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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 28:451 Employment Discrimination

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PAMELA Y. PRICE, ESQ. (State Bar No. 107713)

LAW OFFICES OF PAMELA Y. PRICE

A Professional Law Corporation

901 Clay Street

Oakland, CA 94607

Telephone: (510) 452-0292

Fax: (510) 452-5625

E-mail: pamela.price@pypesq.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IRMA B. SANCHEZ

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IRMA B. SANCHEZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, SYDNEY 

SMYTH, and DOES 1 THROUGH 15, in 

their individual capacities,

Defendants.

1:12-cv-01835-AWI-SAB

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

In order to protect the confidentiality of confidential information obtained by the parties in 

connection with this case, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Any party or non-party may designate as “confidential” (by stamping the relevant 

page or as otherwise set forth herein) any document or response to discovery which that party or 

non-party considers in good faith to contain information involving employment information, 

medical information, private thoughts, private communications between family members or 

confidential financial information, subject to protection under the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure or California law. Where a document or response consists of more than one page, the 

first page and each page on which confidential information appears shall be so designated.

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2. A party or non-party may designate information disclosed during a deposition or in 

response to written discovery as “confidential” by so indicating in said responses or on the record 

at the deposition and requesting the preparation of a separate transcript of such material. 

Additionally, a party or non-party may designate in writing, within twenty (20) days after receipt 

of said responses or of the deposition transcript for which the designation is proposed, that 

specific pages of the transcript and/or specific responses be treated as “confidential” information. 

Any other party may object to such proposal, in writing or on the record. Upon such objection, 

the parties shall follow the procedures described in paragraph 8 below. After any designation 

made according to the procedure set forth in this paragraph, the designated documents or 

information shall be treated according to the designation until the matter is resolved according to 

the procedures described in paragraph 8 below, and counsel for all parties shall be responsible for 

marking all previously unmarked copies of the designated material in their possession or control 

with the specified designation.

3. Any party may designate Information as “Highly Confidential Information –

Attorneys Eyes Only” under the terms of this order. “Highly Confidential Information –

Attorneys Eyes Only” is information which, according to a party, is of an unusually confidential 

or proprietary nature. “Highly Confidential Information – Attorneys Eyes Only” is information 

which is only for the eyes of counsel, its legal assistants and its legal staff, as well as the Court, 

and shall not be disclosed to a party or to an officer, director, or employee of a party unless such 

disclosure is agreed to by all parties hereto in writing or ordered by the Court.

4. All information produced or exchanged in the course of this case (other than 

information that is publicly available) shall be used by the party or parties to whom the 

information is produced solely for the purpose of this case.

5. Except with the prior written consent of the other parties, or upon prior order of this 

Court obtained upon notice to opposing counsel, Confidential Information shall not be disclosed 

to any person other than: (a) counsel for the respective parties to this litigation, including inhouse counsel and co-counsel retained for this litigation; (b) employees of such counsel; 

(c) individual defendants, class representatives, any officer or employee of a party, to the extent 

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deemed necessary by counsel for the prosecution or defense of this litigation; (d) consultants or 

expert witnesses retained for the prosecution or defense of this litigation, provided that each such 

person shall execute a copy of the Certification annexed to this Order (which shall be retained by 

counsel to the party so disclosing the Confidential Information and made available for inspection 

by opposing counsel during the pendency or after the termination of the action only upon good 

cause shown and upon order of the Court) before being shown or given any Confidential 

Information; (e) any authors or recipients of the Confidential Information; (f) the Court, court 

personnel, and court reporters; and (g) witnesses (other than persons described in paragraph 4(e)). 

A witness shall sign the Certification before being shown a confidential document. Confidential 

Information may be disclosed to a witness who will not sign the Certification only in a deposition 

at which the party who designated the Confidential Information is represented or has been given 

notice that Confidential Information produced by the party may be used. At the request of any 

party, the portion of the deposition transcript involving the Confidential Information shall be 

designated “Confidential” pursuant to paragraph 2 above. Witnesses shown Confidential 

Information shall not be allowed to retain copies.

6. Any persons receiving Confidential Information shall not reveal or discuss such 

information to or with any person who is not entitled to receive such information, except as set 

forth herein.

7. A party seeking to file a document under seal must seek authorization of the Court in 

accordance with Civil Local Rule 141. No document shall be filed under seal except pursuant to 

a court order that authorizes the sealing of the particular document or portion thereof and is 

narrowly tailored to seal only that material for which good cause to seal has been established. 

Only those documents, pages or, if practicable, those portions of documents or pages, which 

contain the information requiring confidentiality shall be sealed.

