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Parties Involved:
Gabriel Lopez
Plaintiff
Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.
Defendant

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JAMES T. CONLEY SBN 224174

james.conley@ogletree.com

ROBERT C. RODRIGUEZ SBN 305101

robert.rodriguez@ogletree.com

JILL L. SCHUBERT SBN 305252

jill.schubert@ogletree.com

OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, 

SMOAK & STEWART, P.C. 500 Capitol Mall, Suite 2500

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: 916-840-3150

Facsimile: 916-840-3159

Attorneys for Defendant WAL-MART 

ASSOCIATES, INC., a Delaware corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GABRIEL LOPEZ, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC., a 

Delaware corporation; and DOES 1 through 

10, inclusive,

Defendants.

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STIPULATION REGARDING 

PRODUCTION OF CONFIDENTIAL 

DOCUMENTS AND PROPRIETARY 

INFORMATION; AND ORDER

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff GABRIEL LOPEZ (“Plaintiff”) 

and Defendant WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC., (“Defendant”), through their respective 

attorneys of record, that a Protective Order be entered by this Court as follows:

This Stipulation and Protective Order shall be applicable to and shall apply to the production 

and exchange of all document requests and documents, interrogatories and answers to 

interrogatories, depositions, request for admissions and responses to requests for admissions, 

exhibits, pleadings, and all other information exchanged and furnished in this action by the parties 

that are confidential and/or proprietary.

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I. SCOPE

(a) The parties acknowledge that discovery will require disclosure of information that is 

private and personal or confidential and proprietary, and may include personnel records, medical 

records, personnel policies, employment offers, trade secrets, competitive analyses, income 

statements, client or customer information, and financial records and statements, along with other 

proprietary or confidential information. As a result, the parties agree that they will be required to 

enter into a Protective Order on the following terms to ensure the continuing confidentiality of such 

information. The parties further 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. 

(b) This Protective Order shall limit the use or disclosure of documents, deposition 

testimony, and related information which are or which embody or disclose any information 

designated hereunder as “Confidential,” and shall apply to:

(i) All such documents, including those from third parties, so designated in 

accordance with this Protective Order and legal standards and definitions, and all information 

contained therein;

(ii) Portions of deposition testimony and transcripts and exhibits thereto which 

include, refer to, or relate to any Confidential Information;

(iii) All information, copies, extracts, and complete or partial summaries prepared 

or derived from Confidential Information; and

(iv) Portions of briefs, memoranda, or any writings filed with or otherwise 

supplied to the Court, which include or refer to any such Confidential Information.

(c) Any person designating documents, testimony, or other information as “Confidential” 

hereunder asserts that he or she believes in good faith that such material is Confidential Information 

which is not otherwise available to the public generally. 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 

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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. 

II. DESIGNATION OF DOCUMENTS AND DEPOSITIONS

(a) Designation of a document as “Confidential” shall be made by stamping or writing 

CONFIDENTIAL on the document(s). Alternatively, the parties may designate documents as 

confidential by producing the documents with a letter designating documents by Bates number as 

“Confidential.” The parties shall make every effort to designate as CONFIDENTIAL only 

documents that contain information protected as confidential under California law, including but not 

limited to, proprietary information, financial information, trade secrets, personnel, medical and 

payroll information, or other similarly protected information. The failure to so designate documents 

at the time of production shall not constitute a waiver of the protection of this Order and any party 

may, at any time during the course of the action up to 30 days before the actual trial date designate 

any documents or information produced as confidential that have not as yet been so designated. 

Stamping the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” on the cover of any multi-page document shall designate 

all pages of the document as confidential, unless otherwise indicated by the designating party, but 

only if the entire document is produced in bound or otherwise intact manner.

