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Nature of Suit Code: 710
Nature of Suit: Fair Labor Standards Act
Cause of Action: 29:201 Fair Labor Standards Act

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SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P.

Mark C. Dosker (CA Bar # 114789)

Michael W. Kelly (CA Bar #214038)

Joseph A. Meckes (CA Bar #190279)

Angela N. O'Rourke (CA Bar #211912)

Anna L. Endter (CA Bar #221610)

One Maritime Plaza, Third Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-3492

Telephone: +1.415.954.0200

Facsimile: +1.415.393.9887

Attorneys for Defendant

CINTAS CORPORATION and 

PLAN ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE 

CINTAS PARTNERS' PLAN

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS L.L.P.

Theodore J. Pintar (CA Bar #131372)

Steven W. Pepich (CA Bar #116086)

401 B Street, Suite 1700

San Diego, CA 92101

Telephone: +1.619.231.1058

Facsimile: +1.619.231.7423

[Additional Counsel on Signature Page]

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

PAUL VELIZ, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(OAKLAND DIVISION)

PAUL VELIZ, et al., On behalf of 

Themselves and All Others Similarly 

Situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

CINTAS CORPORATION, an Ohio 

corporation; PLAN ADMINISTRATOR 

for the Cintas Partners' Plan; and DOES 1-

25, inclusive, 

 Defendants.

Case No. 03-01180 (SBA)

CLASS ACTION

E-FILING

STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 

RESOLUTION OF VARIOUS DISPUTED 

MATTERS

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WHEREAS, the parties’ respective counsel have met and conferred extensively about the 

matters which are the subject of this Stipulation and Order;

WHEREAS, the parties and their respective counsel jointly submit to the Court that entry 

by the Court of the Order at the end of this Stipulation, adopting this Stipulation as an Order of 

the Court, will substantially promote judicial economy by adopting the parties’ negotiated 

resolution of various disputed matters which otherwise would have to be decided by the Court 

through extensive motion practice on a series of motions before the Honorable Saundra Brown 

Armstrong (as to non-discovery matters) and the Honorable Maria-Elena James (as to discovery 

matters);

WHEREAS, regarding the matter addressed in paragraph 1 of the Stipulation below, the 

parties state that the parties have a discovery dispute concerning plaintiffs’ asserted right to 

pursue discovery pertaining to the claims of individuals whom defendant Cintas contends, and 

plaintiffs deny, are required to arbitrate rather than litigate and whose claims Cintas states have 

been submitted to arbitration by plaintiffs’ counsel, the parties have fully briefed plaintiffs' 

Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's April 5, 2004 Order and are awaiting the Court's 

decision on it, and plaintiffs have served defendant Cintas with document requests, 

interrogatories, and a Notice of Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition, each of which contain discovery 

requests to which Cintas objects on the ground that such requests pertain to individuals whose 

claims Cintas contends must be arbitrated rather than litigated;

WHEREAS, counsel for the respective parties note for the Court’s reference that after the 

Court decides the pending Motion for Reconsideration of the Court’s April 5, 2004 Order, the 

parties’ counsel will undertake further meet and confer discussions about the subject of which 

plaintiffs are required by their Employment Agreements to arbitrate and which are allowed to 

litigate, and that to the extent (if any) that such further meet and confer discussions do not result 

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in a comprehensive stipulation on that subject as to those opt-in plaintiffs who were not covered 

by the Court’s April 5, 2004 Order, then (within 30 days after the Court’s decision on the 

plaintiffs’ pending Motion for Reconsideration of the Court’s April 5, 2004 Order) each side 

expects to make a further motion to the Court on that subject as to those opt-in plaintiffs who 

were not covered by the Court’s April 5, 2004 Order or the upcoming ruling on plaintiffs’ 

pending Motion for Reconsideration (hereinafter “Motions Regarding New Plaintiffs”);

WHEREAS, regarding the matter addressed in paragraph 2 of the Stipulation below, the 

parties state that new Employment Agreements may have been signed by some opt-in plaintiffs 

after they filed their Consent-to-Sue form in this action, and the parties disagree about the 

application or enforceability of any arbitration agreement within any such new Employment 

