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

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

100 SPEAR STREET, SUITE 600 

S AN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94105 

(415) 357-4600 

FAX (415) 357-4605

 

ANDREW THOMAS SINCLAIR (State Bar No. 72681) 

SINCLAIR LAW OFFICE 

300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza 

Rotunda Building, Suite 160 

Oakland, California 94612 

Telephone: (510) 463-5300 

Facsimile: (510) 465-5356 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KAREN MOE HUMPHREYS 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

KAREN MOE HUMPHREYS, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

CALIFORNIA, et al., 

 Defendants. 

Case No. C-04-3808 SI

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Pursuant to Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Civil L.R. 7-11, 

Plaintiff Karen Moe Humphreys and Defendants Regents of the University of California (“the 

University”), Steve Gladstone and Mark Stephens (collectively “Defendants”), by and through 

their respective counsel of record, hereby stipulate and agree to the request for, and entry of, the 

following Protective Order so that confidential and private information and documents can be 

LAFAYETTE & KUMAGAI LLP

GARY T. LAFAYETTE (State Bar No. 88666) 

SUSAN T. KUMAGAI (State Bar No. 127667) 

PAUL YANG (State Bar No. 163431) 

100 Spear Street, Suite 600 

San Francisco, California 94105 

Telephone: (415) 357-4600 

Facsimile: (415) 357-4605 

Attorneys for Defendants 

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, 

STEVE GLADSTONE and MARK STEPHENS 

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disclosed and produced by the parties and non-parties in this case: 

1. Subject to paragraph 11(a), all documents, materials, items and/or information that 

contain or comprise the confidential, personal, financial, medical, personnel and/or private 

information of employees of the University or non-parties (hereinafter “Confidential 

Information”) shall be governed by this Protective Order, after being designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under the procedures set forth below. 

2. Any information or material produced by any party or non-party (“the Producing 

Party”) as part of discovery in this action may be designated by the Producing Party as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under the terms of this Protective Order if the Producing Party in good faith 

believes that such information or material contains Confidential Information that must be 

protected from unauthorized disclosure or dissemination by this Protective Order. 

3. The designation of Confidential Information for purposes of this Protective Order 

shall be made in the following manner by the Producing Party: 

(a) In the case of documents, exhibits, briefs, memoranda, interrogatory 

responses, responses to requests for admission, or other materials (apart from depositions or other 

pretrial or trial testimony): by affixing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each page containing any 

confidential information or material at the time such documents are produced or such information 

is disclosed, or as soon thereafter as the Producing Party becomes aware of the confidential nature 

of the information or material disclosed and sought to be protected hereunder, and 

(b) In the case of depositions, counsel may designate a portion or all of the 

transcript as “Confidential” by notifying opposing counsel during the deposition or within twenty 

(20) days after the transcript is received that all or a portion of the deposition transcript contains 

“Confidential Information.” Counsel shall acknowledge that a “CONFIDENTIAL” document 

shown to a witness during deposition has been designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this 

Protective Order at the time that the document is shown or marked as an exhibit. Documents or 

items that have been properly designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this Protective Order do 

not lose their designation as such if counsel fail or refuse to note that a document being shown or 

marked as an exhibit has been designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

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4. Information or material designated by any party or non-party as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” or copies or extracts therefrom and compilations and summaries thereof, 

may be disclosed, summarized, described, characterized, or otherwise communicated or made 

available in whole or in part only to the following persons: 

(a) The parties to the action, the parties’ counsel, and regular and temporary 

employees of such party or counsel to whom it is necessary that the information or material be 

shown for the purposes of this litigation; 

(b) The Court, pursuant to Paragraph 7 herein; 

(c) Expert witnesses or consultants retained by counsel for the parties and 

identified to the party or non-party who provided the documents or information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”; 

(d) Court reporters and videographers employed in connection with this action; 

(e) Graphics or design services retained by counsel for the purpose of preparing 

demonstrative or other exhibits for deposition, trial or other court proceedings in this action; 

(f) Any mediator, arbitrator or neutral retained by the parties or appointed by 

order of the Court for the purpose of attempting to resolve this action through informal means or 

deciding specific discrete issues defined by the Court; 

(g) Nontechnical jury or trial consulting services retained by counsel and 

identified to the party or non-party who provided the documents or information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL”; and 

(h) Any other person only upon order of the Court or upon written stipulation 

of the Producing Party. 

