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Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 28:1441ij Removal- Injunctive/Declaratory Relief

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MARK LEGACY, an individual, 

Plaintiff, 

 v. .

WELLS FARGO BANK, a National 

Association; and DOES 1-10, 

Defendants. 

Case No. 16-cv-00462-GPC-BLM

ORDER GRANTING JOINT 

MOTION FOR ENTRY OF 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

[ECF No. 15] 

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

A. DEFINITIONS 

1. As used herein, the term “confidential information” means: (a) 

information subject to federal or state privacy rights including private financial 

information; (b) any type of information that has not been made generally available 

to the public and the disclosure of which the disclosing party contends would cause 

harm to the disclosing party’s business operations or interests, which could include, 

but would not be limited to, contracts, customer data, costs of goods or services sold, 

manufacturing or other costs of doing business, employee personnel information, 

sales records, inventory sheets, internal policies and procedures, and business 

strategies; (c) data derived from such confidential information, including any 

summaries, compilations, quotes, or paraphrases thereof; and (d) any other oral, 

written, or recorded material that consists of or contains trade secrets (as defined in 

CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE § 3426.1(d)) or other confidential research, development, or 

commercial information and the disclosure of which would result in competitive 

harm, and for which the designating party has taken reasonable measures to maintain 

their confidential, non-public status. 

2. As used herein, the terms “document”, “documents”, “tangible 

things”, “recordings”, and “photographs” mean documents, writings, tangible things, 

recordings, and photographs as defined in FED. R. CIV. P. 34(a) and FED. R. EVID. 

1001, and include, but are not limited to, records, exhibits, reports, samples, 

transcripts, video or audio recordings, disks, affidavits, briefs, summaries, notes, 

abstracts, drawings, company records and reports, answers to interrogatories, 

responses to requests for admissions, and motions, including copies or computerstored versions of any of the foregoing. 

B. DESIGNATION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

1. This Protective Order applies to all discovery responses, 

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documents, testimony, and other materials containing confidential information 

disclosed in this action that are designated by a party or any third party as 

CONFIDENTIAL, in the manner described below, whether such disclosure is by 

order of the Court, by response to questions in a deposition, written interrogatories, 

requests for the production of documents and other tangible things, requests for 

admission, response to a subpoena, or any other discovery undertaken in this action. 

2. A party that provides information may designate it as confidential 

only when such party in good faith believes it contains confidential information. A 

party designating information as confidential should take reasonable care to designate 

only that information, documents, items or oral or written communications that the 

party reasonably believes to qualify for protection. 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, that party or non-party should 

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

Any party may protect information it believes constitutes confidential 

information by designating such information as CONFIDENTIAL prior to or at the 

time of disclosure of such information. Such designation shall be accomplished by 

placing the notation CONFIDENTIAL (or some notation essentially equivalent to the 

phrase CONFIDENTIAL) on every page of each document or portion thereof so 

designated. In the case of confidential information disclosed in a non-paper medium 

(e.g., videotape, audiotape, computer disks, etc.), the notation CONFIDENTIAL shall 

be affixed to the outside of the medium or its container so as to clearly give notice of 

the designation. Such designation is deemed to apply to the document itself and to 

the confidential information contained therein. 

3. Except as set forth in this Protective Order, designated 

confidential information shall be used solely for the purposes of this litigation and 

shall not be used for any other purpose, including, without limitation, any business or 

commercial purpose, or dissemination to the media. Confidential information so 

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designated shall not be disclosed to anyone other than those persons permitted by the 

Protective Order, except as may be ordered by the Court or agreed to in writing by 

the producing party. If any information designated by a party as CONFIDENTIAL 

is thereafter used by a party to which it has been produced or disclosed as part of a 

paper filed or lodged with the Court in this action or in a response to a discovery 

request in this action, the party using that information shall take all reasonable steps 

to preserve the continued confidentiality of that designated confidential information. 

