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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Employment Discrimination

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[PROPOSED] ORDER RE CONFIDENTIALITY STIPULATION

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RAYMOND L. WHEELER (CA SBN 52886)

CHRISTINE E. LYON (CA SBN 205781)

MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

755 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304-1018

Telephone: 650.813.5600

Facsimile: 650.494.0792

Attorneys for Defendant

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

KRISTOPHER KILGORE,

Plaintiff,

v.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Defendant.

Case No. C05 00981 HRL

[PROPOSED] ORDER 

RE: CONFIDENTIALITY 

STIPULATION

Action Filed: March 8, 2005

Pursuant to the agreement of the Plaintiff and Defendant (collectively “the parties”), the 

Court orders as follows:

1. Any party may designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” any document produced for 

inspection and copying or any other document disclosed, served, filed or given under oath in this 

action (including, without limitation, answers to interrogatories, answers to requests for 

admission, and transcripts of depositions), or any part thereof, at the time of production, 

disclosure, service, copying, filing, or signing with the word “CONFIDENTIAL” or, if 

inadvertently produced without such legend, or, if produced by a third party, by promptly 

furnishing written notice to the receiving party that information shall be CONFIDENTIAL under 

this Protective Order.
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A. In exercising the right to designate a document a CONFIDENTIAL

document, the parties agree to proceed in good faith. A party shall not designate a document as 

CONFIDENTIAL unless it is of a private or confidential or proprietary nature deserving of such 

protection. Except as may be otherwise provided by this Order or by further order of the Court or 

further stipulation of the parties, documents designated as CONFIDENTIAL, as well as the 

matters contained therein, and extracts and summaries thereof containing confidential 

information, shall be used for no purpose other than prosecuting or defending any legal claims 

between the parties.

B. Access to any CONFIDENTIAL documents, or any part thereof, as well as 

to the matters contained therein, shall be limited to: (i) the judiciary, its employees and its agents, 

including jurors; (ii) the parties and the officers, employees and agents of the parties who have a 

reasonable justification to view the CONFIDENTIAL material; (iii) the attorneys for the parties, 

their associates, assistants and agents; (iv) consultants and experts involved in the preparation of 

this litigation for each party; (v) court reporters, their transcribers, assistants and employees; 

(vi) authors, subjects, and recipients of CONFIDENTIAL documents; and (vii) potential 

witnesses.

C. Individuals and entities, other than the parties, their attorneys, associates 

and agents, permitted access by the parties’ attorneys, pursuant to paragraph 1(B) above, to 

CONFIDENTIAL documents, or parts thereof, are hereby ordered not to show, convey or 

reproduce any such documents, or any parts thereof, or any matters contained therein, or any 

extracts or summaries thereof, to any individual or entity who would not otherwise have access to 

CONFIDENTIAL documents under the provisions of this Order.

2. Counsel for each party shall insure that any person who makes a declaration or 

testifies on behalf of that party, or assists in any way in the preparation of that party’s case shall 

have access to CONFIDENTIAL material only after being informed of the provisions of this 

Order and after agreeing to be bound by it.

3. In the event that any party submits to the Court any document which has been 

designated as CONFIDENTIAL, the party submitting the CONFIDENTIAL documents shall 
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apply to the Court for an order allowing the CONFIDENTIAL documents to be filed under seal, 

pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5, unless the party who designated the material as 

CONFIDENTIAL stipulates in writing that said documents do not need to be filed under seal.

4. Parties submitting purportedly CONFIDENTIAL information to the Court shall 

endeavor in good faith to restrict their filings or other submissions to CONFIDENTIAL 

information that is reasonably necessary for the Court to consider in connection with the issue or 

matter for which the CONFIDENTIAL information is submitted.

5. The execution of this Order, and the entry of a protective order pursuant hereto, 

shall not, in itself:

a. constitute a waiver of any party’s right to seek at a future time relief from 

the Court, such as an order restricting access to specific documents designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL documents to a more limited group of individuals or entities than defined in 

paragraph 1(B) above, or granting access to specific documents designated as CONFIDENTIAL

documents to specific individuals; or

b. preclude any party from (i) claiming that any document or matter 

designated hereunder is not entitled to the protections of this Protective Order, (ii) applying to the 

Court for an Order permitting disclosure or use of information or documents otherwise prohibited 

by this Protective Order, or (iii) applying for an Order modifying this Protective Order in any 

respect; or 

c. constitute a waiver of any objection to any discovery request; or

d. be construed as an admission or agreement that any document designated 

as a CONFIDENTIAL document, in fact, is confidential, or contains sensitive information, or otherwise is entitled to any protective relief whatsoever; or

e. control the disclosure of CONFIDENTIAL information at trial (a matter 

which the parties will resolve, if necessary, through a pre-trial order).

6. If any party claims that any matter designated hereunder is not entitled to the 

protections of this Protective Order, that party may serve on the designating party an objection to 

the designation. Such objection(s) may be served by facsimile and will be deemed received one 
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day after the objection is sent via facsimile. After service of the objection, the parties shall meet 

and confer regarding the objection. If the parties are unable to reach agreement concerning the 

designation of the matter, then the party requesting removal of the designation may file and serve 

a motion for an order from the Court directing that the designation of the matter be removed 

and/or modified. 

7. The terms of this Protective Order are applicable to CONFIDENTIAL information 

submitted or produced by a non-party, and such information produced by a non-party in 

connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Protective 

Order. A non-party providing information to all the parties through either formal or informal 

discovery means shall (a) have the same right as a party to designate any such information under 

this Protective Order, and (b) shall have the standing to enforce the terms of this Protective Order 

with respect to disclosure and use of that non-party’s designated information.

8. At the conclusion of litigation between the parties, every CONFIDENTIAL

document disclosed in this action, whether or not filed, or identified as an exhibit in the 

proceeding shall be returned within thirty (30) days after the conclusion of the litigation, upon 

written request from the party which designated it CONFIDENTIAL.

9. The parties retain the right to designate as CONFIDENTIAL those documents they 

disclosed, produced or received prior to entering into this Stipulated Protective Order.

IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: _________, 2005

U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge