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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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Case No. 2:16-cv-00909-TLN-CMK

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T. JAMES FISHER, State Bar No. 64079 

fisherlawoffice@sbcglobal.net 

FISHER LAW OFFICE 

1721 Court Street 

Redding, CA 96099 

Telephone: (530)244-0909 

Attorney for Plaintiff BERNARD RODRIGUEZ 

MICHAEL J. SEXTON, State Bar No. 153435 

michael.sexton@ogletreedeakins.com 

JAMES T. CONLEY, State Bar No. 224174 

james.conely@ogletreedeakins.com

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 

Park Tower, Suite 1500 

695 Town Center Drive 

Costa Mesa, CA 92626 

Telephone: 714.800.7900 

Facsimile: 714.754.1298 

VICTORIA L. TALLMAN, State Bar No. 273252 

victoria.tallman@ogletreedeakins.com 

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 

Steuart Tower, Suite 1300 

One Market Plaza 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone: 415.442.4810 

Facsimile: 415.442.4870 

Attorneys for Defendant 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC. 

(erroneously sued as THE HOME DEPOT) 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

BERNARD RODRIGUEZ, an individual,

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

THE HOME DEPOT, a Corporation, dba THE 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A. INC., and DOES 1 

through 20, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

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Complaint Filed: February 2, 2016 

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IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff Bernard Rodriguez (hereinafter 

referred to as “Plaintiff” and/or “Rodriguez”) and Defendant Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. (hereinafter 

referred to as “Defendant” and/or “Home Depot”), through their respective attorneys of record, that 

a Protective Order be entered by this Court as follows: 

This Stipulation and Protective Order shall be applicable to and shall apply to the production 

and exchange of all document requests and documents, interrogatories and answers to 

interrogatories, depositions, requests for admissions, and responses to requests for admissions, 

exhibits, and pleadings and all other information exchanged and furnished in this Action by the 

Parties that the parties customarily treat as confidential, proprietary, and/or a “trade secret” as 

defined by California Civil Code Section 3426.1. 

1. SCOPE

(a) The parties acknowledge that discovery may require disclosure of information that is 

private and personal or confidential and proprietary, specifically personnel records, personnel 

policies, employment offers, competitive analyses, income statements, employee, client, or 

customer personal information (including, but not limited to medical, age, and contact information), 

medical records, and financial records and statements, along with other trade secret information as 

defined in California Civil Code Section 3426.1. As a result, the parties agree to enter into a 

Protective Order on the following terms to ensure the continuing confidentiality of such 

information. The parties further acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on 

all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as 

confidential. 

(b) This Protective Order shall limit the use or disclosure of documents, deposition 

testimony, and related information which are or which embody or disclose any information falling 

with the scope of Paragraph 1(a) above, and designated hereunder as “Confidential,” and shall 

apply to: 

(i) All such documents, including those produced by third parties, designated as 

“Confidential” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order and the applicable legal 

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standards; 

(ii) Portions of deposition testimony and transcripts and exhibits thereto which 

include, refer, or relate to any Confidential Information; 

(iii) All information, copies, extracts and complete or partial summaries prepared 

or derived from Confidential Information; and 

(iv) Portions of briefs, memoranda or any writing filed with or otherwise supplied 

to the Court, which include or refer to any such Confidential Information. 

(c) Any person designating documents, testimony, or other information as 

“Confidential” hereunder asserts that he or she believes in good faith that such material is 

Confidential Information which falls within the scope of Section 1(a) and is not otherwise available 

to the public generally. Each party or non-party that designates information or items for protection 

under this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies 

under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for protection 

only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that qualify so 

that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not 

warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 

2. DESIGNATION OF DOCUMENTS AND DEPOSITIONS

(a) Designation of a document as “Confidential” shall be made by stamping or writing 

CONFIDENTIAL on the document(s). Alternatively, the parties may designate documents as 

“Confidential” by producing the documents with a letter designating the documents by Bates 

number as “Confidential.” The parties shall make all reasonable efforts to designate as 

“Confidential” only those documents that they reasonably believe constitute personnel records, 

personnel policies, employment offers, competitive analyses, income statements, employee, client 

or customer personal information, medical records, financial records and statements, and trade 

secret information as defined in California Civil Code Section 3426.1. The failure to designate 

documents as “Confidential” at the time of production shall not constitute a waiver of the protection 

of this Order and any party may, at any time up to 30 days before the actual trial date in this action, 

designate any documents or information produced as “Confidential” that have not as yet been so 

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designated. Stamping the legend “Confidential” on the cover of any multi-page document shall 

designate all pages of the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the Designating 

Party, but only if the entire document is produced in a bound or otherwise intact manner. 

