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Parties Involved:
Sara Ahmadi
Plaintiff
United Airline
Defendant
United Continental Holdings, Inc.
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Before the Court is the stipulation of counsel related to confidential documents. (Doc. 28) The 

Court will modify the stipulated protective order to comply with its Local Rules and procedures as 

follows:

Paragraph 6.3 is modified as follows:

Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain 

confidentiality under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 

79-5, if applicable) the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties 

agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever 

is earlier comply with the scheduling order (Doc. 22 at 4) regarding discovery 

motions. If this fails to resolve the dispute, within 21 days or as otherwise ordered 

by the Court, the Designating Party SHALL file a motion which complies with 

Local Rule 251 and, in particular, subsection (c). Each such motion must be 

accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied 

with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure 

by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration 

within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) or as otherwise ordered by the Court, shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. 

In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality 

designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to 

SARA AHMADI,

 Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED CONTINENTAL HOLDINGS, 

INC., doing business as UNITED AIRLINE,

Defendant.

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ORDER GRANTING PROTECTIVE ORDER AS 

MODIFIED BY THE COURT

(Doc. 28) 

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the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion 

brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration 

affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements 

imposed by the preceding paragraph.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the

Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose

(e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may

expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived

the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to retain confidentiality as

described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the 

level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation 

until the court rules on the challenge.

Paragraph 12.3 is modified as follows:

Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party or 

a court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may 

not file in the public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks 

to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5

Local Rule 141. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant to 

Civil Local Rule 79-5 Local Rule 141, a sealing order will issue only upon a request

establishing that the Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade

secret, or otherwise entitled to protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's 

request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5( d) is 

denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public 

record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5( e) unless otherwise instructed by the 

court.

ORDER

The Court GRANTS the stipulated protective order AS MODIFIED (Doc. 28).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 14, 2014 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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