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Parties Involved:
Britta Burke
Plaintiff
Starbucks Coffee Company
Defendant

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[PROPOSED] STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Case No.: 2:09-cv-01920-GEB-GGH

Farschad Farzan, Bar No. 215194

ffarzan@perkinscoie.com

Jonmi N. Koo, Bar No. 233136

jkoo@perkinscoie.com

PERKINS COIE LLP

Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 2400

San Francisco, CA 94111-4131

Telephone: 415.344.7000

Facsimile: 415.344.7050

Jeffrey A. Hollingsworth, (pro hac vice pending)

jhollingsworth@perkinscoie.com

PERKINS COIE LLP

1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800

Seattle, WA 98101

Telephone: 206.359.8000

Facsimile: 206.359.4598

Attorneys for Defendant

Starbucks Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

BRITTA BURKE,

Plaintiff,

v.

STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY,

DOES 1-10,

Defendants.

Case No.: 2:09-cv-01920-GEB-GGH

[PROPOSED] STIPULATED 

PROTECTIVE ORDER REGARDING 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

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Plaintiff Britta Burke (“Plaintiff’) and Defendant Starbucks Corporation (“Defendant”), 

by and through their respective undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate and agree to, and request 

entry of, the following Protective Order:

1. The Order shall be applicable to and govern all discovery taken pursuant to the 

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including documents and other tangible objects produced in 

response to requests for production or as part of answers to interrogatories, responses to requests 

for admissions, and depositions.

2. A party or third party may designate as “Confidential” any material that the party 

in good faith believes constitutes or includes proprietary business or financial information, or 

personal information or information furnished to it in confidence by any third-party, which 

information is not known or freely accessible to the general public. Good faith also exists where 

the disclosure would violate the legitimate privacy interests of either party or third parties.

3. Information or materials designated as “Confidential” may be disclosed to the 

parties for the purposes of the litigation, but must be protected against disclosure to third parties. 

Absent a specific order by this Court, once designated as “Confidential,” such designated 

information shall be used solely in connection with this litigation, and not for any business, 

competitive, governmental, or other purpose or function, and such information shall not be 

disclosed to anyone except as provided herein.

4. The designation of information or material as “Confidential” for purposes of this 

Protective Order shall be made in the following manner by the party or nonparty seeking 

protection:

(a) in the case of documents, exhibits, briefs, memoranda, interrogatory 

responses, responses to requests for admission, or other materials (apart from depositions or other 

pretrial or trial testimony): by affixing the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to any document 

containing any confidential information or material;

(b) in the case of depositions by a statement on the record, by counsel, during 

such deposition that the entire transcript or a portion thereof shall be designated as “Confidential” 

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hereunder. If any document or information designated as “Confidential” is used during the course 

of a deposition, that portion of the deposition record reflecting such confidential information shall 

be stamped “Confidential,” and access thereto shall be limited pursuant to the other terms of this 

Protective Order.

5. Information or material designated as “Confidential,” or copies or extracts 

therefrom and compilations and summaries thereof, may be disclosed or made available in whole 

or in part only to the following persons:

(a) parties’ outside counsel of record in this action and regular and temporary 

employees of such counsel to whom it is necessary that the information or material be shown for 

the purposes of this litigation;

(b) the parties and employees of the parties, including in-house counsel, whose 

assistance is needed by counsel for the purposes of this litigation;

(c) subject to the provisions of paragraph 6 herein, outside experts, advisors, 

and consultants (including their employees and support staff) retained by counsel of record in this 

litigation, provided that such experts, consultants, or investigators shall not be employees of a 

party or otherwise working for or on behalf of a party in connection with that party’s business. 

