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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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EXCELSIS LAW PC

ZAINAH ALFI 

(SBN 304164)

C. GENEVIEVE JENKINS

(SBN 271128)

1000 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600

Los Angeles, CA 90017

Telephone: 213-340-0300

Fax: 213-340-0200

zalfi@excelsislaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff and 

Counter-Defendant

RAQUEL MEIRA DAVIS

SCOTT R. COMMERSON

(CA State Bar No. 227460)

scottcommerson@dwt.com

ROCHELLE L. WILCOX

(CA State Bar No. 197790)

rochellewilcox@dwt.com

VALERIE N. GALLO

(CA State Bar No. 289882)

valeriegallo@dwt.com

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP

865 South Figueroa Street, 24th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90017-2566

Telephone: (213) 633-6800

Fax: (213) 633-6899

Attorneys for Defendant and 

Counter-Claimant

MACUHEALTH DISTRIBUTION, 

INC. and

Defendant FREDERIC JOUHET

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RAQUEL MEIRA DAVIS, an individual,

Plaintiff,

vs.

MACUHEALTH DISTRIBUTION, INC.; 

FREDERIC JOUHET, an individual; and 

DOES 1-10, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Assigned to the Hon. William B. Shubb

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Action Filed: September 24, 2019

MACUHEALTH DISTRIBUTION, INC., 

a corporation, 

Counter-Claimant

v.

RAQUEL MEIRA DAVIS, an individual,

and DOES 1-10, inclusive, 

Counterclaim Defendants

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DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP

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I. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

A. Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 

disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may 

be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 

enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 

discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 

only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 

under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth 

in Section XIII(C), below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them 

to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 141 sets forth the 

procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a 

party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal.

II. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

A. This action is likely to involve trade secrets, customer and pricing lists 

and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, technical and/or 

proprietary information for which special protection from public disclosure and 

from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such 

confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other 

things, confidential business or financial information, information regarding 

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confidential business practices, or other confidential research, development, or 

commercial information (including information implicating privacy rights of third 

parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be 

privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, 

court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of 

information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of 

discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties are entitled to 

keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses 

of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their 

handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order 

for such information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that 

information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that 

nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a 

confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it should not be part 

of the public record of this case.

III. DEFINITIONS

A. Action: This pending federal lawsuit and any consolidated or related 

actions.

B. Challenging Party: A Party or Non-Party that challenges the 

designation of information or items under this Order.

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C. “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: Information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 

the Good Cause Statement. 

D. “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” means any information which belongs 

to a Designating Party who believes in good faith that the Disclosure of such 

information to another Party or non-Party would create a substantial risk of serious 

financial or other injury that cannot be avoided by less restrictive means.

E. 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.”

F. Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 

their support staff).

G. Disclosure or Discovery Material: All items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced 

or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

H. 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.

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I. House Counsel: Attorneys who are employees of a party to this 

Action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other 

outside counsel.

J. Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, 

or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

K. Outside Counsel of Record: Attorneys who are not employees of a 

party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and 

have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm 

which has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff.

L. Party: Any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs).

M. Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this Action.

N. Professional Vendors: Persons or entities that provide litigation 

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

demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 

and their employees and subcontractors.

O. Protected Material: Any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.”

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P. Receiving Party: A Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

IV. SCOPE

A. The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 

presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

B. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders 

of the trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial.

V. DURATION

A. Even after final disposition 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. Final disposition 

shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this 

Action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of 

this Action, including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for 

extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

VI. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection 

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1. 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. The 

Designating Party must 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. Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 

Designations that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made 

for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case 

development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 

other parties) may expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

3. If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or 

items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that 

Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties that it is 

withdrawing the inapplicable designation.

