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Parties Involved:
CVS Health Corporation
Defendant
Diane Lunsford
Plaintiff

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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LA FOLLETTE, JOHNSON, DeHAAS, FESLER & AMES

Marissa A. Warren, Esq., State Bar No. 249583

Arianna M. Peregretti, Esq., State Bar No. 349616

LA FOLLETTE, JOHNSON, DeHAAS, FESLER & AMES

2677 North Main Street, Suite 901

Santa Ana, California 92705-6632

Telephone (714) 558-7008 • Facsimile (714) 972-0379

Email: mwarren@ljdfa.com

Email: aperegretti@ljdfa.com

Attorneys for Defendant, 

GARFIELD BEACH CVS, L.L.C., erroneously sued and served 

as CVS HEALTH CORPORATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DIANE LUNSFORD,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION; and 

DOES 1 TO 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 1:24-CV-00732-KES-CDB

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE 

HON. KIRK E. SHERRIFF

U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

HON. CHRISTOPHER D. BAKER

ACTION FILED: March 15, 2024

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

The Parties herein agree that the discovery sought in this Action may require the 

production of certain confidential healthcare, business, commercial, trade secret, 

personnel, and/or financial information, and that the Parties have a legitimate need to 

protect the confidentiality of such information. The Parties therefore request that the Court 

hereby ORDER, ADJUDGE, and DECREE as follows:

1. A Party producing or propounding written discovery responses or documents 

that they believe contain trade secrets or other confidential information (“Confidential 

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Information”) shall mark such documents with the word “CONFIDENTIAL.” Documents 

so marked are referred to in this Order as “Protected Documents.” Except to the extent 

otherwise permitted by this Order, counsel and every Qualified Person (as defined below)

provided copies of or access to Confidential Information and/or Protected Documents 

pursuant to this Order shall keep same within their exclusive possession and control and 

shall take all necessary and prudent measures to maintain the confidentiality of such 

materials or information and shall not permit dissemination of same to anyone. Any 

documents previously produced by either party which the producing party wishes to 

designate as “CONFIDENTIAL” may be so designated within thirty days of entry of this 

Order.

2. A Party may designate information as “CONFIDENTIAL” only if, in the 

good faith of such Party and its counsel, the producing party believes that the unrestricted 

disclosure of such information would be prejudicial to the business or operations of such 

Party.

3. The Parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections 

on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public 

disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to

confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles.

4. If a Protected Document is used or marked as an exhibit in a deposition, or if 

deposition testimony discloses or discusses Confidential Information, counsel shall 

designate the testimony or exhibit as confidential. Each transcript so designated shall be 

treated as a Protected Document, and all such testimony so designated shall be treated as 

Confidential Information, except as otherwise agreed upon by the Parties or ordered. All 

court reporters and videographers engaged to record and/or videotape depositions in this 

case will be informed of this Order and will be required to sign an agreement to operate 

in a manner consistent with this Order.Any deposition testimony previously given by any 

party which the testifying party wishes to designate as “CONFIDENTAL” may be so 

designated within thirty days of entry of this Order.

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5. A Party shall not be deemed to have waived any right to designate materials 

as confidential by allowing inspection of such material prior to a designation of such 

material as confidential.

6. Under no circumstance may Protected Documents or Confidential 

Information be used in any other action or for any purposes unrelated to this litigation. 

Access to Protected Documents and Confidential Information shall be limited to those 

Qualified Persons designated in Section 5 below.

7. Protected Documents and Confidential Information may be disclosed only to

the following persons (hereinafter referred to as “Qualified Persons”), subject to the terms 

set forth in Section 6 herein:

a. The Parties to this action and their respective employees and agents;

b. Counsel of record for the Parties, employees of such counsel, 

professional vendors, professional or trial consultants, mock jurors, 

whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation or who are 

assisting in the preparation or trial of this action;

c. During their depositions, witnesses to the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation;

d. Experts and consultants retained by a Party whose assistance is 

necessary for preparation or trial of this action;

e. Under seal to the Court and the Court’s employees and staff;

f. Court reporters and videographers pursuant to Paragraph 2 of this 

Protective Order; and

g. Any person mutually agreed upon in writing by all Parties.

