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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity Action

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1 Case No. 17cv0167-DMS-JLB

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CESAR CONTRERAS, et al.

Plaintiffs,

v.

REMINGTON LODGING & 

HOSPITALITY, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 17cv0167-DMS-JLB

ORDER GRANTING IN PART JOINT 

MOTION TO THE EXTENT THE 

PARTIES REQUEST ENTRY OF

THE STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

[ECF Nos. 17, 18]

The Court hereby GRANTS IN PART the parties’ Joint Motion (ECF Nos. 17, 

18).1 The Court recognizes that at least some of the documents and information 

(“materials”) being sought through discovery in the above-captioned action are, for 

competitive reasons, normally kept confidential by the parties. The parties have agreed 

to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order (“Order”) in this action.

The materials to be exchanged throughout the course of the litigation between 

the parties may contain trade secret or other confidential research, technical, cost, 

price, marketing or other commercial information, as is contemplated by Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 26(c)(7). The purpose of this Order is to protect the confidentiality 

of such materials as much as practical during the litigation. THEREFORE:

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In their Joint Motion, the parties request entry of their stipulated protective order and for an 

extension of discovery deadlines. This order rules only on the request for entry of the parties’ 

stipulated protective order.

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DEFINITIONS

1. The term “Confidential Information” will mean and include information 

contained or disclosed in any materials, including documents, portions of documents, 

answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, trial testimony, 

deposition testimony, and transcripts of trial testimony and depositions, including data, 

summaries, and compilations derived therefrom that is deemed to be Confidential 

Information by any party to which it belongs.

2. The term “materials” will include, but is not be limited to: documents; 

correspondence; memoranda; bulletins; blueprints; specifications; customer lists or 

other material that identify customers or potential customers; price lists or schedules 

or other matter identifying pricing; minutes; telegrams; letters; statements; cancelled 

checks; contracts; invoices; drafts; books of account; worksheets; notes of 

conversations; desk diaries; appointment books; expense accounts; recordings;

photographs; motion pictures; compilations from which information can be obtained 

and translated into reasonably usable form through detection devices; sketches; 

drawings; notes (including laboratory notebooks and records); reports; instructions; 

disclosures; other writings; models and prototypes and other physical objects.

3. The term “counsel” will mean outside counsel of record, and other 

attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, and other support staff employed in the law firms 

Law Offices of Daniel A. Kaplan, Ordaz Law, APC, and Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, 

Smoak & Stewart, P.C. “Counsel” also includes in-house attorneys for Defendant.

GENERAL RULES

4. Each party to this litigation that produces or discloses any materials, 

answers to interrogatories, responses to requests for admission, trial testimony, 

deposition testimony, and transcripts of trial testimony and depositions, or information 

that the producing party believes should be subject to this Protective Order may 

designate the same as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL 

ONLY.”

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a. Designation as “CONFIDENTIAL”: Any party may designate 

information as “CONFIDENTIAL” only if, in the good faith belief 

of such party and its counsel, the unrestricted disclosure of such 

information could be potentially prejudicial to the business or 

operations of such party.

b. Designation as “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY”: 

Any party may designate information as “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR 

COUNSEL ONLY” only if, in the good faith belief of such party 

and its counsel, the information is among that considered to be 

most sensitive by the party, including but not limited to trade secret 

or other confidential research, development, financial or other 

commercial information.

5. In the event the producing party elects to produce materials for 

inspection, no marking need be made by the producing party in advance of the initial 

inspection. For purposes of the initial inspection, all materials produced will be 

considered as “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY,” and must be treated as 

such pursuant to the terms of this Order. Thereafter, upon selection of specified 

materials for copying by the inspecting party, the producing party must, within a 

reasonable time prior to producing those materials to the inspecting party, mark the 

copies of those materials that contain Confidential Information with the appropriate 

confidentiality marking.

6. Whenever a deposition taken on behalf of any party involves a disclosure 

of Confidential Information of any party:

a. the deposition or portions of the deposition must be designated as 

containing Confidential Information subject to the provisions of 

this Order; such designation must be made on the record whenever 

possible, but a party may designate portions of depositions as 

containing Confidential Information after transcription of the 

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proceedings; [A] party will have until fourteen (14) days after 

receipt of the deposition transcript to inform the other party or 

parties to the action of the portions of the transcript to be 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR 

COUNSEL ONLY.”

b. the disclosing party will have the right to exclude from attendance 

at the deposition, during such time as the Confidential Information 

is to be disclosed, any person other than the deponent, counsel 

(including their staff and associates), the court reporter, and the 

person(s) agreed upon pursuant to paragraph 8 below; and 

c. the originals of the deposition transcripts and all copies of the 

deposition must bear the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY,” as appropriate, 

and the original or any copy ultimately presented to a court for 

filing must not be filed unless it can be accomplished under seal, 

identified as being subject to this Order, and protected from being 

opened except by order of this Court.

