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Nature of Suit Code: 355
Nature of Suit: Motor Vehicle Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP

PHILIP R. COSGROVE, State Bar No. 92564

phil.cosgrove@nelsonmullins.com

RYAN E. COSGROVE, State Bar No. 277907

ryan.cosgrove@nelsonmullins.com

19191 South Vermont Avenue, Suite 900

Torrance, CA 90502

Telephone: 424.221.7400

Facsimile: 424.221.7499

NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP

DARIN J. LANG, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

darin.lang@nelsonmullins.com

CHEYENNE MOORE, Admitted Pro Hac Vice

cheyenne.moore@nelsonmullins.com

1400 Wewatta Street, Suite 500

Denver, CO 80202

Telephone: 303.583.9923

Facsimile: 202.583.9999

Attorneys for Defendant 

GENERAL MOTORS LLC 

CURD, GALINDO & SMITH, LLP

ALEXIS GALINDO, State Bar No. 136643

agalindo@cgsattys.com

301 E. Ocean Boulevard, Suite 1700

Long Beach, CA 90802

Telephone: 562-624-1177

Facsimile: 562-624-1178

Attorney for Plaintiff

RODNEY ENGBERSON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RODNEY ENGBERSON

Plaintiff,

v.

GENERAL MOTORS LLC and DELPHI 

AUTOMOTIVE

Defendants.

Case No. 2:19-cv-01761-MCE-KJN

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WHEREAS, to facilitate the production and receipt of information during discovery in the 

above-captioned litigation (the “Litigation”), the parties agree and stipulate, through their respective 

counsel, to the entry of the following Protective Order (the “Order”) for the protection of Confidential 

and Highly Confidential Materials (as defined herein) that may be produced or otherwise disclosed 

during the course of this Litigation by or on behalf of any party or non-party. The Court has been 

fully advised in the premises and has found good cause for its entry.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the terms and conditions of this Order shall 

govern the handling of discovery materials in the Litigation:

1. Applicability of Order: This Order will be applicable to and govern the handling of 

documents, depositions, deposition exhibits, deposition videos, interrogatory responses, responses to 

subpoenas, responses to requests for admissions, responses to requests for production of documents, 

and all other discovery obtained pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by or from, or 

produced on behalf of a party in connection with the Litigation (this information hereinafter referred 

to as “Discovery Material”). As used herein, “Producing Party” or “Disclosing Party” shall refer to 

the parties in this Litigation that give testimony or produce documents or other information, nonparties for purposes of Section 10, and “Designating Party” shall refer to parties whose Confidential 

and Highly Confidential information is disclosed in documents produced by other parties or third 

parties, in which case the affected party may designate such information as Confidential or Highly 

Confidential under this Order. “Receiving Party” shall refer to the parties in this Litigation that 

receive such information. “Authorized Recipient” shall refer to any person or entity authorized by 

Sections 11 and 12 of this Order to obtain access to Confidential Material, Highly Confidential 

Material, or the contents of such Material.

2. Designation of Material: Any party may designate Discovery Material that is in its 

possession, custody, or control to be produced to a Receiving Party, or Discovery Material that is 

produced by another party (including a third party) but qualifies for protection under this Order, as 

“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential” under the terms of this Order if the party in good faith 

reasonably believes that such Discovery Material contains non-public, confidential material as defined 

in Sections 3 and 4 below (hereinafter “Confidential Material” or “Highly Confidential Material”). 

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3. Confidential Material: For purposes of this Order, Confidential Material is any 

information that a party believes in good faith to be confidential or sensitive information, including, 

but not limited to, trade secrets, research, design, development, financial, technical, marketing, 

planning, private or confidential personal information, customer information, or commercial 

information.

4. Highly Confidential Material: For purposes of this Order, Highly Confidential 

Material is any Protected Data (defined below) and/or Confidential Material as defined in Section 3 

which also includes non-public product design and testing information or extremely sensitive, highly 

confidential, non-public information, consisting either of trade secrets or proprietary or other highly 

confidential business, financial, regulatory, or strategic information (including information regarding 

business plans, technical data, and non-public designs), the disclosure of which would create a 

substantial risk of competitive or business injury to the Producing or Designating Party. Certain 

Protected Data may compel alternative or additional protections beyond those afforded Highly 

Confidential Material, in which event the parties shall meet and confer in good faith, and, if 

unsuccessful, shall move the Court for appropriate relief.

