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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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Case No. 2:15-CV-01514-JAM-CKD CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND 

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

Counsel listed on next page

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

JOYCE MCCRAY-KEY, individually and 

on behalf of all similarly-situated persons, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

SUTTER HEALTH SACRAMENTO 

SIERRA REGION, and DOES 1 THROUGH 

100, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:15-CV-01514-JAM-CKD

STIPULATED CONFIDENTIALITY 

AGREEMENT AND ORDER 

 

Dept: 3 

Judge: Hon. John A. Mendez 

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Case No. 2:15-CV-01514-JAM-CKD CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT 

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PETER R. DION-KINDEM, P. C. 

THE DION-KINDEM LAW FIRM

PETER R. DION-KINDEM, P.C. 

21550 Oxnard Street, Suite 900 

Woodland Hills, California 91367 

Telephone: (818) 883-4900 

Fax: (818) 883-4902 

Email: peter@dion-kindemlaw.com 

LONNIE C. BLANCHARD, III (SBN 93530) 

THE BLANCHARD LAW GROUP, APC 

3311 East Pico Boulevard 

Los Angeles, CA 90023 

Telephone: (213) 599-8255 

Fax: (213) 402-3949 

Email: lonnieblanchard@gmail.com 

JEFF HOLMES (SBN 100891) 

HOLMES LAW GROUP, APC 

3311 East Pico Boulevard 

Los Angeles, CA 90023 

Telephone: (310) 396-9045 

Fax: (970) 497-4922 

Email: jeffholmesjh@gmail.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOYCE MCCRAY-KEY 

THOMAS E. GEIDT (SB# 080955) 

C. YEWLEH CHEE (SB# 281710) 

GRUBE BROWN & GEIDT LLP 

tomgeidt@gbgllp.com 

yewlehchee@gbgllp.com 

601 Montgomery Street, Suite 1150 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 603-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 840-7210 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SUTTER HEALTH SACRAMENTO SIERRA REGION 

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WHEREAS, Plaintiff Joyce McCray-Key (“Plaintiff”) filed a putative wage-and-hour 

class action against Defendant Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (“SHSSR”); and 

WHEREAS, SHSSR disputes and denies all of Plaintiff’s claims; and 

WHEREAS, certain of the information to be produced by the parties in discovery may 

reveal or reflect confidential, private information, including but not limited to the home 

addresses, home telephone numbers, email addresses and other personal contact information of 

certain persons who performed temporary work assignments at SHSSR facilities, and documents 

related to the job performance, attendance, discipline, compensation, or other personnel or 

payroll information of such temporary workers at SHSSR facilities; and 

WHEREAS, other confidential information to be produced by the parties may include 

financial, commercially sensitive, private, or proprietary information of parties or non-parties to 

this litigation, the disclosure of which could cause harm to, or invade the privacy of, one or more 

of the parties herein or non-parties; and 

WHEREAS, the parties are interested in permitting discovery to proceed without the 

delay that may be occasioned by possible disputes regarding confidential, commercially 

sensitive, private, or proprietary information, and they seek to limit disclosure of such 

information to this proceeding, 

IT IS HEREBY STIPUATED AND AGREED, by and between the parties hereto, 

through their respective counsel of record, as follows: 

1. Any “Confidential” information under the terms of this Agreement shall be used 

solely for the purpose of prosecution or defense of this litigation and not for any other purpose 

whatsoever. 

2. Certain documents pertaining to temporary workers at SHSSR facilities, including 

their home addresses and home telephone numbers, and other personnel-related documents or 

files, shall be deemed “Confidential.” 

3. Additionally, any party producing documents or information (“Producing Party”) 

may designate as “Confidential” any other information which is not generally available to the 

public, or which a Producing Party has maintained in confidence, or the disclosure of which a 

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Producing Party reasonably believes is likely to or would harm the business or invade the 

privacy of the Producing Party, temporary workers at SHSSR facilities, patients at SHSSR 

facilities, or persons or other organizations from which the information was obtained. 

4. The “Confidential” information identified in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall collectively 

be called “Protected Information.” Protected Information shall be treated as confidential unless 

the Court orders otherwise or the Producing Party withdraws such designation. 

