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Nature of Suit Code: 448
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights - Education
Cause of Action: 42:1981 Civil Rights

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F. Richard Ruderman (SB No. 142226)

Daniel R. Shaw (SB No. 281378)

Colleen A. Snyder (SB No. 274064)

Ruderman & Knox, LLP

1300 National Drive, Suite 120

Sacramento, CA 95834

Telephone: (916) 563-0100 

Facsimile: (916) 563-0114

Attorneys for Plaintiff M.F., a minor, 

By and through her guardian ad litem, S.F.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

M.F., a minor; by and through her guardian 

ad litem, S.F.,

Plaintiff,

v.

CENTER JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL 

DISTRICT,

Defendant.

Case No.: 2:15-cv-00849-JAM-CKD

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Complaint Filed: April 20, 2015

In order to facilitate the exchange of information and documents during the course of 

discovery, which may be subject to confidentiality and extremely sensitive and private limitations 

due to federal laws, state laws, and privacy rights, the Parties are hereby ordered to comply with the 

terms of the following Protective Order:

1. In this Protective Order, the words set forth below shall have the following meanings:

a. “Proceeding” means the above-entitled proceeding (CASE NO. 2:15-cv-00849-

JAM-CKD and the related State Court proceeding 34-2015-00178126). 

b. “Court” means the Hon. John A. Mendez, or any other judge to which this 

Proceeding may be assigned, including Court staff participating in such proceedings.

c. “Confidential” means any information which is in the possession of a Designating 

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Party who believes in good faith that such information is entitled to confidential treatment under 

applicable law.

d. “Confidential Materials” means any Documents, Testimony or Information as 

defined below designated as “Confidential” pursuant to the provisions of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order.

e. “Designating Party” means the Party that designates Materials as “Confidential.”

f. “Disclose” or “Disclosed” or “Disclosure” means to reveal, divulge, give, or make 

available Materials, or any part thereof, or any information contained therein.

g. “Documents” means (i) any “Writing,” “Original,” and “Duplicate,” which have 

been produced in discovery in this Proceeding by any person, and (ii) any copies, reproductions, or 

summaries of all or any part of the foregoing.

h. “Information” means the content of Documents or Testimony.

i. “Testimony” means all depositions, declarations or other testimony taken or used in 

this Proceeding.

2. The Designating Party shall have the right to designate as “Confidential” any Documents, 

Testimony or Information that the Designating Party in good faith believes to contain non-public 

information that is entitled to confidential treatment under applicable law.

3. The entry of Protective Order does not alter, waive, modify, or abridge any right, privilege 

or protection otherwise available to any Party with respect to the discovery of matters, including 

but not limited to any Party’s right to assert the attorney-client privilege, the

attorney work product doctrine, or other privileges, or any Party’s right to contest any such 

assertion.

4. Any Documents, Testimony or Information to be designated as “Confidential” must be 

clearly so designated before the Document, Testimony or Information is Disclosed or produced. The 

parties may agree that the case name and number are to be part of the “Confidential” designation. 

The “Confidential” designation should not obscure or interfere with the legibility of the designated 

Information.

a. For Documents (apart from transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

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proceedings), the Designating Party must affix the legend “Confidential” on each page of any 

Document containing such designated Confidential Material.

b. For Testimony given in depositions the Designating Party may either:

i. identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, all “Confidential” 

Testimony, by specifying all portions of the Testimony that qualify as “Confidential;” or

ii. designate the entirety of the Testimony at the deposition as “Confidential” 

(before the deposition is concluded) with the right to identify more specific portions of the 

Testimony as to which protection is sought within 30 days following receipt of the deposition 

transcript. In circumstances where portions of the deposition Testimony are designated for 

protection, the transcript pages containing “Confidential” Information may be separately bound by 

the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each page the legend “Confidential,” as instructed by 

the Designating Party.

c. For Information produced in some form other than Documents, and for any other 

tangible items, including, without limitation, compact discs or DVDs, the Designating Party must 

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 portions of the Information or item warrant 

protection, the Designating Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the “Confidential” 

portions.

