1 PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be 

warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate 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 

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; Local Rules of the United States District 

Court, Eastern District of California (“Local Rule”), 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.

1.2 GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

This action is likely to involve trade secrets, customer lists, pricing lists, 

and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, technical, and/or 

proprietary information for which special protection from public disclosure and 

use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such 

confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other 

things, confidential business or financial information, information regarding 

confidential business practices, or other confidential research, development, or 

commercial information, information otherwise generally unavailable to the 

public, or which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under 

state or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, 

to expedite the flow of information, facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes 

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over confidentiality of discovery materials, adequately protect information the 

parties are entitled to keep confidential, ensure that the parties are permitted 

reasonable, necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct 

of trial, address their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of 

justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the 

intent of the parties that information will not be designated as confidential for 

tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that 

it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good 

cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Action: this pending law suit. 

2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 

of information or items under this Order.

2.3 “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), and as specified above in 

the Good Cause Statement.

2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staff).

2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.6 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 Action.

2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

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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.

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of or act as general 

counsel for a party, or affiliated entity, to this Action. House Counsel does not 

include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel. This definition 

includes any support staff employed by House Counsel’s firm.

2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 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. This definition includes any 

support staff employed by Outside Counsel of Record’s firm.

2.11 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).

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

Discovery Material in this Action.

2.13 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.

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

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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.

Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the 

trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

4. DURATION 

The confidentiality obligations imposed by this Order shall remain in effect, 

even after final disposition of the Action, 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.

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 

Designations that are shown to be clearly unjustified or have been made for an 

improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process 

or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may 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, then that Designating 

Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable 

designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), 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 at a minimum, the legend 

“CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “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).

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party 

has indicated which documents 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 

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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 depositions that the Designating Party identify 

the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the 

deposition 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 is stored the 

legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information 

warrants protection, the Producing 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 Receiving Party 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 that is consistent with the Court’s 

Scheduling Order.

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process under Local Rule 251.

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6.3 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 or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, 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.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 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 

Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 

Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under 

the conditions described in this Order. When the Action 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.

7.2 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 Action;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the 

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Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action 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;

(f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional 

Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have 

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

(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) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the 

Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing 

party requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) 

they will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign 

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 may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed 

to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and

(i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 

mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 

IN OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Receiving 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 Receiving Party must:

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(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 Receiving 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 Receiving 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.

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 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:

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(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the NonParty 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 Action, 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, if requested.

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

days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Party receiving 

the discovery request may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information 

responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective 

order, the Party receiving the discovery request 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 Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has 

disclosed Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized 

under this Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) 

notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its 

best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all 

the 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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11. 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 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. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 

Protected Material must comply with 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. If a Party's request to file Protected Material 

under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

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information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 

60 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must 

return all 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).

14. Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 

measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 

sanctions.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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Dated: June __, 2016

_____/S/_6/28/16__________________________

CHRISTOPHER J. KUPKA

LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP

Eduard Korsinsky (to be admitted pro hac vice)

Christopher J. Kupka (admitted pro hac vice)

Michael B. Ershowsky 

(to be admitted pro hac vice)

30 Broad Street, 24th Floor

New York, NY 10004

Tel: (212) 363-7500

Fax: (212) 363-7171

WESTERMAN LAW CORP

Jeff Westerman

1875 Century Park East, Suite 2200

Los Angeles, California 90067

Tel: (310) 698-7880

Fax: (310) 775-9777

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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Dated: June __, 2016

____/s/______________________________

DAVID J. COOPER

KLEIN, DENATALE, GOLDNER

COOPER, ROSENLIEB & KIMBALL, LLP

David J. Cooper

Vanessa Franco Chavez

4550 California Avenue, Second Floor

Bakersfield, CA 93309

Telephone: (661) 328-5203

Facsimile: (661) 326-0418

Attorneys for Defendants Ensign United States 

Drilling (California) Inc., Ensign Energy Services, 

Inc., and Ensign United States Drilling Inc.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 29, 2016 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE 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 Central District 

of California on [date] in the case of ___________ Stephen Hale and O’Brian 

Rangel v. Ensign Energy Services, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:15-CV-01042-MCEJLT (E.D. California). 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 Eastern 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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