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Parties Involved:
Golden Gate Doughnuts, LLC
Defendant
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation
Defendant
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.
Defendant
Chris A. Nash
Plaintiff

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STIPULATION AND PROPOSED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

CASE NO 2:06-CV-01371-GEB-KJM 

KILPATRICK STOCKTON LLP 

JOCELYN BURTON (CA BAR NO. 135879) 

1001 West Fourth Street 

Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2400 

Phone: (336) 607-7300 

Fax: (336) 607-7500 

Attorneys for Defendants 

KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC.; KRISPY 

KREME DOUGHNUT CORPORATION; GOLDEN 

GATE DOUGHNUTS, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHRIS A. NASH, 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC.; 

KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUT 

CORPORATION; GOLDEN GATE 

DOUGHNUTS, LLC. 

Defendants. 

CASE NUMBER: 2:06-CV-01371-GEB-KJM

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

(with court modifications shown in 

underline/strikeout format)

Counsel for plaintiff Chris A. Nash (“Plaintiff”) and counsel for defendants Golden Gate 

Doughnuts, LLC, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. 

(collectively, “Defendants”) have acknowledged and agreed that certain documents and 

information to be exchanged during the course of discovery in this action will contain confidential 

and proprietary documents and information of Defendants, confidential information related to 

Plaintiffs, and confidential information of the employees of Defendants, which information the 

parties have agreed should remain confidential pursuant to the terms of an appropriate protective 

order entered in this action. Accordingly, the parties have agreed that the following protective 

order be entered by the Court pursuant to the provisions of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) 

and Local Rule 39-140(b). 

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The Court, with the consent of counsel for the respective parties, hereby ORDERS as 

follows: 

1. When used in this Order, “documents” means all information, any writing (as 

defined in Evidence Code 1001(1)), graphs, charts, recorded material, computer based 

information, objects, pictures or any other materials produced or otherwise conveyed by Plaintiffs 

or by Defendants or by their respective counsel during this litigation, including, but not limited to, 

documents or responses produced by a party or non-party in the course of discovery in this case 

pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, subpoena, or by agreement; deposition 

transcripts and exhibits; and any portions of any papers which quote from or summarize any of the 

foregoing. 

2. Plaintiffs and Defendants and any non-party producing documents in this action, 

which documents they reasonably believe contain, disclose, or reflect confidential and/or 

proprietary information may designate any such documents as “Confidential Information” for 

purposes of this Order by plainly marking them as “Confidential.” Such confidential information 

includes without limitation the following: (1) confidential and proprietary company information 

such as business plans, marketing plans, trade secrets, financial information, and information 

likely to provide a marketing or sales advantage to a competitor; (2) private, sensitive, and 

confidential information regarding Defendants’ employees including without limitation personal 

information (including Social Security numbers), performance evaluations, documents pertaining 

to salary and benefits, disciplinary actions, health information, financial information, or any other 

documents maintained as personnel records of any of Defendants’ employees; (3) agreements 

between Defendant Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation and any of its franchisees or associates, 

including without limitation personal identifying information, sales data, sales plans, marketing 

documents, financial information, business information or records, and any other personal, private 

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or sensitive information regarding associates or franchisees of Krispy Kreme Doughnut 

Corporation; and (4) any other similar private, legally-protected, competitively-sensitive, or 

commercially-sensitive information of a non-public nature. 

3. Confidential Information designated and produced by Plaintiffs or by Defendants 

shall be used only for purposes of this litigation, and not for any other purpose (except by the party 

producing the Confidential Information), and shall only be disclosed as provided for in this Order. 