8. In no event shall any disclosure of Protected Documents or Confidential 

Information be made to competitors of any Party, or to any other person, corporation or 

entity who, upon reasonable and good faith inquiry, could be determined to be employees 

of or consultants for a competitor of any Party, unless they are retained as an expert by 

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counsel for a Party, or unless such competitor of any Party is also itself a Party to this 

Litigation, in which case disclosure shall be made in accordance with the terms and 

provisions herein.

9. Before being given access to any Protected Documents or Confidential Information, 

each Qualified Person (other than the Court) shall be advised of the terms of this Order, shall 

be given a copy of this Order, and shall agree in writing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 

A, to be bound by and to comply with the terms of this Order. 

10. At any stage of the proceedings, any party may object to a designation of 

materials as confidential information. A Party does not waive its right to challenge a 

confidentiality designation by electing to not mount a challenge promptly after the original 

designation is disclosed. The objecting party must notify the designating party, in writing, 

of the materials objected to and the ground(s) for the objection. Thereafter, the parties must 

promptly meet and confer, pursuant to Local Rule 26.1.a. If the dispute is not resolved 

within seven (7) days of receipt of the objections, and after counsel have thoroughly met 

and conferred, the parties must place a joint call to the assigned magistrate judge’s 

chambers to explain the dispute and the parties’ respective positions. The materials at issue 

must be treated as confidential until the Court has ruled on the objection, or the matter has 

been otherwise resolved.

11. No party may file any document under seal, except pursuant to a court order that 

authorizes the filing of the document, or portion of the document, under seal. The party 

seeking to file under seal must limit its sealing request to the specific portion of the 

document that contains the confidential or privileged material. Any application to file a 

document under seal must be served on the person or entity that has custody and control of 

the document, if that person or entity has not already appeared in the action. 

12. Without separate court order, the Protective Order and the parties’ stipulation do 

not change, amend, or circumvent any court rule or local rule. 

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13. The Court may modify the Protective Order in the interests of justice or for public 

policy reasons.

14. In the event any Party or non-Party discovers that it has inadvertently produced 

documents or information that should have been, but was not, designated as a Protected 

Document or as Confidential Information, the producing Party may designate the 

documents or information as a Protected Document or as Confidential Information by a 

subsequent notice in writing specifically identifying the documents or information and 

furnishing such documents or information with the correct designation, in which event the 

Parties shall, thereafter, treat such documents or information as a Protected Document or 

as Confidential Information under this Order, and undertake reasonable efforts to retrieve any 

previously undesignated documents or information and destroy same. 

15. All documents containing, referring to or otherwise disclosing Protected 

Documents or Confidential Information which a Party wishes to file or otherwise submit 

to the Court shall be conspicuously marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and filed under seal 

pursuant to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and/or applicable Court 

directives for filing same under seal. 

16. No party will be responsible to another party for disclosure of confidential 

information under this Order if the information in question is not labeled or otherwise 

marked “CONFIDENTIAL.”

17. Inadvertent production of documents subject to work product privilege, attorneyclient privilege, or other applicable privilege shall not constitute a waiver of the privilege, 

provided that the producing Party notifies the receiving Party in writing of such inadvertent 

production. Such inadvertently produced documents, and all copies thereof, shall be 

returned to the producing Party upon timely request. No use may be made of such 

documents subsequent to the request to return them. Nothing in this Protective Order shall 

limit the receiving Party from requesting that the Court order the production of any such 

inadvertently produced documents, except such request may not be based upon the 

argument of waiver of said privilege to withhold documents.

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18. Within sixty (60) days after the termination of this action by entry of a final judgment 

or order of dismissal, each Party, each non-Party or other person subject to the terms of this 

Order, with the exception of the Clerk of the Court, shall destroy Protected Documents or return 

them to the Producing Party. Outside counsel for each Party may retain copies of pleadings filed 

in Court, and of deposition and court transcripts or recordings. Upon written request of a 

Party, the other Party shall confirm compliance with this section in writing.

