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Parties Involved:
Chris Aguilar
Plaintiff
General Motors Company
Defendant
General Motors LLC
Defendant

Document Text:

Stipulated Protective Order

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JORDAN L. LURIE (SBN 130013)

Jordan.Lurie@capstonelawyers.com

TAREK H. ZOHDY (SBN 247775)

Tarek.Zohdy@capstonelawyers.com

CODY R. PADGETT (SBN 275553)

Cody.Padgett@capstonelawyers.com

CAPSTONE LAW APC

1840 Century Park East, Suite 450

Los Angeles, California 90067

Telephone: (310) 556-4811

Facsimile: (310) 943-0396

Attorneys for Plaintiff Chris Aguilar

GREGORY R. OXFORD (SBN 62333)

ISAACS CLOUSE CROSE & OXFORD LLP

goxford@icclawfirm.com

21515 Hawthorne Boulevard, Suite 950

Torrance, California 90503

Telephone: (310) 316-1990

Facsimile: (310) 316-1330

Attorneys for Defendant General Motors LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHRIS AGUILAR, individually and on 

behalf of a class of similarly situated 

individuals,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GENERAL MOTORS LLC, a Delaware 

Limited Liability Company, GENERAL 

MOTORS COMPANY, a Delaware 

Corporation,

Defendants.

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

WHEREAS, to facilitate the production and receipt of information during 

discovery in the above-captioned litigation, the parties agree and stipulate, through their 

respective counsel, to the entry of the following Stipulated Protective Order for the 

protection of Confidential and “Confidential – Attorney’s Eyes Only” materials (as 

defined herein) that may be produced or otherwise disclosed during the course of this 

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litigation by any party or non-party. The Court has been fully advised in the premises and 

has found good cause for its entry. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the terms and conditions of this 

Stipulated Protective Order shall govern the handling of discovery materials in the 

litigation:

1. 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 (hereinafter, “Confidential Information”). Such Confidential Information may 

include: (1) customer name, address and contact information, (2) dealership financial and 

business information, and (3) competitively sensitive information concerning GM’s (a) 

vehicle costs, pricing and profitability, (b) developmental testing and future product plans, 

(c) marketing plans, budgets and reviews, and (d) consumer research, surveys and 

communications. 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 set 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.

2. DEFINITIONS

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

information or items under this Order.

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2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: Confidential Information as 

described above (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible 

things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).

2.3 “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information or Items: a subset of 

Confidential Information as described above, comprising any document or information 

supplied in any form that is so sensitive that the Producing Party reasonably believes that 

it is entitled to heightened protections.

2.4 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and In-House 

Counsel (as well as their respective support staffs).

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

items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.6 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.

2.7 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 an 

expert witness or as a consultant in this action.

2.8 In-House Counsel: attorneys and their support staff who are employees of a 

party to this action. 

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

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

2.10 Outside Counsel of Record (“Outside Counsel”): 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, including Outside Counsel’s employees 

and support staff.

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2.11 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).

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

Discovery Material in this action.

2.13 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.

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated 

as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 

2.15 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 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.

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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. The Court shall have 

jurisdiction to enforce the terms of this Order following the final termination of this 

action.

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 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. 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:

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(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” or “Confidential -

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 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 that qualifies for protection under Federal Rule 

of Civil Procedure 26(c) 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 specified 

documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “Confidential -

Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 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” or “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” If only a portion or 

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portions of the information or item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent 

practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

5.3 Inadvertent Production. 

(a) “CONFIDENTIAL” Information. If a Party inadvertently produces 

or provides discovery of any CONFIDENTIAL Information, including Confidential -

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information, without labeling or marking it with the appropriate 

legend or properly designating it as provided herein, the producing Party may give 

written notice to the receiving Party that the document, thing, or other discovery 

information, response or testimony should be treated in accordance with the provisions of 

this Order no later than seven (7) days after discovery of the inadvertent production. If 

timely written notice is given, the receiving Party must treat such Documents, things, 

information, responses and testimony as designated from the date such timely notice is 

received. Disclosure of such Documents, things, information, responses and testimony 

prior to receipt of such notice to a person not authorized to receive such hereunder shall 

not be deemed a violation of this Order. However, those persons to whom disclosure was 

made are to be advised that the material must thereafter be treated in accordance with this 

Order.