5. Protected Data: Protected Data shall refer to any information that a party believes in 

good faith to be subject to federal, state, or foreign Data Protection Laws or other privacy obligations. 

Protected Data constitutes highly sensitive materials requiring special protection. Designating 

material as Protected Data does not preclude the parties from designating that same material, as 

appropriate, for Confidentiality and Privilege. 

6. Designating Confidential Material, Highly Confidential Material, or Protected 

Data: The designation of Discovery Material as Confidential Material, Highly Confidential Material, 

or Protected Data for purposes of this Order shall be made in the following manner:

6.1 The parties shall label each page of a designated document as “Confidential” 

or “Highly Confidential” if feasible to do so. However, failure to do so shall 

not be considered a waiver of such designation and shall not deem such 

information to not qualify as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential.” A party 

who disagrees with another party’s designation must nevertheless abide by that 

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designation until the matter is resolved by written agreement of the parties or 

by order of the Court. The parties further agree to abide by the Producing 

Party’s designation upon notice, written or otherwise, that a party will seek 

appeal or other form of judicial review of an order of the Court. 

6.2 Deposition Transcripts. Within thirty (30) days after receipt of the final 

transcript of the deposition of any party or witness in this case, a party or the 

witness may designate the transcript or sections thereof as “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential.” If a designated transcript or transcript portion is filed 

with the Court, the designating party shall file a motion to file under seal. 

Unless otherwise agreed, all deposition transcripts shall be treated as 

“Confidential” until the expiration of the thirty-day period. 

7. Inadvertent/Unintended Disclosure: The inadvertent and/or unintentional failure to 

designate Discovery Material as Confidential or Highly Confidential does not constitute a waiver of 

such claim and may be remedied by prompt supplemental written notice upon discovery of any such 

disclosure (inadvertent or otherwise), with the effect that such Discovery Material will be subject to 

the protections of this Order. Designation of information or documents as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential,” or failure to so designate, will not constitute an admission that information or 

documents are or are not confidential or trade secrets or that such information or documents may not 

be entitled to further protection under the law. Neither party may introduce into evidence in any 

proceeding between the parties, other than a motion to determine whether the Order covers the 

information or documents in dispute, the fact that the other party designated or failed to designate 

information or documents as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential.”

8. Copies: The Receiving Party may make copies of Discovery Material, but such copies 

shall become Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material to the same extent, and subject to 

the same protections, as the Discovery Material from which those copies were made. The Receiving 

Party shall exercise good faith efforts to ensure that copies it makes of Discovery Material produced to 

it, and copies made by others who obtained such Discovery Material directly or indirectly from the 

Receiving Party, include the appropriate confidentiality legend, to the same extent that the Discovery 

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Material has been marked with the appropriate confidentiality legend by the Producing or Designating 

Party. In the event that the Receiving Party receives notice in accordance with Section 7 of this Order 

that Discovery Material was inadvertently or unintentionally disclosed without being designated as 

Confidential or Highly Confidential Material, the Receiving Party shall exercise good-faith efforts to 

notify the Producing Party, ensure that copies it makes of Discovery Material produced to it, and 

copies made by others who obtained such Discovery Material directly or indirectly from the Receiving 

Party, are marked with the appropriate confidentiality legend, are made available in whole or in part 

only to persons authorized to receive Confidential or Highly Confidential Material (as the case may 

be), and are at all times handled and used only in the manner that this Order permits or requires 

Confidential or Highly Confidential Material (as the case may be) to be handled and used.

9. Derivative Works: Any notes, lists, memoranda, indices, compilations prepared or 

based on an examination of Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material, or any other form 

of information (including electronic forms), that quote from, paraphrase, copy, or disclose 

Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material with such specificity that the Confidential 

Material or Highly Confidential Material can be identified, or by reasonable logical extension can be 

identified, shall be accorded the same status of confidentiality as the underlying Confidential Material 

or Highly Confidential Material from which they are made and shall be subject to all of the terms of 

this Order.