19. A non-Party may elect to be bound by the terms of this Order by notifying counsel 

for all Parties in writing and may designate documents and information as Protected 

Documents or as Confidential Information in the manner set forth in this Order.

20. After the termination of this Action by entry of a final judgment or order of 

dismissal, the provisions of this Order shall continue to be a binding and enforceable 

agreement, and the terms of this Order may be enforced by specific performance in any court 

of competent jurisdiction.

21. The Court shall undertake proper measures to preserve the confidentiality of 

Protected Documents and other Confidential Information used during any hearing or at the trial 

of this case or which was filed with the Court. To the extent that exhibit lists are filed in this 

case, the Parties shall, at the appropriate time, address the use and protection of Protected 

Documents at trial.

22. This Order shall be binding upon the Parties hereto, upon their attorneys, 

employees, agents, and independent contractors.

23. This Order does not constitute a waiver of any Party’s right to object to discovery 

on any ground, including the ground that information sought contains trade secrets or other 

confidential business information, nor does it constitute an admission or representation by any 

Party that any document or information designated as CONFIDENTIAL is in fact a trade 

secret or contains confidential financial, proprietary, or business information.

24. Nothing in this Order shall constitute a waiver of any Party’s right to object to the 

designation of a particular document as confidential. If a Party contends that any document 

has been erroneously, unreasonably or inappropriately designated “CONFIDENTIAL,” it 

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shall nevertheless treat the document as confidential unless and until it either (a) obtains 

written permission from the Party that designated the document as confidential to do 

otherwise, or (b) obtains an Order of this Court stating that the document is not confidential.

25. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek its modification by 

the Court in the future. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 

DATED: LA FOLLETTE, JOHNSON, DeHAAS, FESLER & 

AMES

___________________________________ 

MARISSA A. WARREN, ESQ.

ARIANNA M. PEREGRETTI, ESQ.

Attorneys for Defendant,

GARFIELD BEACH CVS, L.L.C., erroneously sued and 

served as CVS HEALTH CORPORATION

DATED: CARRAZCO LAW, A.P.C.

 

 ______________________________________

THOMAS A. BRILL, ESQ.

Attorney for Plaintiff, 

DIANE LUNSFORD

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 2, 2025 ___________________ _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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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 Eastern District of California on January 2, 2025 in 

the case of DIANE LUNSFORD v. CVS HEALTH CORPORATION; CASE NO.: 

1:24-CV-00732-KES-CDB. 

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 Eastern District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated 

Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this 

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: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ]

ss.

COUNTY OF ORANGE ]

I am employed in the County of Orange, State of California. I am over the age of 

18 and not a party to the within action; my business address is LA FOLLETTE, 

JOHNSON, DeHAAS, FESLER & AMES, 2677 North Main Street, Suite 901, Santa 

Ana, California 92705-6632.

I hereby certify that on December 30, 2024, I caused all of the pages of the foregoing 

documents described as STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER to be electronically 

filed with the United States District Court, EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA by 

using the CM/ECF system. I certify that the following parties or their counsel of record 

are registered as ECF Filers and that they will be served by the CM/ECF system regarding 

the case of DIANE LUNSFORD v. CVS HEALTH CORPORATION, Court Case No. 

1:24-cv-00732-KES-CDB [Removal from Superior Court of California, Kern County, 

Case No: BCV-24-100920], Our Matter No. 06541.44656 MAW.

Thomas A. Brill, Esq.

Angel Carrazco, Jr., Esq. 

Carrazco Law, A.P.C.

18301 Irvine Boulevard

Tustin, CA 92780

Phone: (714)541-8600

Fax: (714)541-8601

Email: thomas@carrazcolawapc.com

Attorney for Plaintiff, DIANE LUNSFORD

I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of the United States of America 

that the forgoing is true and correct.

Executed on December 30, 2024, at Santa Ana, California.

 

JEANNIE LASTUFKA

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