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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

VICKEY NORTON-PIMENTEL, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

LOWE’S HOME CENTERS, LLC, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:14-cv-02231-TLN-AC 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

 On June 10, 2015, the parties submitted a proposed stipulated protective order. ECF No. 

12. That stipulated protective order reads as follows: 

Plaintiff, VICKEY NORTON-PIMENTEL, (“Plaintiff”), and 

Defendant, LOWE HOME CENTERS, LLC (“Defendant”), jointly 

submit this Stipulated Protective Order pursuant to United States 

District Court, Eastern District of California Local Rules 

141.1(b)(1) limiting the use and disposition of certain information 

and documents during litigation of this matter. The parties agree 

that discovery in this action may yield documents and information 

of a sensitive and confidential nature, including but not limited to, 

Defendant’s proprietary policies and procedures, personnel files of 

present and former employees, incident reports, and other 

confidential information that may be subject to discovery in the 

proceedings in this matter but which should not be made available 

to the public generally. As a result, the parties have agreed to this 

jointly submitted Stipulated Protective Order and request that it be 

adopted by order of this Court. 

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Purpose and Limitation 

As mentioned above, 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 may be warranted. Accordingly, the 

parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the 

following Stipulated Protective Order. 

The disclosure of any of the foregoing categories of 

information and/or documentation protected by this Order, 

including confidential business and financial information identified 

above, will have the effect of causing harm to the competitive and 

financial position of the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or to 

the organization from which the information was obtained. 

Unprotected disclosure of any of the above identified confidential 

information may further expose Defendant to unwarranted 

annoyance, embarrassment, and/or oppression. 

The parties acknowledge that this Protective Order does not 

confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 

discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure 

and use extends only to the limited information that is entitled to 

confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles. 

The parties having agreed to the following terms governing 

the treatment of confidential information governing the pre-trial 

phase of this action as follows: 

 1. All documents produced or information disclosed 

and any other documents or records designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” by the Defendant shall be revealed only to a 

settlement officer, Plaintiff, counsel of record in this case, 

paralegals and secretarial employees under counsel’s direct 

supervision, and such persons as are employed by counsel to act as 

experts in this action. The information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” and disclosed only in accord with the terms of 

this paragraph may include, without limitation, documents and 

information containing Defendant’s policies and procedures, as 

well as personnel records, including disciplinary records, identity, 

information relating to the processes, operations, type of work, or 

apparatus, or the production, sales, shipments, transfers, 

identification of customers, inventories, amount or source of 

income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any research, development, 

or any other commercial information supplied by the Defendant in 

response to Plaintiff’s Interrogatories or Requests for Production. 

Information and documentation considered “CONFIDENTIAL” are 

subject to protection under Civil Local Rule 141.1 of the U.S. 

District Court – Eastern District of California, Rule 26 of the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and under other provisions of 

Federal law. 

 2. Counsel for Plaintiff shall use all documents and 

information produced or disclosed by the Defendant solely for the 

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purposes of preparation for and trial of this action. Under no 

circumstances shall information or materials covered by this 

Protective Order be disclosed to anyone other than Plaintiff’s 

counsel of record in this action, paralegals, secretarial employees 

under counsel’s direct supervision, and such persons employed to 

act as experts in this action. At the conclusion of the proceedings in 

this action, all documents and information subject to this Order, 

including any copies or extracts or summaries thereof, or 

documents containing information taken therefrom, shall be 

returned to counsel for the Defendant, at defense counsel’s written 

request. 

 3. Prior to disclosure of any documents designated as 

“confidential” to paralegals or secretarial employees of counsel or 

Plaintiff, counsel for Plaintiff shall require such employees to read 

this Protective Order and agree to be bound by its terms. 

 4. If counsel for Plaintiff determines that for purposes 

of this action, documents or information produced by the Defendant 

and designated as “confidential” must be revealed to a person 

employed to act as an expert in this action, then counsel may reveal 

the designated documents or information to such person, after first 

complying with the following: 

 (a) Counsel for the Plaintiff shall have the expert read 

 this Order and shall explain the contents thereof to such 

 expert. 

 (b) Counsel for the Plaintiff shall require such expert to 

 sign a copy of this protective order that states: “I have read 

 and understood the terms of this protective order. I further 

 agree to be bound by its terms.” Nothing in this paragraph 

 shall be deemed to enlarge the right of Defendant to conduct 

 discovery of any of Plaintiff’s experts, except solely with 

 respect to the ability of such expert to protect confidential 

 information and documents from re-disclosure. 

 5. The Court’s Order is subject to revocation and 

modification by Order of the Court upon written stipulation of the 

parties, or upon motion and reasonable notice, including 

opportunity for hearing and presentation of evidence. 

 6. Nothing contained in this Order is intended or 

should be construed as authorizing a party in this action to disobey 

a lawful subpoena issued in another action. 

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Based on the foregoing, Plaintiff VICKEY NORTONPIMENTEL and Defendant LOWE’S HOME CENTERS, LLC 

hereby request that this Court issue a protective order governing the 

treatment of confidential information in this matter. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

ECF No. 12. 

ORDER 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: June 11, 2015 

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