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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Product Liability

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER Case No. 4:19-CV-04021-HSG 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA -- OAKLAND DIVISION 

J. DOMINIC CAMPODONICO (SBN 188035)

MIGUEL SALDAÑA (SBN 299960)

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI LLP

275 Battery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94111

dcampodonico@grsm.com

masaldana@grsm.com

Telephone: (415) 986-5900

Facsimile: (415) 986-8054

Attorneys for Defendants 

L’ORÉAL USA S/D, INC.; 

MATRIX ESSENTIALS, LLC; and 

ULTA SALON, COSMETICS & FRAGRANCE, INC.

LINDA KUHN, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

L’ORÉAL USA S/D, INC.; MATRIX 

ESSENTIALS, INC.; ULTA BEAUTY 

INC.; and DOES 1 to 1000, 

Defendants. 

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Case No. 4:19-CV-04021-HSG 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER 

Removed July 12, 2019 from the Superior 

Court, County of San Francisco, Case No. 

CGC-19-575175 

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Come now the parties, Plaintiff, Linda Kuhn (“Plaintiff” or “Kuhn”), by counsel, 

Defendants L’Oréal USA S/D, INC., Matrix Essentials, LLC, and Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & 

Fragrance, Inc. (collectively, “Defendants”), by counsel, and stipulate to the following Protective 

Order: 

1. Defendants may designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” any document, material or

information that Defendants consider to be a confidential trade secret, proprietary information or 

privileged information. Any document so designated will be subject to the provisions of this 

Stipulated Protective Order. 

2. By designating any document, material or information as CONFIDENTIAL,

Defendants represent that they have a good faith belief that the document, material or information 

is a confidential document that has not heretofore entered into the public domain or otherwise been 

made public. 

3. A receiving party with a good-faith, litigation-driven belief that certain documents,

material or information are not entitled to the protections set forth in this Order shall, within 

twenty-one (21) days of receiving such documents, material or information, identify to Defendants, 

in writing, the specific documents, material or information that the receiving party believes falls 

outside of the protections set forth in this Order. Within ten (10) days of receiving the written 

notice, Defendants shall provide a written rationale for the confidentiality designation of the 

specified documents, material or information to the receiving party. If the receiving party objects 

to the written rationale provided by Defendants within ten (10) days, the receiving party shall 

provide a written rationale for the removal of such documents, material or information from the 

protections set forth in this Order, and the parties shall meet and confer with respect to the receiving 

party's objection. If the parties are not able to agree, the receiving party shall notify Defendants, 

in writing that the receiving party is terminating the meet-and-confer process. Defendants shall 

acknowledge receipt of this notice in writing, and, within twenty-one (21) days of receiving the 

notice, move the Court for an order to preserve the confidential status of the document, material 

or information. The motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms 

Defendants have complied with the meet and confer requirements of this paragraph. Should 

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Defendants fail to file such motion to preserve the confidential status within twenty-one (21) days, 

the challenged document, material or information shall be deemed not protected. 

4. The written notice described in Paragraph 3 shall not remove the identified

document, material or information from the protections set forth in this Order. Until the parties 

resolve the dispute among themselves, or the Court resolves the dispute regarding whether the 

identified document, material or information is entitled to the protections set forth in this Order, 

the identified document, material or information shall retain the protections set forth in this Order. 

5. No party waives any right to appeal any Order issued by the Court with respect to

any document, material and information subject to this Stipulated Protective Order. 

6. If any third party produces any document, material or information, whether

subpoenaed or otherwise, that any party in good faith believes constitutes its confidential 

information, the party claiming confidentiality shall designate the document, material or 

information as such within twenty-one (21) days of receipt of information. Should any party to 

this litigation obtain any document, material or information from a third party, by subpoena or 

otherwise, which contain or can reasonably be assumed to contain confidential information of 

another party to this litigation, such document, material or information shall be treated by the 

receiving party as "Confidential" under this Order until they are produced to the other parties and 

for twenty-one (21) days thereafter, while all parties have an opportunity to review the document, 

material or information and determine whether it should be designated as "Confidential." Any 

third party may also designate any document, material or other information as "Confidential" and 

shall be entitled to all the protections of this Order. 

7. In the event that at the time a document, material or information is produced the

designation "Confidential" is lacking, and it is later determined, in good faith, that such a 

designation should have appeared on the document, material or information, Defendants may 

restrict future disclosure of the document, material or information consistent with this Order, by 

notifying the receiving party in writing of the "Confidential" designation. The notice shall include 

a description of the document, material or information. 

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8. Should any document, material or information designated as "Confidential" be

disclosed, through inadvertence or otherwise, to any person not authorized to receive same under 

this Order, then the disclosing party shall use its best efforts to bind that person to the terms of this 

Order. Specifically, the disclosing party shall: (a) promptly inform that person of all the provisions 

of this Order; (b) identify that person immediately to the party that designated the document, 

material or information as "Confidential"; and (c) request that person's signature on an 

acknowledgement that they have received and read this Order and agree to be bound by its terms. 