Agreements that may have been signed by some opt-in plaintiffs after they filed their Consent-toSue form in this action, but have agreed to resolve that disagreement as part of this Stipulation 

and Order;

WHEREAS, regarding the matter addressed in paragraph 3 of the Stipulation below, the 

parties state that a dispute exists concerning whether certain persons who filed Consent-to-Sue 

forms in this action did so after the Court-ordered deadline applicable to them, and the parties 

have agreed to resolve that dispute as part of this Stipulation and Order;

WHEREAS, regarding the matter addressed in paragraph 4 of the Stipulation below, the 

parties are willing to stipulate to the Stipulated Protective Order re Confidentiality which is 

submitted herewith, and a copy which is attached as Exhibit A hereto, as part of the parties’ 

overall resolution of the other matters resolved by this Stipulation and Order;

WHEREAS, each of the respective parties’ agreement to each and all of the matters 

herein is conditioned upon the Court’s approval, by entry of the Order stipulated to herein, of this 

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entire Stipulation as written and is also conditioned upon the Court’s approval, by entry of the 

Stipulated Protective Order re Confidentiality submitted herewith;

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto, by and through their respective undersigned 

counsel, hereby stipulate as follows:

1. Discovery. The 65 plaintiffs who are covered by the Court’s April 5, 2004 Order 

are referred to herein as the “Original Plaintiffs.” The approximately 2,500 

additional persons who filed Consent-to-Sue forms in this action after the filing of 

Cintas’ motion which was decided by the April 5, 2004 Order are referred to 

herein as “New Plaintiffs.” The parties agree to resolve as follows their dispute 

concerning the permissible scope of discovery pertaining to the Original Plaintiffs 

and the New Plaintiffs, pending the Court’s rulings on the arbitrability of their 

respective claims. 

a. Discovery may proceed at present only as to the claims of the 10 

Original Plaintiffs whom the Court in its April 5, 2004 Order allowed to 

proceed in litigation (rather than arbitration), such discovery to be limited 

to the four Cintas locations at which those 10 Original Plaintiffs work or 

worked,1 and to the nationwide corporate policies of Cintas relevant to 

those 10 Original Plaintiffs and their claims. No additional discovery shall 

be permitted at present concerning the claims of any other Original 

Plaintiffs unless and until the Court grants plaintiffs’ pending Motion for 

Reconsideration in whole or in part as to such other Original Plaintiffs; 

and discovery with respect to such other Original Plaintiffs, if any, as to 

 

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 The 10 presently-litigating plaintiffs and the Cintas locations where they work or worked are: 

Michael Brown and Ricardo Brown (Loc. 41, Landover MD.); Wayne Edwards, Wilfredo 

Huertas and Derrick Samuels (Loc. 62, Piscataway NJ.); Mark Hebling (Loc. 570, Maumelle, 

AR.); and Noel Lloyd, James Lightfoot, Scott Seath, and Kelly Smith (Loc. 727, Flint, MI.).

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whom the Motion for Reconsideration is granted shall be limited to those 

individual plaintiffs, the Cintas locations at which those individual 

plaintiffs work or worked, and the nationwide corporate policies of Cintas 

relevant to those individual plaintiffs and their claims. 

b. Within 15 days after the Court issues its decision on plaintiffs’ pending 

Motion for Reconsideration, the parties’ counsel shall meet and confer for 

the purpose of attempting to reach a stipulation concerning which New 

Plaintiffs, if any, shall be allowed to litigate (rather than arbitrate) their 

claims in this action, based on the Court’s analysis in its then-applicable 

Orders concerning arbitrability. As to any plaintiff whom the parties 

stipulate shall be permitted to litigate their claims in this action, discovery 

may thereafter proceed, as limited to such individual plaintiffs, the Cintas 

locations at which such individual plaintiffs work or worked, and the 

nationwide corporate policies of Cintas relevant to such individual 

plaintiffs and their claims.

c. Except as provided in this paragraph 1 and its subparagraphs herein, and 

except to such extent as may be stipulated by the parties after the meet and 

confer discussions referred to in subparagraph 1.b. above, all other 

discovery concerning the claims of the New Plaintiffs shall be held in 

abeyance until this Court rules on the Motions Regarding New Plaintiffs 

(to be brought within 30 days after the Court’s decision on the plaintiffs’ 

pending Motion for Reconsideration).