(b) Designation of a deposition or other pretrial testimony, or portions thereof, as 

“Confidential” shall be made by a statement on the record by counsel for the party or other person 

making the claim of confidentiality at the time of such testimony. The portions of depositions so 

designated as “Confidential” shall be taken only in the presence of persons qualified to receive such 

information pursuant to the terms of this Protective Order: the parties and their attorneys and staff, 

the court reporter, the deponent, and the deponent’s attorney. Failure of any other person to comply 

with a request to leave the deposition room will constitute sufficient justification for the witness to 

refuse to answer any question calling for disclosure of Confidential Information so long as persons 

not entitled by this Protective Order to have access to such information are in attendance. The parties 

shall instruct the court reporter to segregate such portions of the deposition in a separate transcript 

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designated as “Confidential.” Portions of such deposition transcripts shall be clearly marked as 

“Confidential” on the cover or on each page, as appropriate.

(c) Any party may designate documents produced or portions of depositions taken as 

containing Confidential Information even if not initially marked as “Confidential” in accordance 

with the terms of this Protective Order by so advising counsel for each other party in writing and by 

reproducing said documents with the required confidential designation. Thereafter each such 

document or transcript shall be treated in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order; 

provided, however, that there shall be no liability for any disclosure or use of such documents or 

transcripts, or the Confidential Information contained therein, which occurred prior to actual receipt 

of such written notice. Any person who receives actual notice of any such designation of previously 

produced documents or deposition transcripts as containing Confidential Information shall thereafter 

treat such information as if it had been designated as “Confidential” at the time he, she, or it first 

received it in connection with this matter.

(d) Inadvertent failure to designate Confidential Information shall not be construed as a 

waiver, in whole or in part, and may be corrected by the producing party designating document 

produced or portions of depositions taken as containing Confidential Information even if not initially 

marked as “Confidential” in accordance with the terms of this Protective Order and, specifically, 

Paragraph 2, subsection (c), above. 

III. LIMITATIONS ON DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

(a) No Confidential Information shall be disclosed by anyone receiving such information 

to anyone other than those persons designated herein and in no event shall Confidential Information 

be used, either directly or indirectly, by anyone receiving such information for any business, 

commercial or competitive purpose or for any purpose whatsoever other than the direct furtherance 

of the litigation of this action in accordance with the provisions of this Protective Order.

(b) Confidential Information shall not be disclosed by any person who has received such 

information through discovery in this action to any other person except to:

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(i) The parties hereto;

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(ii) Attorneys of record for the parties and their respective associates, clerks and 

employees involved in the conduct of this litigation;

(iii) In-house counsel for Defendant, its subsidiaries, and/or its affiliates; 

(iv) Non-party experts and consultants engaged by counsel for the purpose of 

preparing or assisting in this litigation, and their respective clerks and employees involved in 

assisting them in this litigation, to the extent deemed necessary by counsel;

(v) The Court, its officers, court reporters, and similar personnel, provided further 

that Confidential Information lodged with the Court under seal is subject to further evaluation by the 

Court; and 

(vi) Any person as to which it is apparent from the face of a document was either 

an author, recipient, had knowledge of the contents therein, or was otherwise entitled to view the 

Confidential Information prior to the intended disclosure in this action.

(c) Before any person described in Paragraph 3, subsection (b)(iv), receives or is shown 

any document or information which has been designated as Confidential, such person shall be given 

a copy of this Protective Order and shall agree in writing, in the form of the Acknowledgment and 

Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A, to be bound by the terms hereof. The original of each such 

Acknowledgment and Agreement shall be maintained by counsel and shall be produced for 

inspection by opposing counsel upon request. Any counsel may require the other counsel to provide 

a copy of the Acknowledgment and Agreement signed by a witness at a deposition before the witness 

is deposed with regard to any Confidential Information.

(d) Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed to require execution of the written 

Acknowledgment and Agreement referred to in Paragraph 3, subsection (c), above, or to prevent 

disclosure of Confidential Information, by the party producing and designating such Confidential 

Information, or by any employee of such party. 