5. Protected Information designated as “Confidential” shall be marked with a 

CONFIDENTIAL label stamp or electronic marking. Any such label, stamp, or marking that is 

inadvertently omitted may be corrected by written notification to all counsel of record. 

Deposition testimony may be designated as “Confidential” by an appropriate statement on the 

record at the time such testimony is given, or may be marked as “Confidential” within sixty (60) 

days of receipt of the transcript by written notification to all counsel of record. 

6. Protected Information shall be held in strictest confidence and shall be kept in a 

secure location by all designated counsel in this litigation. Protected Information shall be 

disclosed only to those persons identified in Paragraph 7 below. 

7. Access to Protected Information or any information derived therefrom shall be 

limited to the following: 

a. The Court, its employees, court reporters, and the jury; 

b. Counsel for the respective parties and employees or other clerical 

assistants of said counsel who are assisting in the prosecution or defense 

of this litigation; 

c. Named parties, officers, directors, and employees of any of the parties 

who are assisting counsel in the prosecution or defense of this litigation; 

d. Any neutral person who may be selected by the parties to preside over any 

private mediation, settlement conference, or early neutral evaluation; 

e. Third-party contractors involved in one or more aspects of copying, 

organizing, filing, coding, converting, storing, or retrieving data or 

designing programs for handling data connected with this litigation, 

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including the performance of such duties in relation to a computerized 

litigation support system; and to the employees of third-party contractors 

performing one or more of these functions; 

f. Experts and consultants (including independent experts and consultants, 

and employees or clerical assistants of said experts) who are employed, 

retained, or otherwise consulted by counsel for the purpose of analyzing 

data, conducting studies, or providing opinions to assist in this litigation; 

g. Any person designated by the Court in the interest of justice, upon such 

terms as the Court may deem proper; 

h. Any other individual or entity as to whom counsel for the Producing Party 

and counsel for the party seeking to disclose the Protected Information 

agree in writing; and 

i. Non-party witnesses assisting counsel in the prosecution or defense of this 

case. 

8. Prior to disclosure of Protected Information to any person identified in Paragraphs 

7(f), (h), and (i), such person shall agree in advance to be bound by this Stipulated 

Confidentiality Agreement (“Confidentiality Agreement”) by signing a copy of the Certification 

attached as Exhibit A. Counsel for the relevant party shall keep the original of each executed 

Certification. 

9. This Confidentiality Agreement shall be without prejudice to the right of a 

Producing Party to seek additional protection for any Protected Information. 

10. The designation of Protected Information as “Confidential” pursuant to the 

Confidentiality Agreement shall not be construed as a concession by the Producing Party that 

such information is relevant, material, or admissible as to any issue. Nothing in the 

Confidentiality Agreement shall be construed as waiving any objection to the production of 

evidence or to discovery requests, nor shall the Confidentiality Agreement be construed to 

require the production of any particular testimony, documents, evidence, or other information. 

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11. In the event that a party objects to the designation or non-designation of 

information and/or documents as “Confidential,” that party will so notify the Producing Party in 

writing. The parties will attempt to resolve such disputes on an informal basis. If agreement 

cannot be reached between counsel, the Producing Party shall indicate in writing the reason for 

the designation or non-designation. The party or parties opposing the designation or 

non-designation may present such dispute to the Court, by motion or otherwise. In the resolution 

of such matter, the burden of establishing confidentiality shall be on the party who made the 

claim of confidentiality. 

12. Inadvertent production of any document or other information that a party to this 

action or non-party witness believes should be designated as “Confidential” during discovery, or 

otherwise, may be retroactively designated by written notice designating each document by 

Bates number or other identifying information and shall be treated as so indicated from the date 

written notice of the designation is received. 