d. Pending the conclusion of any arbitration proceeding(s) arising from 

claims in this action, any discovery based on the remaining ERISA claims 

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in this action shall be limited to the specific records kept regarding those 

Original Plaintiffs and New Plaintiffs whom the Court allows to litigate a 

non-ERISA claim in this action.

e. All discovery disputes regarding matters beyond the present scope of 

discovery as limited herein are held in abeyance, to be addressed between 

counsel in a meet and confer session after the Court rules on the Motions 

Regarding New Plaintiffs.

f. Neither party will assert in any arbitration proceeding pertaining to any 

claims asserted in this action an objection, whether standing alone or in 

conjunction with other objections, that the opposing party is not entitled to 

certain discovery solely because the dispute is not governed by the Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure.

2. Employment Agreement entered into after Consent-to-Sue filed. For purposes of 

the parties' disputes concerning arbitration (including plaintiffs' challenges to 

arbitrability and the rights and procedures applicable to any arbitrations that go 

forward) of the disputes which are the subject of this action, each plaintiff’s 

rights, obligations, and duties will be governed by the arbitration agreement in the 

Employment Agreement (if any) in effect when that plaintiff filed a Consent-toSue form in this action, rather than any arbitration agreement in any Employment 

Agreement executed by that plaintiff after filing a Consent-to-Sue form in this 

action. Nothing herein constitutes a waiver of any plaintiff’s claimed right to 

argue that the arbitration agreement and/or Employment Agreement in effect 

when that plaintiff filed a Consent-to-Sue form in this action is unenforceable in 

whole or in part.

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3. Late-filed Consents-to-Sue. All Consent-to-Sue forms that were filed in this 

action on or before January 21, 2005, and those that were filed on March 22, 

2005, shall be deemed to have been timely filed, as of the date each such Consentto-Sue form was filed with the Court. 

4. Stipulated Protective Order re Confidentiality. Attached as Exhibit A hereto is a 

true and correct copy of the Stipulated Protective Order re Confidentiality which 

is being agreed to by the parties as part of resolving the disputed matters

addressed herein.

5. Each Part Conditioned on Entry of Order as to All Parts. No part of this 

Stipulation is effective unless the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong accepts 

every part of it as written, by entering the Order as set forth herein.

6. No Use in Other Litigation or in Other Matters. This Stipulation is entered into 

only for purposes of this action and any arbitration(s) of some or all of the claims 

initially alleged in this action. As a negotiated resolution of disputed matters in 

this action, the matters set forth herein may not be used for any purpose other than 

by a party hereto in this action or in any arbitration(s) of some or all of the claims 

initially alleged in this action. This Stipulation does not constitute any admission 

on the part of anyone.

7. Counterpart Signature Provision. This Stipulation and Order may be executed in 

separate counterparts by each of the parties hereto, and such executed 

counterparts may be exchanged by facsimile or electronically, but all such 

counterparts taken together shall form but one and the same Stipulation and 

Order.

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8. Effective Date. This Stipulation and Order shall become effective when both the 

Order on it and the Order on the attached Stipulated Protective Order re 

Confidentiality are entered by the Court and filed on the Court’s electronic filing 

system.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: April 28, 2005

SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY, L.L.P.

By: ___________/s/___________________

Mark C. Dosker

Attorneys for Defendants 

CINTAS CORPORATION and 

PLAN ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE 

CINTAS PARTNERS’ PLAN

Dated: April 28, 2005

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

RUDMAN & ROBBINS L.L.P., and

ALTSHULER, BERZON, NUSSBAUM, 

RUBIN & DEMAIN, and

TRABER & VOORHEES

By:_____________/s/__________________

Michael Rubin

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PAUL VELIZ, et al.

ORDER

Pursuant to Stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

United States District Judge

5-2-05 /s/ Saundra Brown Armstrong

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SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY L.L.P.