(e) The substance or content of Confidential Information, as well as all notes and 

memoranda relating thereto, shall not be disclosed to anyone other than as set forth in Paragraph 3, 

subsections (b)(i)–(b)(vi), above.

IV. FILING DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL

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(a) If a party submits a document to the Court, which the other party has designated as 

CONFIDENTIAL or which contains Confidential Information and which has not been successfully 

challenged under Paragraph 5 below, the submitting Party shall notify the Party designating the 

document as CONFIDENTIAL prior to submitting any CONFIDENTIAL documents to the Court 

so as to provide the designating Party sufficient time to determine whether it needs to file a 

Request to Seal Documents under Local Rule 141. If the designating Party decides to move to seal 

the CONFIDENTIAL documents, the Party seeking to seal the CONFIDENTIAL documents must 

comply with the procedures set forth in Local Rule 141 and must also comply with Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1). To the extent permitted by Local Rule 140, all Confidential 

Information filed with the Court and any pleading or other paper containing Confidential 

Information filed with the Court shall be redacted so that they do not disclose the contents of the 

Confidential Information that is subject to the Protective Order. 

(b) Any party requesting that a record be filed under seal must comply with Local Rule 

141. The Parties agree and recognize that Confidential Information or any paper containing 

Confidential Information cannot be filed under seal based solely upon this stipulated Protective 

Order.

V. CHALLENGE TO CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATION

Any party that wishes to challenge the designation of a document or other information as 

“Confidential” may, for good cause, bring a motion before the Court requesting that the Court deny 

the designation of any document or information as “Confidential.” The interested parties or other 

persons shall attempt to resolve such disagreements before submitting them to the Court. Pending 

resolution of any dispute concerning such designation, all parties and persons governed by this 

Protective Order shall treat all documents and information previously designated as “Confidential” 

as protected from further disclosure by this Protective Order.

VI. SURVIVAL OF ORDER – RETURN OF DOCUMENTS

(a) The provisions of this Order shall continue in effect until otherwise ordered by the 

Court, or one of them, after notice and an opportunity to be heard is afforded to the parties to this 

action. The final determination or settlement of this action shall not relieve any person who has 

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received Confidential Information or agreed to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order of his, 

her, or its obligations hereunder. The Court shall retain jurisdiction after such final determination or 

settlement to enforce the provisions of this Order. Upon completion of the litigation, all documents 

(including copies of documents) containing Confidential Information shall be destroyed or returned 

to counsel for the producing party, except that (a) documents on which any person has made notations 

may be destroyed and not returned, and (b) the parties’ respective attorneys of record may retain one 

copy of each such document for use in connection with any disputes which may arise under the 

Court’s retention of jurisdiction as provided for herein. 

(b) Except as provided in Paragraph 4 or Paragraph 6, subsection (a), hereof, documents 

or things containing the other party’s Confidential Information shall at all times be in the physical 

possession of those persons qualifying under Paragraph 3 hereunder, or be kept by counsel of record 

at the premises regularly maintained by such counsel of record as and for their respective law offices.

VII. USE OF DOCUMENTS AT TRIAL

This Stipulation and Protective Order, except as provided in Paragraph 4, above, shall not 

apply to information designated or marked “Confidential” hereunder which is used at any evidentiary 

hearing or trial in this action. The parties hereby reserve their rights to use, or seek to limit the 

disclosure of, Confidential Information at any such hearing or trial.

VIII. USE OF OWN DOCUMENTS

Nothing in this Protective Order shall limit the use by any party, person, or entity of his, her, 

or its own document or information for legitimate business purposes unrelated to this litigation, even 

if such documents or information have been designated as “Confidential.” 

IX. APPLICATIONS TO COURT

(a) This Protective Order shall not preclude or limit any party’s right to oppose or object 

to discovery on any ground which would be otherwise available. This Protective Order shall not 

preclude or limit any party’s right to seek in camera review or to seek further and additional 

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protection against or limitation upon production or dissemination of information produced in 

response to discovery, including documents and their contents.