4. The Parties shall use reasonable care to avoid designating any 

materials as CONFIDENTIAL that are (a) not entitled to such designation, or (b) are 

generally available to the public. 

5. The terms of this Protective Order shall not apply to or restrict the 

disclosure or use by a producing party or its counsel of the producing party’s own 

confidential information. The voluntary disclosure of confidential information by a 

producing party, however, may provide grounds for an opposing party to challenge 

the confidential designation of the same information pursuant to Section E, below. 

6. A party serving a subpoena or demanding discovery from any 

third party shall serve a copy of this Protective Order on the third party concurrently 

with the subpoena or discovery demand. 

 

C. DISCLOSURE OF DESIGNATED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

1. The Parties, counsel for the Parties, and all persons to whom 

confidential information is disclosed under the terms of this Protective Order shall 

maintain all designated confidential information in confidence and shall not disclose 

such information, directly or indirectly, to any person except as provided in this 

Protective Order. 

2. Access to information designated as CONFIDENTIAL shall be 

limited to the following persons: 

 a. The attorneys for the Parties (including both outside 

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counsel and in-house counsel) and their support personnel (e.g., legal assistants and 

copy services); 

 b. Current and former employees of the Parties involved in the 

prosecution or defense of the litigation, and to whom disclosure of the confidential 

information is reasonably necessary for the purposes of this litigation; 

 c. The Court and court personnel of any court having 

jurisdiction over any proceedings involved in this litigation; 

 d. Court reporters, videographers, and their staffs to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for the purposes of this litigation; 

 e. Consultants and experts, who execute the Declaration 

Confirming Compliance With Stipulated Protective Order Re Confidential 

Information (“Compliance Declaration”) attached to this Protective Order; 

 f. Any current employee, director, agent or FED. R. CIV. P. 

30(b)(6) designee of the producing party; 

 g. Any former employee of a producing party, who executes 

the Compliance Declaration, that the disclosing party reasonably and in good faith 

believes authored, received, or became familiar with the confidential information in 

the ordinary course of his or her employment by the designating party; 

 h. Any author, original source, or prior recipient of the 

confidential information; 

 i. Deposition witnesses who execute the Compliance 

Declaration attached to this Protective Order; 

j. Any other person or entity as to whom the Parties agree in 

writing; and 

 k. Any other person as to whom the Court orders should have 

access to the confidential information. 

4. A copy of any Compliance Declaration executed by any person 

required under this Protective Order shall be maintained by counsel for the party 

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making the disclosure of another party’s designated confidential information. 

 

D. DEPOSITIONS 

1. With respect to the examination of witnesses upon oral deposition, 

when designated confidential information is supplied to the deponent, or when the 

deponent’s testimony contains, reflects, or comments on designated confidential 

information, the deposition reporter and/or video operator shall be informed of this 

Protective Order by the party seeking to use or disclose the confidential information. 

The reporter and/or video operator then shall place on the cover of any deposition 

transcript or video that contains any designated confidential information the words 

“CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO A COURT 

PROTECTIVE ORDER.” Counsel for the Parties then shall take appropriate steps to 

prevent any portions of any deposition transcript or video designated 

CONFIDENTIAL from being disclosed to any person, except as provided in this 

Protective Order. 

2. All testimony at a deposition shall be presumed to be designated 

CONFIDENTIAL if this Protective Order is invoked at the deposition for 60 days 

after the conclusion of the deposition, until the specific pages of the transcript 

containing designated confidential information are identified and designated 

CONFIDENTIAL as provided below. For any CONFIDENTIAL designation 

thereafter, the designating party shall, within sixty (60) days after the completion of 

the deposition, provide all Parties with a written list of the page(s) of the deposition 

transcript, and any exhibits attached thereto, that the party has designated 

CONFIDENTIAL. Only pages containing confidential information shall be so 

designated. Any party can challenge any portion of the deposition designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL at any time, but must first meet and confer with the designating 

party as to the basis for the challenge before seeking Court intervention. 