(b) Designation of a deposition or other pretrial testimony, or portions thereof, as 

“Confidential” shall be made by a statement on the record by counsel for the party or other person 

making the claim of confidentiality at the time of such testimony. The portions of depositions so 

designated as “Confidential” shall be taken only in the presence of persons qualified to receive such 

information pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order: the parties and their attorneys and staff, 

the court reporter, videographer, the deponent, and the deponent’s attorney. Failure of any other 

person to comply with a request to leave the deposition room will constitute sufficient justification 

for the witness to refuse to answer any question calling for disclosure of Confidential Information 

so long as persons are in attendance who are not entitled by this Protective Order to have access to 

such information. The parties may, but need not in order to designate material as Confidential 

Information, instruct the court reporter to segregate such portions of the deposition in a separate 

transcript designated as “Confidential.” Portions of such deposition transcripts shall be clearly 

marked as “Confidential” on the cover or on each page, as appropriate. 

(c) Any party may designate documents produced or portions of depositions taken as 

containing Confidential Information even if not initially marked as “Confidential” in accordance 

with the terms of this Protective Order by so advising counsel for each other party in writing and by 

reproducing said documents with the required confidential designation. Thereafter, each such 

document or transcript shall be treated in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order; 

provided, however, that there shall be no liability for any disclosure or use of such documents or 

transcripts, or the Confidential Information contained therein, which occurred prior to actual receipt 

of such written notice. Any person who receives actual notice of any such designation of 

previously produced documents or deposition transcripts as containing Confidential Information 

shall thereafter treat such information as if it had been designated as “Confidential” at the time he, 

she, or it first received it in connection with this matter. 

(d) Inadvertent failure to designate Confidential Information shall not be construed as a 

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waiver, in whole or in part, and may be corrected by the producing party by designating documents 

produced or portions of depositions taken as containing Confidential Information, even if not 

initially marked as “Confidential,” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order and, 

specifically, Paragraph 2(c) above. 

3. LIMITATIONS ON DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

(a) No Confidential Information shall be disclosed by anyone receiving such 

information to anyone other than those persons designated herein. In no event shall Confidential 

Information be used, either directly or indirectly, by anyone receiving such information for any 

business, commercial or competitive purpose or for any purpose whatsoever other than the direct 

furtherance of the litigation of this action in accordance with the provisions of this Protective Order. 

(b) Confidential Information shall not be disclosed by any person who has received such 

information through discovery in this action to any other person, except to: 

(i) The parties; 

(ii) Attorneys of record for the parties and their firms’ associates, clerks and 

other employees involved in the conduct of this litigation, and any court reporters, videographers, 

or interpreters engaged to assist the parties in discovery; 

(iii) Home Depot’s, its subsidiaries’, or its affiliates’ in-house counsel; 

(iv) Non-party experts and consultants engaged by counsel for the purpose of 

preparing or assisting in this litigation, and those experts’ respective clerks and employees involved 

in assisting them in this litigation, to the extent deemed necessary by counsel; 

(v) The Court, its officers, Court reporters and similar personnel, provided 

further that Confidential Information lodged with the Court under seal is subject to further 

evaluation by the Court; 

(vi) Any person as to which it is apparent from the face of a document was either 

an author, recipient, had knowledge of the contents therein, or was otherwise entitled to view the 

Confidential Information prior to the intended disclosure in this action; and 

(vii) Any other potential witnesses whose testimony may be used in connection 

with the present case who has complied with Paragraph 3(c) immediately below. 