Outside experts, advisors, and consultants must be retained solely for the purpose of advising and 

assisting outside counsel or giving expert testimony in this action or any other action between the 

parties;

(d) the Court,

(e) court reporters employed in connection with this action;

(f) graphics or design services retained by counsel for a party for purposes of 

preparing demonstrative or other exhibits for deposition, trial, or other court proceedings in this 

action, subject to and conditioned upon compliance with Paragraph 6 herein;

(g) non-technical jury or trial consulting services retained by counsel for a 

party, subject to and conditioned upon compliance with Paragraph 6 herein;

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(h) witnesses, including non-party witnesses, in preparation for, and in the 

course of, depositions or interviews, or at trial, if, in the reasonable good faith opinion of the 

parties’ counsel, examination with respect to such information is necessary for legitimate 

discovery or trial purposes; and

(i) any other person only upon order of the Court or upon written consent of 

the party producing the confidential information or material, subject to and conditioned upon 

compliance with Paragraph 6 herein.

6. The undersigned counsel shall maintain a list of persons to whom “Confidential” 

material is disclosed, and such list shall be available for inspection by the Court. The persons 

receiving “Confidential” material are enjoined from disclosing it to any other person, except as 

permitted by this Order.

7. If a party wishes to submit to the Court any “Confidential” material, the party shall 

attempt to obtain agreement from the party that designated the material “Confidential” that the 

material need not be filed under seal. If no agreement is reached, the party that designated the 

material as “Confidential” shall have ten (10) calendar days to file a motion to seal the subject 

material. The parties agree that such motion may be filed ex parte and on shortened time. The 

parties agree that no opposition will be filed to any motion filed pursuant to this paragraph. 

Nothing in this section shall prevent a party from filing its own “Confidential” material not under 

seal.

8. A party or third party shall not be obligated to challenge the propriety of a 

“Confidential” designation at the time made, and failure to do so shall not preclude a subsequent 

challenge. A party may challenge the other party’s designation by serving a written objection 

upon the producing party. The producing party shall notify the challenging party in writing of the 

bases for the asserted designation within ten (10) days after receiving any written objection. The 

parties shall confer in good faith as to the validity of the designation within five (5) days after the 

challenging party has received the notice of the bases for the asserted designation. To the extent 

the parties are unable to reach an agreement as to the designation, the objecting party may make 

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an appropriate application to this Court within fifteen (15) days after conferring with the 

producing party, with confidential portions thereof to be filed provisionally under seal, requesting 

that specifically identified documents, information, and/or deposition testimony be excluded from 

the provisions of this Protective Order or downgraded in terms of the degree of protection 

provided. Failure to make an application within this period shall constitute a waiver of the 

objection. Until a dispute over the asserted designation is finally resolved by the parties or the 

Court, all parties and persons shall treat the information or materials in question as designated.

9. All “Confidential” information and material covered by this Protective Order shall 

be kept in secure facilities, and access to those facilities shall be permitted only to those 

designated persons set forth in this Protective Order.

10. All counsel for the parties who have access to information or material designated 

as “Confidential” under this Protective Order acknowledge they are bound by this Order and 

submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for purposes of enforcing this Order.

11. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or producing or receiving information or material 

designated as “Confidential” or otherwise complying with the terms of this Protective Order, shall 

not:

(a) operate as an admission by any party that any particular information or 

material designated as “Confidential” contains or reflects trade secrets, or proprietary or 

commercially sensitive information, or any other type of confidential information;

(b) operate as an admission by any party that the restrictions and procedures 

set forth herein constitute or do not constitute adequate protection for any particular information 

deemed by any party to be “Confidential”;

(c) prejudice in any way the rights of the parties to object to the production of 

documents they consider not subject to discovery;

(d) prejudice in any way the rights of any party to object to the authenticity or 

admissibility into evidence of any document, testimony, or other evidence subject to this 

Protective Order;

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(e) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to seek a determination by the Court 

whether any information or material should be subject to the terms of this Protective Order;

(f) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to petition the Court for a further 

protective order relating to any purportedly confidential information;

(g) prejudice in any way the rights of a party to make a showing that 

information or materials of proprietary or competitive value, but which is not specifically 

included in the categories of “Confidential” information or materials itemized in Paragraph 2 

above, is properly designated “Confidential”; or

(h) prevent the parties to this Protective Order from agreeing in writing or on 

the record during a deposition or hearing in this action to alter or waive the provisions or 

protections provided for herein with respect to any particular information or material.