3. If designated confidential information is to be discussed or 

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disclosed in a deposition, any party claiming such confidentiality may exclude from 

the room any person who is not entitled to receive such confidential information 

during that portion of the deposition in which the confidential information is actually 

discussed or disclosed. 

E. CHALLENGING A DESIGNATION 

1. The Parties agree that they will actively work to avoid the 

unnecessary CONFIDENTIAL designation of information produced in discovery in 

this action. 

2. In the event that counsel for any party at any time believes that 

designated confidential information should not be so designated, such counsel shall 

meet and confer with counsel for the other party in an attempt to resolve the dispute. 

3. If counsel for the Parties are still unable to resolve the dispute, 

they shall contact the chambers of Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major and notify the 

judge’s staff of the dispute. Unless otherwise instructed by the Court, counsel 

objecting to the designation of particular information as CONFIDENTIAL may make 

an application to this Court, to be lodged conditionally under seal, for an Order that 

the information subject to the dispute be excluded from the protection of the 

Protective Order. However, unless and until an order of this Court sets aside a 

designation of information as CONFIDENTIAL, all information so designated shall 

be treated as CONFIDENTIAL pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order. 

4. The designating party bears the burden of establishing that the 

documents designated are entitled to protection. 

5. No party shall be obliged to challenge the propriety of a 

CONFIDENTIAL designation, and a failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent 

attack on the propriety of such designation. 

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F. INADVERTENT FAILURE TO DESIGNATE 

1. The inadvertent failure to designate confidential information as 

CONFIDENTIAL prior to or at the time of disclosure shall not operate as a waiver 

of a party’s right to designate such information as CONFIDENTIAL after such 

disclosure. 

2. In the event that confidential information is designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL after disclosure, the receiving party shall employ reasonable efforts 

to ensure that all previously disclosed information is subsequently treated as 

CONFIDENTIAL, as appropriate, pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order. 

3. Should any document or information designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL be disclosed, through inadvertence or otherwise, to any person or 

party not authorized to see such materials under this Protective Order, then the 

disclosing party shall immediately procure the return of the material, and inform 

counsel for the designating party whose confidential information has thus been 

disclosed of all relevant information concerning the nature and circumstances of such 

disclosure. The disclosing party shall also take all reasonable measures promptly to 

ensure that no further or greater unauthorized disclosure of the Confidential 

Information occurs. 

 

G. CUSTODY AND DISPOSITION OF CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION 

1. Confidential information designated CONFIDENTIAL shall be 

maintained in the custody of counsel for the Parties, except for information in the 

custody of: (a) the Court; (b) any court reporter transcribing testimony given in this 

action, for the limited purpose of rendering his or her normal transcribing services; 

and (c) persons to whom the confidential information may be disclosed pursuant to 

the terms of the Protective Order, including consultants and experts, to the extent 

necessary for their involvement in the litigation. Except for the Court, a person with 

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custody of information designated CONFIDENTIAL shall maintain it in a manner 

that limits access to it to only those persons entitled under this Protective Order to 

examine it. 

2. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, at the conclusion of this 

litigation, whether by settlement or final decision of the Court of last resort, the 

Parties, counsel for the Parties, and all persons who executed the Compliance 

Declaration agree that they will destroy or return to the producing party all copies of 

any documents, other than attorney work product, containing designated confidential 

information produced by a party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, counsel of record 

shall be permitted to retain a file copy of all pre-trial, trial, and post-trial materials, 

depositions and deposition exhibits, and document databases. Such file copies must 

be maintained under the conditions of maintaining CONFIDENTIAL documents as 

set forth above. 

H. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 

1. The provisions of this Protective Order apply to all proceedings in 

this action, including all appeals, arbitrations, mediations, and proceedings upon 

remand, unless the matter proceeds to trial. The Parties will work with the Court to 

determine whether evidence proffered at trial should continue to be treated as 

CONFIDENTIAL and, if so, what protection, if any, may be afforded to such 

information at trial. 