5. Each person given access to information or material designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” shall be advised that the information is being disclosed pursuant and subject 

to the terms of this Protective Order and may not be disclosed or used other than in accordance 

with this Protective Order. 

6. Other than as described herein, all items designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” under 

this Protective Order shall not be disclosed to any person or entity not a party to this litigation 

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without the prior written consent of all other affected parties or an order of the Court allowing for 

such disclosure. 

7. Unless otherwise stipulated, any “CONFIDENTIAL” material that is filed with 

the Court shall be delivered sealed to the Court in a sealed envelope marked with the case name 

and number of this action, the title of the paper which contains the information, or material 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL,” and a statement substantially in the following form: 

CONFIDENTIAL UNDER PROTECTIVE ORDER 

THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO A PROTECTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY 

THE COURT. THIS ENVELOPE IS NOT TO BE OPENED NOR ARE THE 

CONTENTS TO BE EXAMINED, DISPLAYED, REVEALED OR COPIED 

EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROTECTIVE ORDER. 

8. A party may challenge the Producing Party’s designation of information or 

materials produced herein as “CONFIDENTIAL” by promptly serving a written objection upon 

the Producing Party. The Producing Party shall notify the challenging party in writing of the 

bases for the asserted designation after receiving the written objection. The parties shall then 

promptly meet and confer in good faith as to the validity of the designation after the challenging 

party has received the notice of the bases for the asserted designation. To the extent the parties 

are unable to reach a resolution through meet and confer, the information or materials shall be 

treated as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this Protective Order unless and until the Court rules on the 

appropriateness of the “CONFIDENTIAL” designation. It shall be the obligation of the 

Producing Party to seek judicial confirmation that it appropriately made a “CONFIDENTIAL” 

designation under the terms of this Protective Order. If the Producing Party fails to file a motion 

seeking such judicial confirmation within ten (10) business days after the conclusion of meet-andconfer efforts, then that party waives its right to assert the designation in this case. The parties 

understand that they are to act in good faith at all times in the designation of information or 

materials as “CONFIDENTIAL” and in subsequent meet-and-confer discussions concerning the 

appropriateness of any party or non-party’s “CONFIDENTIAL” designation. Any party may 

seek an order from the Court that a particular document or other item designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” is not confidential after meeting and conferring with opposing counsel 

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and/or counsel for any non-party in good faith. 

9. All “CONFIDENTIAL” information and material covered by this Protective Order 

shall be kept in secure facilities at all times, and access to those facilities shall be permitted only 

to those designated persons set forth in Paragraph 4. 

10. All counsel for the parties who have access to information or material designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” under this Protective Order acknowledge they are bound by this 

Protective Order and submit to the jurisdiction of the Court for purposes of enforcing the terms of 

this Protective Order. 

11. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or producing or receiving information or materials 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or otherwise complying with the terms of this Protective Order 

shall not: 

(a) Operate as an admission by any party that any particular information or 

material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” contains or reflects confidential, personal, financial, 

medical, personnel and/or private information; 

(b) Operate as an admission by any party that the restrictions and procedures set 

forth herein constitute adequate protection for any particular information deemed by any party to 

be “CONFIDENTIAL” under the definition provided herein; 

(c) Prejudice in any way the rights of the parties to object to the production of 

documents they consider not subject to discovery; 

(d) Prejudice in any way the rights of any party to object to the authenticity or 

admissibility into evidence of any document, testimony or other evidence subject to this 

Protective Order; 

(e) Prejudice in any way the rights of a party to seek a determination by the 

Court whether any information or material should be subject to the terms of this Protective Order; 

(f) Prejudice in any way the rights of a party to petition the Court for a further 

protective order relating to any purportedly confidential or sensitive information; or 

(g) Prevent the parties from agreeing in writing or on the record during a 

deposition or hearing in this action to alter or waive the provisions or protections provided for 

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herein with respect to any particular information or material. 