10. Notice to Non-Parties: Any party issuing a subpoena to a non-party shall enclose a 

copy of this Order with a request that the non-party either request the protection of this Order or notify 

the issuing party that the non-party does not need the protection of this Order or wishes to seek 

different protection. 

11. Persons Authorized to Receive Confidential Material: Access to Confidential 

Material shall be restricted, and may only be disclosed, summarized, described, characterized, or 

otherwise communicated or made available in whole or in part, solely to the following persons, who 

agree to be bound by the terms of this Order, unless additional persons are stipulated by counsel or 

authorized by the Court:

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11.1 Outside counsel of record for the parties, and the administrative staff of outside 

counsel’s firms, 

11.2 In-house counsel for the parties, and the administrative staff for each in-house 

counsel;

11.3 Any party in this Litigation who is an individual, and every employee, director, 

officer, or manager of any party to this action who is not an individual, but 

only to the extent necessary to further the interest of the parties in this 

Litigation.

11.4 Independent consultants or expert witnesses (including partners, associates and 

employees of the firm which employs such consultant or expert) retained by a 

party or its attorneys for purposes of this Litigation, but only to the extent 

necessary to further the interest of the parties in this Litigation, and only after 

executing the agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11.5 The Court and its personnel, including, but not limited to, 

transcription/recording services engaged by the Court or the parties during this 

Litigation. 

11.6 The authors or recipients of a document containing the Confidential Material 

or a custodian or other person who otherwise know the information sought to 

be protected;

11.7 In connection with their depositions, non-party witnesses in this Litigation to 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the agreement 

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

11.8 Any mediator(s) or settlement officer(s) mutually agreed upon by the parties;

11.9 Mock trial/focus group participants provided they have signed the agreement 

attached hereto as Exhibit A;

11.10 Employees of discovery or copy services, microfilming or database services, 

trial support firms and/or translators or other litigation support vendors who 

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are engaged by the parties during this Litigation, but only after such service or 

support firm executes the agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A.

12. Persons Authorized to Receive Highly Confidential Material: Access to or use of 

any information, documents, or portions of documents marked “Highly Confidential” shall be 

restricted and may only be disclosed, summarized, described, characterized, or otherwise 

communicated or made available in whole or in part solely to the persons listed in paragraphs 11.1, 

11.2, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, and 11.8, unless additional persons are stipulated by counsel or authorized 

by the Court.

13. Agreement to Be Bound: All persons described in paragraphs 11.4, 11.7, 11.9 and 

11.10 shall not have access to the Confidential Documents without having first read, acknowledged, 

and agreed to be bound by this Order by executing the attached Exhibit A. Each party’s counsel shall 

retain each such executed “Exhibit A” and shall keep a list identifying (a) all persons to whom 

Confidential Documents have been disclosed and (b) all Confidential Documents disclosed to such 

persons. Each executed “Exhibit A” shall not be made available to the Designating Party during the 

pendency of the litigation but shall be available for an in-camera inspection by the Court if good cause 

for review is demonstrated by the Designating Party. During the pendency of the litigation or after the 

termination of the litigation, subject to the attorney work product doctrine/attorney-client privilege and 

for good cause shown, the Court may order any party to provide to the Designating Party the list 

referenced above and any executed “Exhibit A.” However, each such executed “Exhibit A” and list 

shall be submitted to counsel for the Designating Party at the conclusion of the Litigation. 

14. Qualification of Outside Experts and Consultants: Neither Confidential nor Highly 

Confidential Material shall be disclosed to any retained and/or testifying experts or consultants who 

are current employees of a direct competitor of any party named in the Litigation. 

15. Use of Discovery Material: Discovery Material containing Confidential and/or Highly 

Confidential Material shall be used solely for purposes of the Litigation, including any appeal and 

retrial. Disclosure or dissemination outside of this Litigation and/or contrary to the terms of this Order 

is strictly prohibited. 

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16. Exclusion of Individuals from Depositions: Whenever Protected Material is to be 

disclosed in a deposition, the designating party may exclude from the room any person, other than 

persons described in paragraphs 11 and 12, as appropriate, for that portion of the deposition. If 

Protected Material is to be disclosed in a judicial proceeding, the parties will endeavor to meet and 

confer in good faith and in advance about steps that can be taken, if any, to limit the disclosure of 

Protected Material.