2. A designation of confidentiality pursuant to this Protective Order 

shall be effective and shall be respected by the Parties and all persons in any way 

involved in these proceedings or to whose attention confidential information shall 

come unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court or stipulated by the Parties. 

These obligations of confidentiality and non-disclosure shall survive the conclusion 

of this action unless and until otherwise ordered by the Court, or until the producing 

parties stipulate that designated confidential information may be disclosed. 

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3. By entering into this Protective Order, no party waives any 

objections it might have to the production of documents covered by this Protective 

Order. 

4. No party to this action, by entering into this Protective Order, by 

designating certain information as CONFIDENTIAL, or by acquiescing in any other 

party’s designation, shall be deemed to have admitted or agreed that any such 

designated information is, in fact, private financial information, proprietary 

information, a trade secret or other confidential research, development, or commercial 

information. 

5. The Court shall retain jurisdiction for one year after the 

termination of this action to enforce this Protective Order and to make such deletions 

from or amendments, modifications, and additions to the Protective Order as the Court 

may from time to time deem appropriate. The Parties, and any producing party, 

reserve all rights to apply to the Court at any time, before or after termination of this 

action, for an order modifying this Protective Order or seeking further protection 

against disclosure or use of claimed confidential information. 

6. The Court may modify the terms and conditions of the Protective 

Order for good cause, or in the interest of justice, or on its own order at any time in 

these proceedings. 

I. FILING OR LODGING UNDER SEAL 

When a party wishes to include information designated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” in any papers filed with the Court, the party submitting the 

information shall comply with the procedures explained in Section II.j of the 

Electronic Case Filing Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual for the United 

States District Court for the Southern District of California, Civil Local Rule 79.2 and 

the applicable Chambers Rules of the Honorable Barbara L. Major. 

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In addition, in accordance with Judge Major’s preferences, a party must 

file a ‘public’ version of any document that it seeks to file under seal. In the public 

version, the party may redact only that information that is deemed ‘Confidential.’ The 

party should file the redacted document(s) simultaneously with a joint motion or ex 

parte application requesting that the confidential portions of the document(s) be filed 

under seal and setting forth good cause for the request. 

J. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 

Pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 26(c)(7), good cause exists for entry of this 

Protective Order because the Parties to this action (1) either have sought or might seek 

the discovery of certain information in this action that the Parties believe is sensitive 

or confidential, (2) believe that unrestricted disclosure or dissemination of such 

information could violate their right to financial privacy or cause them business or 

commercial injury, (3) desire an efficient and practicable means to designate such 

information as confidential and control its disclosure or dissemination, and (4) have 

agreed to such means as set forth herein. 

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

In consideration of the Parties’ Joint Motion, and for good cause 

appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Protective Order is GRANTED.

Dated: 5/12/2016 

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DECLARATION CONFIRMING COMPLIANCE WITH STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 

I, ___________________________, hereby declare: 

1. My address is ________________________________________. 

My telephone number is (______) ______ - ________. 

2. I have read, understand and agree to be bound by the terms of the 

Stipulated Protective Order Re Confidential Information (“Protective Order”), 

entered in this action, Mark Legacy v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Case No. 16-cv00462-GPC-BLM, in the United States District Court, Southern District of 

California. 

3. I understand that this Protective Order requires me not to 

disclose any information designated as CONFIDENTIAL, which is provided to me 

in the course of my involvement in this litigation, to any person not authorized by 

this Protective Order to receive such information. 

4. I agree that I shall return or destroy all documents containing any 

information designated as CONFIDENTIAL that have been provided to me, 

together with any work product including such information designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL, upon demand by the Court or the counsel or party who furnished 

such information to me. 

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5. I consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 

for the Southern District of California with respect to any actions of any kind 

whatsoever relative to the enforcement of the Protective Order. 

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of 

America that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on _______________________________, 20__ at 

____________________________ (city), __________________________(state). 

 

 

 Signature 

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