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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal - Employment Discrimination

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

SCHIFF HARDIN LLP

Stephen M. Hankins (CSB # 154886)

shankins@schiffhardin.com

Sarah D. Youngblood (CSB # 244304)

syoungblood@schiffhardin.com

One Market, Spear Street Tower

Thirty-Second Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 901-8700

Facsimile: (415) 901-8701

Attorneys for Defendant

OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER 

INC.

SANDRA J. COHEN, CA SB#. 85045

300 South First Street, Suite 320

San Jose CA 95113

408-975-0545

e-mail:sjcohen@employmentatty.com

Attorney for Plaintiff ELIZABETH SAMUELS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ELIZABETH SAMUELS,

Plaintiff,

v.

OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS 

CONTAINER INC. and DOES 1 through 

V,

Defendant.

No. 2:13-cv-00713-GEB-DAD

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Whereas, Plaintiff in the above-captioned action seeks discovery from Defendant of 

documents, information, or other materials that contain non-public, confidential, competitivelysensitive, and/or proprietary information of Defendant or of third parties; 

Whereas, Plaintiff and Defendant wish to ensure that such information shall be used only 

for the purposes of this action and shall not be disclosed or used in any other way; and 

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Whereas, the parties have stipulated and agreed to the terms, and jointly moved this Court 

for entry of the following Protective Order, and the Court having found that, in light of the nature 

of the non-public, confidential, competitively-sensitive, and/or proprietary information that may 

be sought in discovery;

The Court hereby finds that good cause exists for entry of the Protective Order to limit the 

disclosure and use of certain discovered information in the above-captioned action (the 

“Litigation”) as hereinafter provided:

1. Scope

a. This Order shall govern all documents, the information contained therein, and all 

other information produced or disclosed during discovery in the Litigation whether revealed in a 

document, deposition, other testimony, discovery responses or otherwise, by any party (the 

“Producing Party”) to any other party (the “Receiving Party”) when the same is designated using 

the procedures set forth herein. 

b. Any Producing Party shall have the right to identify and designate as 

“Confidential” any document or other material it produces or provides, or any testimony given in 

this proceeding, which it believes in good faith constitutes, reflects or discloses confidential and 

proprietary information, including: (i) manufacturing, bottling, and shipping processes, bottle 

specifications, plans, and designs, financial data, marketing and advertising data or plans, 

strategic or long-range plans, and/or cost, compensation, expense data; (ii) any information that 

any party believes would compromise and/or jeopardize the Producing Party’s competitive 

business interests; (iii) information containing employee compensation, benefits, and/or terms and 

conditions of employment as may be reflected in a collective bargaining agreement or related 

documents; and (iv) other information understood to be confidential pursuant to a confidentiality 

agreement. 

c. Any party may designate as Confidential (“Designating Party”) documents or

information produced by another party if that material either originated from the designating party 

or was generated on the designating party’s behalf, in which case, the designating party shall be 

deemed a Producing Party for purposes of this Order.

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2. Designation of Confidentiality

Documents or information may be designated “Confidential” in the following ways:

a. A Producing Party shall, if appropriate, designate specific documents as 

“Confidential” by marking the first page and each subsequent page of the document containing 

any Confidential Information with the legend “CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION.” 

b. A Producing Party shall designate interrogatory answers and responses to requests 

for admission as Confidential Information by placing the following legend on each page of 

interrogatory answers or responses to requests for admission containing Confidential Information: 

“CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.” 

c. In the case of depositions and the information contained in depositions (including 

exhibits), counsel for a Producing Party or witness shall designate portions of the transcript 

(including exhibits) which contain Confidential Information by making a statement on the record 

in the course of the deposition or by letter within 21 calendar days of receipt of the official 

deposition transcript or copy thereof (or written notification that the transcript is available). The 

entire deposition transcript (including exhibits) shall be treated as Confidential Information under 

this Order until the expiration of the 21-day period for designation. The following legend shall be 

placed on the front of the original and each copy of the deposition transcript containing 

Confidential Information: “CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.” If all or part of a 

videotaped deposition is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” the video container shall be labeled 

with the legend provided for in paragraph 2(a) above. When a deposition transcript contains 

Confidential Information, the Producing Party shall request the stenographic reporter to separate 

those portions of the transcript containing Confidential Information and bind them separately 

from the non-confidential portions.

