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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 

Mark D. Kemple (SBN145219)

Ashley M. Farrell (SBN 271825)

1840 Century Park East, Suite 1900

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone: (310) 586-7700

Facsimile: (310) 586-7800

Email: kemplem@gtlaw.com

Email: farrella@gtlaw.com

Attorneys for Defendants

WENDY’S INTERNATIONAL, LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MITCH DAVENPORT, as an individual 

and on behalf of all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

vs.

THE WENDY’S COMPANY, a foreign 

corporation, WENDY’S RESTAURANTS 

LLC, a foreign limited liability company, 

WENDY’S INTERNATIONAL, INC. (dba 

THE WENDY’S RESTAURANT 

SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES), A 

FOREIGN CORPORATION, and DOES 1 

through 20, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:14-cv-00931-JAM-DAD

JOINT STIPULATION REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND 

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Plaintiff Mitch Davenport (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant Wendy’s International, Inc. (“Wendy’s”), 

hereby stipulate to the entry of an agreed protective order, for the reasons set forth below.

1. The parties represent that certain discovery materials to be exchanged in this case, 

including documents, interrogatory answers, deposition testimony and other discovery, will contain 

confidential non-public information of a, financial and/or commercial nature which may constitute a 

trade secret or proprietary information. The parties do not wish unreasonably to impede or burden the 

discovery process but, at the same time, recognize an obligation to take reasonable steps to safeguard 

legitimate confidentiality concerns. The parties intend this Stipulation and Order to address these 

concerns.

2. Upon entry of an Order by this Court, this Protective Order that shall govern the 

production and disclosure of all information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to ¶ 6 through 

the discovery and all pretrial processes. This Protective Order is not intended to govern at trial or 

appeal. The parties will cooperate in establishing procedures acceptable to the Court with respect to the 

protection of information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to this Protective Order both at 

trial and upon any appeal of this case.

3. For purposes of this Protective Order, “Discovery Materials” shall include documents 

produced pursuant to California’s statutes and rules regarding discovery, including documents, 

interrogatory answers, deposition testimony, and all other information that may be disclosed in the 

course of discovery in this action, as well as compilations or excerpts of such materials. For Purposes of 

this Stipulation, “CONFIDENTIAL” information and materials is defined as a trade secret or other 

confidential or proprietary research, development or commercial information, including, but not limited 

to, internal procedures and policies demonstrating how Defendant operates its business on both a 

corporate and individual restaurant level and the process by which Defendant’s products are created,

internal information regarding the confidential process created by Defendant to provide efficient service, 

studies and/or surveys sponsored by Defendant to gain market knowledge and determine process(es) by 

which efficient service can be attained and maintained, supplier lists, and product formulas, all to the 

extent that publication of such materials to a competitor could be detrimental to Wendy’s ability to 

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compete. In addition, without foregoing, and indeed expressly preserving any and all objections based 

on privacy concerns, the parties agree that “CONFIDENTIAL” information and materials may include 

the contact information (last known address and phone numbers, and e-mail addresses) for Wendy’s 

current and former employees. There is a particularized need for protection of each of the above 

categories, as each category contains trade secret or other confidential or proprietary research, 

development, or commercial information that was created and/or obtained by Defendant at a great time 

and monetary cost, and the disclosure of which may be a detriment to Defendant and its franchises 

ability to compete in the fast-food market. Because of the sensitive nature of these documents, the 

agreement between the parties to keep these documents “CONFIDENTIAL” requires approval by this 

Court in accordance with Local Rule 143(b). Otherwise, a producing party would have a mere 

contractual claim against a lawyer or his client for dissemination of trade secret and commercial 

information, with no meaningful remedy. Moreover, a subsequent claimant might point to such an 

informal agreement as evidence that the producing party does not take reasonable steps to secure its 

proprietary and trade secret information. A court order, in contrast, provides the quick and powerful 

remedy and mechanism of contempt proceedings in the event of a violation and improper disclosure of 

“CONFIDENTIAL” materials. 

4. This Protective Order shall not abrogate or diminish any privilege or any contractual, 

statutory or other legal obligation or right of any party with respect to Discovery Materials.

5. Each party shall keep confidential and not use or disseminate outside the boundaries of 

this litigation any records that any other party designates as “CONFIDENTIAL” except as provided in 

paragraphs 7, 10 & 12 below.

6. Any party may designate any Discovery Materials it deems to be confidential by 

designating such Discovery Materials as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

7. Except as provided in paragraphs 10 and 12, access to Discovery Materials designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” shall be restricted in accordance with the following provisions:

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Discovery Materials, and any information extracted from them, which have been 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be used solely for the purposes of prosecuting or 

defending this action, and for no other purposes;

“CONFIDENTIAL” designated Discovery Materials shall only be disseminated 

or shown to: (1) attorneys who are members or associates of the law firms listed on the 

pleadings in this action, and who have appeared or filed a motion or application to appear 

pro hac vice (“Counsel of Record”), and to supporting personnel employed by Counsel of 

Record, such as other attorneys at the firm, paralegals, legal secretaries, data entry clerks, 

legal clerks and/or private data entry, document management and photocopying services; 

(2) named individual parties, which includes employees of any company, assisting in the 

defense of the action; (3) consultants, in accordance with the terms specified below. 