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(b) Any person to or by whom disclosure or inspection is made in violation of this 

Protective Order, and who has knowledge of this Protective Order, shall be bound by the terms 

hereof. 

(c) The parties hereto, and all other persons who receive Confidential Information 

pursuant hereto, agree that any party or other person injured by a violation of this Order does not 

have an adequate remedy at law and that an injunction against such violation is an appropriate 

remedy. In the event any person shall violate or threaten to violate any terms of this Order, the parties 

agree that the aggrieved party may immediately apply to obtain injunctive relief against any such 

person. In the event the aggrieved party shall do so, the respondent person subject to the provisions 

of this Order shall not employ as a defense thereto the claim that the aggrieved party has an adequate 

remedy at law. Any persons subject to the terms of this Order agree that the Court shall retain 

jurisdiction over it and them for the purposes of enforcing this Order, including but not limited to 

issuing an injunction. In addition to injunctive relief, as specified herein, the Court may impose 

monetary and/or issue sanctions, as well as other relief deemed appropriate under the circumstances 

for a violation of this Protective Order. 

(d) If any deponent required under the terms of this Protective Order to execute the 

written Acknowledgment and Agreement described in Paragraph 3, subsection (c), above, refuses to 

do so, the parties may complete the deposition on other matters or adjourn it and move the Court for 

any appropriate relief, including (without limitation) relief from this Protective Order as to that 

deponent, or an order that the deponent shall execute the written agreement described in Paragraph 

3, subsection (c), above, or an order that deponent shall be bound by the terms of this Protective 

Order. Any non-party whose Confidential Information is the subject of such a motion shall be given 

notice thereof.

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X. AGREEMENT TO COOPERATE

The parties hereto and their respective attorneys of record agree that, when one party’s 

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attorney requests a deponent to sign the written Acknowledgment and Agreement described in 

Paragraph 3, subsection (c), above, the other party’s attorney will join in such request, unless that 

attorney has a good faith basis for refusing to join in such a request; provided, however, that this 

requirement shall not apply with respect to any deponent who is represented at his or her deposition 

by an attorney of record for any party hereto (including any member or associate of their respective 

law firms). An attorney’s request to sign such Acknowledgment pursuant to this Paragraph shall not 

be construed to constitute legal advice to the deponent, but shall and may be stated to be simply a 

request to facilitate discovery in this action.

XI. NO ADMISSIONS

Neither entering into this Stipulation for Protective Order, nor receiving any documents or 

other information designated as “Confidential,” shall be construed as an agreement or admission (1) 

that any document or information designated as “Confidential” is in fact Confidential Information; 

(2) as to the correctness or truth of any allegation made or position taken relative to any matter 

designated as “Confidential”; or (3) as to the authenticity, competency, relevancy, or materiality of 

any information or document designated as “Confidential.”

XII. NO WAIVER OF PRIVILEGES OR OBJECTIONS TO ADMISSIBILITY

Nothing in this Protective Order shall be construed as requiring disclosure of Confidential 

Information, including, but not limited to, materials subject to protection under the attorney-client 

privilege and/or the attorney work-product doctrine, the trade secrets privilege, or any other 

applicable privileges or rights of privacy, or requiring disclosure of Confidential Information that is 

otherwise beyond the scope of permissible discovery. Further, nothing in this Protective Order shall 

be construed as a waiver by a party of any objections that might be raised as to the admissibility at 

trial of any evidentiary materials.

XIII. DISCLOSURE IN VIOLATION OF ORDER

If any Confidential Information is disclosed to any person other than in the manner authorized 

by this Protective Order, the party responsible for the disclosure must immediately in writing notify 

the opposing party and the designating party of all pertinent facts relating to such disclosure to the 

attention of, and without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the designating party, make every 

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effort to prevent further unauthorized disclosure on its own part or on the part of the recipient of such 

Confidential Information.

