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Parties Involved:
Circle K Stores Inc.
Defendant
Ernesto Limon
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES 

DISTRICT 

COURT

CENTRAL 

DISTRICT OF 

CALIFORNIA

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO

ERNESTO LIMON, an individual, on 

behalf of himself and others similarly 

situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

CIRCLE K STORES INC.; and DOES 

1 thru 50, inclusive,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:18-CV-01689-SKO

Hon. Sheila K. Oberto

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

(Doc. 42)

Complaint Filed: December 11, 2018

MARIA C. RODRIGUEZ (SBN 194201)

mcrodriguez@mwe.com

CHRISTOPHER A. BRAHAM (SBN 293367)

cbraham@mwe.com

MARJORIE C. SOTO (SBN 313290)

mcsoto@mwe.com

MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP

2049 Century Park East

Suite 3200

Los Angeles, CA 90067-3206

Telephone: +1 310 277 4110

Facsimile: +1 310 277 4730

Attorneys for Defendant

CIRCLE K STORES, INC.

Eric B. Kingsley, Esq.

Kelsey M. Szamet, Esq.

KINGSLEY & KINGSLEY, APC

16133 Ventura Blvd., Suite 1200

Encino, CA 91436

Telephone: (818) 990-8300

Fax: (818) 990-2903

Emil Davtyan, Esq.

DAVTYAN PROFESSIONAL LAW 

CORPORATION

5959 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Suite 130

Woodland Hills, California 91367

Telephone: (818) 875-2008

Fax: (818) 722-3974

Attorneys for Plaintiff

ERNESTO LIMON

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1. A. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production 

of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from 

public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation 

may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court 

to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. 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. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 

12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file 

confidential information under seal; Civil 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.

B. COMPLIANCE WITH LOCAL RULE 141.1(c)

Pursuant to Rule 141.1(c)(1), this action is likely to involve confidential 

business information such as company policies, processes, and trainings regarding 

hiring, background checks, disciplinary actions, and terminations of employees. As a 

result of this action, trade secrets, customer and pricing lists and other valuable 

research, development, commercial, financial, technical and/or proprietary 

information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any 

purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Because Plaintiff will be 

seeking certification of a class of Defendant’s employees, this action is also likely to 

involve confidential information of third party employees such as contact 

information, dates of employment, positions, and other private and personnel 

information that Defendant has an obligation to protect. 

Pursuant to Rule 141.1(c)(2), there is a particularized need for the protection of 

confidential and proprietary business information such as company policies, 

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processes, and trainings regarding employee hiring, background checks, disciplinary 

actions, and terminations because companies are entitled to keep policies private as 

they are integral to running a business with employees that span the State of 

California and, possibly in some instances, across the nation. There is also a 

particularized need for the protection of confidential and private third party personnel 

information including, but not limited to, contact information, dates of employment, 

and positions. These company policies and processes, as well as private personnel 

information, implicate the privacy rights of third party employees who are not a party 

to this action and who may have been involved in hiring, disciplinary action, or 

termination by the company. Such confidential, private, and proprietary materials and 

information is otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be 

privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court 

rules, case decisions, or common law. 

Pursuant to Rule 141.1(c)(3), the need for the protection of confidential and 

proprietary materials that may be implicated in this action should be addressed by 

court order, as opposed to a private agreement, in order to expedite the flow of 

information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of 

discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties are entitled to keep 

confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of 

such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling 

at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such 

information is justified in this matter. Furthermore, the court should address the need 

for protection as one party has a stronger interest to maintain confidential business 

information while the other party may not have the same incentive. It is the intent of 

the parties that information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons 

and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been 

maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it 

should not be part of the public record of this case. 

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C. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PROCEDURE FOR FILING UNDER 

SEAL 

The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this 

Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information 

under seal; Local Civil 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. 

There is a strong presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial 

proceedings and records in civil cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions, 

good cause must be shown to support a filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and 

County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006), Phillips v. Gen. Motors 

Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002), Makar-Welbon v. Sony Electrics, Inc., 

187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated protective orders require good 

cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or compelling reasons with 

proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with respect to 

Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere designation 

of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not— without the 

submission of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the material 

sought to be filed under seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or otherwise 

protectable—constitute good cause. 

Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then 

compelling reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the 

relief sought shall be narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected. 