There shall be no other permissible dissemination of CONFIDENTIAL Discovery 

Materials.

No copies, extracts or summaries of any document designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” shall be made except by or on behalf of Counsel of Record; and 

such copies, extracts or summaries shall also be designated and treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Materials and shall not be delivered or exhibited to any 

persons except as provided in this Protective Order.

Counsel of Record may allow access to Discovery Material designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” to their retained consultants, provided that any such consultant who 

is to receive such material shall be provided with a copy of this Protective Order and 

shall execute an undertaking in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit 1. Consultants shall 

be specifically advised that the portion of their written work product, which contains or 

discloses the substance of Discovery Material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” is 

subject to all the provisions of this Protective Order. Counsel of Record disclosing such 

material to consultants shall be responsible for obtaining the executed undertakings in 

advance of such disclosure and also shall retain the original executed copy of said 

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undertakings. No “CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Material may be disclosed to a 

Consultant prior to execution of the form attached as Exhibit 1.

During depositions, Counsel of Record may question any witness about any 

Discovery Material designated “CONFIDENTIAL.” However, where the witness or 

deponent testifies about such designated Discovery Material, the party who marked the 

material “CONFIDENTIAL” may instruct the Court Reporter to mark and seal such 

testimony as separate from the public record. Any “CONFIDENTIAL” document so 

referred to may be marked as an exhibit, but no such “CONFIDENTIAL” document, or 

any portion thereof, shall be attached to any publicly-available document without the 

written consent of the party that designated the document as “CONFIDENTIAL” absent 

a Court Order denying the designating party’s request, pursuant to Local Rule 141, to file 

said documents under seal, as outlined below. Portions of deposition transcripts 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be so marked, and “CONFIDENTIAL” portions, 

including exhibits consisting of “CONFIDENTIAL” documents, shall be bound 

separately by the Court Reporter, kept under seal, and maintained separately by the Court 

Reporter and the parties from the non-confidential portions of the transcript, including 

exhibits, except as otherwise stipulated by the Parties or Ordered by the Court.

Prior to attaching or quoting any “CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Materials in any 

pleadings, motion papers or other papers filed with this Court or any other court such that 

said “CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Materials would be disclosed in any way therein, the 

party seeking to attach or quote any such Discovery Materials, shall first provide 14 

days’ written notice to all Counsel of Record, such that the party who designated the 

material as “CONFIDENTIAL” may move the Court, pursuant to Local Rule 141, for a 

request to file said documents under seal. Upon request, any party may join any motion 

to seal documents designated by them as “CONFIDENTIAL,” including the drafting and 

approval of said motion. Under the terms of this Stipulation, it is the responsibility of the 

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party who marked the Discovery Materials as “Confidential” to move the Court, pursuant 

to Local Rule 141, for a request to file said documents under seal. 

8. In the event that a party makes documents available for inspection, rather than delivering 

copies to another party, no marking need be made in advance of the initial inspection. For purposes of 

the initial inspection, all documents produced shall be considered as marked “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

Thereafter, upon the inspecting party’s selection of documents for copying, the party producing the 

documents may mark the copies “CONFIDENTIAL,” pursuant to paragraph 7, above.

9. Either at deposition, or within twenty (20) days of receipt of any deposition transcript, 

either party may designate either orally on the record or in writing to the other parties and the court 

reporter, those portions of the testimony in the transcript that the designating party claims constitute 

“CONFIDENTIAL” Information. If such designation is made in writing, each party and the Court 

Reporter shall attach a copy of such written designation notice to the transcript and each copy thereof in 

its possession, custody or control, and the portions designated in such notice shall thereafter be treated in 

accordance with the Protective Order. If such designation is made orally on the record at the time of the 

deposition, such portions designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be separately bound by the court 

reporter, marked as “CONFIDENTIAL” and shall thereafter be treated in accordance with the Protective 

Order. Disputes regarding the designation of portions of a deposition as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be 

resolved as set forth below in Paragraph 10. 

10. If any dispute arises concerning whether information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

should in fact be considered “CONFIDENTIAL” for purposes of this Stipulation, the party who objects 

to the designation of the information as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall give written notice of the objection. 

The parties shall then attempt to resolve the dispute informally and in good faith. If the parties do not 

resolve the dispute informally, the party who designated the information as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall 

have ten (10) business days from either (a) the written notice from the objecting party made pursuant to 

this paragraph, or (b) the written objection to disclosure from the producing party, or (c) the date the 

parties agree that the dispute cannot be resolved informally, whichever is later, to file a motion asking 

the Court to resolve the issue. If the motion is not filed within this time, then the “CONFIDENTIAL” 

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designation shall be deemed waived. If such a motion is timely filed, the party asserting confidentiality 

shall have the burden of proving that the “CONFIDENTIAL” information is protected by (a) a right to 

privacy or (b) trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial information. 