Mark C. Dosker (CA Bar # 114789)

Michael W. Kelly (CA Bar #214038)

Joseph A. Meckes (CA Bar #190279)

Angela N. O'Rourke (CA Bar #211912)

Anna L. Endter (CA Bar #221610)

One Maritime Plaza, Third Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-3492

Telephone: +1.415.954.0200

Facsimile: +1.415.393.9887

Attorneys for Defendant

CINTAS CORPORATION and 

PLAN ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE 

CINTAS PARTNERS' PLAN

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER

 RUDMAN & ROBBINS L.L.P.

Theodore J. Pintar (CA Bar #131372)

Steven W. Pepich (CA Bar #116086)

401 B Street, Suite 1700

San Diego, CA 92101

Telephone: +1.619.231.1058

Facsimile: +1.619.231.7423

[Additional Counsel on Signature Page]

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

PAUL VELIZ, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

(OAKLAND DIVISION)

PAUL VELIZ, et al., On behalf of 

Themselves and All Others Similarly 

Situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

CINTAS CORPORATION, an Ohio 

corporation; PLAN ADMINISTRATOR 

for the Cintas Partners' Plan; and DOES 1-

25, inclusive, 

 Defendants.

Case No. 03-01180 (SBA)

CLASS ACTION

E-FILING

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER RE: 

CONFIDENTIALITY

EXHIBIT A (to the Stipulation And

Order Re: Resolution Of Various 

Disputed Matters)

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

WHEREAS, disclosure and discovery activity in this action may result in production of 

information of a confidential, proprietary, trade secret, or private nature, for which special 

protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this 

litigation would be warranted; and

WHEREAS, this Protective Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures 

or responses to discovery and protects only the limited categories of information or items that are 

entitled under the applicable legal principles to treatment as confidential; and 

WHEREAS, this Protective Order creates no entitlement to file confidential information 

under seal, and incorporates and applies the standards and procedures of Civil Local Rule 79-5 

that will be applied when a party seeks permission from the Court to file material under seal;

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties, subject to Court 

approval, that the following Protective Order shall be issued in this action.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 “Party” shall mean any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and counsel.

2.2 “Disclosure or Discovery Material” shall mean 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” shall mean 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 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information or Items” shall mean: 

(a) Confidential Information that individually identifies any person and discloses material of a 

personal or private nature; (b) Confidential Information that individually identifies any customer, 

supplier, prospective customer or prospective supplier; (c) Confidential Information containing 

trade secrets or proprietary information as defined under California law, including but not limited 

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to Confidential Information that reveals current or future business plans, forecasts, and 

competitive strategies or non-public financial information that appropriately warrants a 

heightened degree of confidentiality protection; or (d) such other categories of Confidential 

Information or Items as the parties may mutually agree upon or which, absent such agreement, 

the Court may include herein upon a motion showing the information or items constitute 

extremely sensitive Confidential Information or Items whose disclosure to a person or entity 

other than Counsel would create a substantial risk of serious harm that could not be avoided by 

less restrictive means.

2.5 “Receiving Party” shall mean a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 

Material from a Producing Party.

2.6 “Producing Party” shall mean a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.7 “Designating Party” shall mean a Party or non-party that designates information 

or items that it produces in disclosures or in response to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.8 “Protected Material” shall mean any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.9 “Outside Counsel” shall mean attorneys who are not employees of a party but 

who are retained to represent or advise a party in this action.

2.10 “House Counsel” shall mean attorneys who are employees of a party.

2.11 “Counsel” (without qualifier) shall mean Outside Counsel and House Counsel as 

well as their staff providing services concerning this action.

2.12 “Expert” shall mean persons not regularly employed by Counsel but who are 

employed or expressly retained by the parties or their Counsel, whether paid or not, to assist in 

the preparation of this action for trial, including, but not limited to, accountants, economists, 

statisticians and other types of experts.

2.13 “Professional Vendors” shall mean persons or entities that provide litigation 

support services (e.g., videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, organizing, 

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

providing services concerning this action.

2.14 “Competitor/Union” shall mean any company or corporation that competes with 

defendant Cintas for customers or prospective customers and any labor organization that 

represents or is engaged in organizing Cintas employees. For purposes of this Protective Order 

the following labor organizations shall be deemed to be representing or engaged in organizing 

Cintas employees and therefore shall be designated as Competitor/Unions: UNITE-Here (and its 

predecessor organizations, UNITE and HERE), the United Auto Workers, the International 

Brotherhood of Teamsters, UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers), and the 

International Union of Operating Engineers.

