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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2000e-2sx Job Discrimination (Sex)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 

OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, 

Plaintiff,

v. 

PC IRON, INC. d/b/a PACIFIC COAST 

IRON, INC., 

Defendant.

Case No.: 16-CV-2372-CAB(WVG) 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE: EDD 

SUBPOENA 

[Doc. No. 38.] 

The Court recognizes that at least some of the documents and information Plaintiff 

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) obtained through discovery 

in the above-captioned action are protected by a right to privacy and normally kept 

confidential. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to, have agreed to be bound by, and 

petition the Court to enforce the terms of this Protective Order in this action. 

Documents obtained by the EEOC during the course of this litigation may contain 

information protected by a right to privacy under California law, trade secret, financial, or 

other commercial information, as is contemplated by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 

26(c)(1)(G). 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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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 identified below: 

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) for Plaintiff EEOC, 

Bokhour Law Group, P.C. for Plaintiff-Intervenor Elsa Perez, and Simpson, Delmore, & 

Greene, P.C. for Defendant Pacific Coast Iron, Inc. 

GENERAL RULES 

4. The parties hereby stipulate and agree that all documents produced by the 

California Employment Development Department on or about October 4, 2017 (EDD 

Documents, bates stamped EDD 0001-0141) in response to a subpoena issued by the EEOC 

in this action are subject to this Protective Order and are hereby designated as 

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“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

5. EDD Documents, bates stamped EDD 0001-0141, that have been designated as 

"CONFIDENTIAL" must not be disclosed or produced by any 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. 

6. EDD Documents, bates stamped EDD 0001-0141, designated as 

"CONFIDENTIAL” must be viewed only by counsel (as defined in paragraph 3) of the 

receiving party, and by individuals identified in paragraph 7. Prior to reviewing or gaining 

access to this Confidential Information, each Party must ensure that any non-party 

witness(s) and any expert witness(s) execute an agreement to be bound by the terms of this 

Order, (See Exhibit A attached hereto, Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound 

(“Acknowledgement”)). Witnesses are prohibited from disclosing Confidential 

Information outside this action. The Parties shall maintain the signed acknowledgments 

that each acquires. Disclosure of the Confidential Information to any other person or entity 

who has not signed an Acknowledgement is not permitted except as stated below. 

7. Information designated "CONFIDENTIAL" must be viewed only by counsel 

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

c) Each witness only with respect to Confidential Information pertaining 

to himself or herself; and 

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d) Stenographic and clerical employees associated with the individuals 

identified above. 

8. With respect to material designated "CONFIDENTIAL," 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. 

9. All information which has been designated as "CONFIDENTIAL" by the 

producing or disclosing party, and any and all reproductions of that information, must be 

retained in the custody of 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. 

10. 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. 

11. 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. 

12. 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 

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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.” 

13. 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. 

14. 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. 

15. 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. 

16. Before any Confidential Information is filed with the Court, the party seeking 

to file Confidential Information must seek permission of the Court to file the material under 

seal, except upon consent of the parties or upon further order of the Court. As an alternative 

to seeking to file the records under seal, a party seeking to file the Confidential Information 

for dispositive motions may seek an order from the Court finding that the need for public 

access to dispositive pleadings outweighs the interests in keeping the information and/or 

records confidential. An application to file a document under seal or for an order finding 

the need for public access outweighs the interest in keeping the information and/or records 

confidential 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 opposing 

counsel, or the person or entity who has custody and control of the document, wishes to 

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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. 

Notwithstanding the above, the parties agree to comply with the Local Rules regarding 

procedures for filing papers and documents under seal for any materials that have been 

designated as CONFIDENTIAL under paragraph 4. 

 17. 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 opposing counsel, or the 

person or entity who 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. 

 18. In the event this matter proceeds to trial, the parties agree that the issue of 

whether the parties can use Confidential Information for trial purposes should be resolved 

by the presiding district judge. 

 19. Nothing in this Order prevents the disclosure of Confidential Information 

if such disclosure is required by law or by order of the Court. However, if any party subject 

to this Protective Order must make a disclosure (including, but not limited to, responding 

to a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation) of any information or items designated 

in this action as "CONFIDENTIAL,” the receiving party must promptly notify the party 

opposing disclosure, and in no event more than ten (10) business days after receiving the 

subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order. 

The receiving party must also promptly inform in writing the party who caused the 

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by 

the subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order and must deliver a copy of this 

Protective Order to the party seeking the information. 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 

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the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The party opposing disclosure shall 

bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its confidential 

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. 

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

for each party shall destroy and not release to the public any Confidential Information 

produced in discovery which are covered by this Stipulated Protective Order. With respect 

to the EEOC, any Confidential Information contained in the EEOC’s litigation files shall 

be maintained in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 

regulations and EEOC Records Management, regulations, orders, and procedures. 

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. 

21. 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 preproduction documentation. 

22. 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. 

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

approval by the Court, and nothing in this Order abridges or limits the right of any person 

to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 

24. 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. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: January 17, 2018 

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