7. All Confidential Information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL FOR COUNSEL ONLY” must not be disclosed by the receiving 

party to anyone other than those persons designated within this order and must be 

handled in the manner set forth below and, in any event, must not be used for any 

purpose other than in connection with this litigation, unless and until such designation 

is removed either by agreement of the parties, or by order of the Court.

8. Information designated “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR COUNSEL ONLY”

must be viewed only by counsel (as defined in paragraph 3) of the receiving party, and 

by independent experts under the conditions set forth in this Paragraph. The right of 

any independent expert to receive any Confidential Information will be subject to the 

advance approval of such expert by the producing party or by permission of the Court. 

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The party seeking approval of an independent expert must provide the producing party 

with the name and curriculum vitae of the proposed independent expert, and an 

executed copy of the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, in advance of providing any 

Confidential Information of the producing party to the expert. Any objection by the 

producing party to an independent expert receiving Confidential Information must be 

made in writing within fourteen (14) days following receipt of the identification of the 

proposed expert. Confidential Information may be disclosed to an independent expert 

if the fourteen (14) day period has passed and no objection has been made. The 

approval of independent experts must not be unreasonably withheld.

9. Information designated “CONFIDENTIAL” must be viewed only by 

counsel (as defined in paragraph 3) of the receiving party, by independent experts 

(pursuant to the terms of paragraph 8), and by the additional individuals listed below, 

provided each such individual has read this Order in advance of disclosure and has 

agreed in writing to be bound by its terms:

a. Executives who are required to participate in policy decisions with 

reference to this action;

b. Technical personnel of the parties with whom Counsel for the 

parties find it necessary to consult, in the discretion of such 

counsel, in preparation for trial of this action; and

c. Stenographic and clerical employees associated with the 

individuals identified above.

10. With respect to material designated “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL – FOR COUNSEL ONLY,” any person indicated on the face of 

the document to be its originator, author or a recipient of a copy of the document, may 

be shown the same.

11. All information which has been designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“CONFIDENTIAL -FOR COUNSEL ONLY” by the producing or disclosing party, 

and any and all reproductions of that information, must be retained in the custody of 

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the counsel for the receiving party identified in paragraph 3, except that independent 

experts authorized to view such information under the terms of this Order may retain 

custody of copies such as are necessary for their participation in this litigation.

12. Before any materials produced in discovery, answers to interrogatories, 

responses to requests for admissions, deposition transcripts, or other documents which 

are designated as Confidential Information are filed with the Court for any purpose, 

the party seeking to file such material must seek permission of the Court to file the 

material under seal.

a. No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secures a 

court order allowing the filing of a document under seal. An 

application to file a document under seal shall be served on 

opposing counsel, and on the person or entity that has custody and 

control of the document, if different from opposing counsel. If the 

application to file under seal a document designated as confidential 

is being made by the non-designating party, then, upon request, the 

designating party must promptly provide the applicant with a legal 

basis for the confidential designation to include within the 

application. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity that has 

custody and control of the document, wishes to oppose the 

application, he/she must contact the chambers of the judge who 

will rule on the application, to notify the judge’s staff that an 

opposition to the application will be filed.

13. At any stage of these proceedings, any party may object to a designation 

of the materials as Confidential Information. The party objecting to confidentiality 

must notify, in writing, counsel for the designating party of the objected-to materials 

and the grounds for the objection. If the dispute is not resolved consensually between 

the parties within fourteen (14) days of receipt of such a notice of objections, the 

objecting party may move the Court for a ruling on the objection. The materials at 

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issue must be treated as Confidential Information, as designated by the designating 

party, until the Court has ruled on the objection or the matter has been otherwise 

resolved.

14. All Confidential Information must be held in confidence by those 

inspecting or receiving it, and must be used only for purposes of this action. Counsel 

for each party, and each person receiving Confidential Information must take 

reasonable precautions to prevent the unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure of such 

information. If Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than a person 

authorized by this Order, the party responsible for the unauthorized disclosure must 

immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to the unauthorized disclosure to the 

attention of the other parties and, without prejudice to any rights and remedies of the 

other parties, make every effort to prevent further disclosure by the party and by the 

person(s) receiving the unauthorized disclosure.

