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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:2003 Job Discrimination

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 1 CASE NO. 2:17-cv-01025-JAM-AC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JIMMY DAVID RAMIREZCASTELLANOS and FRANCISCO 

JAVIER GOMEZ ESPINOZA, 

Plaintiffs,

v.

NUGGET MARKET, INC. DBA 

NUGGET MARKETS and ONE STOP 

SERVICES DBA ONE STOP 

SOLUTION, ISSA QUARRA, and 

BUILDING MAINTENANCE GROUP,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:17-CV-01025-JAM-AC

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ 

REQUEST TO SEAL EXPERT 

PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION 

REPORTS AND EXPERT TESTIMONY

FILED IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS’ 

OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT NUGGET 

MARKET, INC.’S MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Having reviewed Plaintiffs’ Request to Seal their expert’s psychological evaluation 

reports and excerpts of Plaintiffs’ expert deposition transcript and any references thereto 

in Plaintiffs’ Response to Defendant Nugget’s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 

and Plaintiffs Additional Material Facts, the Court finds that there is a compelling interest 

in protecting Plaintiffs’ sensitive and personal mental health information and GRANTS 

Plaintiffs’ request. Sealing is necessary to protect Plaintiffs’ confidential and personal 

medical and health information.

Persons entitled to access the confidential documents filed under seal is limited to 

Defendants Nugget Markets, Inc., Issa Quarra, One Stop Services, and Building 

Maintenance Group, its attorneys or agents, Plaintiffs and their attorneys or agents, and 

officers and employees of this Court.

The Court further ORDERS that the following documents be filed under seal 

indefinitely:

1. Psychological Evaluation Final Reports of Jimmy David RamirezCase 2:17-cv-01025-JAM-AC Document 107 Filed 04/14/20 Page 1 of 3
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[PROPOSED] ORDER 2 CASE NO. 2:17-cv-01025-JAM-AC

Castellanos and Francisco Javier Gomez Espinoza by Plaintiffs’ expert, Dr. Ricardo 

Winkel, attached as Exhibit 31 to the Declaration of Tanya G. Pellegrini In Support of 

Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendant Nugget Market, Inc.’s Motion for Summary 

Judgment, or in the Alternative, Summary Adjudication of Issues (“Declaration of Tanya 

Pellegrini”);

2. Excerpts from the deposition of Dr. Ricardo Winkel, taken on September 

13, 208, attached as Exhibit 30 to the Declaration of Tanya Pellegrini;

3. Any references Dr. Winkel’s report in Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Points 

and Authorities in support of their Opposition to Defendant Nugget Market, Inc.’s Motion 

for Summary Judgment, specifically: Page 16, lines 13-24 and Page 17, lines 1-3;

4. Any references in Plaintiffs’ Response to Defendant Nugget’s Statement of 

Undisputed Material Facts and Plaintiffs’ Additional Material Facts to Exhibits 30 and 31

to the Declaration of Tanya Pellegrini. Specifically, the following pages and facts:

a. Plaintiffs’ Additional Fact (“PAF”) Fact 63. Since being exposed to the 

harassment at the Store, Gomez Espinoza is constantly on edge and depressed, and has 

developed severe and frequent headaches, difficulties sleeping, nearly constant sadness, 

persecutory nightmares, gained weight, lost of libido and interest in intimacy with his 

wife, feels constantly fatigued, suffers from chest pains, and abuses alcohol. 

b. PAF 64. As a result of the harassment and discrimination, Gomez Espinoza 

currently suffers from alcohol abuse and dependency, generalized anxiety disorder, major 

depressive disorder, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. 

c. PAF 104. Since being exposed to the harassment at the Store, Plaintiff 

Ramirez-Castellanos is constantly on in fear that his employers will retaliate against him, 

he stopped exercising and practicing karate, suffers from anxiety, and began to abuse 

alcohol. 

d. PAF 105. As a result of the harassment and discrimination, RamirezCastellanos currently suffers from alcohol addiction and dependency, anxiety disorder, 

major depressive disorder, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. 

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e. PAF 128. Plaintiffs’ expert, Dr. Ricardo Winkel, found that “the relentless 

onslaught on [Ramirez-Castellanos’s] tenuously held sense of self-regard and dignity, 

which were unavoidably intertwined with the facts of his ethnic and national origin,” 

“brought back and exacerbated his old sense of inadequacy, rekindled his sense of 

helplessness and severely undermined his hard-fought belief in his ability to function 

competently. As a subordinate who exclusively depended on limited income and with no 

say about the abusive behavior of those with more power and authority, he experienced a 

severe regression in his psychological functioning to a state of vulnerability, loss, grief 

and helplessness.”

f. PAF 129. Dr. Winkel also found that Espinoza “could not tolerate the 

abusive environment that had been engulfing him [at the store]. [. . .] He reported that it 

became increasingly difficult for him to work in an environment where he was under 

attack on account of his national and ethnic background and that his sustained distress was 

compounded and became intolerable when the management failed to promptly and 

effectively correct that situation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 4/13/2020 /s/ John A. Mendez____________

 Hon. John A. Mendez

United States District Court Judge

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