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 publicly 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. After the termination of this action, the Court shall retain jurisdiction to 

issue any further orders that may be required to preserve the confidentiality of any Protected 

Material.

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 exercise 

reasonable and appropriate care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies 

under the appropriate standards. A Designating Party must exercise reasonable and appropriate 

care to designate for protection only those specific portions of material, documents, items, or oral 

or written communications that qualify for protection, and to ensure that other portions of the 

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material, documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not 

swept unjustifiably within the ambit of the designation. 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., unnecessarily to encumber or retard the case 

development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on another Party or 

Parties), expose the Designating Party to sanctions. If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s 

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

or do not qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must 

promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the erroneous designation.

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

(see, e.g., ¶5.2(a), second paragraph, 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), the Producing Party must affix the legend “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” at the bottom 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) and must specify, for each portion the level of protection being asserted 

(either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”).

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 

need not designate them for protection until after the Receiving 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 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only.” 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; and before producing the specified documents the Producing Party 

must affix the appropriate designation (“Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes 

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Only”) at the bottom 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) and must specify, 

for each portion, the level of protection being asserted (either “Confidential” or “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”).

(b) For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, 

the Designating Party shall identify the protected testimony on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, and shall further specify any portions of the testimony 

that qualify as either “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” When it 

is impractical separately to identify each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and 

when it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the 

Designating Party may invoke on the record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a 

right to have up to twenty (20) days after the transcript volume containing the testimony to be 

designated is produced to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted. Only those portions of the testimony 

that are appropriately designated for protection within the twenty (20) days shall be covered by 

the provisions of this 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” or “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” as instructed by the Designating Party.

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

any other tangible items, the Producing Party shall affix the designation “Confidential” or 

“Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” in a prominent place on the exterior of the 

container or containers in which such information or item is stored. If only 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” or as “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

5.3 Inadvertent Disclosure. In the event that any privileged attorney-client 

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communication or attorney work product documents or things are inadvertently produced for 

inspection and/or provided, the Designating Party shall identify such documents or things 

promptly after discovering that the privileged materials were inadvertently produced for 

inspection and/or provided, and either: (a) copies shall not be provided; or (b) if copies have 

already been provided, all copies in the Receiving Party’s possession shall be promptly returned 

(and not relied upon) by the Receiving Party. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the 

Receiving Party from contending that the identified materials are not privileged, that the 

materials were not inadvertently produced, or that privilege was waived for reasons other than 

inadvertent production of the material.

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 assert a challenge 

promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 The Challenge Process. A Party that challenges a Designating Party’s 

confidentiality designation must do so in good faith, and must notify the Designating Party in 

writing that the challenging party believes that the designated document or information does not 

qualify for Confidential or Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only treatment under 

applicable law. The parties shall attempt to resolve such challenges informally. In the event 

such an attempt is unsuccessful, either the Designating Party or the challenging Party may, 

within thirty (30) days after such written notification, move the Court for an order removing or 

confirming such designation. The materials shall retain their original designation until such time 

as the Court rules on the Designating Party’s motion.

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. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to limit 

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or prohibit the use of information that falls under the ambit of this Order at the trial of this case. 

If a Party anticipates that it may disclose at any hearing or at trial any information designated 

pursuant to this Order, it shall give two (2) full court days’ notice to the Court and to all other 

parties of such anticipated disclosure, specifying whether the information to be disclosed is 

designated as Confidential or Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only, unless it 

demonstrates specific exigent circumstances that the Court finds sufficient to justify providing 

shorter notice. This notice may identify the documents by the identification numbers assigned 

them at document production or by transcript page and line number. When such notice has been 

given, only those persons authorized by this Order to receive that class of Protected Material may 

be present at the hearing, or at that portion of the hearing or trial during which the disclosure of 

the Protected Material occurs, except as otherwise ordered by the Court upon motion of a Party 

or the person seeking to be present. The requirement of advance notice shall not apply to a 

disclosure of Protected Material in rebuttal or in response to another Party’s oral argument when 

the need for such disclosure could not reasonably be anticipated in advance of the hearing or 

trial, or for good cause shown to the Court. Before disclosing in rebuttal or in argument any 

information designated as Confidential or Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only, Counsel 

shall, when possible, inform the Court and opposing counsel of his or her intention to do so and 

of the designation of the information to be disclosed. Counsel shall then request that persons not 

authorized by this Order to receive that class of Protected Material be exc luded from the 

courtroom during disclosure.

