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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Robert Drexler (SBN 119119)

Robert.Drexler@Capstonelawyers.com 

Stan Karas (SBN 222402)

Stan.Karas@capstonelawyers.com

Bevin Allen Pike (SBN 221936)

Bevin.Pike@capstonelawyers.com

Jonathan Lee (SBN 267146)

Jonathan.Lee@capstonelawyers.com 

Capstone Law APC

1840 Century Park East, Suite 450

Los Angeles, California 90067

Tel: (310) 556-4811 / Fax: (310) 943-0396

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Jonathan M. Brenner, SBN 162366

jbrenner@sidley.com

Erica C. Parks, SBN 273893

eparks@sidley.com

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000

Los Angeles, California 90013

Tel: (213) 896-6000 / Fax: (213) 896-6600

Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOROTHEA EMMONS and LISA 

STAPLETON, individually, and on behalf of 

other members of the general public similarly 

situated, and as aggrieved employees,

Plaintiffs,

v.

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS CLINICAL 

LABORATORIES, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; QUEST DIAGNOSTICS 

INCORPORATED, doing business as QUEST 

DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED OF 

NEVADA, a Nevada corporation; QUEST 

DIAGNOSTICS NICHOLS INSTITUTE, a 

California corporations; DOES 1 through 10, 

inclusive,

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Case No. 1:13-cv-00474-DAD-BAM

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

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WHEREAS Plaintiffs Dorothea Emmons and Lisa Stapleton (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendant 

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Defendant” and, together with Plaintiffs, 

the “parties” or, separately, a “party”), have commenced discovery in the above captioned matter; 

WHEREAS disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve the potential 

production of confidential, private, proprietary, and/or trade secret or other sensitive business 

information that warrants special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose 

other than prosecuting and defending this litigation. 

WHEREAS, subject to and without waiving any objections any Party may have as to the 

discoverability of any information, and without waiving any objections or legal claims any Party 

may have (including but not limited to any objections or legal claims arising out of the acquisition, 

retention, or other handling of documents containing confidential or proprietary information), the 

Parties desire to agree to procedures for the exchange, handling and protection of “Confidential 

Information” as defined herein;

WHEREAS, the Parties acknowledge that the following Proposed Stipulated Protective 

Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the 

protection it affords extends only to information and items that are confidential and that: (1) are 

protected by the right of privacy or a statutory protection of confidentiality, (2) are proprietary or (3) 

contain trade secrets;

WHEREFORE, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(e) and 26, the Parties, by 

and through their respective counsel, hereby submit the following Stipulation and respectfully move 

the Court to approve the Stipulation as a Protective Order: 

STIPULATION

1. “Confidential Information,” as used herein, means any type or classification of 

information, whether it be a document, information contained in a document, information revealed 

during a deposition, information revealed in an interrogatory answer, or otherwise, which is not 

generally known to the public, which the designating party (the “Designating Party”) maintains in 

confidence by itself or with others, and which is commercially sensitive, trade secret, proprietary, 

and/or private.

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2. Any party to this action may designate Confidential Information as “Confidential 

Information” where the party exercises reasonable discretion in making the designation and where 

the designation is made upon a good faith belief that such information may reasonably be considered 

“Confidential Information” as defined herein. Mass, indiscriminate or reutilized designations are 

improper and the parties do not waive the right to challenge any other party’s designation. 

3. A party to this action may designate information as Confidential Information by 

marking the page or electronic file or medium: “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.” In lieu of 

marking original documents, the Designating Party may mark copies that are produced or 

exchanged. Marking or stamping “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” on a label on any electronic 

storage medium shall designate the entire contents of such electronic storage medium as 

Confidential Information.

4. In accordance with the limitations and procedures set forth below, access to the 

Confidential Information shall be limited to the following persons or parties:

a. Attorneys of record for the Parties;

b. Paralegals, secretaries, and/or process servers regularly employed by the 

Parties’ counsel of record;

c. Plaintiffs and Defendants, including their employees;

d. Experts or paid consultants regarding this litigation; and

e. Third party percipient/fact witnesses in this litigation.

5. All persons designated in paragraph 4.d and 4.e who, in the course of this action, may 

be given access to Confidential Information, shall be required to read the Stipulation and agree to be 

bound thereby by executing the “Acknowledgment and Agreement To Be Bound By Protective 

Order,” attached hereto as Exhibit A. The original Acknowledgments will be maintained by the 

party providing access to the Confidential Information and shall be produced upon reasonable 

request. Notwithstanding Paragraph 4, although Plaintiffs and percipient witnesses may be provided 

access to Confidential Information for review, the parties agree that Plaintiffs and percipient 

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witnesses will not be given possession, temporarily or otherwise, of copies of Confidential

Information.

6. Any responses to interrogatories, requests for admissions, or demands for inspection 

and pleadings that disclose the content of Confidential Information shall be restricted and marked as 

Confidential Information.

7. Confidential Information produced or disclosed by a party shall be used by the 

receiving party solely for the purposes of this action and not for any other purpose. This Stipulation 

and Protective Order is not intended to contravene Rule 1-500(A) of the California Rule of 

Professional Conduct and Model Rules of Professional Conduct 5.6.

8. If Confidential Information is disclosed during a deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings, counsel of record for the receiving party shall make arrangements, or when appropriate 

request the Court to make arrangements, to ensure that only the deponent, counsel for the deponent, 

court reporter, and Qualified Persons identified in Paragraph 4 above, are present, and ask that the 

transcript or exhibits containing Confidential Information, or portions thereof, be bound separately 

and marked “Confidential - Subject to Protective Order.”