5. The inadvertent production by any of the undersigned Parties or non-Parties to the 

Proceedings of any Document, Testimony or Information during discovery in this Proceeding 

without a “Confidential” designation, shall be without prejudice to any claim that such item is 

“Confidential” and such Party shall not be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent 

production. In the event that any Document, Testimony or Information that is subject to a 

“Confidential” designation is inadvertently produced without such designation, the Party that 

inadvertently produced the document shall give written notice of such inadvertent production within 

twenty (20) days of discovery of the inadvertent production, together with a further copy of the 

subject Document, Testimony or Information designated as “Confidential” (the “Inadvertent 

Production Notice”). Upon receipt of such Inadvertent Production Notice, the Party that received 

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the inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information shall promptly destroy the 

inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information and all copies thereof, or, at the 

expense of the producing Party, return such together with all copies of such Document, Testimony 

or Information to counsel for the producing Party and shall retain only the “Confidential” 

designated Materials. Should the receiving Party choose to destroy such inadvertently produced 

Document, Testimony or Information, the receiving Party shall notify the producing Party in writing 

of such destruction within ten (10) days of receipt of written notice of the inadvertent production. 

This provision is not intended to apply to any inadvertent production of any Information protected 

by attorney-client or work product privileges. In the event that this provision conflicts with any 

applicable law regarding waiver of confidentiality through the inadvertent production of 

Documents, Testimony or Information, such law shall govern.

6. In the event that counsel for a Party receiving Documents, Testimony or Information in 

discovery designated as “Confidential” objects to such designation with respect to any or all of such 

items, said counsel shall advise counsel for the Designating Party, in writing, of such objections, the 

specific Documents, Testimony or Information to which each objection pertains, and the specific 

reasons and support for such objections (the “Designation Objections”). Counsel for the 

Designating Party shall have thirty (30) days from receipt of the written Designation Objections to 

either (a) agree in writing to de-designate Documents, Testimony or Information pursuant to any or 

all of the Designation Objections and/or (b) file a motion with the Court seeking to uphold any or 

all designations on Documents, Testimony or Information addressed by the Designation Objections 

(the “Designation Motion”). Pending a resolution of the Designation Motion by the Court, any and 

all existing designations on the Documents, Testimony or Information at issue in such Motion shall 

remain in place. The Designating Party shall have the burden on any Designation Motion of 

establishing the applicability of its “Confidential” designation. In the event that the Designation 

Objections are neither timely agreed to nor timely addressed in the Designation Motion, then such 

Documents, Testimony or Information shall be de-designated in accordance with the Designation 

Objection applicable to such material.

7. Access to and/or Disclosure of Confidential Materials designated as “Confidential” shall be 

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permitted only to the the Court and its personnel, counsel for a party (including the paralegal, 

clerical, and secretarial staff employed by such counsel), and to the “qualified persons” designated 

below:

a. The named parties and their employees, representatives and agents who are deemed 

necessary to the prosecution or defense of that party’s position in this litigation;

b. those officers, directors, partners, members, employees and agents of all nondesignating Parties that counsel for such Parties deems necessary to aid counsel in the prosecution 

and defense of this Proceeding; 

c. court reporters1in this Proceeding (whether at depositions, hearings, or any other 

proceeding);

d. any deposition, trial or hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously has had 

access to the Confidential Materials, or who is currently or was previously an officer, director, 

partner, member, employee or agent of an entity that has had access to the Confidential Materials;

e.. any deposition or non-trial hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously did not 

have access to the Confidential Materials; 

f. Outside experts or expert consultants consulted by the undersigned Parties or their 

counsel in connection with the Proceeding, whether or not retained to testify at any oral hearing;. It 

shall be the obligation of counsel, upon learning of any breach or threatened breach of this 

Stipulation and Protective Order by any such expert or expert consultant, to promptly notify counsel 

for the Designating Party of such breach or threatened breach; and

g. any other person that the Designating Party agrees to in writing.

Prior to receiving any Confidential Materials, each “qualified person,” as defined herein shall be 

provided with a 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.

8. Confidential Materials shall be used by the persons receiving them only for the purposes of 

 

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preparing for, conducting, participating in the conduct of, and/or prosecuting and/or defending the 

Proceeding, and not for any business or other purpose whatsoever.