12. This Protective Order has no effect upon, and shall not apply to, a party’s use or 

disclosure of its own confidential information for any purpose. Nothing contained herein shall 

impose any restrictions on the use or disclosure by a party of documents, information or material 

designated as “Confidential” obtained lawfully by such party independently of any proceedings in 

this action, or which:

(a) was already known to such party by lawful means prior to acquisition from, 

or disclosure by, the other party in this action;

(b) is or becomes publicly known through no fault or act of such party; or

(c) is rightfully received by such party from a third party which has authority 

to provide such information or material and without restriction as to disclosure.

13. In the event that information requested from a party contains a third-party’s 

confidential or proprietary information, the producing party will make a good faith attempt to 

obtain consent of the non-party prior to disclosing such information. If the producing party 

cannot obtain the third-party’s consent, the producing party will notify the requesting party of (a) 

the existence of the information, and (b) the identity of the non-party. If possible, the producing 

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party may also redact the third party’s confidential information to protect the third-party’s 

interests. 

14. It is the present intention of the parties that the provisions of this Protective Order 

shall govern discovery and other pretrial and trial proceedings in this action. Nonetheless, each of 

the parties hereto shall be entitled to seek modification of this Protective Order by application to 

the Court on notice to the other party hereto for good cause.

15. The parties agree to be bound by the terms of this Protective Order pending its 

entry by the Court, or pending the entry of an alternative thereto which is satisfactory to all 

parties, and any violation of its terms shall be subject to the same sanctions and penalties as if the 

Protective Order had been entered by the Court.

16. The provisions of this Protective Order shall, absent written permission of the 

producing party or further order of the Court, continue to be binding throughout and after the 

conclusion of this action, including without limitation any appeals therefrom. Within sixty (60) 

days of the final resolution of all related litigation between the parties covered by this Protective 

Order, all “Confidential” material and all copies thereof, shall be (1) upon request, returned to the 

party that produced it, or (2) destroyed. Counsel and the parties shall certify in writing that they 

have complied with this section.

17. In the event that any information or material designated as “Confidential” 

hereunder is used in any court proceeding in this action or any appeal therefrom, such information 

or material shall not lose its status as “Confidential” through such use, to the extent allowable by 

law. Counsel for the parties shall confer on such procedures as are necessary to protect the 

confidentiality of any documents, information, and transcripts used in the course of any court 

proceedings, and shall incorporate such procedures, as appropriate, in the pre-trial order, subject 

to court approval.

18. If any party (a) is subpoenaed in another action, (b) is served with a discovery 

demand in another action to which it is a party, or (c) is served with any other legal process by 

one not a party to this action, seeking information or material which was produced or designated 

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as “Confidential” by someone other than that party, the party shall give prompt actual written 

notice, by hand or facsimile transmission, within ten (10) days of receipt of such subpoena, 

demand, or legal process, to those who produced or designated the information or material 

“Confidential.” Should the person seeking access to the information or material take action 

against the party or anyone else covered by this Protective Order to enforce such a subpoena, 

demand, or other legal process, the party shall respond by setting forth the existence of this 

Protective Order. Once notification is given pursuant to this provision, it shall be the obligation 

of the party or person that designated the information or materials at issue to challenge such a 

subpoena, demand, or other legal process, and not the obligation of the party or person that 

received the subpoena, demand, or other legal process.

DATED: June 23, 2010 PERKINS COIE LLP

By: /s/

Jonmi N. Koo

Attorneys for Defendant

STARBUCKS CORPORATION

DATED: June 23, 2010 LAW OFFICES OF ALDON BOLANOS

By: /s/ 

Aldon Bolanos

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Britta Burke

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

Modified and subject to order filed concurrently.

Dated: _June 29, 2010 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows

United States Magistrate Judge

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