9. Nothing contained in this Stipulation shall be construed to prejudice the rights of a 

party to use before the Court, arbitrator, or mediator any Confidential Information. However, before 

doing so, the party intending to use Confidential Information shall so inform the other party and 

request from the Court, arbitrator, or mediator appropriate protection for the Confidential 

Information. The proponent of the sealing or redaction of any document to be filed with the Court 

shall file a “Request to Seal Documents” pursuant to Eastern District Local Rule 140 and 141.

10. Nothing in this Stipulation shall abridge the rights of any party to seek judicial review 

or to pursue other appropriate judicial action with respect to any ruling made by the Court 

concerning the issue of the confidential status of the Confidential Information.

11. Any objections as to the admissibility of the Confidential Information are reserved 

and are not waived by any terms of this Stipulation and Order.

12. This Stipulation and Order shall not prejudice the right of the Parties: (a) to object to 

any request to produce Confidential Information; (b) to object to the introduction into evidence of 

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any Confidential Information; (c) to seek additional protective treatment for any Confidential 

Information; (d) to object to the designation of documents as Confidential Information; or (e) to seek 

any modification of any provision of this Stipulation and Order either generally or as to any 

particular Confidential Information by properly noticed motion. The Parties shall meet and confer 

regarding any dispute that refers or relates to Confidential Information prior to filing any motion. 

13. The parties agree that the designating party’s legal remedies are inadequate to prevent 

the use or disclosure of Confidential Information covered by this Stipulation. Therefore, the Parties 

agree that injunctive relief is an appropriate remedy to prevent any person or party from using or 

disclosing Confidential Information in violation of this Stipulation and Order. In the event a party, 

or any other person or entity, violates or threatens to violate any of the terms of this Stipulation and 

Order, the Parties agree that the designating party, with appropriate notice, may apply to the Court to 

obtain injunctive relief against any such persons or parties violating or threatening to violate any of 

the terms of this Stipulation. In the event the designating party applies to the Court to obtain 

injunctive relief, the responding party, person or entity subject to the provisions of this Stipulation 

and Order shall not employ as a defense thereto a claim that the designating party possesses an 

adequate remedy at law. The Parties and any other persons subject to the terms of this Stipulation 

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

order. The Parties waive and release any and all requirements for a bond or undertaking to support 

any injunctive relief. 

14. Inadvertent disclosure of any Confidential Information during discovery, arbitration, 

mediation or trial of this action, or inadvertent disclosure of Confidential Information without 

appropriate designation, shall be without prejudice to any claim that such material is private and 

confidential and no party shall be held to have waived any rights of confidentiality by such 

inadvertent disclosure.

15. If Confidential Information is disclosed to any persons other than in the manner 

authorized by this Stipulation and Order, the person or party responsible for disclosure must 

immediately bring all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure to the attention of counsel for all 

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parties without prejudice to other rights and remedies of any party and make every effort to prevent 

further disclosure by it or by the person who receives such information.

16. Sanctions for disclosure of Confidential Information contrary to the terms herein shall 

be decided by the Court, after opportunity for briefing and argument by the Parties. 

17. This Stipulation may be amended by the written agreement of counsel for the Parties 

to this agreement in the form of an amended stipulation and pursuant to a further order of the Court. 

This Stipulation is intended to regulate the handling of the Confidential Information during the 

entirety of this litigation through appeal and thereafter, and shall remain in full force and effect until 

modified, superseded or terminated on the record or by agreement of the Parties to this litigation and 

any pertinent third parties or by order of the Court.

18. Within thirty five (35) days after the final disposition of the proceeding, whether 

through final judgment or otherwise (including all appeals), counsel for the Parties and any person 

authorized by the Stipulation to receive Confidential Information shall return or destroy all originals 

and copies of documents relating or referring to the Confidential Information, except that only the 

Parties’ attorneys of record shall be entitled to retain pleadings, memoranda, declarations or 

affidavits, written responses to discovery requests, responses to requests for admission, or deposition 

transcripts that contain or refer to any Confidential Information to the extent necessary to preserve a 

litigation file in this case. Confidential Information in such litigation files shall remain sealed and 

disclosed only in accordance with the terms of this Stipulation and Order. 

19. The terms of this Stipulation shall survive and remain in full force and effect after 

termination of this lawsuit. The Court shall retain jurisdiction over the Parties, their attorneys and all 

other persons to whom Confidential Information has been disclosed for the purpose of enforcing the 

terms of this Stipulation and Order.

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Dated: December 3, 2015

CAPSTONE LAW APC

By:

Robert Drexler

Stan Karas

Bevin Allen Pike

Jonathan Lee

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Dorothea Emmons and 

Lisa Stapleton

Dated: December 3, 2015

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP

By: /s/ Erica C. Parks

Jonathan M. Brenner

Erica C. Parks

Attorneys for Defendants Quest Diagnostics 

Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Quest Diagnostics 

Incorporated of Nevada, and Quest Diagnostics 

Nichols Institute

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE ORDER

I, ______________________ [print or type full name] of _______________ 

________________[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its 

entirety and understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District 

Court for the Eastern District of California on ____________, 2015 in the case of Emmons et al. v. 

Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc. et al., Case No. 1:13-cv-00474-AWI-BAM. I agree to 

comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and I understand 

and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to punishment in the nature of contempt. 

I promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with the provisions of 

this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint _______________ [print or type full name] of 

________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number] as my 

California agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to 

enforcement of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Date:

City and State where sworn and signed:

Printed name: 

Signature:

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ORDER

The Court, having read and considered the Stipulated Protective Order regarding the 

protection of Confidential Information, including but not limited to the contact information of former 

employees, and good cause appearing in that discovery in this action will be facilitated thereby,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Stipulated Protective Order is entered in this 

action without prejudice to any motion for modification.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 4, 2015 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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