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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Employment Discrimination

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LITTLE R ME NDE LSO N 

A PR O F E S S ION A L C O RP O R AT IO N

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1. Case No. CV06-06569 JF

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

RONALD HOLLAND, Bar No. 148687

E-mail: rholland@littler.com

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

650 California Street, 20

th

Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108.2693

Telephone: 415.433.1940

Facsimile: 415.399.8490

TODD K. BOYER, Bar No. 203132

E-mail: tboyer@littler.com

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

50 W. San Fernando Street, 14

th

Floor

San Jose, CA 95113.2431

Telephone: 408.998.4150

Facsimile: 408.288.5686

Attorneys for Defendant

WASTE MANAGEMENT OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

GEORGE C. AUCOIN, ESQ. LA Bar No 24747

E-mail: aucoingc@att.net

LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE C. AUCOIN, APLC

2637 Florida St. #25

Mandeville, LA 70448

Telephone: 985.727.2263

Facsimile: 985.951.7490

Attorney for Plaintiff

EDWARD J. QUINONEZ

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

EDWARD J. QUINONEZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

USA WASTE OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

dba WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.,

Defendant.

Case No. CV 06-06569 JF

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

*E-FILED 3/23/07*

MODIFIED BY THE COURT

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

This Stipulation (the “Agreement”) is made between Plaintiff Edward J. Quinonez, 

“Plaintiff” and Defendant Waste Management of California, Inc. (“Defendant”), through their 

respective attorneys of record, with reference to the following facts and terms: 

1. Plaintiff originally filed this action against Defendant, in the United States 

District Court for the Central District of California which was subsequently transferred to the United

States District Court for the Northern District of California pursuant to the stipulation of the parties 

and has been designated as Case No. CV 06-06569 JF (“District Court action”). 

2. The parties may be producing documents or providing information or 

testimony in or in connection with the District Court action that contains business, competitive, 

confidential, proprietary, private, trade secret or other information of a sensitive nature 

(“Confidential Information”). 

3. The parties wish to facilitate discovery while concurrently providing 

protection to the party that has produced the documents or electronically stored information and 

testimony that constitute or contain Confidential Information. 

4. Documents or electronically stored information claimed by the producing 

party to be or to contain Confidential Information may, prior to production, be marked by the 

producing party as “Confidential” Placement of the “Confidential” designation on protected pages 

or on the initial page of a document when it is produced constitutes notice to all other persons that 

the producing party believes that the document contains Confidential Information. Copies, extracts, 

summaries, notes, and other derivatives of Confidential Information may also be deemed 

Confidential Information and subject to the provisions of this Agreement. 

5. Depositions or portions of depositions or testimony may be designated as 

Confidential Information either by an examining party’s attorney or by an attorney defending or 

otherwise attending the deposition. A person claiming that a deposition or any portion of a 

deposition is or contains Confidential Information shall give notice of such claim to the parties to the 

District Court action either prior to or during the deposition, or within twenty-eight (28) days after

mailing of the deposition transcript, and the testimony taken and the transcript of such deposition 

shall be designated as Confidential Information. 

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6. Confidential Information may be disclosed only as follows: 

(a) To counsel of record or consulting counsel for a party in the District 

Court action, and secretaries, paralegals and other staff employed by such counsel to whom it 

is necessary that the Confidential Information be disclosed for purpose of the District Court 

action; 

(b) To the parties after they have been given a copy of this Agreement and 

Order; 

(c) The Court and Court personnel in this District Court action; 

(d) To court reporters and videographers engaged for depositions who 

have been given a copy of this Agreement and Order and who have signed an undertaking in 

the form of Exhibit A hereto; 

(e) To any person who is retained by a party as a consultant or as a 

testifying expert in connection with the District Court action, provided that Confidential 

Information shall only be disclosed to any such person (1) to the extent necessary for that 

person to perform his or her work in connection with the District Court action, and (2) after 

such person has been given a copy of this Agreement and Order and has signed an 

undertaking in the form of Exhibit A hereto; 

(f) Witnesses at deposition, arbitration or trial, provided that the witness 

signs an undertaking in the form of Exhibit A prior to being shown Confidential Information; 

(g) Any mediator, judge or arbitrator before whom the parties mediate the 

claims asserted in the District Court action. 

7. Confidential Information shall be used or disclosed by the party and persons 

to who it is directed solely for purposes of and only to the extent reasonably necessary to prosecute 

or defend this District Court action or the related litigation currently pending before the Court (Civil 

Action No. CV06-06569 JF). Confidential Information shall not be used or disclosed by such party 

or persons for any other purpose, unless specifically agreed to in writing by all the parties to this 

action or as authorized by further order of the Court. No person who is furnished Confidential 

Information shall disclose it to any person not entitled under this Order to receive it. 

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8. Each person to whom the disclosure of any Confidential Information is made 

shall not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, or disseminate, or attempt to use, disclose, or 

disseminate, any such information except as expressly provided in this Agreement. 