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 ¶11.

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:

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(a) The named Parties in this action;

(b) The Receiving Party’s Counsel 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;

(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);

(d) Subject to the provisions of ¶7.2(j) below, 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) Subject to the provisions of ¶7.2(j) below, investigators;

(f) The Court and its personnel;

(g) 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);

(h) Prospective witnesses, including parties, 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 Confidentiality Protective Order; 

(i) The author of the document or the original source of the information; and 

(j) Consultants, including but not limited to persons referred to in ¶¶7.2(d) 

and (e) above, to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order re Confidentiality” (Exhibit A), except 

insofar as such Consultant is a Competitor/Union or an officer, director, agent, employee, 

attorney or other representative of a Competitor/Union (collectively, “Competitor/Union 

Consultant”) and is therefore subject to the procedures set forth below pertaining to disclosures 

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to Competitor/Union Consultants.

Upon receipt of a signed Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order re Confidentiality 

(Exhibit A), disclosure of Confidential Information may be made to any Consultant that is not a 

Competitor/Union Consultant, without notification to the non-disclosing Party. Disclosure of 

Confidential Information may only be made to a Consultant who is, or who within the last four 

years was, a Competitor/Union Consultant if such disclosure has been approved in writing by the 

Producing Party or, if the Producing Party objects, the Court permits disclosure to such 

Consultant pursuant to the procedures set forth below in this paragraph. To obtain approval, 

Counsel shall identify the prospective Competitor/Union Consultant to the Producing Party and 

shall provide a brief, written description of the Competitor/Union Consultant’s identity, 

qualifications, and relationship to the Competitor/Union. Such identification and description 

shall be served via hand delivery, facsimile or electronic mail with telephonic confirmation of 

receipt. The notified Party shall have fifteen (15) business days from its receipt of the notice to 

serve on the notifying Party and all other Parties their written objections, if any, to the disclosure 

of Confidential Information or Items to the Competitor/Union Consultant. Upon timely 

objection, disclosure of Confidential Information to the Competitor/Union Consultant shall not 

be made, subject to a successful motion to the Court to such disclosure by the Party proposing 

the Competitor/Union Consultant, with the moving Party bearing the burden of justifying to the 

Court the need for such proposed Consultant and such requested disclosure of Confidential 

Information to such proposed Consultant. Nothing contained herein shall be be considered 

approval, implicit or otherwise, by any Party to the use by any other Party of a Consultant 

affiliated with any Competitor/Union. 

All Agreements to Be Bound by This Protective Order shall be retained by Counsel, and,

upon good cause shown, may be ordered by the Court to be disclosed to the other Parties’ 

Counsel.

At all times during and subsequent to this action, Counsel shall also be responsible for 

ensuring that said Confidential Information or Items does not leave their respective custody, 

except for disclosure to qualified persons during this action. Failure to do so shall be grounds for 

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imposition of sanctions at the discretion of the Court, without limitation on any other rights of 

persons or entities affected.

7.3 Disclosure of “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or 

Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may only disclose information or items designated “Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” to the following, and shall not disclose any information or item so 

designated to any Party or management of a corporate Party unless otherwise agreed or ordered:

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

employees of said Counsel (including the paralegal, clerical, and secretarial staff employed by 

such 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) Experts, excluding Experts who are Competitor/Union Consultants;

(c) Investigators, excluding Investigators who are Competitor/Union 

Consultants;

(d) Consultants, excluding Consultants who are Competitor/Union 

Consultants;

(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) The author of the document or the original source of the information; and

(h) (1) The person or persons individually identified by the “Highly 

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Item, if that Information or Item has been 

designated “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” pursuant to ¶2.4(a) on the ground that 

it constitutes a Confidential Information or Item that individually identifies an individual and 

discloses material of a personal or private nature; and (2) the person or persons who work or 

worked directly with an identified customer or supplier identified by the Highly Confidential –