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(c) Before any person described in Paragraphs 3(b)(iv) and (vii) receives or is shown 

any document or information which has been designated as Confidential, such person shall be given 

a copy of this Protective Order and shall agree in writing, in the form of the Acknowledgment and 

Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A, to be bound by the terms hereof. The original of each 

such Acknowledgment and Agreement shall be maintained by counsel and, if a witness appears at 

deposition or at trial and represents that he or she previously executed an Acknowledgment, it shall 

be produced for inspection by opposing counsel upon request. Any counsel may require the other 

counsel to provide a copy of the Acknowledgment and Agreement signed by a witness at a 

deposition before the witness is deposed with regard to any Confidential Information. 

(d) Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed to require execution of the 

written Acknowledgment and Agreement referred to in Paragraph 3(c) above, or to prevent 

disclosure of Confidential Information, by the party producing and designating such Confidential 

Information, or by any employee of such party. 

(e) The substance or content of Confidential Information, as well as all notes and 

memoranda relating thereto, shall not be disclosed to anyone other than as set forth in Paragraphs 

3(b)(i)-(vii) above. 

4. FILING DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

(a) A Party may not file in the public record in the action any document designated as 

Confidential or that contains Confidential Information. If a Party wishes to submit a document to 

the Court which the other Party has designated as Confidential or which contains Confidential 

Information and which has not been successfully challenged under Paragraph 5 below, the 

submitting Party shall notify the Designating Party of the exact material which the Party intends to 

submit to the Court at least 30 days prior to the date on which the Party intends to make the 

submission, so as to provide the Designating Party sufficient time to determine whether it needs to 

bring a motion ordering that the material be filed under seal. Any such motion must comply with 

the procedures set forth in Civil Local Rule 141 and must also comply with Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(c)(1). Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order 

authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141, 

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a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the Protected Material at issue is 

privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a 

Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record pursuant 

to Civil Local Rule 141 unless otherwise instructed by the court. 

The written application and proposed order shall be presented to the judge along with the 

document intended to be submitted for filing under seal. The original and judge’s copy of the 

document shall be sealed in separate envelopes with a copy of the title page attached to the front of 

each envelope. If only a portion of the document is sealable, then both the copy lodged with the 

Clerk and the judge’s copy shall have the sealable portions identified by notation or highlighting of 

the text. 

The Application and Order to Seal, along with the material to be placed under seal, shall not 

be electronically filed but shall be filed manually in the manner prescribed by Civil Local Rule 

141. A Notice of Manual Filing shall also be electronically filed, identifying all materials being 

manually filed. 

5. CHALLENGE TO CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATION 

Any party that wishes to challenge the designation of a document or other information as 

“Confidential” must identify the documents or information for which it is challenging the 

designation within 30 days after their production, or date upon which the “Confidential” 

designation is made, if at a later time. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for 

each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice 

must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific 

paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

and must begin the process by meeting and conferring in accordance with Local Rule 251. 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 

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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 or establishes that 

the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner. 

The Designating Party may, for good cause shown, bring a motion before the Court under 

Local Rule 141 requesting that the Court confirm the designation of any document or information 

as “Confidential.” Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming 

that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding 

paragraph. The party asserting the designation as “Confidential” shall have the burden of 

establishing good cause for the designation. However, the Court shall be authorized to award the 

moving party attorneys’ fees as a sanction if the challenge to the “Confidential” designation was 

made in bad faith or was frivolous. The interested parties or other persons shall attempt to resolve 

such disagreements before submitting them to the Court pursuant to Civil Local Rule 251. Pending 

resolution of any dispute concerning such designation, all parties and persons governed by this 

Protective Order shall treat all documents and information previously designated as “Confidential” 

as protected from further disclosure by this Protective Order. 

