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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question: Fair Labor Standards

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LITTLER MENDELSON

A P ROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 1 Case No. C 05-0585 CW

NANCY E. PRITIKIN, Bar No. 102392

R. BRIAN DIXON, Bar No. 076247

KRISTA A. STEVENSON, Bar No. 185241

LITTLER MENDELSON

A Professional Corporation

650 California Street, 20th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108.2693

Telephone: 415.433.1940

Facsimile: 415.399.8490

Attorneys for Defendant

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,

erroneously sued as Wells Fargo & Co.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND BRANCH

JASMIN GERLACH, on behalf of 

herself and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

WELLS FARGO & CO.,

Defendant.

Case No. C 05-0585 CW

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

Judge: Claudia Wilken

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. 

Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated 

Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all 

disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords extends only to the limited 

information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as

confidential. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 10, below, that this Stipulated 

Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 

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79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied 

when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1. PARTY: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff), but not any class member 

who is not a named Plaintiff.

2.2. DISCLOSURE OR DISCOVERY MATERIAL: all items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things,

testimony, transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses 

to discovery in this matter.

2.3. “CONFIDENTIAL” INFORMATION OR ITEMS: information (regardless of how 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards 

developed under F.R.Civ.P. 26(c).

2.4. RECEIVING PARTY: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

2.5. PRODUCING PARTY: a Party or non party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

2.6. DESIGNATING PARTY: a Party or non party that designates information or items’ 

that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential.”

2.7. PROTECTED MATERIAL: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “Confidential.”

2.8. OUTSIDE COUNSEL: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are 

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

2.9. HOUSE COUNSEL: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

2.10. COUNSEL (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as their 

support staffs).

2.11. EXPERT: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

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consultant in this action and who is not a past or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of 

a Party’s and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a 

competitor of a Party’s. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in 

connection with this litigation.

2.12. Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, 

storing, retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, 

excerpts, summaries, or compilations thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by 

parties or counsel to or in court or in other settings that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or 

non party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to limit 

any such designation to specific material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that 

qualify under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party must take care to designate for 

protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that 

qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications for which

protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 

to be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 

encumber or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens 

on other parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes to a Party’s or a non party’s 

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attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not qualify for protection at 

all, that Party or non party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken 

designation.

5.2. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material 

that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is 

disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of depositions or 

other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL’’ at 

the top of each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on 

a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) 

(e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, that the 

Party or non party offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. When it is impractical to identify 

separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it appears that

substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the Party or non party that sponsors, 

offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is 

concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which 

protection is sought. Only those portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for 

protection within the 20 days shall be covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

Transcript pages containing Protected Material must be separately bound by the court 

reporter, who must affix to the top of each such page the legend “CONFIDENTIAL,” as instructed 

by the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the testimony.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and for any other 

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or 

containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only

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portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, 

shall identify the protected portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential.”

5.3. Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. If material is 

appropriately designated as “Confidential” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving 

Party, on timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the 

material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1. Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive 

its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly 

after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2. Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring 

directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel 

for the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief 

that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an

opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in 

designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may 

proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer 

process first.

6.3. Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality 

designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may serve a written 

challenge that identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. If 

the parties are not able to resolve the dispute within fifteen (15) days thereafter, the parties may file a 

Joint Statement with the Court setting forth the dispute and setting the case for a hearing in at least 

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A P ROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

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thirty (30) days from the date the dispute is submitted to the Court. The burden of persuasion in any 

such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. Until the court rules on the challenge, 

all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is 

entitled under the Producing Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1. Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 

produced by another Party or by a non party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a 

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2. Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered 

by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached 

hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) a Plaintiff who has filed a consent to sue, if such disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation (thus specifically excluding private personnel information of other 

current or former Wells Fargo employees such as evaluations, warnings, commendations, etc.) and if 

the named Plaintiff has signed this Protective Order and/or the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(c) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the Receiving 

Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

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A P ROFESSIONAL CORPORATION

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(d) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(e) the Court and its personnel;

(f) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(g) during or prior to their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal

Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to 

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order;

(h) the author of the document or the original source of the information. However, 

even original authors or sources must keep information confidential if it is so marked.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation 

that would compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as

“CONFIDENTIAL,” the Receiving Party must so notify the Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if 

possible) immediately and in no event more than three court days after receiving the subpoena or 

order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused 

the subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must 

deliver a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that 

caused the subpoena or order to issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence 

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of this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to 

protect its confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The 

Designating Party shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its 

confidential material—and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or

encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated 

Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party 

of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, 

(c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 

Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL

Without written permission from the 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 comply 

with Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION

Unless otherwise, ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty 

days after the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected 

Material to the Producing Party. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all 

copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the 

Protected Material. With permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may 

destroy some or all of the Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected Material 

is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing 

Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the sixty day deadline that 

identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed 

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and that affirms that the Receiving Parry has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or other forms of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 

Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, 

motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence or attorney work product, even if such 

materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected 

Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1. Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek 

its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2. Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order 

no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by 

this Protective Order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: June __, 2005

NANCY E. PRITIKIN

LITTLER MENDELSON

Dated: June __, 2005

CLAIRE KENNEDY-WILKINS, ESQ.

LEWIS, FEINBERG, RENAKER & JACKSON, PC

Dated: June __, 2005

DAVID A. LOWE, ESQ. 

RUDY, EXELROD & ZIEFF

Dated: June __, 2005

JAHAN C. SAGAFI, ESQ. 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN

A Professional Corporation

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

6/30/05 /s/ CLAUDIA WILKEN

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CLAUDIA WILKEN

United States District Judge

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

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 

Northern District of California on [date] in the case of Jasmin Gerlach v. Wells Fargo & Co., Case 

No. C 05-0585 CW. I agree to comply with and to be bound by a 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 

Northern 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:

[printed name]

Signature:

[signature]

Firmwide:31360900.1 021021.1017

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