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Parties Involved:
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Defendant
Denise Pavon
Plaintiff
Robert Pavon
Plaintiff

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER RE NONDISCLOSURE OF PROPRIETARY AND/OR CONFIDENTIAL 

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Brian P. Dolin - 182971

JACOBSEN & McELROY PC

2401 American River Drive, Suite 100

Sacramento, CA 95825

Tel. (916) 971-4100

Fax (916) 971-4150

ESERVICE@jacobsenmcelroy.com

Attorneys for Defendant

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION

Martha Taylor - 260692

Michelle C. Jenni - 183292

WILCOXEN CALLAHAM, LLP

2114 K Street

Sacramento, CA 9516-4921

Tel: (916) 442-2777

Fax: (916) 442-4118

mtaylor@wilcoxenlaw.com

sjenni@wilcoxenlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

DENISE PAVON and ROBERT PAVON

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DENISE PAVON and ROBERT PAVON,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

COSTCO WHOLESALE 

CORPORATION; and DOES 1 through 

50, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No.: 2:24-cv-00798-JAM-JDP

ACTION FILED: 06/08/23

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER RE 

NONDISCLOSURE OF PROPRIETARY 

AND/OR CONFIDENTIAL 

INFORMATION DOCUMENTS, 

TESTIMONY, AND THINGS AND 

ORDER

WHEREAS, the parties, through their attorneys of record, jointly agree and stipulate that 

the entry of a protective order pursuant to the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) should be 

applied to this matter:

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WHEREAS, a protective order will expedite the flow of discovery material, facilitate the 

prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality, and adequately protect confidential material:

NOW THEREFORE, having found good cause, it is hereby ORDERED THAT:

1. PURPOSE

 During the course of this litigation (including pre-litigation investigation as well as 

discovery and investigation conducted during the litigation and through trial and appeal), there 

may be information, documents, testimony and things disclosed, discovered or produced by a 

party or parties which at least one party considers confidential, proprietary, private or sensitive 

in nature. A party asserting material is confidential, proprietary, private or sensitive may suffer 

harm if such material is published, disclosed or disseminated for any purpose other than 

investigation and preparation for the trial and appeal of this action. The parties therefore seek 

to establish a mechanism to provide special protection from any further disclosure of such 

material, and accordingly petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order 

which will govern all pre-litigation investigation undertaken in the above-captioned matter, as 

well as all discovery and investigation which has taken place up to the date this Stipulation is 

fully executed, and which may take place hereafter, through trial and appeal. 

2. DEFINITION OF “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL

“Confidential” material shall mean all documents or portions thereof (as defined in Rule 

1001 of the Federal Rules of Evidence) that the producing party reasonably and in good faith 

believes is subject to a protective order under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c)(1). As a 

general guideline, material designated “Confidential” shall be confidential and sensitive 

information and things, specifically including material of a proprietary business nature which 

might be of value to a potential competitor of the party holding the proprietary rights thereto, 

and which therefore must be protected from disclosure to third parties. Confidential Material

shall include, but not be limited to, information, documents, testimony and tangible things, 

regardless of how generated, stored or maintained, which any party claims in good faith to be 

entitled to protection, including information disclosed in interrogatory responses; documents 

identified and/or produced in response to requests for production; deposition testimony; and 

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other information and/or documents and things which any party receives, produces, exchanges 

or discovers in connection with this action, including during its pre-litigation investigation as 

well as during discovery and investigation which continue during the course of the litigation, 

and specifically including materials falling within this definition which may have been received, 

produced, exchanged or discovered by any party prior to the date this Stipulation is fully 

executed, as well as extracts, abstracts, copies and summaries thereof. 

3. LIMITATIONS ON USE OF MATERIAL DESIGNATED “CONFIDENTIAL”

(a) Information designated “Confidential” shall be used by the parties and their agents, 

employees, representatives, consultants and experts, solely in connection with this litigation, 

and not for any other purpose, including not for any other business, commercial, competitive 

or litigative purpose. 

(b) No copies, extracts or summaries of any “Confidential” material shall be made 

except by or on behalf of counsel for use solely in connection with and during the duration of 

this litigation. All such copies, extracts or summaries shall be treated as “Confidential” material, 

and none shall be delivered, exhibited to, disclosed or distributed to any person or entity except 

as specifically provided herein. 

(c) This Stipulated Protective Order is intended solely to facilitate the preparation for 

trial and/or appeal of this action, and nothing herein shall be construed as an admission or 

agreement by any party that “Confidential” material hereunder constitutes confidential or 

proprietary material. 

(d) Nothing in this Stipulated Protective Order shall be deemed to preclude the 

parties from seeking permission of the Court to disclose information which has been designated 

“Confidential” by one or more parties to this litigation on the ground that such material is in fact 

not confidential. 

(e) If any party seeks to file a motion on this issue, the parties agree the party seeking 

disclosure of material asserted to be “Confidential” may, with Court approval, file such a motion 

on shortened time.

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(f) Requests to seal documents shall be made by motion before the same judge who 

will decide the matter related to that request to seal, which will be governed by Local Rule 141.

(g) This order shall not limit the testimony of parties or non-parties as any such 

limitation must be made by the court at the hearing or trial, or upon appropriate motion.

(h) Any dispute with regard to this order, which cannot be resolved informally, must 

follow the procedures outlined in Local Rule 251.

