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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Employment Discrimination

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ORDER, page 1

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

TIMOTHY GENS,

Plaintiff,

v.

SEZ AMERICA, INC., 

Defendant.

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Case No.: C 05-1009 JF (PVT)

ORDER RE PARTIES’ PROPOSED

FORM OF PROTECTIVE ORDER 

On December 19, 2006, the parties filed a “Stipulated Confidentiality Order.” Having

reviewed the form of protective order submitted by the parties, the court finds it appropriate to issue

this interim order. 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, no later than January 30, 2007, the parties shall file a

revised form of protective order that makes the following changes:

1. Describes the information that may be designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” as

“information (regardless of how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things

that qualify for protection under standards developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c)” without

elaboration or examples.

2. Omits the parenthetical “(not including information that is publicly available)” from

Paragraph 3. If a party believes that information that has been designating

Confidential is actually publicly available, that party must nevertheless treat the

information as Confidential until the designation has been removed by either order of

the court or else written agreement of the designating party or non-party.

3. Revises Paragraph 4 to refer to the “designating party or non-party” rather than “other

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1 As previously noted by the court, defense counsel are signed up for electronic filing, and

will be getting notice of this order through the court’s electronic filing system. The court will also send

hard copies of the order to both Plaintiff and defense counsel by first class mail.

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parties.” 

4. Revises Paragraph 6 to apply to all circumstances in which a party seeks to file with

the court documents containing Confidential information, rather than just discovery

motions.

5. Revises Paragraph 8 to specify that on any motion to remove the Confidential

designation, the burden is on the designating party to establish that the information is

entitled to protection under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c).

6. Omits Subparagraph (b) from Paragraph 9. Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is not intended

to be self-executing. The parties shall treat all information designated Confidential as

required under the provisions of the protective order until such time as the designation

is affirmatively removed either by court order or written agreement of the designating

party or non-party.

7. Omits Paragraphs 12 and 13, as well as the paragraph entitled “Use of Confidential

Materials in Court.” The filing of documents with the court is already covered in

Paragraph 6, as modified herein, and the use and protection of Confidential

information during hearings and at trial is a matter within the discretion of the judge

presiding at such hearing or trial. 

The court notes that there is a model form of protective order in the “Forms” section of the

court’s website (www.cand.uscourts.gov) that the parties may wish to use, in whole or part, as a

model for complying with the requirements of this order.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, pending entry of the final form of protective order, the

provisions of the parties’ proposed form of protective order, as modified herein, shall govern the

handling of confidential information exchanged or disclosed during discovery in this case.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defense counsel shall immediately serve a copy of this

order on Plaintiff by fax.1

Dated: 1/17/06 

PATRICIA V. TRUMBULL

United States Magistrate Judge

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ORDER, page 3

copies mailed on to:

Timothy Gens

Post Office Box 61029

Palo Alto, CA 94306

Jason A. Geller

David P. Borovsky

Long & Levit 

465 California St., # 500

San Francisco, CA 94104

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 CORINNE LEW

 Courtroom Deputy 

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