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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Petition for Removal

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Counsel on next page

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMIE HOLAK, individually, and on 

behalf of other members of the general 

public similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

KMART CORPORATION, a 

Michigan corporation; and DOES 1 

through 10, inclusive,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:12-cv-00304-AWI-MJS 

STIPULATION TO 

PROTECTIVE ORDER RE:

DISCLOSURE AND EXCHANGE 

OF CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION

State Action Filed: Jan. 23, 2012

Date Removed: Feb. 29, 2012

Trial Date: Not Set

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Raul Perez (SBN 174687)

Raul.Perez@capstonelawyers.com

Nathan Lowery (SBN 238141)

Nathan.Lowery@capstonelawyers.com

Alexandria Witte (SBN 273494)

Alexandria.Witte@capstonelawyers.com

Capstone Law APC

1840 Century Park East, Suite 450

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone: (310) 556-4811

Facsimile: (310) 943-0396

Monica Balderrama (SBN 196424)

MBalderrama@InitiativeLegal.com

Initiative Legal Group APC

1800 Century Park East, Mezzanine

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone: (310) 556-5637

Facsimile: (310) 861-9051

Attorneys for Plaintiff AMIE HOLAK

JEFFREY D. WOHL (Cal. State Bar No. 096838)

JEFFREY P. MICHALOWSKI (Cal. State Bar No. 248073)

ELIZABETH J. MACGREGOR (Cal. State Bar No. 267326)

MALAINA R. FREEDMAN (Cal State Bar No. 286110)

PAUL HASTINGS LLP

55 Second Street, 24th Floor

San Francisco, California 94105-3441

Telephone: (415) 856-7000

Facsimile: (415) 856-7100

jeffwohl@paulhastings.com

jeffmichalowski@paulhastings.com

Attorneys for Defendant

KMART CORPORATION

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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; Local Rule 

141 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and reflect the standards that 

will be applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under 

seal. The parties further acknowledge that nothing in this Stipulated Protective 

Order shall preclude either party from asserting that a document is of such a 

confidential or private nature that it should not be produced or that it should only 

be produced in redacted form, or from seeking a protective order to preclude the 

production of certain documents. 

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.

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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. Civ. 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.

2.6 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates 

information or items that it produced 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 and who, at the time of 

retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a competitor of a 

Party. 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.

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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 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.

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. 

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), may 

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 at all, or do not 

qualify for the level of protection initially asserted, that Party or non-party must 

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promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing or modifying the mistaken 

designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise

provided in this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as 

otherwise stipulated or ordered, 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), that the Producing 

Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” at the bottom-right of each page that 

contains protected material. 

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials 

available for inspection need not designate them for protection until after the 

inspecting Party has indicated which material it would like copied and produced. 

During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available

for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has 

identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must 

determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this 

Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must 

affix “CONFIDENTIAL” at the bottom-right of each page that contains Protected 

Material. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or 

trial proceedings, that the Party or non-party offering or sponsoring the testimony 

identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other 

proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any portions of the 

testimony that qualify as “CONFIDENTIAL.” When it is unpractical to identify 

separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to protection, and when it 

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

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Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the 

record (before the deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 

days to identify the specific portions of the testimony as to which protection is 

sought and designate those portions as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 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. 

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. The Party seeking to protect testimony 

under the “CONFIDENTIAL” designation must also notify Counsel for all other 

Parties in writing of the page and line numbers of the testimony deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

(c) for information produced in some form other than 

documentary, and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a 

prominent place on the exterior of the container or containers in which the 

information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only portions of 

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

practicable, shall identify the protected portions in writing to all other Parties

specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential.” 

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.

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6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. 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. This provision, however, does not preclude a party from 

contending that a challenge, due to its timing, results in substantial unfairness, 

unnecessary economic burden, or significant disruption or delay in the litigation.