17. Storage of Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material: The recipient of 

any Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material that is provided under this Order shall 

maintain such information in a reasonably secure and safe manner that satisfies the data security 

requirements of paragraph 27 for electronically stored information, shall ensure that access is limited 

to the persons authorized under this Order, and shall further exercise the same standard of due and 

proper care with respect to the storage, custody, use, and/or dissemination of such information as is 

exercised by the recipient with respect to its own proprietary information.

18. Filing of Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material: The following 

procedures apply provided they do not conflict with applicable rules and orders of the Court. If 

Confidential of Highly Confidential Material is contained in documents that a party seeks to file with 

the Court, that party shall file a motion to file under seal, pursuant to local rules where applicable, the 

relevant excerpts constituting Confidential or Highly Confidential Material within such documents, 

which shall be filed under seal and marked as follows or in substantially similar form:

18.1 CONFIDENTIAL

IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PROTECTIVE ORDER, THE 

ENCLOSURE(S) SHALL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL AND 

SHALL NOT BE SHOWN TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THOSE 

PERSONS DESIGNATED IN SECTION 11 OF THE PROTECTIVE 

ORDER.

or

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18.2 HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PROTECTIVE ORDER, THE 

ENCLOSURE(S) SHALL BE TREATED AS HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL 

AND SHALL NOT BE SHOWN TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THOSE 

PERSONS DESIGNATED IN SECTION 12 OF THE PROTECTIVE 

ORDER.

19. If a party is filing a document that it has itself designated as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential,” that party shall reference this Order in submitting the documents it proposes to maintain 

under seal. If a non-designating party seeks to refer to, summarize, quote from, or attach a 

Confidential or Highly Confidential document to any court filing, a meet and confer is required before 

that information is disclosed in any court document or filing. Subsequent and pursuant to the meet 

and confer to discuss the Confidential or Highly Confidential Documents intended to be filed by a 

non-designating party, and subject to agreement on the document to be filed, the non-designating 

party shall file the document under seal. 

20. Challenging Designation of Materials: A party shall not be obligated to challenge the 

propriety of a Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material designation at the time made, and 

failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent challenge thereto during the pendency of this 

Litigation.

20.1 Challenge: If a Receiving Party disagrees with the propriety of the Producing 

or Designating Party’s designation of any document(s) or other discovery 

materials under this Order, counsel for the Receiving Party shall serve written 

notice upon the Producing or Designating Party’s counsel, specifying the 

document(s) in question by bates number or other specific identifier.

20.2 Meet and Confer and Motion: Upon receipt of written notice challenging the 

designation of any Confidential Material, the parties shall meet and confer 

within 30 days to attempt to reach an agreement on the designation of the 

particular document(s) in question. If an agreement cannot be reached 

between the parties concerning the propriety of the designation, the Producing 

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or Designating Party shall file a motion seeking Court adjudication of the 

propriety of the designation under applicable court rules or statutes. 

20.3 Status of Challenged Designation Pending Judicial Determination: Any 

such document(s) shall at all times continue to be treated as designated by the 

designating party subject to this Order until such motion has been decided.

21. No Waiver of Privilege: The production of privileged or work-product protected 

documents, electronically stored information (“ESI”), or any other information, whether inadvertent or 

otherwise, is not a waiver of the privilege or protection from discovery in this Litigation or in any 

other federal or state proceeding. 

22. Effect of Disclosure of Privileged Information: The Receiving Party hereby agrees to 

return, sequester, or destroy any Privileged Information disclosed or produced by the Designating or 

Producing Party upon request. If the Receiving Party reasonably believes that Privileged Information 

has been inadvertently disclosed or produced to it, it shall promptly notify the Designating or 

Producing Party and sequester such information until instructions as to disposition are received. The 

failure of any party to provide notice or instructions under this Paragraph shall not constitute a waiver 

of, or estoppel as to, any claim of attorney-client privilege, attorney work product, or other ground for 

withholding production as to which the party would be entitled in the Litigation or any other federal or

state proceeding. 