Prior to the determination of such motion, the disputed information shall be treated by the parties as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” If such motion is granted in favor of the objecting party and five days have passed 

after entry of an order granting the motion, then the prevailing party may disclose the information.

11. The disclosure of any Discovery Materials pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order 

is not intended to be and shall not be construed as a waiver of any right or a relinquishment of any 

confidentiality claim as to said Discovery Materials or as a waiver of any claim that the information 

disclosed is a trade secret or is proprietary.

12. Upon final resolution of this litigation, including any appellate proceedings or expiration 

of the time allowed therefore, and within 60 days thereof, counsel for each party shall return or destroy 

all Discovery Materials marked “CONFIDENTIAL” received hereunder, including all copies thereof, to 

counsel for the party that produced said materials, unless otherwise agreed in writing. Counsel for each 

party shall also destroy all extracts or summaries of “CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Materials or 

documents containing such material. Certification of such destruction, under penalty of perjury, is to be 

made in writing to counsel for the party who produced such “CONFIDENTIAL” Discovery Materials 

within ten (10) business days of destruction. 

13. Nothing contained in this Protective Order shall result in a waiver of rights, nor shall any 

of its terms preclude a party from seeking and obtaining, upon an appropriate showing, additional 

protection with respect to personal, financial, commercial, confidential, trade secret or other proprietary 

documents, information or any other discovery material or trade secrets, including, but not limited to, 

restrictions on disclosure. Nothing contained herein relieves any party of its obligation to respond to 

discovery properly initiated pursuant to a Discovery Order.

14. The parties hereby stipulate to the following treatment of any privileged or work product 

materials inadvertently disclosed in this action. The parties agree that disclosure of information 

protected by any privilege in this litigation shall not constitute a waiver of any otherwise valid claim of 

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privilege, and failure to assert a privilege in this litigation as to one document or communication shall 

not be deemed to constitute a waiver of the privilege as to any other document or communication 

allegedly so protected, even involving the same subject matter. The parties agree that any inadvertent 

inclusion of any privileged or work product material in a production in this action shall not result in the 

waiver of any associated privilege or protective doctrine nor result in a subject matter waiver of any 

kind. If any such material is inadvertently produced, the recipient of the document agrees that, upon 

request from the producing party, it will promptly return all copies of the document in its possession, 

delete any versions of the documents on any database it maintains, and make no use of the information 

contained in the document, provided, however, that the party returning such document shall thereafter 

have the right to apply to the Court for an order that such document was not protected (prior to the 

inadvertent disclosure) from disclosure by any privilege or doctrine. The parties acknowledge and 

stipulate that diligent steps have been taken to protect privileged/protected documents from disclosure, 

and that any production of privileged material or material protected by the work product doctrine is 

deemed inadvertent and does not amount to a waiver.

15. The Court may modify this Protective Order at any time or consider any dispute which 

may arise hereunder upon motion of any of the parties. If either party has reason to believe that the 

opposing party has violated the terms of this Stipulation, that party may seek file a motion with the 

Court seeking any orders that it deems appropriate for the alleged violation of this Stipulation. 

16. Nothing in this Protective Order affects in any way, the admissibility of any documents,

testimony or other evidence at trial.

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17. This Protective Order shall remain in effect for the duration of the action unless 

terminated by stipulation executed by the Counsel of Record or pursuant to Court Order. Insofar as they 

restrict the communication, treatment and use of information subject to this Protective Order, the 

provisions of this Protective Order shall continue to be binding after the termination of this action, 

unless the Court orders otherwise

It is so stipulated. 

DATED: September 8, 2014 JONES LAW FIRM

By /s/ Charles A. Jones 

Charles Jones

Attorneys for Plaintiff Mitch Davenport

DATED: September 8, 2014 GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP

By /s/ Mark D. Kemple

Mark D. Kemple

Attorneys for Defendant Wendy’s International, LLC

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: September 9, 2014

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EXHIBIT 1

STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY

By signing this document, I hereby certify that I have read the Stipulated Protective Order 

entered by the Court in Davenport. Wendy’s International, Inc., Case No. 2:14-CV-00931-JAM-DAD, a 

copy of which is attached hereto, and hereby agree to abide by its terms and conditions. I also 

understand that any violation of the Stipulated Protective Order by me or anyone acting under my 

direction may subject me to penalties for contempt. I hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of the 

United States District Court, Eastern District, for purposes of enforcement or redress of the violation by 

me of the Stipulated Protective Order. 

SIGNATURE:

NAME (PRINTED):

ADDRESS:

EMPLOYER:

DATE:

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