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Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information or Item, if that Information or Item has been designated 

Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only pursuant to ¶2.4(b) on the ground that it constitutes 

a Confidential Information or Item that individually identifies any customer or supplier. The part 

of the “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Item that may be disclosed 

to a person identified in ¶7.3(h)(1) is only that part of the Information or Item that pertains to 

such person and not any part of the Information or Item that pertains to other persons. The part 

of the “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Item that may be disclosed 

to a person identified in ¶7.3(h)(2) is only that part of the Information or Item that such person 

has or had routine access to during such person’s work directly with such portion of the customer 

or supplier identified in that part of the Information or Item. 

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” 

or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” the Receiving Party must so notify the 

Designating Party in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than three 

(3) 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 person, entity, or party 

that 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 Protective Order promptly to the person, entity, or 

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 of 

this Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to attempt 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. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or 

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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 it has disclosed Protected Material by inadvertence or 

otherwise to any person or in any circumstance not authorized by this Protective Order, the 

Receiving Party shall 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” ( 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 (60) 

days after notice of the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must destroy all 

Protected Material or otherwise dispose of such material as the Court requires. 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. The Receiving Party 

must submit a written statement 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) 

the Protected Material that was destroyed and that affirms that the Receiving Party 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 

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Protective Order as set forth in ¶4, above. 

After termination of this action, the Court shall retain jurisdiction to issue any further 

orders that may be required to preserve the confidentiality of any Confidential Information.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Labor Organizations. The Parties agree that, except as permitted herein, at no 

time shall plaintiffs or plaintiffs’ counsel or any other person permitted herein to have access to 

Confidential Information or Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information or Items 

disclose, either directly or indirectly, any Confidential Information or Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information or Item to any labor organization identified in ¶2.14 herein or 

to its agents. No Confidential Information or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

Information or Item shall be used for any purpose that is not directly related to this action, 

including, but not limited to, labor organizing.

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

seek its modification by the Court in the future. If any Party seeks to modify any term of this 

Order or for any other reason, the Party shall first meet and confer with all other Parties 

concerning the proposed modification. If the Parties cannot agree upon the proposed 

modification, the Party seeking the modification may move this Court to modify this Order, and 

shall have the burden of establishing that the proposed modification is appropriate.

12.3 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 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.

12.4 Submission of the Order to the Court. This Order shall be submitted to the Court 

for its review and approval. The parties stipulate and agree that the terms and provisions of this 

Order shall be effective and specifically enforceable upon its execution by Counsel, and its 

effectiveness and enforceability shall not depend upon the Court’s approval and entry of this 

Order, except that if the Court rejects this proposed stipulation or requires a modification of this 

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proposed stipulation, this stipulation will be invalid to the extent of such rejection and will be 

modified in accordance with the Court’s order.

12.5 Separate Counterparts. This Order may be executed in separate counterparts by 

each of the parties hereto, and such executed counterparts shall be exchanged by facsimile, but 

all such counterparts taken together shall form but one and the same Order.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

Dated: April 28, 2005

SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY, L.L.P.

By: __________/s/__________________

Mark C. Dosker

Attorneys for Defendants 

CINTAS CORPORATION and 

PLAN ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE 

CINTAS PARTNERS’ PLAN

Dated: April 28, 2005

LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER 

RUDMAN & ROBBINS L.L.P., and

ALTSHULER, BERZON, NUSSBAUM, 

RUBIN & DEMAIN, and

TRABER & VOORHEES

By: ____________/s/________________

Michael Rubin

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

PAUL VELIZ, et al.

ORDER

Pursuant to Stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

United States District Judge

May 2, 2005 /s/ Saundra Brown Armstrong

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY PROTECTIVE 

ORDER re: CONFIDENTIALITY

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 re Confidentiality that was entered by the United 

States District Court for the Northern District of California on [Date] ____________, 2005, in 

the case of Veliz v. Cintas, Case No. 03-01180 (SBA). I agree to comply with and to be bound 

by all the terms of this Protective Order. I understand and acknowledge that failure to comply 

could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt of court. I promise that I 

will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 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 Protective Order, 

even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

Date: _______________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _______________________________

Printed Name: _______________________________

Signature:_______________________________

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