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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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JOSHUA S. GOODMAN, ESQ. (SBN 116576)

ZACHARY S. TOLSON, ESQ. (SBN 242824) 

JENKINS GOODMAN NEUMAN & HAMILTON LLP 

417 Montgomery Street, 10th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94104 

Telephone: (415) 705-0400 

Facsimile: (415) 705-0411 

jgoodman@jgn.com

ztolson@jgn.com 

Attorneys for Defendant 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA (SACRAMENTO DIVISION) 

ROSA SCHMIDT,

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. and 

DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 2:10-cv-00561 JAM-GGH

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Plaintiff ROSA SCHMIDT (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. 

(“Defendant”) hereby stipulate to the following protective order: 

1. DEFINITIONS

 1.1 Party or Parties: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff). 

 1.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the 

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter. 

 1.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: 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) or as elaborated herein. “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes 

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Only” Material: extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to 

another Party or nonparty would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be 

avoided by less restrictive means.

 1.4 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party. 

 1.5 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action. 

 1.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential — Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

 1.7 “Confidential Material”: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated or understood to be “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes 

Only.” Defendants may produce documents which they consider proprietary and confidential. 

Such documents may include, but are not limited to, business, competitive, proprietary, trade 

secret or other information of a sensitive nature about the party (or of another person which 

information the party is under a duty to maintain in confidence), store maps, manuals, written 

policies and procedures, training materials, claims information, lead details, emails, 

correspondence, contracts with third parties, criminal background check reports, drug test results, 

witness statements, and/or inspection or accident reports. This Stipulated Protective Order is 

intended to cover, and apply to, any and all documents produced by Defendants in this 

litigation, and any information contained in those documents, but also any information copied or 

extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus 

testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings 

that might reveal. 

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

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 and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or 

of a competitor of a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an 

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employee of a Party or a competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or 

trial consultant retained in connection with this litigation. 

 1.9 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; 

organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and 

subcontractors. 

2. DURATION.

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. 

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND.

Prior to receiving any Confidential Material, any experts, consultants or Professional 

Vendors retained by Plaintiff’s counsel shall be provided with a copy of this Order and shall 

execute an Acknowledgement And Agreement To Be Bound non-disclosure agreement in the form 

of Attachment A, a copy of which shall be provided to counsel for Defendants at the same time 

and along with any disclosure of expert witness information. 

4. SCOPE OF ORDER.

Confidential Material may be used only in connection with the prosecution and defense of 

this action, and not for any other purpose. Confidential Material produced pursuant to this Order 

may not be disclosed or made available to any person or entity other than Plaintiff, her counsel 

(including the paralegal, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such counsel and working on 

this case), and Experts or consultants retained by that counsel or Professional Vendors, subject to 

the other requirements of this Stipulated Protective Order. Use of Confidential Material is 

permitted at depositions of parties or their experts or in motions filed with the court, subject to the 

requirements of paragraph 5, 7, 8, and 9. 

5. EFFORTS TO PREVENT DISCLOSURE.

In making use of any Confidential Material, counsel for Plaintiff is required by this 

protective order to make reasonable and good faith efforts to prevent the disclosure of any 

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Confidential Material to any person or entity not specified in section 1 and 4, above. These efforts 

shall include taking steps to ensure that Confidential Material used during a deposition, in 

connection with a motion, or at trial is used under seal or in some other manner which prevents its 

disclosure to any person or entity not specified in section 1 and 4, above. The Parties agree to 

meet and confer in a good faith effort to address any issues related to the use of Confidential 

Material at depositions, in court filings, sufficiently in advance of the use of said Confidential 

Material so as to allow Defendant adequate time to file any necessary motions to ensure that 

Confidential Material is not improperly disclosed. 

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 

Before filing any Confidential Material with the Court, Plaintiff agrees to give Defendants 

sufficient advance notice of his intention to do so to permit Defendants to make a motion for an 

order that such documents be filed under seal. 

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary 

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed. 

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by 

conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) 

with counsel for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis 

for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating 

Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no 

change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging 

Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet 

and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a 

confidentiality designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may 

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state its intention to press its challenge, in which case the Party shall give enough notice to the 

Designating party such that it can obtain relief under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c)

and the applicable local rules, if any. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent 

declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity the justification for the 

confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet and confer 

dialogue.

Until the court rules on the challenge, 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. 

7. MAINTAINING CONFIDENTIALITY.

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. 

8. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL.

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Confidential 

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 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. 

9. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL. 

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after 

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action 

any Confidential Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must 

comply with the applicable local rules. 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 

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Court 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. 

If any Confidential Material is introduced during a deposition, such Confidential Material 

must be bound separately from the deposition transcript. Furthermore, Plaintiff must demand of 

the court reporter that he or she return any and all copies of said Confidential Material after the 

completion of the deposition transcript(s) and related volume(s) of exhibits. 

10. FINAL DISPOSITION - RETURN OF DOCUMENTS. 

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days 

after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Confidential 

Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Confidential Material” includes 

all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any 

of the Confidential Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the 

Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the Confidential Material instead of returning it. 

Whether the Confidential 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 sixty day deadline that identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the 

Confidential Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party has 

not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or 

capturing any of the Confidential Material. 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, 

even if such materials contain Confidential Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 

constitute Confidential Material remain subject to this Protective Order. 

11. WAIVER.

Defendants shall not be deemed to have waived any terms of this protective order, 

including this paragraph, except by express written waiver. 

12. MODIFICATION.

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This stipulation is reached without prejudice to later modification by agreement of the 

parties, or by order of the court upon a showing of good cause. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: January 3, 2011 JENKINS GOODMAN NEUMAN 

& HAMILTON LLP 

By: /s/ Zachary S. Tolson, Esq. 

ZACHARY S. TOLSON 

Attorneys for Defendants 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. 

Dated: January 3, 2011 CLAYEO C. ARNOLD, APC

By: /s/ Kirk J. Wolden 

KIRK J. WOLDEN 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

ROSA SCHMIDT

ORDER

SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 1/4/2011 /s/ John A. Mendez_________________

 Judge of the United States District Court 

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