12. This Protective Order has no effect upon, and shall not apply to, a party’s use or 

disclosure of its/his/her own confidential information for any purpose. Nothing contained herein 

shall impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of documents, information or 

material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” obtained lawfully by such party independently of any 

proceedings in this action. 

13. Parties and non-parties may retroactively designate documents, interrogatory 

responses, responses to requests for admission, or other materials “CONFIDENTIAL” pursuant to 

the terms of this Protective Order after the production or service of such documents, responses to 

interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions and/or other discover materials if the party 

believes in good faith that the materials should be so designated. In order to make such 

retroactive designation, the producing party shall provide the receiving party with corrected 

copies of such documents, interrogatory responses, responses to requests for admission, or other 

materials. Upon request, the receiving party shall take all necessary steps to retrieve and destroy 

all previously produced copies of the confidential documents or information. Upon request, the 

receiving party shall then promptly provide to the producing party a written statement of its 

compliance with the provisions of this Paragraph 14. 

14. The terms of this Protective Order shall apply to all manner and means of 

discovery demanded, produced, received or exchanged in this action. 

15. Any party may seek modification of this Protective Order by application to the 

Court on notice to the other parties hereto for good cause. 

16. The provisions of this Protective Order shall, absent written permission of the 

Producing Party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout and after the 

conclusion of this action, including without limitation any appeals therefrom. Within forty-five 

(45) days after receiving notice of the entry of an order, judgment or decree finally disposing of 

this action, including any appeals from such orders, judgments or decrees, all persons having 

received information or materials designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” hereunder shall, upon 

request, return such material and all copies thereof (including summaries and excerpts) to counsel 

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for the Producing Party. Counsel for the parties may retain court papers, deposition and trial 

transcripts and attorney work product (including court papers, transcripts, and attorney work 

product that contains information or material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” provided that 

such counsel, and employees of such counsel, shall not disclose any such information and 

material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” contained in such court papers, transcripts, or attorney 

work product to any person or entity except pursuant to a written agreement with the Producing 

Party of the information or material. All materials returned to the parties or their counsel by the 

Court likewise shall be disposed of in accordance with this paragraph. 

17. In the event that any information or material designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” 

hereunder is used in any court proceeding in this action or any appeal, such information or 

material shall not lose its confidential status through such use. Counsel for the parties shall confer 

on such procedures as are necessary to protect the confidentiality of any documents, information 

and transcripts used in the course of any court proceedings, and shall incorporate such procedures, 

as appropriate, in the pretrial order. 

Dated: September 14, 2005 SINCLAIR LAW OFFICE 

 

 /S/ Andrew Thomas Sinclair 

 ANDREW THOMAS SINCLAIR 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff 

 KAREN MOE HUMPHREYS 

Dated: September 14, 2005 LAFAYETTE & KUMAGAI LLP 

 

 /S/ Paul Yang 

 PAUL YANG 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 CALIFORNIA, STEVE GLADSTONE, 

and MARK STEPHENS 

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ORDER

 Pursuant to the above Stipulation of Counsel, 

 IT IS ORDERED that the Stipulated Protective Order is adopted as a Protective Order of 

the Court. 

 

 SUSAN ILLSTON 

 United States District Judge 

SIGNATURE ATTESTATION:

I hereby attest that I have on file all holograph signatures for any signatures indicated by a 

"conformed" signature (/S/) within this efiled document. 

 /S/ Paul Yang 

 PAUL YANG 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that a copy of this document was served electronically on September 15, 2005, on 

counsel of record in compliance with Federal Rule 5, Local Rule 5.6 and General Order 45, by 

use of the Court’s ECF system. 

 /S/ Paul Yang 

 PAUL YANG 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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GRANTED

Judge Susan Illston

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