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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Labor/Mgmnt. Relations

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CATHERINE A. CONWAY (SBN 98366)

GREGORY W. KNOPP (SBN 237615)

DAMIEN P. DELANEY (SBN 246476)

AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

2029 Century Park East, Suite 2400

Los Angeles, California 90067-3012

Telephone: 310-229-1000

Facsimile: 310-229-1001

Attorneys for EMC CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STEVE LANGILLE, an individual, on 

behalf of himself, and on behalf of all 

persons similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

EMC CORPORATION, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 07-CV-0651-H (CAB)

JOINT STIPULATION AND

[PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

Judge: Cathy Ann Bencivengo

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. Purposes and Limitations

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action is likely to involve production of

corporate policies and procedures, corporate handbooks, employee training materials, personnel

files and employment records, payroll reports, time punch records, internal investigative reports,

and internal corporate communications that contain confidential, sensitive or private commercial,

financial, business or personal information, trade secrets as defined by Cal. Civil Code §3426.1,

private financial records of employees, or personal identification information of employees, for

which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than

prosecuting, defending, or settling this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, Plaintiff

Steve Langille (“Plaintiff”) and Defendant EMC Corporation. (“Defendant”), by and through

their counsel of record, hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following

Stipulation and Proposed Protective Order (“Protective Order”) because the parties could be

prejudiced by the dissemination of such information. The parties acknowledge that this

Protective 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. The parties further

acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10 below, that this Protective Order creates no entitlement to

file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79.2(c) sets forth the procedures that

must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission

from the Court to file material under seal.

2. Definitions

2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors,

employees, and in-house counsel (and their support staff).

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of

the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things,

testimony, transcripts, documents or tangible things) that are produced or generated in

disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

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2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things concerning corporate policies and procedures;

corporate handbooks; employee training materials; personnel files and employment records;

payroll reports; time punch records; internal investigative reports and internal corporate

communications that contain confidential, sensitive or private commercial, financial, business or

personal information protected by constitutional, statutory and/or common-law rights of privacy

and/or confidentiality; private financial records of employees; personal identification information

of employees; or trade secrets as defined by Cal. Civil Code §3426.1 or that qualify for

protection under standards developed under Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: 

extremely sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or

non-party would create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less

restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material

from a Producing Party.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or

Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates its Disclosures or

Discovery Material as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is

designated as either “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action, as well as their support staffs.

2.10 In-House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party, as well as

their support staffs.

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and In-House Counsel.

2.12 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

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witness or as a consultant in this litigation; and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party

and who, at the time of retention, was not anticipated to become an employee of a Party. This

definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in connection with this

litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support

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

organizing, storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and

subcontractors.

3. Scope

The protections conferred by this Protective Order cover not only Protected Material (as

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies,

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that would reveal Protected Material.

4. Duration

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by

this Protective Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing

or a Court orders otherwise.

5. Designating Protected Material

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Disclosure or Discovery

Material for Protection. Each Party or non-party that designates Disclosure or Discovery

Material for protection under this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific

Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies under the appropriate confidentiality standard. A

Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of Disclosure or

Discovery Material, so that other portions of the Disclosure or Discovery Material for which

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

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that Disclosure or Discovery Material that

that party designated for protection does not qualify for protection at all, or does not qualify for

the level of protection initially asserted, that Designating Party must promptly notify the other

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party that it is withdrawing the improper designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this

Protective Order (see e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated

or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Protective

Order must be clearly so designated before such material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Protective Order requires:

5.2(a) For Disclosure or Discovery Material in documentary form (apart

from transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” on each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of a

document or 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) and must

specify, for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”).

A Party or non-party that makes original Disclosure or Discovery Material available for

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated

which Disclosure or Discovery Material it seeks to have copied and produced. During the

inspection and before the designation, all of the Disclosure or Discovery Material made available

for inspection shall be deemed “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” After the

inspecting Party has identified the Disclosure or Discovery Material it seeks to have copied and

produced, the Producing Party must determine which, if any, Disclosure or Discovery Material,

or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Protective Order. Prior to producing the

specified Disclosure or Discovery Material, the Producing Party must affix the appropriate

legend (“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”) prominently on each

page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of Disclosure or Discovery

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) and must specify, for

each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential

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– Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). 

5.2(b) For Disclosure or Discovery Material in the form of testimony

given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering

the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other

proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the testimony that qualify

as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” When it is impractical to

identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears

that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non-party that

sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or

proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to twenty (20) days to identify the specific portions of

the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being

asserted “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”). Only those portions

of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 day timeframe

shall be covered by the provisions of this Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court

reporter, who must prominently affix on each such page the legend “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” as instructed by the Party or non-party offering or

sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

5.2(c) For Disclosure or Discovery Material produced in a form other

than documentary, 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 or item is stored the

legend “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” If only portions of the

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall

identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. An inadvertent failure to designate

Disclosure or Discovery Material as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes

Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under

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this Protective Order for such material. Any party may cure an inadvertent failure to designate

Disclosure or Discovery Material as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” by promptly

notifying the Receiving Party that the subject material was inadvertently produced without proper

designation. If any Disclosure or Discovery Material is appropriately designated as

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially

produced, the Receiving Party, on prompt notification of the designation, must make reasonable

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

Order. Additionally, a ten (10) day hold will apply on disclosures of non-designated or

“Confidential” information to persons not identified in paragraph 7.3.