The acknowledgement required under this paragraph shall promptly be served upon the party that 

designated the document, material or information as "Confidential." 

9. Testimony taken at a deposition, conference, hearing, or other proceeding may be

designated as "Confidential" by making a statement to that effect on the record at the deposition 

or other proceeding. Arrangements shall be made with the court reporter taking and transcribing 

the proceeding to separately bind such portion of the transcript containing information designated 

as "Confidential" and to label such portion appropriately. 

10. All information obtained from the documents, material or information produced by

Defendants, shall be disclosed or revealed only to Plaintiff and her counsel of record in this case, 

secretarial employees under counsel's direct supervision, and to Defendants and their counsel of 

record in this case, secretarial employees under counsel's direct supervision, and Defendants’ 

officers, directors, agents, employees, or other representatives, including in-house counsel and 

their assistants and paralegals. Further, all confidential documents, material and information 

designated hereunder may be disclosed to such persons employed by counsel to act as experts in 

this action, to third-party vendors engaged in one or more aspects of copying, organizing, filing, 

coding, converting, storing, retrieving data or designing programs for handling of data connected 

with this case, including the performance of such duties in relation to a computerized litigation 

support system, to the Court and court officials involved in this case (including court reporters or 

persons operating video equipment at depositions), and to third-party witnesses during a deposition 

or in preparation for a deposition or a witness interview, but only to the extent reasonably necessary 

to examine such witnesses at deposition, to prepare such witnesses for deposition, or to conduct a 

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witness interview. Prior to the disclosure of confidential documents, material or information and 

information to persons employed to act as experts in this action, third-party vendors, as described 

above, and third-party witnesses, as described above, counsel for Plaintiff or counsel Defendants, 

as the case may be, shall require such persons to execute a Nondisclosure Agreement in the form 

attached hereto as Exhibit A. Counsel providing access to material or information protected by 

the Stipulated Protective Order shall retain copies of the executed Nondisclosure Agreement. Any 

party seeking a copy of a Nondisclosure Agreement may make a demand, in writing, setting forth 

the reasons to which the opposing party will respond in writing. If the dispute cannot be resolved, 

the demanding party may move the Court for an order compelling production upon a showing of 

good cause. For testifying experts, a copy of the Nondisclosure Agreement executed by the 

testifying expert shall be furnished to counsel for the party who produced the material designated 

“Confidential” to which the expert has access, at the time of the expert’s designation is served, or 

at the time the material is provided to the testifying expert, whichever is later. 

11. Counsel for Plaintiff and counsel for Defendants shall use all documents, material

and information produced or disclosed by Defendants, as the case may be, solely for purposes of 

this case. Under no circumstances shall documents, material or information covered by this 

Stipulated Protective Order be disclosed to anyone other than to such persons as described in 

Paragraph 10. All confidential documents, materials or information produced, copies of such 

confidential documents, material or information reproduced pursuant to this Stipulated Protective 

Order, and all notes arising from the examination of such confidential documents, material or 

information taken by whomever and in whatever form, shall be destroyed at the conclusion of this 

action. Counsel for Plaintiff and counsel for Defendants shall certify, by affidavit, compliance 

with the requirements of this paragraph within forty-five (45) days of the conclusion of the final 

proceedings of this action. 

12. All portions of depositions, motion papers or any other pretrial written materials,

that become necessary to file with the Court, that refer to the documents, materials or information 

protected by this Stipulated Protective Order shall be redacted from documents filed with the 

Court. To the extent that documents, materials or information protected by this Stipulated 

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Protective Order are material to issues under consideration in this case, the party seeking to file 

with the Court a document, material or information referencing or containing such documents, 

materials or information shall do so only with written permission from the party claiming 

confidentiality or under seal as confidential as set forth by Civil Local Rule 79-5. The documents, 

material and information subject to this Stipulated Protective Order shall not lose the protections 

afforded by this Stipulated Protective Order by its use at trial, and the treatment of trial transcripts, 

trial motions, briefs and other such written matter that refer to the confidential documents, material 

and information protected by this Stipulated Protective Order shall be determined by subsequent 

Order of this Court. Any pleading or other document disclosing documents, materials or 

information subject to this Stipulated Protective Order, which may be submitted to the Court, 

whether in the form of interrogatory answers, document production, deposition notices or 

transcripts, motions, affidavits, briefs or other documents shall be filed in a similar manner, sealed 

and subject to this Stipulated Protective Order. 