B. Manner and Timing of Designations

1. Except as otherwise provided in this Order (see, e.g., Section 

B(2)(b) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or 

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Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be 

clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

2. Designation in conformity with this Order requires the 

following:

a. For information in documentary form (e.g., paper or 

electronic documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other 

pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix at a 

minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each 

page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of 

the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also 

must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 

appropriate markings in the margins).

b. A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents 

available for inspection need not designate them for protection until 

after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents it would like 

copied and produced. During the inspection and before the 

designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 

deemed “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” 

After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied 

and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, 

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or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, 

before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must 

affix the “CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains 

Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a 

page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings 

in the margins).

c. For testimony given in depositions, that the Designating 

Party identify the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, 

before the close of the deposition and all protected testimony.

d. For information produced in form other than document 

and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a 

prominent place on the exterior of the container or containers in which 

the information is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the 

information warrants protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

C. Inadvertent Failure to Designate

1. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to designate qualified 

information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely 

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correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts 

to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order.

VII. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

A. Timing of Challenges

1. Any party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of 

confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling 

Order.

B. Meet and Confer

1. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process. 

C. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on 

the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 

parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 

Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, 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 until the Court rules on the 

challenge.

VIII. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. Basic Principles

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1. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed 

or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 

Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. 

Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons 

and under the conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been 

terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of Section 

XIV below.

2. Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a 

Receiving Party at a location and in a secure manner that ensures that access 

is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

B. Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items

1. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by 

the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or 

item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

a. The Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this 

Action, as well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to 

whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

Action;

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b. The officers, directors, and employees (including House 

Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this Action;

c. Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who 

have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A);

d. The Court and its personnel; 

e. Court reporters and their staff; 

f. Professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary or 

this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to be Bound” attached as Exhibit A hereto; 

g. The author or recipient of a document containing the 

information or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or 

knew the information;

h. During their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for 

witnesses, in the Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary 

provided: (i) the deposing party requests that the witness sign the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound;” and (ii) they will not 

be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the 

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“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound,” unless otherwise 

agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the Court. Pages of 

transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal 

Protected Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and 

may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order; and

i. Any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting 

personnel, mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in 

settlement discussions.

2. Access to and/or Disclosure of HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

MATERIALS shall be permitted only to the following persons or entities: 

a. Trial Counsel for the Parties, their partners and associates, 

and staff and supporting personnel of such attorneys, such as paralegal 

assistants, secretarial, stenographic and clerical employees and 

contractors, and outside copying services, who are working on this 

Proceeding (or any further proceedings herein) under the direction of 

such attorneys and to whom it is necessary that the Highly Confidential 

Materials be Disclosed for purposes of this Proceeding. Such 

employees, assistants, contractors and agents to whom such access is 

permitted and/or Disclosure is made shall, prior to such access or 

Disclosure, be advised of, and become subject to, the provisions of this 

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Protective Order. “Trial Counsel,” for purposes of this Paragraph, shall 

mean outside retained counsel and shall not include in-house counsel 

to the undersigned Parties and the paralegal, clerical and secretarial 

staff employed by such in-house counsel; 

b. 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; provided, 

however, that prior to the Disclosure of Highly Confidential Materials 

to any such expert or expert consultant, counsel for the Party making 

the Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and Protective 

Order to such person, shall explain its terms to such person, and shall 

secure the signature of such person on a statement in the form attached 

hereto as Exhibit A prior to the Disclosure of Highly Confidential 

Materials. It shall be the obligation of Trial 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 Trial 

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

c. any person who authored, received, saw or was otherwise 

familiar with Documents, Testimony, or Information or thing 

designated “Highly Confidential,” including any person otherwise 

familiar with the Highly Confidential Information contained therein, 

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but only to the extent of that person’s prior familiarity with the Highly 

Confidential Information;

d. court reporters in this Proceeding (whether at depositions, 

hearings, or any other proceeding); and

e. the Court.

IX. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUPOENAED OR ORDERED 

PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION

A. If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other 

litigation that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this 

Action as “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL” that Party 

must:

1. Promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

2. Promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered 

by the subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification 

shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and

3. Cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

B. If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party 

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designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the Court from which the subpoena 

or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. 

The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in 

that court of its confidential and/or highly confidential material and nothing in these 

provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in 

this Action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

X. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

A. The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 

Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with 

this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. 

Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from 

seeking additional protections. 

B. In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 

produce a Non-Party’s confidential and/or highly confidential information in its 

possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to 

produce the Non-Party’s confidential and/or highly confidential information, then 

the Party shall:

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1. Promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the NonParty that some or all of the information requested is subject to a 

confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;

2. Promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 

Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and 

3. Make the information requested available for inspection by the 

Non-Party, if requested. 

