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Parties Involved:
Equifax Information Services, LLC
Defendant
Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
Defendant
Leif Lowery
Plaintiff
Wendy Lowery
Plaintiff
Wells Fargo, N.A.
Defendant

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER 

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Jennifer Sun (State Bar No. 238942)

jennifersun@jonesday.com 

JONES DAY 

3161 Michelson Drive, Suite 800 

Irvine, CA 92612.4408 

Telephone: (949) 851-3939 

Facsimile: (949) 553-7539 

Attorneys for Defendant 

EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

LEIF LOWERY & WENDY LOWERY,

Plaintiffs, 

vs. 

WELLS FARGO, N.A., et al., 

Defendants. 

Case No. 2:15-cv-02314-KJM-EFB

Hon. Edmund F. Brennan 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Complaint filed: November 8, 2015 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiffs Leif Lowery and Wendy 

Lowery (“Plaintiffs”), and Defendants Experian Information Solutions, Inc. (“Experian”), 

Equifax Information Services, LLC (“Equifax”), and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) 

(Experian, Equifax and Wells Fargo are collectively referred to herein as “Defendants”), through 

their respective attorneys of record, as follows: 

WHEREAS, Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 26(c)(1) requires a showing of good cause for the entry of 

a protective order by the Court to prevent public disclosure of non-public material such as trade 

secrets or other confidential research, development, or commercial information; 

WHEREAS, documents and information have been and may be sought, produced or 

exhibited by and among the parties to this action relating to trade secrets, confidential research, 

development, technology or other proprietary information belonging to Defendants, and/or 

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personal income, credit and other confidential information of Plaintiffs; 

WHEREAS, an order of this Court is necessary to protect Defendants from annoyance, 

embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense related to the disclosure of Defendants’ 

confidential, proprietary or private information for purposes other than prosecuting and defending 

this litigation; and 

WHEREAS, this Order does not confer blanket protection on all disclosures or responses 

to discovery, and the protection it gives from public disclosure and use extends only to the 

specific documents and material entitled to confidential treatment under applicable legal 

principles. 

THEREFORE, an Order of this Court protecting such confidential information shall be 

and hereby is made by this Court on the following terms: 

1. In accordance with Local Rule 141.1(c), this Order shall govern the use, handling 

and disclosure of the following categories of confidential documents: 

a. Experian Confidential Documents: Policy and Procedure materials; 

Training materials; Administrative Reports; Dispute Response Logs (or 

“D/R”) Logs; Disclosure Logs; and Transaction Logs (collectively, the 

“Experian Confidential Documents”). The Experian Confidential 

Documents are all internal materials created by Experian exclusively for 

use by its employees, and/or reports generated by Experian’s computer 

system for a specific consumer and in response to the instant lawsuit. 

These Experian Confidential Documents may only be generated by a very 

limited number of trained Experian employees, and access is restricted to 

those with an absolute need to know. The Experian Confidential 

Documents contain “trade secret or other confidential research, 

development, or commercial information,” as defined in Fed. R. Civ. 

Proc. 26(c)(1)(G). Codes appearing throughout the Experian Confidential 

Documents provide critical information about Experian’s computer credit 

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reporting system, which embodies the core of Experian’s business. 

Experian has implemented extensive measures to keep this information 

secret. This Order shall further govern the use of any testimony, materials 

or other information regarding the highly confidential internal codes and 

other information contained in the Experian Confidential Documents. 

b. Equifax Confidential Documents: Policy and Procedure materials; 

Training materials; Investigation Materials; Administrative Reports; 

Dispute Response Materials; Disclosure Materials; and Transaction Logs 

or Reports (collectively, the “Equifax Confidential Documents”). The 

Equifax Confidential Documents are all internal materials and/or reports 

generated by Equifax for use by its employees and/or for a specific 

consumer, and in response to the instant lawsuit. These Equifax 

Confidential Documents may only be generated by a very limited number 

of trained Experian employees, and access to them is restricted to 

employees fully trained to work with them. Some of the Equifax 

Confidential Documents contain “trade secret or other confidential 

research, development, or commercial information,” as defined in Fed. R. 