15. No party will be responsible to another party for disclosure of 

Confidential Information under this Order if the information in question is not labeled 

or otherwise identified as such in accordance with this Order.

16. If a party, through inadvertence, produces any Confidential Information 

without labeling or marking or otherwise designating it as such in accordance with this 

Order, the designating party may give written notice to the receiving party that the 

document or thing produced is deemed Confidential Information, and that the 

document or thing produced should be treated as such in accordance with that 

designation under this Order. The receiving party must treat the materials as 

confidential, once the designating party so notifies the receiving party. If the receiving 

party has disclosed the materials before receiving the designation, the receiving party 

must notify the designating party in writing of each such disclosure. Counsel for the 

parties will agree on a mutually acceptable manner of labeling or marking the 

inadvertently produced materials as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “CONFIDENTIAL - FOR 

COUNSEL ONLY” - SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER.

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17. Nothing within this order will prejudice the right of any party to object to 

the production of any discovery material on the grounds that the material is protected 

as privileged or as attorney work product.

18. Nothing in this Order will bar counsel from rendering advice to their 

clients with respect to this litigation and, in the course thereof, relying upon any 

information designated as Confidential Information, provided that the contents of the 

information must not be disclosed.

19. This Order will be without prejudice to the right of any party to oppose 

production of any information for lack of relevance or any other ground other than the 

mere presence of Confidential Information. The existence of this Order must not be 

used by either party as a basis for discovery that is otherwise improper under the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

20. Without separate court order, the Protective Order and the parties’ 

stipulation do not change, amend, or circumvent any court rule or local rule.

21. Nothing within this order will be construed to prevent disclosure of 

Confidential Information if such disclosure is required by law or by order of the Court.

22. Upon final termination of this action, including any and all appeals, 

counsel for each party must, upon request of the producing party, return all 

Confidential Information to the party that produced the information, including any 

copies, excerpts, and summaries of that information, or must destroy same at the option 

of the receiving party, and must purge all such information from all machine-readable 

media on which it resides. Notwithstanding the foregoing, counsel for each party may 

retain all pleadings, briefs, memoranda, motions, and other documents filed with the 

Court that refer to or incorporate Confidential Information, and will continue to be 

bound by this Order with respect to all such retained information. Further, attorney 

work product materials that contain Confidential Information need not be destroyed, 

but, if they are not destroyed, the person in possession of the attorney work product 

will continue to be bound by this Order with respect to all such retained information.

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a. Absent an ex parte motion made within 10 calendar days of the 

termination of the case, the parties understand that the Court will 

destroy any confidential documents in its possession.

23. The restrictions and obligations set forth within this order will not apply 

to any information that: (a) the Parties agree should not be designated Confidential 

Information; (b) the Parties agree, or the Court rules, is already public knowledge; (c) 

the Parties agree, or the Court rules, has become public knowledge other than as a 

result of disclosure by the receiving party, its employees, or its agents in violation of 

this Order; or (d) has come or will come into the receiving party's legitimate 

knowledge independently of the production by the designating party. Prior knowledge 

must be established by pre-production documentation.

24. The restrictions and obligations within this order will not be deemed to 

prohibit discussions of any Confidential Information with anyone if that person 

already has or obtains legitimate possession of that information. 

25. Transmission by facsimile is acceptable for all notification purposes 

within this order.

26. This Order may be modified by agreement of the parties, subject to 

approval by the Court.

27. The Court may modify the terms and conditions of this Order for good 

cause, or in the interest of justice, or on its own order at any time in these proceedings. 

The parties prefer that the Court provide them with notice of the Court's intent to 

modify the Order and the content of those modifications, prior to entry of such an 

order.

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ________________________________________ [print full name], of 

__________________________________________ [print 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 Contreras et al. v. 

Remington Lodging & Hospitality, LLC, et al, Case No. 17cv0167-DMS-JLB. 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 Southern 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 full 

name] of ________________________________________ [print full address and 

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

this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Order.

Date: ___________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: ___________________________________

Printed name: ___________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________

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IT IS SO STIPULATED:

DATED: October 26, 2017 OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, 

SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.

By:s/Jesse C. Ferrantella

Spencer C. Skeen

Tim L. Johnson

Jesse C. Ferrantella

Attorneys for Defendant 

REMINGTON LODGING & 

HOSPITALITY, LLC

DATED: October 26, 2017 LAW OFFICES OF DANIEL A. 

KAPLAN

By: s/Alanna J. Pearl

Daniel A. Kaplan

Alanna J. Pearl

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

IT IS SO ORDERED this 27th day of October, 2017:

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