See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors Ass’n., 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For each 

item or type of information, document, or thing sought to be filed or introduced 

under seal in connection with a dispositive motion or trial, the party seeking 

protection must articulate compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal 

justification, for the requested sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting 

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the application to file documents under seal must be provided by declaration. Any 

document that is not confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable in its entirety 

will not be filed under seal if the confidential portions can be redacted. If documents 

can be redacted, then a redacted version for public viewing, omitting only the 

confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable portions of the document, shall be 

filed. Any application that seeks to file documents under seal in their entirety should 

include an explanation of why redaction is not feasible.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 

of information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 

how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 

protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) including but not limited to 

policies, processes, and trainings regarding employee hiring, background checks, 

disciplinary actions, terminations, and private and confidential third party personnel 

information including but not limited to contact information, dates of employment, 

and positions.

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House 

Counsel (as well as their support staff).

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 

of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 

among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 

generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter.

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 

pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 

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an expert witness or as a consultant in this action.

2.7 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. 

House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 

counsel.

2.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 

other legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party 

to this action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have 

appeared in this action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which 

has appeared on behalf of that party.

2.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, 

employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 

support staffs).

2.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 

Discovery Material in this action.

2.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 

services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 

demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 

and their employees and subcontractors.

2.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 

designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 

from a Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 

Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 

extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 

compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 

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presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the 

following information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of 

disclosure to a Receiving Party or becomes part of the public domain after its 

disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of publication not involving a violation of 

this Order, including becoming part of the public record through trial or otherwise; 

and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the disclosure or 

obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating 

Party. Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate 

agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations 

imposed by this Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 

otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be 

deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this action, with 

or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 

exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, 

including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 

pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 

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. The Designating Party must 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 

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unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 

that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 

purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber or retard the case development process or to 

impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) expose the Designating 

Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 

designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 

promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 

this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 

stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 

under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 

documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 

proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” to each 

page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on 

a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the 

protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). A Party 

or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection 

need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 

which material it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and before 

the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be deemed 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants 

copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, or 

portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 

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specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” legend 

to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions of the 

material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 

identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 

margins).

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial 

proceedings, that the Designating Party identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony. 

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary 

and for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place 

on the exterior of the container or containers in which the information or item is 

stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the 

information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, 

shall identify the protected portion(s).

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 

failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 

Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 

Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 

efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 

Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 

designation of confidentiality at any time. Unless a prompt challenge to a 

Designating Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, 

substantial unfairness, unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or 

delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its right to challenge a confidentiality 

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

designation is disclosed.

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6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 

resolution process under Local Rule 251 et seq. 

6.3 Joint Stipulation. Any challenge submitted to the Court shall be via a 

joint stipulation pursuant to Local Rule 251. 

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.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 

case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such 

Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 

conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a 

Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 

location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 

authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 

otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 

Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 

“CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this action, as 

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well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 

necessary to disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) 

of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation 

and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit 

A);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial 

consultants, mock jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom 

disclosure is reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating 

Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to 

depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court

reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated 

Protective Order.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information 

or a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

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8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN 

OTHER LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 

that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as 

“CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such 

notification shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or 

order to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the 

subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a 

copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 

pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 

the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this 

action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 

subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 

protection in that court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions 

should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to 

disobey a lawful directive from another court.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 

PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by 

a Non-Party in this action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 

produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 

remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

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(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, 

to produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 

subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 

confidential information, then the Party shall: 

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the 

Non-Party that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 

agreement with a Non-Party;

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 

Stipulated Protective Order in this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a 

reasonably specific description of the information requested; and 

(3) make the information requested available for inspection by 

the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this 

court within 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the 

Receiving Party may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to 

the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving 

Party shall not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to 

the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. 

Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense 

of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 

Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 

Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 

writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 

to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 

persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 

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and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 

Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 

PROTECTED MATERIAL

When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 

inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 

the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure

may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without prior 

privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the 

parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or 

information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the 

parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted 

to the court.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 

person to seek its modification by the court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 

Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 

disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 

Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 

ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.

12.3 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 141. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant 

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

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Pursuant to Civil 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 141(e) is denied by 

the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record 

unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 

4, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or 

destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes 

all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other format reproducing or 

capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned 

or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing 

Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day 

deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material 

that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not 

retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format 

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this 

provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion 

papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, 

deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant 

and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such 

archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this 

Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION).

14. VIOLATION

Any violation of this Order is punished by appropriate measures including, 

without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions. 

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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DATED: January 24, 2020 /s/Kelsey M. Szamet (as authorized on January 16, 

2020)

Attorneys for Plaintiff

DATED: January 24, 2020 /s/Marjorie C. 

Soto_____________________

Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 27, 2020 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ___________________, 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 Central District of California on [date] in the case 

of ERNESTO LIMON V. CIRCLE K STORES INC., Case No. 1:18-cv-01689-LJOSKO. 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 Central 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: _________________________________

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