23. Order Remains in Force: This Order shall remain in force and effect until modified, 

superseded, or terminated by consent of the parties or by order of the Court made upon reasonable 

written notice. Unless otherwise ordered, or agreed upon by the parties, this Order shall survive the 

termination of this Litigation. The Court retains jurisdiction even after termination of this Litigation 

to enforce this Order and to make such amendments, modifications, deletions, and additions to this 

Order as the Court may from time to time deem appropriate.

24. No Waiver of Grounds for Producing Material: This Order shall not be construed to 

limit a party’s right or require a party to conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including 

metadata) for relevance, responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected information 

before production.

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25. No Loss of Confidential or Highly Confidential Status by Use in Litigation or 

Appeal: If any Confidential or Highly Confidential Material is used in any court proceeding in this 

Litigation or any appeal therefrom, such Confidential or Highly Confidential Material shall not lose its 

status as Confidential or Highly Confidential through such use, regardless of whether it has been 

lawfully placed on the public record in connection with this Litigation. Counsel shall comply with all 

applicable local rules and shall confer on such procedures that are necessary to protect the 

confidentiality of any documents, information, and transcripts used in the course of any court 

proceedings, including petitioning the Court to close the court room.

26. Redaction Allowed: Any Producing or Designating Party may redact from the 

documents and materials it produces information that the Producing or Designating Party claims is 

subject to attorney-client privilege, work product immunity, a legal prohibition against disclosure, or 

any other privilege or immunity. The Producing or Designating Party shall mark each area where 

information has been redacted with a legend stating “REDACTED,” and specify the basis for the 

redaction (e.g., privilege, confidential, highly confidential, etc.), as appropriate, or a comparable 

notice. Where a document consists of more than one page, at least each page on which information 

has been redacted shall be so marked. The Producing or Designating Party shall preserve an 

unredacted version of each such document. In addition to the foregoing, the following shall apply to 

redactions of Protected Data:

26.1 Any party may redact Protected Data as defined in Section 5 that it claims, in 

good faith, requires protection under the terms of this Order. 

26.2 Protected Data shall be redacted from any public filing not filed under seal.

27. Data Security: Any person in possession of Confidential Material or Highly 

Confidential Material shall maintain a written information security program that includes reasonable 

administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the security and confidentiality 

of such Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material, protect against any reasonably 

anticipated threats or hazards to the security of such Confidential Material or Highly Confidential 

Material, and protect against unauthorized access to Confidential Material or Highly Confidential 

Material. To the extent a party or person does not have an information security program, they may 

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comply with this provision by having the Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material 

managed by and/or stored with eDiscovery vendors or claims administrators that maintain such an 

information security program. If a Receiving Party or Authorized Recipient discovers any loss of 

Confidential Material or Highly Confidential Material or a breach of security, including any potential 

or suspected unauthorized access, relating to another party’s Confidential Material or Highly 

Confidential Material, the Receiving Party or Authorized Recipient shall: (1) immediately provide 

written notice to the Producing or Designating Party of such breach; (2) investigate and make 

reasonable efforts to remediate the effects of the breach and provide the Producing or Designating 

Party with assurances reasonably satisfactory to the Producing or Designating Party that such breach 

shall not recur; and (3) provide sufficient information about the breach that the Producing or 

Designating Party can reasonably ascertain the size and scope of the breach. The Receiving Party or 

Authorized Recipient agrees to cooperate with the Producing or Designating Party or law enforcement 

in investigating any such security incident. In any event, the Receiving Party or Authorized Recipient 

shall promptly take all necessary and appropriate corrective action to terminate the unauthorized 

access. 

28. End-of-Matter Data Disposition: Upon final resolution of this Litigation the Parties 

will certify that a good-faith effort has been made that all Confidential Material and/or Highly 

Confidential Material has been returned to the Producing or Designating Party or been destroyed in a 

secure manner, at the discretion and direction of the Producing or Designating Party. If a party elects 

to destroy Confidential Material and/or Highly Confidential Material upon final resolution of this 

Litigation, that party will provide an affidavit to the Producing or Designation Party attesting to the 

secured destruction.

29. This Order does not preclude a party or its counsel from reporting any alleged safety 

defect or concerns to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) or any 

governmental agency with the authority to study public safety issues pertinent to the product at issue. 