3. Filing of Confidential Information

Without written permission from the Producing/Designating Party or a court order secured 

after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this 

action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must 

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comply with Civil Local Rule 141. Further, a Party that seeks to file any redacted material must 

comply with Civil Local Rule 140. Protected Material may only be filed under seal or redacted 

pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. If a 

Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal or redacted pursuant to Civil Local 

Rules 140 and 141 is denied by the Court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in 

the public record, unless otherwise instructed by the Court.

4. Use of Confidential Information

a. Any person other than the Producing Party shall use Confidential Information only

in conducting or defending this Litigation, and shall not use Confidential Information for any 

business, competitive, personal, private, public, or organizational purposes.

b. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Order shall be deemed to limit or 

restrict any Producing Party from using its own documents or its own Confidential Information 

for any purpose. The Producing Party may withdraw or modify any designation.

5. Disclosure of Confidential Information

Access to information designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to this Order shall be 

limited to:

a. The Court or any other court exercising jurisdiction with respect to this Litigation, 

Court personnel, jurors, and qualified persons (including necessary clerical personnel) recording, 

taking or transcribing testimony and argument at any deposition, hearing, trial or appeal in this 

Litigation;

b. Mediators or other individuals engaged or consulted in settlement of this 

Litigation, but only after such persons execute the Acknowledgement and Agreement to be 

Bound by Protective Order, attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

c. Outside counsel of record for the parties in this Litigation (including members or 

associates of such counsel’s firm) or in-house counsel for the parties, as well as their paralegal, 

investigative, secretarial, and clerical personnel who are engaged in assisting such counsel in this 

Litigation, but only after such persons execute the Acknowledgement and Agreement to be 

Bound by Protective Order, attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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d. Outside photocopying, data processing, or graphic production services employed 

by the parties or their counsel of record to assist in this Litigation, but only after such persons 

execute the Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order, attached hereto 

as Exhibit A;

e. Any expert witness retained by a party to give testimony in the Litigation or to 

assist counsel of record in the prosecution or defense of this Litigation, provided, however, that 

such witness executes, in advance, the Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound by 

Protective Order, attached hereto as Exhibit A;

f. Any person who: (i) authored or is listed as a recipient of the particular material 

sought to be disclosed to that person; (ii) is currently employed by the Producing Party, but only 

as to Confidential Information to which the employee is lawfully entitled to have access in 

connection with his or her employment; (iii) was formerly employed by the Producing Party, but 

only as to specific material to which the person had access during his/her employment; and 

g. Any other person to whom the Producing Party agrees in writing or on the record 

in advance of the disclosure or the Court directs should have access.

h. The Plaintiff, but only after the Plaintiff executes the Acknowledgement and 

Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order, attached hereto as Exhibit A;

6. Custody of Acknowledgement and Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order

Counsel of record for the disclosing party shall keep originals of every Acknowledgement 

and Agreement to be Bound by Protective Order executed pursuant to Section 5 above.

7. Objections to Designations

In the event a party objects to the designation of any material under this Order, the 

objecting party shall state its objections in a letter to counsel for the designating party in this 

Litigation, whereupon, the interested parties shall meet and confer in an attempt to resolve any 

objection. If the objection is not resolved within fourteen (14) days of transmission of that letter, 

the Producing/Designating Party must apply to the Court within the next ten (10) court days for 

an Order confirming the propriety of the designation with respect to the challenged discovery 

materials. Failure to file said petition within that period constitutes a waiver of any such claim of 

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confidentiality. If such a request is made, the Producing/Designating Party has the burden of 

establishing that the designation is proper. If the Producing/Designating Party agrees to change 

the designation to nonconfidential, the Producing Party shall send a written notice of the change 

in designation to all other parties. Any documents or other materials that have been designated 

“Confidential” shall be treated in the manner designated until such time as the Court rules that 

they should not be treated as Confidential, or the Producing/Designating Party agrees to change 

the designation.

8. Preservation of Rights and Privileges

Nothing contained in this Order shall affect the right, if any, of any party or witness to 

make any type of objection, claim, or other response to discovery requests, including, without 

limitation, interrogatories, requests for admission, requests for production of documents or 

questions at a deposition. Nor shall this Order be construed as a waiver by any party of any right 

to withhold any Confidential Information as attorney work product or based on privilege, or of 

any right which any party may have to assert such privilege at any stage of this Litigation.

9. Return or Destruction of Materials

Within sixty (60) business days after the final resolution of this Litigation, a Receiving 

Party shall return all Confidential Information to counsel for the Producing Party or, in lieu 

thereof, the Receiving Party shall certify in writing that all such information has been destroyed. 