8. For applications and motions to the Court on which a party submits Confidential 

Information, all documents and chamber copies containing Confidential Information which are 

submitted to the Court shall be filed with the Court in sealed envelopes or other appropriate 

sealed containers. On the outside of the envelopes, a copy of the first page of the document shall 

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be attached. If Confidential Information is included in the first page attached to the outside of the 

envelopes, it may be deleted from the outside copy. The word “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be 

stamped on the envelope and a statement substantially in the following form shall also be printed 

on the envelope: This envelope is sealed pursuant to Order of the Court, contains Confidential 

Information and is not to be opened or the contents revealed, except by Order of the Court or 

agreement by the parties.

9. A party may designate as “Confidential” documents or discovery materials produced 

by a non-party by providing written notice to all parties of the relevant document numbers or 

other identification within thirty (30) days after receiving such documents or discovery materials. 

Any party or non-party may voluntarily disclose to others without restriction any information 

designated by that party or non-party as confidential, although a document may lose its 

confidential status if it is made public. 

10. If a party contends that any material is not entitled to confidential treatment, such 

party may at any time give written notice to the party or non-party who designated the material. 

The party or non-party who designated the material shall have twenty-five (25) days from the 

receipt of such written notice to apply to the Court for an order designating the material as 

confidential. The party or non-party seeking the order has the burden of establishing that the 

document is entitled to protection.

11. Notwithstanding any challenge to the designation of material as Confidential 

Information, all documents shall be treated as such and shall be subject to the provisions hereof 

unless and until one of the following occurs: (a) the party or non-party who claims that the 

material is Confidential Information withdraws such designation in writing; or (b) the party or 

non-party who claims that the material is Confidential Information fails to apply to the Court for 

an order designating the material confidential within the time period specified above after receipt 

of a written challenge to such designation; or (c) the Court rules the material is not Confidential 

Information.

12. All provisions of this Order restricting the communication or use of Confidential 

Information shall continue to be binding after the conclusion of this action, unless otherwise 

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agreed or ordered. Upon conclusion of the litigation, a party in the possession of Confidential 

Information, other than that which is contained in pleadings, correspondence, and deposition 

transcripts, shall either: (a) return such documents no later than thirty (30) days after conclusion 

of this action to counsel for the party or non-party who provided such information; or (b) destroy 

such documents within the time period upon consent of the party who provided the information 

and certify in writing within thirty (30) days that the documents have been destroyed.

13. The terms of this Order do not preclude, limit, restrict, or otherwise apply to the use 

of documents at trial. This Stipulation shall have no application to trial, or the presentation of 

evidence at trial in this matter. Should either party deem a protective order necessary at the time 

of trial, they may enter into an agreement or move the Court for an appropriate order.

14. This Stipulation is made without prejudice to the right of any party to seek an Order 

from the Court modifying or limiting any designation of information or documents as 

confidential, or otherwise modifying this Stipulation and Protective Order in any way with 

respect to any specified materials after forty-eight (48) hours written notice to the opposing party.

15. Nothing herein shall be deemed to waive any applicable privilege or work product 

protection, or to affect the ability of a party to seek relief for an inadvertent disclosure of material 

protected by privilege or work product protection.

16. Each category of information proposed to be covered by this Order implicates the 

private personal information of one of the parties, both of whom are sworn peace officers with 

particular concerns about their safety and privacy.

17. The following categories of information may be designated as confidential and 

qualify for protections under this stipulation:

i. “Personnel records” as that term is defined in California Penal Code section 832.8;

ii. Personal information regarding an inmate, former inmate, or employee or former 

employee of CDCR;

iii. Medical and mental health records and information; and

iv. Information subject to protection under Eastern District of California Local Rules 140, 

141, and 141.1. 

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18. Any witness or other person, firm or entity from which discovery is sought may be 

informed of and may obtain the protection of this Order by written advice to the parties’ 

respective counsel or by oral advice at the time of any deposition or similar proceeding.

Dated: July 21, 2014 LAW OFFICES OF PAMELA Y. PRICE

/s/ Pamela Y. Price

______________________________________

PAMELA Y. PRICE, Attorneys for Plaintiff

IRMA B. SANCHEZ

Dated: July 21, 2014 Respectfully submitted,

KAMALA D. HARRIS

Attorney General of California

SCOTT H. WYCKOFF

Supervising Deputy Attorney General

/s/ Matthew T. Besmer

MATTHEW T. BESMER

Deputy Attorney General

Attorneys for Defendants

STATE OF CALIFORNIA and 

SYDNEY SMITH

ORDER

The foregoing Stipulation is approved and IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 23, 2014 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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