6. SURVIVAL OF ORDER - RETURN OF DOCUMENTS

(a) The provisions of this Order shall continue in effect until otherwise ordered by the 

Court, or after notice and an opportunity to be heard is afforded to the parties to this action. The 

final determination or settlement of this action shall not relieve any person who has received 

Confidential Information or agreed to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order of his, her, or 

its obligations under this stipulation and Order. The Court shall retain jurisdiction after such final 

determination or settlement to enforce the provisions of this Order. Upon completion of the 

litigation, all documents (including copies of documents) containing Confidential Information shall 

be destroyed or returned to counsel for the producing party, except that (a) documents on which any 

person has made notations may be destroyed and not returned, and (b) the parties’ respective 

attorneys of record may retain one copy of each such document for use in connection with any 

disputes which may arise under the Court’s retention of jurisdiction as provided for herein. Within 

sixty (60) days of the conclusion of this litigation, the attorneys for the receiving party shall provide 

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the attorneys for the producing party a certificate representing that such return or destruction was 

made. 

(b) Except as provided in Paragraphs 4 or 6 hereof, documents or things containing the 

other party’s Confidential Information shall at all times be in the physical possession of those 

persons qualifying under Paragraph 3 hereunder, or kept by counsel of record at the premises 

regularly maintained by such counsel of record as and for their respective law offices. 

7. USE OF DOCUMENTS AT TRIAL

This Stipulation and Protective Order, except as provided in Paragraph 4, shall not apply to 

information designated or marked Confidential hereunder which is used at any evidentiary hearing 

or trial in this action. The parties hereby reserve their rights to use, or seek to limit the disclosure 

of, confidential information at any such hearing or trial. 

8. USE OF OWN DOCUMENTS BY PRODUCING PARTY

Nothing in this Protective Order shall limit the use by any party, person or entity of his, her, 

or its own document or information for legitimate business purposes unrelated to this litigation, 

even if such documents or information have been designated as “Confidential.” 

9. APPLICATIONS TO COURT

(a) This Protective Order shall not preclude or limit any party’s right to oppose or object 

to discovery on any ground which would be otherwise available. This Protective Order shall not 

preclude or limit any party’s right to seek in camera review or to seek further and additional 

protection against or limitation upon production or dissemination of information produced in 

response to discovery, including documents and their contents. 

(b) Any person to or by whom disclosure or inspection is made in violation of this 

Protective Order, and who has knowledge of this Protective Order, shall be bound by the terms 

hereof. 

(c) The parties hereto, and all other persons who receive Confidential Information 

pursuant hereto, agree that any party or other person injured by a violation of this Order does not 

have an adequate remedy at law and that an injunction against such violation is an appropriate 

remedy. In the event any person shall violate or threaten to violate any terms of this Order, the 

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parties agree that the aggrieved party may immediately apply to obtain injunctive relief against any 

such person. In the event the aggrieved party shall do so, the responding person subject to the 

provisions of this Order shall not employ as a defense thereto the claim that the aggrieved party has 

an adequate remedy at law. Any persons subject to the terms of this Order agree that the Court 

shall retain jurisdiction over it and them for the purposes of enforcing this Order, including but not 

limited to issuing an injunction. In addition to injunctive relief, as specified herein, the Court may 

impose monetary and/or issue sanctions, as well as other relief deemed appropriate under the 

circumstances for a violation of this Protective Order. 

(d) If any deponent required under the terms of this Protective Order to execute the 

written Acknowledgment and Agreement described in Paragraph 3(c) above refuses to do so, the 

parties may complete the deposition on other matters and/or adjourn it and move the Court for any 

appropriate relief, including (without limitation) relief from this Protective Order as to that 

deponent, or an order that the deponent shall execute the written agreement described in Paragraph 

3(c) above, or an order that deponent shall be bound by the terms of this Protective Order. Any 

non-party whose Confidential Information is the subject of such a motion shall be given notice 

thereof. 

10. AGREEMENT TO COOPERATE 

The parties hereto and their respective attorneys of record agree that, when one party’s 

attorney requests a deponent to sign the written Acknowledgment and Agreement described in 

Paragraph 3(c) above, the other party’s attorney will join in such request, unless that attorney has a 

good faith basis for refusing to join in such a request; provided, however, that this requirement shall 

not apply with respect to any deponent who is represented at his or her deposition by an attorney of 

record for any party hereto (including any member or associate of their respective law firms). An 

attorney’s request to sign such Acknowledgment pursuant to this Paragraph shall not be construed 

to constitute legal advice to the deponent, but shall and may be stated to be simply a request to 

facilitate discovery in this action. 