XIV. MODIFICATION – FURTHER AGREEMENTS

Nothing contained herein shall preclude any party from seeking from the Court, modification 

of this Stipulated Protective Order upon proper notice or shall preclude the parties from entering into 

other written agreements designed to protect Confidential Information.

XV. COUNTERPARTS

This Stipulation for Protective Order may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall 

be deemed an original, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

DATED: April 30, 2020 STALWART LAW GROUP

By: /s/ Cindy Hickox

Ji-In Lee Houck

David Angeloff

Cindy Hickox

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

GABRIEL LOPEZ

DATED: April 30, 2020 OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, 

SMOAK & STEWART, P.C.

By: /s/ Jill L. Schubert

James T. Conley

Robert C. Rodriguez

Jill L. Schubert

Attorneys for Defendant 

WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC., a 

Delaware corporation

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ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ stipulation, IT IS SO ORDERED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT:

1. Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who will 

decide the matter related to that request to seal.

2. The designation of documents (including transcripts of testimony) as confidential 

pursuant to this order does not automatically entitle the parties to file such a document with the 

court under seal. Parties are advised that any request to seal documents in this district is governed 

by Local Rule 141. In brief, Local Rule 141 provides that documents may only be sealed by a 

written order of the court after a specific request to seal has been made. L.R. 141(a). However, a 

mere request to seal is not enough under the local rules. In particular, Local Rule 141(b) requires 

that “[t]he ‘Request to Seal Documents’ shall set forth the statutory or other authority for sealing, 

the requested duration, the identity, by name or category, of persons to be permitted access to the 

document, and all relevant information.” L.R. 141(b).

3. A request to seal material must normally meet the high threshold of showing that 

“compelling reasons” support secrecy; however, where the material is, at most, “tangentially 

related” to the merits of a case, the request to seal may be granted on a showing of “good cause.” 

Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096-1102 (9th Cir. 2016); Kamakana 

v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-80 (9th Cir. 2006).

4. Nothing in this order shall limit the testimony of parties or non-parties, or the use of 

certain documents, at any court hearing or trial – such determinations will only be made by the 

court at the hearing or trial, or upon an appropriate motion.

5. With respect to motions regarding any disputes concerning this protective order which 

the parties cannot informally resolve, the parties shall follow the procedures outlined in Local Rule 

251. Absent a showing of good cause, the court will not hear discovery disputes on an ex parte 

basis or on shortened time.

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6. The parties may not modify the terms of this Protective Order without the court’s 

approval. If the parties agree to a potential modification, they shall submit a stipulation and 

proposed order for the court’s consideration.

7. Pursuant to Local Rule 141.1(f), the court will not retain jurisdiction over enforcement 

of the terms of this Protective Order after the action is terminated.

8. Any provision in the parties’ stipulation that is in conflict with anything in this order is 

hereby DISAPPROVED.

DATED: May 1, 2020 /s/ DEBORAH BARNES 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT OF PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND THEREBY

I hereby acknowledge receipt of and that I have read a copy of the Stipulation for Protective 

Order and Order (the “Order”), which I understand was made on _________________, 2020, in the

action entitled Gabriel Lopez v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-00538-TLNDB, USDC, Eastern District of California. I agree that I will be bound by the provisions of the 

Order with respect to any Confidential Information provided to me under the terms thereof. I agree 

that, if I receive any Confidential Information, I will not make any copies thereof nor disclose such 

Confidential Information except as permitted by the Order. I further understand that if I fail to 

comply with the terms of the Order, I may be subject to sanctions by the Court, and I hereby 

consent to personal jurisdiction in the State of California with respect to any matter relating to or 

arising out of the Order.

Executed this _____day of ________, 2020, at __________________, _____.

_____________________________

Name: ________________________________________

Affiliation: ________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________

________________________________________

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STIPULATION REGARDING PRODUCTION OF CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION; ORDER

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42701375.1

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