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Nature of Suit Code: 443
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Accommodations
Cause of Action: 42:3601 Fair Housing Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ERIKA MACIAS and CYNTHIA 

RICH, 

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

MYRON LANGE, 

Defendant. 

Case No: 14CV02763-GPC-JMA

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 

 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action may 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. This Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures 

or responses to discovery and the protection it affords from public disclosure and use 

extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential 

treatment under the applicable legal principles. As set forth in Section 12.3, below, 

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this Protective Order does not entitle the parties to file confidential information under 

seal. 

 Subject to public policy, and further court order, nothing shall be filed under 

seal, and the Court shall not be required to take any action, without separate prior 

order by the Judge before whom the hearing or proceeding will take place, after 

application by the affected party with appropriate notice to opposing counsel. If the 

Court grants a party permission to file an item under seal, a duplicate disclosing all 

non-confidential information, if any, shall be filed and made part of the public 

record. The item may be redacted to eliminate confidential material from the 

document. The document shall be titled to show that it corresponds to an item filed 

under seal, e.g., "Redacted Copy of Sealed Declaration of John Smith in Support of 

Motion for Summary Judgment." The sealed and redacted documents shall be filed 

simultaneously. 

2. DEFINITIONS 

 2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 

of information or items under this Order. 

 2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c). 

 2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff). 

 2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

 2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 

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 2.6 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 consultant in this action. 

 2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel. 

 2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 

 2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party 

to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have 

appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which 

has appeared on behalf of that party. 

 2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs). 

 2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action. 

 2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 

demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 

and their employees and subcontractors. 

 2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

 2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party. 

3. SCOPE 

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

defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected 

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Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; 

and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel 

that might reveal Protected Material. However, the protections conferred by this 

Order do not cover the following information: (a) any information that is in the 

public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the 

public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not 

involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record 

through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party 

prior to the disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a 

source who obtained the information lawfully and under no obligation of 

confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall 

be governed by a separate agreement or order. 

4. DURATION 

 Even after final disposition 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. 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. 

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 that 

qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must 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, 

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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 Designating 

Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for protection do not 

qualify for protection that Designating 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, Disclosure or Discovery 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 (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to 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). 

 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for 

inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has 

indicated which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection 

and before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 

deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the 

documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 

documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before 

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producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the 

“CONFIDENTIAL” legend to 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 Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected 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 a portion or portions of the 

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

shall identify the protected portion(s). 

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

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 

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

Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party 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. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a 

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, 

substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a 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. 

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 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging 

and describing the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a 

challenge has been made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to 

confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph of the 

Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith 

and must begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other 

forms of communication are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of 

notice. 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 or establishes that 

the Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a 

timely manner. 

 6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without 

court intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

confidentiality within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of 

the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, 

whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be filed in accordance with the 

undersigned’s Chambers Rules. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a 

motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) 

shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged 

designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a 

confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a 

challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any 

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motion brought pursuant to this provision must also be filed in accordance with the 

undersigned’s Chambers Rules. 

 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the 

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose 

(e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may 

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived 

the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as 

described above, 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 until the 

court rules on the challenge. 

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 13 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 Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 

necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

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 (b) 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 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A); 

 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

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

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

 (d) the court and its personnel; 

 (e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial 

consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 

 (f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement t to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating 

Party or ordered by the court. 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. 

 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information 

or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information. 

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

 OTHER LITIGATION 

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

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

“CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 

 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

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 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

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

subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include 

a copy of this Protective Order; and, 

 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 

 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 

the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 

action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense 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. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 

 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by 

a Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, 

to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 

subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall: 

 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 

Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 

agreement with a Non-Party; 

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 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 

specific description of the information requested; and, 

 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by 

the Non-Party. 

 (c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from the 

court within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the 

Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to 

the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the 

Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is 

subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination 

by the court.1

 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the 

burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 

10. 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 

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 unauthorized 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. 

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11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

 PROTECTED MATERIAL 

 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 

the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure 

may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without prior 

privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the 

parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or 

information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the 

parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted 

to the court. 

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. 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 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. 

 12.3 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 all applicable rules. 

 (1) No document shall be filed under seal unless counsel secured a court 

order allowing the filing of a document, or portion thereof, under seal. An 

application to file a document under seal shall be served on opposing counsel, and on 

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the person, or entity who has custody and control of the document, if different from 

opposing counsel. If opposing counsel, or the person or entity who has custody and 

control of the document, wishes to oppose the application, he/she must contact the 

chambers of the judge who will rule on the application to notify the Court that an 

opposition to the application will be filed. 

 (2) The Court may modify the protective order in the interests of justice of 

for public policy reasons on its own initiative. 

13. FINAL DISPOSITION 

 Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in 

paragraph 4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 

Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected 

Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other 

format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 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 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where 

appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms 

that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival 

copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal 

memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney 

work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain 

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

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Material remains subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 

 (DURATION). 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: April 14, 2016 

 ________________________________ 

 Hon. Jan M. Adler 

 United States Magistrate 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 

Southern District of California on _______________ [date] in the case of 

____________________ [insert formal name of the case and the number and 

initials assigned to it by the court]. 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 Southern 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. 

 I hereby appoint ______________________________ [print or type full 

name] of _______________________________________ [print or type full address 

and telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection 

with this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated 

Protective Order. 

Date: ____________________ 

City and State where sworn and signed: __________________________________ 

Printed name: ___________________________ 

 [printed name] 

Signature: ______________________________ 

 [signature] 

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