11. NO ADMISSIONS

Neither entering into this Stipulation for Protective Order, nor receiving any documents or 

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other information designated as “Confidential” shall be construed as an agreement or admission: (1) 

that any document or information designated as “Confidential” is in fact Confidential Information; 

(2) as to the correctness or truth of any allegation made or position taken relative to any matter 

designated as “Confidential”; or (3) as to the authenticity, competency, relevancy or materiality of 

any information or document designated as “Confidential.” 

12. NO WAIVER OF PRIVILEGES OR OBJECTIONS TO ADMISSIBILITY

Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed as requiring disclosure of Confidential 

Information, including, but not limited to, materials subject to protection under the attorney-client 

privilege and/or attorney work product doctrine, the trade secrets privilege, or under any other 

applicable privileges or rights of privacy, or requiring disclosure of Confidential Information that is 

otherwise beyond the scope of permissible discovery. Further, nothing in this Protective Order 

shall be construed as a waiver by a party of any objections that might be raised as to the 

admissibility at trial of any evidentiary materials. 

13. DISCLOSURE IN VIOLATION OF ORDER 

If any Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than in the manner 

authorized by this Protective Order, the party responsible for the disclosure must immediately, in 

writing, notify the opposing party and the Designating Party of all pertinent facts relating to such 

disclosure, and without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the Designating Party, make every 

effort to prevent further unauthorized disclosure. 

14. MODIFICATION - FURTHER AGREEMENTS

Nothing contained herein shall preclude any party from seeking from a Court modification 

of this Stipulated Protective Order upon proper notice, nor shall anything contained herein be 

construed as to preclude the parties from entering into other written agreements designed to protect 

Confidential Information. 

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15. COUNTERPARTS

This Stipulation for Protective Order may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall 

be deemed an original and which together shall constitute one instrument. 

DATED: June 21, 2016 FISHER LAW OFFICE 

BY: /s/ T. James Fisher (authorized June 21, 2016)

T. JAMES FISHER 

Attorney For Plaintiff 

BERNARD RODRIGUEZ 

DATED: June 21, 2016 OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & 

STEWART, P.C. 

By: /s/ Victoria L. Tallman 

MICHAEL J. SEXTON 

JAMES T. CONLEY 

VICTORIA L. TALLMAN 

Attorneys for Defendant 

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

GOOD CAUSE APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the 

provisions of the concurrently-filed stipulation between the parties regarding the use and protection 

of Confidential Information (the “Stipulated Protective Order”) shall be entered as the Order of the 

Court and be binding upon the parties. The Court further orders that, consistent with Paragraph 4 of 

the parties’ Stipulated Protective Order, the parties file documents under seal which are subject to 

this Stipulated Protective Order and have not been successfully challenged by the opponent. In all 

other respects, the parties must comply with the procedures set forth in Local Rule 141 and must 

also comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1). 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: June 22, 2016 

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 

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I, ________________________________________, hereby certify that: 

1. My present address is _____________________________. 

2. My present employer is ___________________________. 

3. My present occupation or job description is _____________________. 

4. I have received a copy of the Protective Order in the above-captioned case and agree 

to be bound by the terms of the Protective Order. 

5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of the Protective Order. 

6. I will hold in confidence and not disclose to anyone not qualified under the 

Protective Order, any Confidential Information or any portion or substance thereof provided to me 

in the course of this litigation. 

7. I will return all materials containing Confidential Information or any portions or 

copies, summaries, abstracts or indices thereof, which come into my possession, and documents or 

things that I prepared relating thereto and containing such Confidential Information, to counsel for 

the party by whom I am retained or employed, or to counsel by whom I am retained or employed, 

when my services in this matter have been concluded. 

8. I understand that if I violate the provisions of this Protective Order, I may be subject 

to sanctions by the Court, among other things. 

9. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Northern District of California for the purpose of enforcement of this Protective Order against me. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California and the United 

States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Dated:_________________ Signature:_________________________________ 

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