5.4 Nonparty Designations During Deposition. During the deposition of any

nonparty, the nonparty may designate any Disclosure or Discovery Material as “Confidential” or

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” so long as it is conducted in good faith. Further,

any nonparty seeking to invoke any protection accorded by the Protective Order must either

provide a copy of the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (attached as Exhibit A)

executed by the nonparty to all counsel of record for the Parties or so agree on the record during

the deposition.

6. Challenging Confidentiality Designations

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge

promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith with counsel for the

Designating Party. 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 explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party

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may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has first engaged in this meet and

confer process.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the parties are unable to resolve informally any

challenge to a confidentiality designation, the parties shall first jointly submit a 2-3 paragraph

memorandum to Magistrate Judge Bencivengo summarizing the dispute. If the parties cannot

resolve the challenge with the assistance of the Magistrate Judge, the challenge party may file

and serve a motion pursuant to Local Civil Rule 7.1 that identifies the challenged Disclosure or

Discovery Material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion must be

accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with all

requirements of Sections 6.1-6.3 of this Protective Order, and the applicable Federal Rules of

Civil Procedure and Local Civil Rules.

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

Designating Party. Until the Court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the

Disclosure or Discovery Material in question the level of protection to which it is designated by

the Producing Party.

7. Access To And Use Of Protected Material

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a non-party in connection with this case only for

prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be

disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Protective

Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the

provisions of section 11 below.

Protected Material must be maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to persons authorized under this Protective

Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “Confidential” Information or Items. 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 the following:

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7.2(a) the Receiving Party, including its officers, directors, and

employees (including In-House Counsel) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

7.2(b) Outside Counsel in this litigation, as well as its employees to

whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation;

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

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

7.2(d) the Court and its personnel;

7.2(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation;

7.2(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to

depositions that contain Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and

may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Protective Order.

“Confidential” Material and/or Information may not be disclosed to a

witness in preparation for deposition or trial testimony unless that witness has signed the

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A) prior to such disclosure, or the

witness is an individual permitted to receive “Confidential” material and/or information under

section 7.2(g) of this Protective Order.

7.2(g) the author of or recipient of the Protected Material or the original

source of the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information

or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” only to the following:

7.3(a) Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as its employees

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to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this litigation;

7.3(b) In-House Counsel (1) who has no involvement in competitive

decision-making, (2) to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (3) who

has signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

7.3(c) Experts (as defined in this Protective Order) (1) to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation, and (2) who have signed the “Agreement to

Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A), 

7.3(d) the Court and its personnel;

7.3(e) Court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation; and

7.3(f) the author or recipient of the document or the original source of the

information.

7.3(g) the author or recipient of the Protected Material or the original

source of the information.

8. Protected Material Subpoenaed Or Ordered Produced In Other Litigation. 

No Confidential or Highly Confidential Disclosure or Discovery Material may be

disclosed, produced or otherwise revealed to pursuant to an interrogatory, request for production,

request for admission, or any other discovery request in any other litigation matter under the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the rules of any other jurisdiction or tribunal except as

provided in this Section.

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or a Court order issued in other litigation

that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” the Receiving Party must so

immediately notify the Designating Party, in writing and in no event more than three (3) court

days after receiving the subpoena or Court order. Such notification must include a copy of the

subpoena or Court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the Protected Material covered

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by the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party

must deliver a copy of this Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused

the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of

this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to

protect its confidentiality interests in the Court from which the subpoena or order issued. The

Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of

its Protected 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.

9. Unauthorized Disclosure Of Protected Material

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 Protective Order, the

Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the

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

and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” (Exhibit A).

10. Filing Protected Material

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a Court order secured after

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this

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

must comply with Civil Local Rule 79.2(c).

11. Final Disposition

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, after the final

termination of this litigation, including any appeals, if a Producing Party requests in writing the

return or destruction of any or all of its Protected Material to the Receiving Party, within ten (10)

business days of such request, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification, under

penalty of perjury, to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the

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Designating Party as well) that all Protected Material was returned or destroyed, including any

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the

Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Outside Counsel may retain an archival set

of copies of Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected

Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 above.

12. Miscellaneous

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Protective Order abridges the right

of any person to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. 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 Disclosure or Discovery Material on any ground not addressed in this Protective

Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of

the Disclosure or Discovery Material covered by this Protective Order.

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 Pursuant to Local Rules, paragraph 13 was inserted by this Court.

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13. Seal

Subject to public policy, and further court order, nothing shall be filed under seal, and the

court shall not be required to take any action, without separate prior order by the Judge before

whom the hearing or proceeding will take place, after application by the affected party with

appropriate notice to opposing counsel.1

Dated: August 16, 2007 BLUMENTHAL & NORDREHAUG

By /s/ Norman B. Blumenthal

Norman B. Blumenthal

Attorneys for Plaintiff STEVE LANGILLE

Dated: August 16, 2007 AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

By /s/ Gregory W. Knopp

Gregory W. Knopp

Attorneys for EMC CORPORATION

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: August 23, 2007

CATHY ANN BENCIVENGO

United States Magistrate Judge

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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 Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the

Southern District of California on [date] in the case of Langille v. EMC Corporation, No.

07-CV-0651 H (CAB). I agree to comply with and be bound by all the terms of this 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 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

Southern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Protective Order,

even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action. 

Date: ______________

City and State where swore and signed: ________________________

Printed name: __________________________________

Signature: _____________________________________

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