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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000 Job Discrimination (Sex)

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1287528v1 93017/0007

JULIE RANEY (SBN 176060) 

MEREDITH FELDE (SBN 244511) 

McDONOUGH HOLLAND & ALLEN PC 

Attorneys at Law 

500 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Phone: 916.444.3900 

Fax: 916.444.8334 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Butte Sand and Gravel Company 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

TAMI ADAMSON, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BUTTE SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY, 

Defendant. 

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Case No. 2:09-CV-01828-GEB-CMK 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER: 

CONFIDENTIALITY AND LIMITED 

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION 

Subject to the approval of this Court, the parties hereby stipulate to the following protective 

order: 

1. In connection with discovery proceedings in this action, the parties many designate 

any document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom, as “Confidential” 

under the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order (hereinafter “Order”). Confidential information 

is information which has not been made public and which concerns or relates to the processes, 

operations, type or work, or apparatus, or to the production, sales, shipments, purchases, transfers, 

identification of customers, inventories, amount or source of any income, profits, losses, or 

expenditures of any persons, firm, partnership, corporation, or other organization, the disclosure of 

which information may have the effect of causing harm to the competitive position of the person, 

firm, partnership, corporation, or to the organization from which the information was obtained. 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1287528v1 93017/0007

By designating a document, thing, material, testimony or other information derived therefrom 

as “confidential,” under the terms of this order, the party making the designation is certifying to the 

court that there is a good faith basis both in law and in fact for the designation within the meaning of 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 (g). 

2. Confidential documents shall be so designated by stamping copies of the document 

produced to a party with the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” 

on the cover of any multipage document shall designate all pages of the document as confidential, 

unless otherwise indicated by the producing party. 

3. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing or trial may be designated as 

confidential by making a statement to that effect on the record at the deposition or other proceeding. 

Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter taking and transcribing such proceeding to 

separately bind such portions of the transcript containing information designated as confidential, and 

to label such portions appropriately. 

4. Material designated as confidential under this Order, the information contained 

therein and any summaries, copies, abstracts, or other documents derived in whole or in part from 

material designated as confidential (hereinafter “Confidential Material”) shall be used only for the 

purpose of the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action, and for no other purpose. 

5. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order may be disclosed or made 

available only to the Court, to counsel for a party (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial 

staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated below: 

(a) a party, or an officer, director, or employee of a party deemed necessary by counsel to 

aid in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(b) experts or consultants (together with their clerical staff) retained by such counsel to assist 

in the prosecution, defense, or settlement of this action; 

(c) court reporter(s) employed in this action; 

(d) a witness at any deposition or other proceeding in this action; and 

(e) any other person as to whom the parties in writing agree. 

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, each “qualified person” shall be provided with a 

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copy of this Order and shall execute a nondisclosure agreement in the form of Attachment A, a copy 

of which shall be provided forthwith to counsel for each other party and for the parties. 

6. Depositions shall be taken only in the presence of qualified persons. 

7. The parties may further designate certain discovery material or testimony of a highly 

confidential and/or proprietary nature as “CONFIDENTIAL—ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY” 

(hereinafter “Attorney’s Eyes Only Material”), in the manner described in paragraphs 2 and 3 above. 

Attorney’s Eyes Only Material, and the information contained therein, shall be disclosed only to the 

Court, and to the “qualified persons” listed in subparagraphs 5(b) through (e) above, but shall not be 

disclosed to a party, or to an officer, director, or employee of a party, unless otherwise agreed or 

ordered. If disclosure of Attorney’s Eyes Only Material is made pursuant to this paragraph, all other 

provisions in this order with respect to confidentiality shall also apply. 

8. Nothing herein shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of 

material obtained by such party independent of discovery in this action, whether or not such material 

is also obtained through discovery in this action, or from disclosing its own Confidential Material as 

it deems appropriate. 

9. If Confidential Material, including any portion of a deposition transcript designated as 

Confidential or Attorney’s Eyes Only, is included in any papers to be filed in Court, such papers 

shall be labeled “Confidential—Subject to Court Order” and filed under seal until further order of 

this Court. 

10. In the event that any Confidential Material is used in any court proceeding in this 

action, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and the party using such shall take all 

reasonable steps to maintain its confidentiality during such use. 

11. This Order shall be without prejudice to the right of the parties (i) to bring before the 

Court at any time the question of whether any particular document or information is confidential or 

whether its use should be restricted or (ii) to present a motion to the Court under FRCP 26(c) for a 

separate protective order as to any particular document or information, including restrictions 

differing from those as specified herein. This Order shall not be deemed to prejudice the parties in 

any way in any future application for modification of this Order. 

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12. This Order is entered solely for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of documents 

and information between the parties to this action without involving the Court unnecessarily in the 

process. Nothing in this Order nor the production of any information or document under the terms 

of this Order nor any proceedings pursuant to this Order shall be deemed to have the effect of an 

admission or waiver by either party or of altering the confidentiality or non-confidentiality of any 

such document or information or altering any existing obligation of any party or the absence thereof. 

13. This Order shall survive the final termination of this action, to the extent that the 

information contained in Confidential Material is not or does not become known to the public, and 

the Court shall retain jurisdiction to resolve any dispute concerning the use of information disclosed 

hereunder. Upon termination of this case, counsel for the parties shall assemble and return to each 

other all documents, material and deposition transcripts designated as confidential and all copies of 

same, or shall certify the destruction thereof. 

 

SO STIPULATED: 

DATED: March 10, 2010 McDONOUGH HOLLAND & ALLEN PC 

Attorneys at Law 

By: ___________/s/ Meredith Felde______________ 

JULIE RANEY 

MEREDITH FELDE 

Attorneys for Defendant Butte Sand and Gravel 

Company 

DATED: February 22, 2010 DEEMS & KELLER, LLP 

Attorneys at Law 

By: __________/s/ Michael Deems_______________ 

MICHAEL DEEMS 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Tami Adamson 

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IT IS SO ORDERED: 

Dated: March 17, 2010

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CRAIG M. KELLISON 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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