13. Prior to the disclosure of confidential documents, material or information

designated hereunder to any officer, director, agent, employee, or other representative of any party, 

including in-house counsel and their assistants, paralegals, and secretarial employees under 

counsel’s direct supervision, counsel for Plaintiff and counsel Defendants shall inform such 

persons of the confidential nature of such information and shall obtain assurances from each 

recipient of such confidential documents, material or information that he or she will keep such 

confidential documents, material or information strictly confidential. 

14. This Stipulated Protective Order shall not govern the use of confidential documents,

material or information designated hereunder at trial. The parties shall meet and confer to negotiate 

a proposal for Court approval addressing the treatment of material previously designated 

confidential at trial. To the extent the parties fail to agree on a proposal addressing the use of such 

material at trial, they may submit alternative proposals to the Court for a decision by the Court. 

15. The terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, e.g. all notice and objection time

periods, shall remain in effect and govern the actions and documents, material and information of 

all parties, including those parties who may subsequently settle or otherwise be dismissed from 

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the action. If the confidential documents, material or information designated belong to a former 

party who is no longer a party to the action at the time of trial, the party seeking to use the 

confidential document, material or information shall provide the former party with written notice 

of their intent to remove the confidentiality designation at least twenty-one (21) days prior to trial. 

16. Violation by any person of any term of this Stipulated Protective Order shall be

punishable as a contempt of court. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither this Stipulated 

Protective Order (or any part thereof) nor the parties’ consent to this Stipulated Protective Order 

shall be construed to give rise to a separate claim or cause of action against the parties, their counsel 

or any employee of the parties’ counsel. 

17. This Stipulated Protective Order is subject to revocation and modification by order

of the Court upon written stipulation of the parties, or upon motion and reasonable notice, 

including opportunity for hearing and presentation of evidence. 

SO AGREED AND STIPULATED: 

Dated: December 23, 2019 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 

By: /s/ J. Dominic Campodonico

J. Dominic Campodonico

Miguel A. Saldaña Attorneys for Defendants L’ORÉAL USA S/D, 

INC., MATRIX ESSENTIALS, LLC, and ULTA 

SALON, COSMETICS & FRAGRANCE, INC. 

Dated: December 23, 2019 LAW OFFICES OF STEVEN A. FABBRO 

By: /s/ Steven A. Fabbro

 Steven A. Fabbro 

Attorneys for Plaintiff LINDA KUHN 

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ATTESTATION 

Concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from each of the 

individual(s) whose electronic signature is attributed above. 

Dated: December 23, 2019 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 

By: /s/ J. Dominic Campodonico

J. Dominic Campodonico

Miguel A. Saldaña Attorneys for Defendants L’ORÉAL USA S/D, 

INC., MATRIX ESSENTIALS, LLC, and ULTA 

SALON, COSMETICS & FRAGRANCE, INC. 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: 1/6/2020 _________________________________ 

Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. 

United States District Court Judge 

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EXHIBIT A

NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

The undersigned, having read the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United 

States District Court for the Northern District of California in the case of Linda Kuhn v. L’Oréal 

USA S/D., Inc., et al., Case No. 4:19-CV-04021-HSG, and intending to be legally bound thereby, 

agrees as follows: 

1. All confidential documents, materials and information disclosed to the undersigned 

pursuant to the Stipulated Protective Order shall be used only in connection with this action and 

shall not be used for any business or other purpose. 

2. Such confidential documents, material and information shall be disclosed to and 

discussed only with parties to this suit, the parties’ legal counsel, and other persons who have in 

accordance with the provisions of the Stipulated Protective Order executed a similar Nondisclosure 

Agreement. Neither such documents, material nor information acquired or extracted from same 

will be divulged or made accessible to any other person, new entity, governmental agency or other 

entity whatsoever, except in compliance with the Stipulated Protective Order and this 

Nondisclosure Agreement. 

3. The undersigned agrees to take all appropriate and necessary precautions to avoid 

loss or inadvertent disclosure of such confidential documents, material or information. 

4. The undersigned understands that by executing this Nondisclosure Agreement it 

subjects the undersigned to the jurisdiction of the court in which this matter is pending. The 

undersigned further agrees to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of the Stipulated 

Protective Order and understands and acknowledges that failure to so comply could expose the 

undersigned to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. 

5. The undersigned affirms that he/she is not employed by any competitor of 

Defendants L’Oréal USA S/D, INC., Matrix Essentials, LLC, and Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & 

Fragrance, Inc. 

6. The undersigned further agrees that upon the final termination of this litigation or 

upon the termination of his/her employment, he/she shall return any such confidential documents, 

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material or information which may be in his/her possession or control (including all abstracts, 

summaries, descriptions, lists, synopses, or other writings reflecting or revealing such information) 

to the attorney from whom he/she received such documents and materials. 

Dated this ______ day of __________________________, 20______. 

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Signature 

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Printed Name 

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Address 

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Employer 

1185633/49182730v.1 

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