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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal

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LYNNE C. HERMLE (STATE BAR NO. 99779) 

lchermle@orrick.com 

MICHAEL A. APARICIO (STATE BAR NO. 206300) 

maparicio@orrick.com 

JESSICA R. PERRY (STATE BAR NO. 209321) 

jperry@orrick.com 

AMIRA B. DAY (STATE BAR NO. 239045) 

aday@orrick.com 

ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP 

1000 Marsh Road 

Menlo Park, CA 94025 

Telephone: 650-614-7400 

Facsimile: 650-614-7401 

Attorneys for Defendant 

WAL-MART STORES, INC. 

Arnold W. Schwartz (STATE BAR NO. 63436) 

Marcus J. Bradley (STATE BAR NO. 174156) 

E-Mail: Marcus.Bradley@SchwartzDanielsBradley.com 

SCHWARTZ, DANIELS & BRADLEY 

29229 Canwood Street, Suite 208 

Agoura Hills, California 91301 

Telephone: (310) 478-5838 or (818) 338-8900 

Facsimile: (310) 478-1232 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

In Re WAL-MART STORES, INC. WAGE 

AND HOUR LITIGATION 

This Document Relates To: 

Case Nos. 

C 06 02069 SBA (Smith) and 

CV 06 05411 SBA (Ballard) 

Case No. C 06-02069 SBA 

CLASS ACTION

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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ADDITIONAL PLAINTIFFS’ COUNSEL 

MARLIN & SALTZMAN 

LOUIS M. MARLIN (State Bar No. 054053) 

STANLEY D. SALTZMAN (State Bar No. 090058) 

3200 El Camino Real, Suite 100 

Irvine, California 92602 

Telephone: (714) 669-4900 

Facsimile: (714) 669-4750 

louis.marlin@marlinsaltzman.com 

ssaltzman@marlinsaltzman.com 

Peter M. Hart (State Bar No. 198691) 

LAW OFFICES OF PETER M. HART 

13952 Bora Bora Way, F-320 

Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 

Telephone: (310) 478-5789 

Facsimile: (310) 561-6441 

HartPeter@msn.com 

A.E. “Bud” Bailey, Pro Hac Vice, OSB#87157, WSB#33917 

J. Dana Pinney, Pro Hac Vice, OSB#75308, WSB#33919, D.C. No. 473833 

MEMBERS OF BAILEY PINNEY PC 

1498 S.E. Tech Center Place, Suite 290 

Vancouver, WA 98683 

Telephone: (360) 567-2551 

Facsimile: (360) 567-3331 

bbailey@wagelawyer.com 

Bonnie R. MacFarlane (State Bar No. 161526) 

720 Howe Avenue, Suite 113 

Sacramento, CA 95825 

Telephone: (800) 230-5528 

Facsimile: (800) 230-5866 

bmacfarlane@wagelawyer.com 

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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 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). 

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.C.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. 

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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 

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

3.1 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. 

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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. 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, as well as 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). 

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 at all, 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 mistaken designation. 

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. 

(a) In designating materials, documents or portions thereof as confidential, the 

Producing Party shall mark every page and/or significant component, which contains Confidential 

Information, with the appropriate “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp. Notwithstanding the foregoing 

sentence, a cover letter may be used to designate certain materials, such as computer data, where 

stamping would be impractical or impossible. 

(b) 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 

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protection under this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party 

must affix the appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL”) as described in 5.2(a) above. 

(c) For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial proceedings, the Party 

or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony shall have up to 20 days after the transcript is 

completed and delivered to the parties 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. During this period, the entire transcript will be treated as CONFIDENTIAL under 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 non-party offering or sponsoring the witness or presenting the 

testimony. 

(d) Materials provided by the parties for purposes of this litigation and 

designated Confidential pursuant to any prior confidentiality agreement reached in this matter 

shall be deemed to be Confidential pursuant to this Order. 

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. 

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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 giving 

written notice to the Designating Party and explain the basis for their/its belief that the 

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

and no less than 14 days, 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 file and serve 

a motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) 

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

such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets 

forth with specificity the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the 

Designating Party in the meet and confer dialogue. 

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 protection provided under this Order. 

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. 

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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,” subject to this Stipulated 

Protective Order, only to: 

(a) counsel of record for the party to whom such documents or materials are 

produced or given, including co-counsel of record and the legal associates, paralegals, clerical or 

other support staff or services of such counsel or co-counsel assigned to assist such counsel in the 

preparation of this litigation; 

(b) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., including but not limited to their counsel, including 

paralegals, clerical or other support staff or services and any current and/or former officers, 

directors, managers, supervisors or other employees with responsibilities related to the subject 

matter of this litigation; 

(c) the named plaintiffs Barry Smith, Michael Wiggins, Danton Ballard and 

Nathan Lyons; 

(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; 

(g) during 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. 

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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 immediately in 

writing (by fax, if possible) 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 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. 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 by Protective Order” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

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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 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 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. 

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Similarly, no party waives any right to object on any ground to the use in evidence of any of the 

material covered by this Protective Order. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

 SCHWARTZ, DANIELS & BRADLEY 

DATED: /s/ Marcus J. Bradley /s/ 

 Marcus J. Bradley 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

 

 ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP

 

DATED: /s/ Michael A. Aparicio /s/ 

 Michael A. Aparicio 

 Attorneys for Defendant 

 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 

 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

 Saundra Brown Armstrong 

 United States District Judge 

 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Bernard Zimmerman

June 26, 2007

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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 cases of Barry Smith and Michael Wiggins v. 

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Action Number C 06-02069 SBA and Danton Ballard and Nathan Lyons 

v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Action Number CV 06 3790 SBA. 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 

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 thus 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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