4. DESIGNATING “CONFIDENTIAL” PROTECTED MATERIAL 

(a) WRITTEN and ELECTRONICALLY GENERATED, STORED AND/OR 

MAINTAINED MATERIALS 

A party may, in good faith, designate documents, materials and other written materials 

as described in Paragraph 2, above, as “Confidential” (including but not limited to written 

information and materials produced in written discovery responses, as well as electronically 

generated, stored and/or maintained materials), by prominently marking the material 

“CONFIDENTIAL” at the time such material is produced. A party may also, in good faith, 

designate such material “Confidential” in a timely manner after it becomes known to the party 

seeking protection that written and/or electronic materials asserted to be “Confidential” have 

become known to or have come into the possession of another party to this litigation, or to 

another party’s agents, employees, representatives, consultants and/or experts.

(b) DEPOSITION TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE 

A party may, in good faith, designate deposition testimony and/or evidence produced at 

deposition as “Confidential” by orally making this designation on the record either at the 

commencement of the deposition, at the time “Confidential” testimony is given and/or 

“Confidential” evidence is shown to a witness and/or marked as an Exhibit, and/or before the 

end of that day’s questioning. Following such designation, the court reporter shall mark 

“Confidential” on the outside of each such transcript and on all portions thereof containing the 

“Confidential” testimony and/or evidence.

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(c) TRIAL AND MOTION TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE

 Subject to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and Local 

Rules of this Court, Confidential material may be offered into evidence at trial or any court 

proceeding. If, during trial or in connection with any motion or other court proceeding, a party 

intends to offer into evidence or to otherwise disclose, discuss, or examine a witness as to 

“Confidential” material, counsel for the party seeking disclosure shall so inform counsel for the 

party to which the material relates (the “affected party”), a reasonable time in advance of such 

proposed action in order that counsel for affected party may take timely action to preserve the 

confidentiality of the material and the other rights of the affected party. No potentially public 

court documents (such as trial briefs, moving papers, proposed jury instructions or other 

documents filed or lodged with the Court) shall refer to or disclose any “Confidential” material 

unless such documents are filed under seal with the Court, or unless the confidentiality of such 

information has been removed by agreement of counsel, or unless counsel for the party 

seeking disclosure has previously obtained a valid Order of this Court permitting, and

describing the extent of, such disclosure, discussion or examination at trial. 

5. PERMISSIBLE DISTRIBUTION OF “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL

“Confidential” material may be inspected by, disclosed, exhibited or distributed to the 

following persons only:

(a) Counsel for the parties and their support staff, including paralegal assistants and 

clerical employees of counsel engaged in the preparation of this action for trial and/or appeal;

(b) Deponents, in preparation for and/or during the course of their depositions; 

deposition notaries and court reporters, and their staffs, as necessary only to produce or copy 

the transcript of this deposition;

(c) Independent experts, consultants, investigators and advisors employed or 

retained by counsel to perform investigative work, research, analysis or other service 

necessary to the preparation of this action for trial and/or appeal;

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(d) Parties, including executives, officers and employees of a party, engaged in 

assisting counsel in this litigation, but only to the extent such material is relevant to said 

person’s work in this action.

6. STORAGE OF “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL DURING LITIGATION

(a) All “Confidential” material shall be kept in secure facilities at the offices of counsel 

for each party hereto during the pendency of this litigation. 

(b) Counsel for each party hereto agrees to ensure that if “Confidential” material is 

provided to other persons or entities, such as consultants, experts, advisors and investigators, 

as permitted hereunder, the “Confidential” material shall be securely stored in the office of said 

consultant, expert, advisor or investigator so that the material is available only to those persons 

properly having access to the material pursuant to the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order. 

(c) All parties, their counsel, and the consultants, experts, advisors, investigators and 

others who have permissibly received “Confidential” material hereunder, acknowledge they are 

bound by this Stipulated Protective Order and submit to the jurisdiction of this Court for 

purposes of enforcing this Order. 

(d) If a party or its counsel, or a permissible outside recipient, (the “receiving party”) 

learns “Confidential” material has been disclosed to any person or entity, through inadvertence 

or in any circumstance not authorized hereunder, the receiving party must immediately notify 

all counsel in writing of the unauthorized disclosure and to whom or what it was made, must 

use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of improperly distributed “Confidential” material, and 

must promptly request that such person or persons execute a written acknowledgment and 

agreement to be bound by this Stipulated Protective Order. 

7. RETURN OF “CONFIDENTIAL” MATERIAL AT CONCLUSION OF LITIGATION

Within thirty (30) days of the final determination of this action, all persons (excluding 

court personnel) to whom documents containing “Confidential” material have been disclosed, 

exhibited, provided, produced, disseminated or received in any manner, including electronic 

transmission, (the “recipient”), including abstracts, extracts, summaries and copies thereof, 

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shall destroy or return all such material to counsel for the party which originally designated the 

material “Confidential”.

SIGNATURES ON FOLLOWING PAGE

Date: May 14, 2024 Wilcoxen Callaham, LLP

By:__/s/ Martha Taylor________________

Martha Taylor

Attorney for Plaintiffs

Date: May 14, 2024 Jacobsen & McElroy PC

By:___/s/ Brian P. Dolin_______________

Brian P Dolin

Attorney for Defendant

FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 20, 2024 

JEREMY D. PETERSON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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