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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

MARIA TOWERY 

V. CASE NO. 3:18-CV-44-DPM 

PLAINTIFF 

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ARKANSAS 

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION, INC. DEFENDANT 

PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO STIPULATION AND AGREEMENT 

On this ,;i.'f~ day of April, 2019, the Court reviewed the Joint Motion for Protective 

Order filed by the parties, and makes the following Order: 

1. Confidential Information, as later defined, and produced by either party or 

pursuant to a release of employment or medical records in this action, shall be used only for the 

purpose of this litigation and for no other purpose whatsoever, and shall not be given, shown, 

made available, or communicated in any way to anyone except Qualified Persons, as defined. 

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2. Confidential Information shall include, without limitation: 

a) Those personnel files, applications, job descriptions, rates of pay, 

policies, training materials, insurance coverage information, benefits 

information, financial information, proprietary information, and recruiting 

information. 

b) Any information concerning the matters in 2(a) as may be, from time to 

time, produced by the parties and declared by the party at the time of 

production to be "Confidential Information" and subject to this Order. This 

designation must be in writing and may be by letter of transmittal to the 

party. 

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3. Except with the prior written consent of the party or pursuant to further Order of 

this Court on motion with notice to the party, no Confidential Information may be disclosed to 

any person other than "Qualified Persons" who shall be defined to include the parties, any 

current or future counsel of record for the parties in this action, and secretaries, 

paraprofessional assistants, and other employees of such counsel who would be actively 

engaged in assisting counsel in connection with this action. The parties agree that Confidential 

Information will not be disclosed to anyone, unless used for the purpose of trial preparation, 

depositions, or trial proceedings. The parties agree that if Confidential Information is disclosed 

during trial preparation or depositions, the parties will advise the recipient of the information that 

he/she must keep the information confidential except during depositions or the actual trial 

proceedings. The parties specifically agree that Confidential Information contained in the 

personnel files of current or former employees will not be disclosed to anyone, unless used for 

the purpose of trial preparation, depositions or the actual trial proceedings. 

4. Upon receipt of Confidential Information from opposing counsel, the party 

receiving the Confidential Information shall execute and return to opposing counsel a document 

entitled "Inventory of Confidential Documents Received" in the form affixed hereto as Exhibit A. 

5. This Order, insofar as it restricts the communication in any way and use of 

Confidential Information, shall be binding throughout this case, and one year after it ends, 

including any appeals. Thereafter, the obligations of this Order shall continue, but shall be 

solely a matter of contract between the parties and Qualified Persons. At the conclusion of this 

action, including all appeals: 

a) One year after the conclusion of this case, counsel must destroy the 

confidential information. Counsel must also take all reasonable steps 

necessary to reclaim all Confidential Information, including 

correspondence, memoranda, notes, or any other documents embodying 

such information, in whole or in part, by requesting the return of all copies 

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of such Confidential Information and paying reasonable expenses for the 

return of the documents. But the Plaintiff's counsel and Plaintiff shall be 

entitled to keep a copy of Confidential Information deemed to be work 

product as agreed to by the parties. 

b) Counsel and all Qualified Persons are enjoined from disclosing in any 

manner any Confidential Information obtained during the course of this 

case. 

6. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any party from seeking modification of this 

Order at any time as to specific matters designated "Confidential Information" to remove such 

from the application of this Order. 

7. In the event that either party disputes whether a document is confidential, 

Counsel should confer in good faith in person before bringing any dispute to the Court. If the 

parties cannot resolve the dispute themselves, they should file a joint report explaining the 

disagreement. File this paper under the CM/ECF event called "Joint Report of Discovery 

Dispute." The joint report must not exceed ten pages, excluding the style and signature block. 

Each side gets five pages. Do not file a motion asking for more pages. Use double spacing and 

avoid footnotes. Attach documents as needed. Redact any attachments as required by Federal 

Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 to protect confidential information. File the joint report sufficiently 

before the discovery cutoff so that the dispute can be resolved, and any additional discovery 

completed, without undermining other pretrial deadlines. The Court will rule or schedule a 

hearing. Alert the law clerk on the case to the joint report's filing. 

8. Information designated as "Confidential" must not be filed on the public docket. If 

practicable, it should be redacted. FED. R. C1v. P. 5.2. If an entire page contains information 

designated as "Confidential," substituting a page marked "Redacted" is an acceptable redaction 

method. If redaction is impracticable, a party must move for permission to file any information 

designated as "Confidential" and a related motion, brief, or paper, containing that material under 

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seal. The moving party must justify sealing with specifics and solid reasons including an 

explanation about why redaction cannot be done. 

9. No item shall be deemed "Confidential" if it has been made public by the 

producing party, is generally known throughout the trade and public, or comes to be known to 

the receiving party through means not constituting breach of any propriety or confidential 

relationship or obligation or breach of this Order. 

IT IS HEREBY SO ORDERED. 

D.P. Marshall Jr. I/ 

U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE 

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EXHIBIT A 

INVENTORY OF CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS RECEIVED 

I hereby acknowledge receipt of the following documents, document pages, 

and/or depositions which are subject to the Protective Order for the protection of 

documents in MARIA TOWERY V. MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ARKANSAS ECONOMIC 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, INC., CASE NO. 3:18-CV-44-DPM (list all documents, 

pages, and depositions received): 

DATE: _______ _ 

Attorney Signature 

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