C. If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 

14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party 

may produce the Non-Party’s confidential and/or highly confidential information 

responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective 

order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or 

control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a 

determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party 

shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected 

Material.

XI. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has 

disclosed Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized 

under this Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (1) 

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notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (2) use its 

best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (3) inform 

the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms 

of this Order, and (4) request such person or persons to execute the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit 

A.

XII. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other 

protection, the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify 

whatever procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for 

production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure 

of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work 

product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the Stipulated 

Protective Order submitted to the Court.

XIII. MISCELLANEOUS

A. Right to Further Relief

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1. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its 

modification by the Court in the future. 

B. Right to Assert Other Objections

1. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order, no Party

waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing 

any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated 

Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 

ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective 

Order.

C. Filing Protected Material

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

comply with Civil Local Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed 

under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific 

Protected Material at issue. If a Party's request to file Protected Material 

under seal is denied by the Court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the Court.

XIV. FINAL DISPOSITION

A. After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in Section V, 

within sixty (60) days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving 

Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such 

material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, 

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abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing 

any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled 

to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and 

hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, 

expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even 

if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain 

or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth 

in Section V.

B. Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 

measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 

sanctions.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: January 30, 2020 /s/ Zainah Alfi

EXCELSIS LAW, PC

ZAINAH ALFI

C. GENEVIEVE JENKINS

Attorneys for Plaintiff and CounterDefendant

Dated: January 30, 2020 /s/ Scott Commerson

DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLP

Scott D. Commerson

Rochelle L. Wilcox

Valerie N. Gallo

Attorneys for Defendants and CounterClaimant

ATTESTATION

Pursuant to Local Rule 5-4.3.4(a)(2)(i), I hereby certify that the content of 

this document is acceptable to Zainah Alfi, counsel for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant, 

and that I have obtained their authorization to affix their electronic signatures to this 

document.

DATED: February 4, 2020 DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE, LLP

By: /s/Scott Commerson

Scott R. Commerson

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ORDER

The Court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, which comports with the 

relevant authorities and the Court’s applicable local rule. See L.R. 141.1(c);1see also Phillips ex 

rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210 (9th Cir. 2002) (“Generally, the 

public can gain access to litigation documents and information produced during discovery unless 

the party opposing disclosure shows ‘good cause’ why a protective order is necessary.”) 

Therefore, the Court GRANTS the request subject to the following clarification.

It is unclear as to the parties’ intent concerning the duration of the Court’s jurisdiction 

over this protective order. (See, e.g., ¶ 9 of the stipulation, supra.) This Court’s Local Rules 

indicate that once this action is closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the Court will not retain 

jurisdiction over enforcement of the terms of any protective order filed in that action.” L.R. 

141.1(f). Courts in the district generally do not agree to retain jurisdiction after closure of the 

case, and the Court will not do so here. See, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 

WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., February 03, 2017). Based on this rationale, the Court will not retain 

jurisdiction over this protective order once the action is closed.

Dated: February 4, 2020

 

1 The Court’s Local Rules instruct the parties, when requesting a protective order, to 

include in their submission: 

(1) A description of the types of information eligible for protection under the 

order, with the description provided in general terms sufficient to reveal the 

nature of the information (e.g., customer list, formula for soda, diary of a 

troubled child);

(2) A showing of particularized need for protection as to each category of 

information proposed to be covered by the order; and

(3) A showing as to why the need for protection should be addressed by a court 

order, as opposed to a private agreement between or among the parties.

Local Rule 141.1(c).

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, [print or type full name], of 

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have 

read in its entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued

by the United States District Court for the Central District of California on 

_____[DATE] in the case of Davis v. Macuhealth Distribution, Inc. Case No. 2:19-

cv-01947-WBS-KJN. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of 

this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so 

comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I 

solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that 

is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 

compliance with the provisions of this Order. 

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 

for the Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 

Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 

termination of this action. I hereby appoint [print or 

type full name] of [print or type full address and 

telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with 

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this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

Date: 

City and State where sworn and signed: 

Printed Name: 

Signature: 

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