10. Correction of Designation and Inadvertent Production of Confidential or Privileged 

Information

a. Inadvertent production of Confidential Information shall not be deemed a waiver 

of any party’s right to designate materials under the terms of this Order. If a party discovers that 

documents or information that qualify as Confidential Information have been produced without 

the designations set forth in this Order, that party shall be entitled to make a correction to the 

document or information’s designation. Such correction and notice thereof shall be made in 

writing, accompanied by substitute copies of each item of Discovery Material, appropriately 

designated. Upon receipt of a notice of correction, the Receiving Party shall place the appropriate 

marking on the material to reflect its confidential status and certify that the original and all copies 

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of the materials have been appropriately marked. Individuals who reviewed any mis-designated 

material prior to notice of the mis-designation shall abide by the provisions of this Order with 

respect to all future use and disclosure of any information contained in the mis-designated 

materials. In the event the Receiving Party disputes the designation, the Producing/Designating

Party may seek an order confirming the designation pursuant to the provisions of this Order.

b. A party that learns that the party inadvertently produced documents or other 

information during discovery in this Litigation which that party has a good faith reason to believe 

is privileged under the attorney-client or other privilege, or protected from discovery as work 

product, may, upon discovery of such inadvertent production, request the return of such 

documents or information. Inadvertent production shall not be deemed a waiver of any applicable 

privilege. Upon receipt of a written request for return by the inadvertently Producing Party, the 

Receiving Party shall (a) return the original and all copies of the documents within thirty (30) 

days of the request, and shall not use the information for any purpose except upon further order of 

the Court, or (b) object to the request as described below. In the event the Receiving Party objects 

to the return of the document, the Producing Party shall move the Court within thirty (30) days of 

the date of the Receiving Party’s written objection for an order as to whether the production was 

inadvertent or whether the document or information is otherwise privileged or protected from 

discovery. All materials related to the inadvertently produced document or information, and 

motion, shall be treated as Confidential Information pursuant to this Order, unless otherwise 

ordered by the Court. If such a motion is made within the thirty (30) day period the Receiving 

Party may retain the produced document or information until the Court resolves the motion. 

However, the Receiving Party shall not use the document or information for any purpose except 

upon further order of the Court. Failure to file said motion within the specified period constitutes 

a waiver of any such claim of inadvertent production and any claimed privilege or other basis for 

protection from discovery of the document or information. 

c. If Confidential Information is disclosed by a Receiving Party to anyone other than 

in a manner authorized by this Order, the Receiving Party responsible for that disclosure must 

immediately bring all pertinent facts related to that disclosure to the attention of the Producing 

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Party and make every reasonable effort to retrieve that Confidential Information and to prevent 

further disclosure.

11. Limitation on the Scope of this Order

The restrictions in this Order shall not apply to documents or information that are publicly 

available or that are obtained independently by the Receiving Party from a person lawfully in 

possession of those documents.

12. No Admission

A party’s compliance with the terms of this Order shall not operate as an admission that 

any particular document is or is not (a) confidential, (b) privileged, or (c) admissible in evidence 

at trial.

13. Duty to Notify of Receipt of Request for Confidential Information

If any Receiving Party receives a request of any kind, including via subpoena or other 

legal process, for documents subject to this Order, such Receiving Party must inform the party 

requesting the information of this Order, provide the requesting party with a copy of this Order, 

and give the Producing Party, or other party who designated information under the terms of this 

Order, written notice of the request within three (3) business days after its receipt and three (3) 

business days before it produces any documents in response to the request, so that the Producing 

Party has an opportunity to take appropriate action, including moving for relief, prior to the 

production of any responsive material.

14. Duration

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Producing/Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a 

court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all 

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the 

completion and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to 

applicable law.

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15. Modification of Order

This Order is binding on all parties to this Litigation and on all other parties who have 

received Confidential Information pursuant to this Order, and shall remain in full force and effect 

until modified, superseded, or terminated by further order of the Court.

Nothing in this Order shall prevent a Producing Party from seeking further, greater or 

lesser protection with respect to the use of any Confidential Information.

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 order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED:

Dated: February 25, 2014 SANDRA J. COHEN

By: /s/ Sandra J. Cohen

Sandra J. Cohen

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ELIZABETH SAMUELS

Dated: February 25, 2014 SCHIFF HARDIN LLP 

By: /s/ Sarah D. Youngblood

Sarah D. Youngblood

Attorneys for Defendant 

OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS 

CONTAINER INC.

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 25, 2014

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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 in the case of Elizabeth Samuels v. Owens-Brockway Glass 

Container, Inc., Case No. 2:13-cv-00713-GEB-DAD. 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 sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly 

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 

Central 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.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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