13. If a Producing Party inadvertently provides any information subject to a claim of 

attorney-client privilege, attorney work product, or other privilege, the Producing Party may, 

promptly after discovering such inadvertent disclosure, inform the receiving party or parties of 

the privileged nature of the disclosed information, and the receiving party or parties shall treat 

the disclosed information as “Confidential” under the Confidentiality Agreement. If the 

receiving party does not dispute such claim, the receiving party or parties shall destroy the 

original and all copies of the assertedly privileged documents (and destroy all summaries of 

same), within five (5) business days of receipt of the written notice from the Producing Party, 

and provide the Producing Party with a written certification of the destruction within the 

following two (2) business days. To the extent the receiving party or parties have already 

disclosed this information, such parties shall promptly notify the Producing Party as to the 

specific recipients of such information and shall take all reasonable steps to remove such 

information from said recipients. If a party or counsel for a party receives a document or other 

information that appears on its face to be inadvertently produced and subject to a claim of 

privilege, counsel for the receiving party will inform counsel for the Producing Party promptly 

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after becoming aware of the disclosure. Inadvertent production of privileged information shall 

not constitute waiver by the producing party. In the event that a receiving party disputes the 

claim of privilege, that party will so notify the Producing Party in writing. The parties will 

attempt to resolve such disputes on an informal basis. If agreement cannot be reached between 

counsel, the Producing Party shall indicate in writing the reason for the designation. The party or 

parties opposing the designation may present such dispute to the Court, by motion or otherwise. 

In the resolution of such matter, the burden of establishing a privilege shall be on the party who 

made the claim of privilege. 

14. At the time of filing a motion or brief with the Court involving Protected 

Information, the submitting party will not file the documents in the public record but shall follow 

the procedure provided in Civil Local Rule 141. Should the Court deny the motion or 

application to seal, the party attempting to file the Protected Information will be deemed to have 

complied with the Confidentiality Agreement. 

15. The Confidentiality Agreement shall remain in full force and effect until 

modified, superseded, or terminated by further order of this Court, and shall survive the 

termination of this litigation; provided, however, that the Confidentiality Agreement may be 

amended by stipulation between the parties to this litigation or upon regularly-noticed motions to 

the Court. 

16. Except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Producing Party, at the conclusion of 

this litigation and any appeals herein, whether this litigation be settled or otherwise resolved in 

full prior to trial, or tried on the merits, all Protected Information and all copies thereof produced 

by any party in this litigation or otherwise obtained from any party or non-party shall upon 

written request be promptly returned to the Producing Party or destroyed with the consent of the 

Producing Party. Counsel for the Receiving Party shall be entitled to keep an archival copy for 

counsel’s records, subject to counsel’s continuing compliance with the terms of this Agreement. 

17. The foregoing is without prejudice to the right of any party to apply to the Court 

for (a) a further protective order relating to any writing, whether or not it is identified above; (b) 

an order amending or modifying the Confidentiality Agreement; (c) an order protecting against 

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other discovery, or other use of the documents identified above; or (d) an order permitting the 

further production, discovery, disclosure, or use of any documents, including those identified 

above. 

18. This Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement may be executed in counterparts. The 

Confidentiality Agreement shall bind the parties upon their placement of signatures, even if the 

Court has not yet signed it. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: February 26, 2016 THE DION-KINDEM LAW FIRM 

THE BLANCHARD LAW GROUP, APC 

HOLMES LAW GROUP, APC 

By 

PETER R. DION-KINDEM 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

JOYCE MCCRAY-KEY 

Dated: February __, 2016 GRUBE BROWN & GEIDT LLP 

By 

THOMAS E. GEIDT 

Attorneys for Defendant 

SUTTER HEALTH SACRAMENTO SIERRA 

REGION

 

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ORDER 

PURSUANT TO THE PARTIES’ STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 3/3/2016 

 /s/ John A. Mendez_______ 

Honorable John A. Mendez 

 

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EXHIBIT A 

CERTIFICATION 

I hereby certify my understanding that Protected Information is being provided to me 

pursuant to the terms and restrictions of the Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement in the case of 

Joyce McCray-Key v. Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, United States District Court, 

Eastern District of California, No. 2:15-CV-01514-JAM-CKD. I have read the Stipulated 

Confidentiality Agreement, and I agree to be bound by it. I will not reveal the Protected 

Information, except as allowed by this Stipulated Confidentiality Agreement. I will maintain all 

such Protected Information – including copies, notes, or other transcriptions made therefrom – in 

a secure manner to prevent unauthorized access to it. No later than thirty (30) days after the 

conclusion of this litigation, I will return the Protected Information – including copies, notes, or 

other transcriptions made therefrom – to counsel who provided me with the Protected 

Information. 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 

Confidentiality Agreement. 

Date: ______________________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

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