Civ. Proc. 26(c)(1)(G). Codes appearing throughout the Equifax 

Confidential Documents provide critical information about Equifax's 

computer credit reporting system, which embodies the core of Equifax’s 

business. Equifax has implemented extensive measures to keep this 

information secret. This Order shall further govern the use of any 

testimony, materials or other information regarding the highly confidential 

internal codes and other information contained in the Equifax Confidential 

Documents. 

c. Wells Fargo Confidential Documents: Policy and Procedure materials; 

Training materials (collectively, the “Wells Fargo Confidential 

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Documents”). The Wells Fargo Confidential Documents are all internal 

materials generated by Wells Fargo for use by its employees. These Wells 

Fargo Confidential Documents contain “trade secret or other confidential 

research, development, or commercial information,” as defined in Fed. R. 

Civ. Proc. 26(c)(1)(G). Wells Fargo has implemented extensive measures 

to keep this information secret. This Order shall further govern the use of 

any testimony, materials or other information regarding the highly 

confidential information contained in the Wells Fargo Confidential 

Documents. 

d. During the course of discovery, if additional documents entitled to 

protection under this Order are sought, produced or exhibited by and 

among the parties to this action, the parties reserve the right to request that 

the Court modify the list of documents identified above. 

2. Any party producing the documents or other materials described in Paragraph 1, in 

this action (a “Producing Party”), may designate such materials and the information contained 

therein subject to this Order by typing or stamping on the front of the document, or on the 

portion(s) of the document for which confidential treatment is designated, “Confidential.” 

3. To the extent any motions, briefs, pleadings, deposition transcripts, or other papers 

to be filed with the Court incorporate documents or information subject to this Order, the party 

filing such papers shall designate such materials, or portions thereof, as “Confidential” and shall 

file them with the clerk under seal; provided, however, that a copy of such filing having the 

confidential information deleted therefrom may be made part of the public record. Any party 

filing any document under seal must comply with the requirements of Local Rule 141. This 

stipulation and protective order does not entitle the parties to file confidential 

information under seal. Local Rule 141 sets forth the procedures that must be 

followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from 

the court to file material under seal.

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4. All documents, transcripts, or other materials subject to this Order, and all 

information derived therefrom (including, but not limited to, all testimony given in a deposition, 

declaration or otherwise, that refers, reflects or otherwise discusses any information designated 

“Confidential” hereunder), shall not be used, directly or indirectly, by any person, including the 

other Defendants, for any business, commercial or competitive purposes or for any purpose 

whatsoever other than solely for the preparation and trial of this action in accordance with the 

provisions of this Order. 

5. Except with the prior written consent of the individual or entity designating a 

document or portions of a document as “Confidential,” or pursuant to prior Order after notice, any 

document, transcript or pleading given “Confidential” treatment under this Order, and any 

information contained in, or derived from any such materials (including but not limited to, all 

deposition testimony that refers to, reflects or otherwise discusses any information designated 

“Confidential” hereunder) may not be disclosed other than in accordance with this Order and may 

not be disclosed to any person other than: (a) the Court and its officers; (b) parties to this 

litigation; (c) counsel for the parties, whether retained outside counsel or in-house counsel and 

employees of counsel assigned to assist such counsel in the preparation of this litigation; (d) fact 

witnesses subject to a proffer to the Court or a stipulation of the parties that such witnesses need 

to know such information; (e) present or former employees of the Producing Party in connection 

with their depositions in this action (provided that no former employees shall be shown 

documents prepared after the date of his or her departure); and (f) experts specifically retained as 

consultants or expert witnesses in connection with this litigation. 

6. Documents produced pursuant to this Order shall not be made available to any 

person designated in Subparagraph 5(f) unless he or she shall have first read this Order, agreed to 

be bound by its terms, and signed the attached Declaration of Compliance. 

7. All persons receiving any or all documents produced pursuant to this Order shall 

be advised of their confidential nature. All persons to whom confidential information and/or 

documents are disclosed are hereby enjoined from disclosing same to any person except as 

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provided herein, and are further enjoined from using same except in the preparation for and trial 

of the above-captioned action between the named parties thereto. No person receiving or 

reviewing such confidential documents, information or transcript shall disseminate or disclose 

them to any person other than those described above in Paragraph 5 and for the purposes 

specified, and in no event shall such person make any other use of such document or transcript. 

8. Nothing in this Order shall prevent a party from using at trial any information or 

materials designated “Confidential.” 

9. This Order has been agreed to by the parties to facilitate discovery and the 

production of relevant evidence in this action. Neither the entry of this Order, nor the designation 

of any information, document, or the like as “Confidential,” nor the failure to make such 

designation, shall constitute evidence with respect to any issue in this action. 