6.2 Meet and Confer and Judicial Intervention. 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 conferring in writing by letter with 

counsel for the Designating Party. The Designating Party shall respond by 

explaining in writing the basis for the confidentiality designation. Following an 

objection to a designation of material as confidential, Counsel shall promptly 

confer in an attempt to resolve this objection. If the dispute is not resolved within 

twenty (20) days of the conference between counsel, the Designating Party shall 

follow the procedures set forth in Civil Local Rule 251 for resolving the dispute, 

including the filing of a Joint Statement re Discovery Disagreement containing all 

issues in dispute. Such filings shall be governed by the terms of this Protective 

Order, and any material that a party has designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be 

treated as confidential pursuant to this Protective Order until the Court rules on the 

motion regarding that designation. The Designating Party shall bear the burden 

that good cause exists for the designation. Until the court rules on any challenge, 

all parties shall continue to afford the material in question protection as 

Confidential Information under this Agreement.

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 

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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.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. 

Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating 

Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

CONFIDENTIAL only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this 

action, House Counsel, and Counsel’s paralegals, staff, and other employees of 

Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees 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” attached hereto as 

Exhibit A;

(c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party 

to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed 

the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”;

(d) the Court and its personnel;

(e) 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”;

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

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Agreement to Be 

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Bound by Protective Order” or who agree to be bound to this Protective Order on 

the record at deposition; and/or

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the 

information.

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, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately 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 -

and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging 

a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. 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 

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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 whole unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 

Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment 

and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

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 141.

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, at its option, return all Protected Material to 

the Producing Party or destroy all Protected Material. The instant litigation 

reaches Final Termination when (i) a final judgment has been entered by the 

Court or the case has otherwise been dismissed with prejudice; (ii) the time for 

any objection to or request for reconsideration of such a judgment or dismissal 

has expired; (iii) all available appeals have concluded or the time for such 

appeals has expired; and (iv) any post appeal proceedings have themselves 

concluded. 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. Whether the Protected Material is 

returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a letter affirming to the 

Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by 

the sixty-day deadline that all the Protected Material was returned or destroyed and 

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

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

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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, or anything filed with the Court, 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.

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. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on 

any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective 

Order.

12.3 Signatories. By signing this Stipulated Protective Order, each

attorney signs on behalf of his or herself and his or her respective law firm.

12.4 Types of Information Eligible for Protection and Need for 

Protective Order (Local Rule 141.1(c)). The types of confidential, proprietary, or 

private information eligible for protection under this Order include, but are not 

limited to Plaintiff’s employment records from her current or former employers

besides Defendant; and Defendant’s business models and internal corporate 

structures, training modules and materials, new hire and orientation materials, 

safety procedures, store maps and diagrams, and contractual agreements. The 

foregoing is for illustrative purposes only, and neither Party waives any argument 

that other documents or information qualify as Confidential under this Agreement 

or otherwise qualify for protection under applicable legal standards. A Court 

Order is necessary to protect these and other confidential, proprietary, or private 

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information in order to protect the business and proprietary interests of Defendant

and to protect the privacy interests of any individuals whose information may be 

shared or otherwise affected by this litigation.

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: March 25, 2013 PAUL HASTINGS LLP

By: /s/ Jeffrey D. Wohl

Jeffrey D. Wohl

Jeffrey P. Michalowski

Elizabeth MacGregor

Malaina R. Freedman

Attorneys for Defendant

KMART CORPORATION

Dated: March 25, 2013 INITIATIVE LEGAL GROUP APC

By: /s/ Mónica Balderrama

(authorized on 3/25/2013)

Mónica Balderrama

Attorneys for Plaintiff

AMIE HOLAK

Dated: March 25, 2013 CAPSTONE LAW APC

By: /s/ Alexandria Witte

Raul Perez

Nathan Lowery

Alexandria Witte

Attorneys for Plaintiff

AMIE HOLAK

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ORDER

Good cause appearing, the parties’ Stipulated to Protective Order in case 

number 1:12-cv-00304-AWI-MJS is approved by the Court and adopted as the 

Order of this Court. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 26, 2013 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DEAC_Signature-END:

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