However, a party may not share a Producing Party’s Confidential or Highly Confidential documents 

or other discovery materials with NHTSA or any governmental agency without prior consent of the 

Producing Party, except as required to comply with a court order. Any request for disclosure of a 

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Producing Party’s Confidential or Highly Confidential documents or other discovery materials should 

be directed to the Producing Party. The terms of this Protective Order do not preclude GM LLC from 

providing confidential and/or protected information and documents to NHTSA, either voluntarily or in 

connection with GM LLC’s obligations under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 

1966 (“Safety Act”), 49 U.S.C. § 30101, et. seq.

30. Violations of this Order: If any person or party should violate the terms of this Order, 

the aggrieved Producing or Designating Party may apply to the Court to obtain relief against any such 

person or party violating or threatening to violate any of the terms of this Order. If the aggrieved 

Producing or Designating Party seeks injunctive relief, it must petition the Court for such relief, which 

may be granted at the sole discretion of the Court. The parties and any other person subject to the 

terms of this Order agree that this Court shall retain jurisdiction over it and them for the purpose of 

enforcing this Order.

Respectfully Stipulated to and submitted by:

By: s/ Alexis Galindo Dated: March 16, , 2020 

Counsel for Plaintiff

By: s/ Cheyenne Moore Dated: March 16, , 2020 

Counsel for Defendant

General Motors LLC

ORDER

The Court has reviewed the parties’ stipulated protective order, which complies with the 

relevant authorities and the Court’s applicable local rule, save for one issue. See L.R. 141.1(c);1

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The Court’s Local Rules instruct the parties, when requesting a protective order, to include in their 

submission: 

(1) A description of the types of information eligible for protection under the order, with the 

description provided in general terms sufficient to reveal the nature of the information (e.g., 

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see also Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210 (9th Cir. 2002) 

(“Generally, the public can gain access to litigation documents and information produced during 

discovery unless the party opposing disclosure shows ‘good cause’ why a protective order is 

necessary.”) The parties have stipulated to granting the Court jurisdiction over this protective 

order after the close of this case. However, the Local Rules of this district state that once an action 

is closed, “unless otherwise ordered, the Court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement of the 

terms of any protective order filed in that action.” L.R. 141.1(f). Courts in the district generally 

do not agree to retain jurisdiction after closure of the case, and the Court sees no reason to do so 

here. See, e.g., MD Helicopters, Inc. v. Aerometals, Inc., 2017 WL 495778 (E.D. Cal., February 

03, 2017). Thus, for clarity, the undersigned informs the parties that once the case is closed, the 

Court will not retain jurisdiction over this protective order.

Therefore, the Court GRANTS the protective order, subject to the above clarification.

Dated: March 18, 2020

engb.1761

customer list, formula for soda, diary of a troubled child);

(2) A showing of particularized need for protection as to each category of information proposed to 

be covered by the order; and

(3) A showing as to why the need for protection should be addressed by a court order, as opposed 

to a private agreement between or among the parties.

Local Rule 141.1(c).

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO DIVISION

RODNEY ENGBERSON

Plaintiff,

v.

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY and DOES 

1 through 10, Inclusive

Defendants.

Case No. 2:19-cv-01761-MCE-KJN

AGREEMENT CONCERNING INFORMATION

COVERED BY STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

I, , hereby acknowledge that I have received a 

copy of the Stipulated Protective Order entered in the above-captioned action by the U.S. District 

Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division (hereinafter the “Protective Order”).

I have either read the Protective Order or have had the terms of the Protective Order explained 

to me by my attorney.

I understand the terms of the Protective Order and agree to comply with and to be bound by 

such terms.

If I receive documents or information designated as Confidential Material or Highly 

Confidential Material (as those terms are defined in the Protective Order), I understand that such 

information is provided to me pursuant to the terms and restrictions of the Protective Order.

I agree to hold in confidence and not further disclose or use for any purpose (other than is 

permitted by the Protective Order) any information disclosed to me pursuant to the terms of the 

Protective Order. I agree to maintain and abide by the Data Security provisions and End-of-Matter 

Data Disposition provisions set forth in the Protective Order.

I hereby submit myself to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of 

California, Sacramento Division for resolution of any matters pertaining to the Protective Order.

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My address is 

My present employer is 

Dated: 

Signed: 

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