9. If Confidential Information is to be discussed or disclosed during a deposition, 

the producing party shall have the right to exclude from attendance at the deposition, during the time

the Confidential Information is to be discussed or disclosed, any person not entitled under this 

Agreement to receive the Confidential Information with the exception of parties or other persons as 

set forth in Paragraphs 6(e) and 7 above. 

10. Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent the producing party from disclosing 

its own Confidential Information to any person as it or he deems appropriate. 

11. Inadvertent failure to designate documents or information as Confidential 

Information in good faith shall not waive a party’s right to so designate such documents or 

information at a later time in good faith, expect as provided in Paragraphs 6 and 9. 

12. If the parties cannot agree as to the designation of any particular information, 

document or material after good faith discussion, any party may challenge another party’s 

designation of information, documents or materials as “Confidential Information” or by filing a 

motion with the District Court to have the documents reviewed in camera by the Court and for a 

determination as to whether the information, documents or materials shall be subject to the terms of 

this Stipulated Protective Order. In the event that a party files such a motion, all parties shall 

continue to treat the information, documents or materials in question as confidential until the District 

Court has ruled on the motion. 

13. If a dispute arises as to whether a particular person should be granted access to 

Confidential Information, the party seeking to prevent disclosure may move the Court or file an ex 

parte application to prevent the disclosure. 

14. Counsel for each party shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent 

unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of any Confidential Information. 

15. Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of any objection to the 

discoverability or admissibility of any Confidential Information or preclude the parties from seeking 

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any available protection with respect to any Confidential Information. 

16. Parties may seek subsequent designation of produced documents as privileged 

via noticed motion within six months of production. If contested, the burden of justifying the 

privilege designation shall rest on the producing or moving party, and the receiving party shall be 

permitted to retain one copy of the challenged document for purposes of contesting the motion. 

17. This Agreement shall apply to the production of all Confidential Information 

in this action, whether such information is informally produced or produced in response to a formal 

discovery request or Court order. 

18. Within sixty (60) days of the final termination of the action by judgment, 

appeal, settlement, or otherwise, or sooner if so ordered by the Court, the parties to whom 

Confidential Information was disclosed shall either destroy the documents or things containing such 

information or return them to the producing party at the producing party’s option. 

19. No documents containing Confidential Information may be filed with the 

Court, except under seal, pursuant to the procedures set forth in Local Rule 79-5. The document 

shall indicate clearly which portions are to be designated as Confidential. 

20. Any Court hearing which refers to or describes Confidential Information shall, 

in the Court’s discretion, be in camera. 

21. 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 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 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. 

22. This Agreement may be amended only by written agreement of the parties and 

approved by the Court. 

SO STIPULATED: 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Dated: March 21, 2007 /s/ George C. Aucoin

GEORGE C. AUCOIN 

Attorney for Plaintiff 

EDWARD QUINONEZ 

Dated: March 21, 2007 /s/ Todd K. Boyer 

TODD K. BOYER 

Attorney for Defendant 

WASTE MANAGEMENT OF CALIFORNIA, INC. 

-o0oORDER

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Stipulated Protective Order is hereby adopted as 

the Order of this Court. IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: __________________ 

THE HONORABLE RICHARD SEEBORG 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

March 23, 2007

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

DECLARATION OF COUNSEL REGARDING SIGNATORIES’ CONCURRENCE

WITH THE ELECTRONIC FILING OF THIS DOCUMENT

I, Todd K. Boyer, hereby declare and state as follows:

1. I am an attorney licensed to practice in the courts of the State of California 

and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. I am an associate in the law firm 

of Littler Mendelson, A Professional Corporation, and counsel of record for Defendant Waste 

Management of California , Inc. 

2. In accordance with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 

General Order No. 45, I possess an original or reproduced copy of the signatures of all of the 

signatories to this document listed above, and will maintain the signatures on file for production to 

the Court, if so ordered, or for inspection upon request by a party until one year after final resolution 

of the action (including appeal, if any). 

I hereby declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California, 

that the foregoing is true and correct, and that this Declaration was executed on March 21, 2007, at 

San Jose, California. 

 /s/ Todd K. Boyer______________

TODD K. BOYER 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

EXHIBIT A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I have been designated by [Party Name]______________ as a person who may have 

access to Confidential Information as this term is defined in the Stipulated Protective Order (the 

“Order”) entered in Quinonez v. Waste Management of California, Inc., United States District Court 

for the Northern District of California, Civil Action No. CV06-06569 JF. 

I certify that I have read and am fully familiar with the terms of the Order. I agree to 

be bound by it and to comply fully with it. I agree that I will use the Confidential Information only

for purposes of the District Court action and will not use the Confidential Information for any other 

purpose. I also agree that I will not permit the unauthorized viewing or disclosure of Confidential 

Information as set forth in the Order. I consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for any action to 

enforce this undertaking. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this 

Agreement was executed in [city, state]_________ on [date]________, _______. 

_________________________________ 

Name 

_________________________________ 

Address 

_________________________________ 

Employer 

_________________________________ 

Job Title 

Firmwide:82008155.1 046609.1339 

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