10. Within sixty (60) days after the final termination of this litigation, all documents, 

transcripts, or other materials afforded confidential treatment pursuant to this Order, including 

any extracts, summaries or compilations taken therefrom, but excluding any materials which in 

the good faith judgment of counsel are work product materials, shall be destroyed by the party in 

receipt of the confidential materials, or returned to the Producing Party. Whether the materials 

designated “Confidential” are returned or destroyed, the party in receipt of the materials must 

submit a written certification to the Producing Party by the 60-day deadline. 

11. In the event that any party to this litigation disagrees at any point in these 

proceedings with any designation made under this Protective Order, the parties shall first try to 

resolve such dispute in good faith on an informal basis in accordance with Local Rule 251. If the 

dispute cannot be resolved, the party objecting to the designation may seek appropriate relief 

from this Court. During the pendency of any challenge to the designation of a document or 

information, the designated document or information shall continue to be treated as 

“Confidential” subject to the provisions of this Protective Order. 

12. Nothing herein shall affect or restrict the rights of any party with respect to its own 

documents or to the information obtained or developed independently of documents, transcripts 

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and materials afforded confidential treatment pursuant to this Order. 

13. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 502(d), the production of documents in this proceeding 

shall not, for purposes of this proceeding or any other proceeding in any other court, constitute a 

waiver of any privilege or protection applicable to those documents, including the attorney-client 

privilege or work product protection, that the producing party would otherwise be entitled to 

assert. The provisions of Fed. R. Evid. 502(b)(2) are inapplicable to this proceeding. 

14. The Court retains the right to allow disclosure of any subject covered by this 

stipulation or to modify this stipulation at any time in the interest of justice. 

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Dated: July 12, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

/s/ Jennifer Sun 

Jennifer Sun 

JONES DAY 

3161 Michelson Drive, Suite 800 

Irvine, CA 92612 

Telephone: (949) 851-3939 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Experian Information Solutions, Inc. 

Dated: July 12, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

/s/ Steve Gimblin 

Steve Gimblin 

LAW OFFICES OF STEVE GIMBLIN 

1007 Live Oak Blvd., A3 

Yuba City, CA 95991 

Telephone: (530) 671-9822 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

Leif Lowery and Wendy Lowery 

Dated: July 12, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

/s/ Thomas P. Quinn, Jr. 

Thomas P. Quinn, Jr. 

NOKES & QUINN 

410 Broadway, Suite 200 

Laguna Beach, CA 92651 

Telephone: (949) 376-3500 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Equifax Information Services, LLC 

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Dated: July 12, 2016 Respectfully submitted, 

/s/ Thomas N. Abbott 

Thomas N. Abbott 

Severson & Werson 

One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2600 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 398-3344 

Attorneys for Defendant 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 13, 2016_____ 

HON. EDMUND F. BRENNAN 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

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EXHIBIT A 

DECLARATION OF COMPLIANCE 

Leif Lowery, et al. v. Wells Fargo, et al. 

United States District Court, Eastern District of California 

Case No. 2:15-cv-02314-KJM-EFB 

I, _____________________________________, declare as follows: 

1. My address is ________________________________________________. 

2. My present employer is ________________________________________. 

3. My present occupation or job description is _________________________. 

4. I have received a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order entered in this action on 

_______________, 2016. 

5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of this Stipulated Protective 

Order. 

6. I will comply with all provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

7. I will hold in confidence, and will not disclose to anyone not qualified under the 

Stipulated Protective Order, any information, documents or other materials produced subject to 

this Stipulated Protective Order. 

8. I will use such information, documents or other materials produced subject to this 

Stipulated Protective Order only for purposes of this present action. 

9. Upon termination of this action, or upon request, I will return and deliver all 

information, documents or other materials produced subject to this Stipulated Protective Order, 

and all documents or things which I have prepared relating to the information, documents or other 

materials that are subject to the Stipulated Protective Order, to my counsel in this action, or to 

counsel for the party by whom I am employed or retained or from whom I received the 

documents. 

10. I hereby submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for the purposes of enforcing the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this action. 

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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the following is 

true and correct. 

Executed this ____ day of _____________, 2016 at __________________. 

 _______________________________ 

 QUALIFIED PERSON 

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