9. Any Party to the Proceeding (or other person subject to the terms of this Protective Order) 

may ask the Court, after appropriate notice to the other Parties to the Proceeding, to modify or grant 

relief from any provision of this Protective Order.

10. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or complying with the terms of this Protective Order shall 

not:

a. operate as an admission by any person that any particular Document, Testimony or 

Information marked “Confidential” contains or reflects trade secrets, proprietary, confidential or 

competitively sensitive business, commercial, financial or personal information; or

b. prejudice in any way the right of any Party (or any other person subject to the terms 

of this Protective Order):

i. to seek a determination by the Court of whether any particular Confidential 

Material should be subject to protection as “Confidential” under the terms of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order; or 

ii. to seek relief from the Court on appropriate notice to all other Parties to the 

Proceeding from any provision(s) of this Protective Order, either generally or as to any particular 

Document, Material or Information.

11. Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed to preclude either Party from asserting in 

good faith that certain Confidential Materials require additional protection. The Parties shall meet 

and confer to agree upon the terms of such additional protection.

12. If, after execution of this Protective Order, any Confidential Materials submitted by a 

Designating Party under the terms of this Protective Order is Disclosed by a non-Designating Party 

to any person other than in the manner authorized by this Protective Order, the non-Designating 

Party responsible for the Disclosure shall bring all pertinent facts relating to the Disclosure of such 

Confidential Materials to the immediate attention of the Designating Party.

13. This Protective Order is entered into without prejudice to the right of any Party to knowingly 

waive the applicability of this Stipulation and Protective Order to any Confidential Materials 

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designated by that Party. If the Designating Party uses Confidential Materials in a non-Confidential 

manner, then the Designating Party shall advise that the designation no longer applies.

14. Where any Confidential Materials, or Information derived from Confidential Materials, is 

included in any motion or other proceeding, the same shall be submitted to the Court with a Request 

to Seal Documents in compliance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 and Eastern District 

Local Rule 141. 

15. The Parties shall meet and confer regarding the procedures for use of Confidential Materials 

at trial and shall move the Court for entry of an appropriate order.

16. Nothing in this Protective Order shall affect the admissibility into evidence of Confidential 

Materials, or abridge the rights of any person to seek judicial review or to pursue other appropriate 

judicial action with respect to any ruling made by the Court concerning the issue of the status of 

Protected Material.

17. This Protective Order shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of this Proceeding 

and all subsequent proceedings arising from this Proceeding, except that a Party may seek the 

written permission of the Designating Party or may move the Court for relief from the provisions of 

this Protective Order. To the extent permitted by law, the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce, 

modify, or reconsider this Stipulation and Protective Order, even after the Proceeding is terminated.

18. Upon written request made within thirty (30) days after the settlement or other termination 

of the Proceeding, the undersigned Parties shall have thirty (30) days to either (a) promptly return to 

counsel for each Designating Party all Confidential Materials and all copies thereof (except that 

counsel for each Party may maintain in its files, in continuing compliance with the terms of this 

Protective Order, all work product, and one copy of each pleading filed with the Court, (b) agree 

with counsel for the Designating Party upon appropriate methods and certification of destruction or 

other disposition of such Confidential Materials, or (c) as to any Documents, Testimony or other 

Information not addressed by sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), file a motion seeking a Court order 

regarding proper preservation of such Materials. To the extent permitted by law the Court shall 

retain continuing jurisdiction to review and rule upon the motion referred to in sub-paragraph (c) 

herein. 

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 2, 2015

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CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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Attachment A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

I, , do solemnly swear that I am fully familiar with the 

terms of the Stipulated Protective Order entered into in M.F., a minor, by and through her guardian 

ad litem, S.F. v. Center Joint Unified School District, United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of California, Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-00849-JAM=CKD, and hereby agree to comply 

with and be bound by the terms and conditions of said Order unless and until modified by further 

Order of this Court. I hereby consent to the jurisdiction of said Court for purposes of enforcing this 

Order. 

DATED:

By: __________________________________

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