4. Plaintiffs or Defendants giving testimony in this action, or counsel for Plaintiffs or 

Defendants, may designate as Confidential Information that portion of a deponent’s testimony 

reasonably deemed to be Confidential Information (as defined in paragraph 2). Within twenty 

business days following the receipt by counsel of any deposition transcripts, counsel for the party 

asserting confidentiality shall identify the particular portions of the transcript which shall require 

continued treatment as Confidential Information. Thereafter, only those portions so identified 

shall be treated as Confidential Information, and all other portions shall be treated as not 

confidential. The failure of Plaintiffs’ or Defendants’ counsel to identify those portions of any 

deposition transcript requiring treatment as Confidential Information within twenty business days 

shall result in treatment of said material as not confidential, unless otherwise agreed by the parties 

hereto or their respective counsel. 

5. Except with prior written consent of the party producing the Confidential Information, 

no document designated as Confidential Information and no information contained therein may be 

disclosed to any persons or entities other than: 

A. Counsel, including in-house counsel, representing the parties to this action; 

B. Secretaries, paralegal assistants, and other employees of such counsel who are 

actively engaged in assisting counsel in the preparation of this action; 

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C. Any person who was involved in the preparation of the document marked 

Confidential; 

D. The parties to this action as well as employees of Defendants. 

E. Experts retained by a party in this action. 

6. Confidential Information may be referred to in interrogatory answers, motions and 

briefs, responses to document request, initial disclosures, and may be used in depositions and marked 

as deposition exhibits in this action. However, no such Confidential Information shall be filed with a 

motion or brief unless it or the portion of the motion or brief where it is revealed is first made the 

subject of a request to seal as provided for by the Local Rules. If the Court approves sealing, then the 

Confidential Information shall be filed in an envelope under seal with the court and marked as 

follows: 

CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL FILED UNDER SEAL: THE 

ENCLOSED MATERIAL IS SUBJECT TO AN PROTECTIVE

ORDER OF THE COURT DATED ________, 2006. WITHOUT A 

COURT ORDER, THIS ENVELOPE MAY NOT BE OPENED 

EXCEPT BY THE COURT OR ITS EMPLOYEES. 

7. Whenever a party objects to another party’s designation of a document as Confidential 

Information, or as appropriate for sealing, it may apply to the Court for a ruling that the document 

shall not be so treated, giving notice to the party or non-party producing the documents. Until this 

Court enters an order changing or removing the designation, the document shall be given the 

Confidential Information treatment initially assigned to it and provided for in this Order. 

8. Unless the Court directs otherwise at the completion of this litigation, within sixty 

days of the conclusion of this action, documents designated Confidential Information and all copies 

of same (other than exhibits or other documents of record) shall be returned to the party producing the 

document. Paragraph 5 of this Order, however, shall continue to apply to any Confidential 

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Information after this action has been terminated, including all abstracts, notes, or other internal work 

product made by counsel or their staffs. 

9. By conducting the preparation (including response to discovery) and trial of this case 

under the terms of this Order, the parties do not waive, as to each other or as to third parties, and 

expressly retain the right to assert the application of, any common law or statutory privileges, 

including, but not limited to, the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine, or any 

theory for immunity from disclosure of the Confidential Information or information. Nothing in this 

Order shall prevent any party or non-party to this action from objecting to discovery which it believes 

to be otherwise improper. 

10. The Order is being entered into to facilitate discovery in this action, and is without 

prejudice to the right of any party to move for its modification or vacation. This Order shall not 

preclude the Court from entering a different order or otherwise vacating this Order. 

 

Dated:____________________ LAW OFFICES OF ALAN ADELMAN 

 By:___________________________________

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Alan Adelman 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Chris A. Nash 

Dated:_____________________ KILPATRICK STOCKTON LLP 

 By:______________________________________ 

Jocelyn Burton 

Attorneys for Defendants 

 KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUT CORPORATION, 

 KRISPY KREME DOUGHNUTS, INC. 

and GOLDEN GATE DOUGHNUTS, LLC 

 

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 The Court acknowledges receipt of a copy of the stipulation and proposed order signed by 

counsel. 

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ORDER

Pursuant to stipulation as hereby modified, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: January 23, 2007. 

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