(b) Privileged Information. Instances of inadvertent production of 

Documents or ESI that are subject to the attorney-client privilege or of protections as trialpreparation material shall be governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B).

6. TREATMENT OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

The recipient of any CONFIDENTIAL material, including Confidential -

Attorneys’ Eyes Only Information, shall maintain such information in a secure and safe 

area and shall exercise at least the same standard of due and proper care with respect to 

confidentiality, storage, custody, use, or dissemination of such information as is exercised 

by the recipient with respect to his/her own proprietary and confidential information, but 

never less than a reasonable degree of care.

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7. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

7.1 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.

7.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution 

process by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing 

the basis for each challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been 

made, the written notice must recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in 

accordance with this specific paragraph of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt 

to resolve each challenge in good faith and must begin the process by conferring directly 

(in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) within seven 

(7) days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging Party must explain 

the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and must give 

the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the 

chosen designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge 

process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the 

Designating Party is unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely 

manner.

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

intervention, the parties shall first contact the Magistrate Judge to discuss the issues and 

determine if the he prefers that the dispute be presented in a format or procedure other 

than as provided by Local Rule Local Rule 251(c). If instructed by the Magistrate, the 

Parties shall formulate and file a Joint Statement, pursuant to Local Rule 251(c). The 

burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party. 

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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.

8. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

8.1 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).

8.2 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 well 

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

disclose the information for this litigation;

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

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

(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). Neither Confidential nor 

“Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” information shall be disclosed to any outside 

experts or consultants who are current employees of a direct auto manufacturer competitor 

of any GM entities or affiliates. With respect to outside experts or consultants who were 

employed by a direct competitor of any GM entities or affiliates named within one (1) 

year from the date of this Order, Confidential or “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 

material may be shared with those experts or consultants only after counsel for GM are 

given at least twenty (20) days prior written notice of the identity of the expert or 

consultant to whom such information is to be disclosed (including his or her name, 

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address, current job title and the names of any direct competitors by which he has been 

employed), are afforded an opportunity to object to the disclosure of such information, 

and a resolution to any such objection has been reached;

(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) witnesses or potential deponents in the action to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who either (i) are current representatives or employees of the 

Producing Party, or (ii) 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.

8.3 Disclosure of “Confidential—Attorneys’ Eyes Only” Information. Except 

as otherwise provided in this Order, information designated “Confidential - Attorneys’ 

Eyes Only” may only be disclosed to, or examined by, former employees of the Producing 

Party who authored or received a document containing the information, or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information, provided good faith 

efforts are made by the Disclosing Party to have such former employees, custodians or 

persons sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); and those 

persons described in paragraph 8.2 (a), (c), (d), (e) and (f)(i), pursuant to the terms of 

those paragraphs. Any disclosures under this paragraph 8.3 shall only occur to the extent 

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with paragraph 13.3 of this Order. The Parties specifically agree that information 

designated “Confidential - Attorneys’ Eyes Only” shall not be disclosed to any other 

individual or entity.

8.4 Additional or Alternative Categories of Persons Under This Order. The 

addition or substitution of categories of persons who shall be permitted access to 

Protected Material in accordance with Paragraphs 8.2 and 8.3 of this Order may be made 

only by written agreement between both parties to this action, or by further Order of the 

Court.

9. DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 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” or “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only,” 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” or “Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” 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.

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10. 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” or “Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.” 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. 

(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 NonParty 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.1 Absent a court order 

 1 The purpose of this provision is to alert the interested parties to the existence of 

confidentiality rights of a Non-Party and to afford the Non-Party an opportunity to protect 

its confidentiality interests in this court.

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to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in 

this court of its Protected Material.

11. 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, and (d) request such 

person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is 

attached hereto as Exhibit A.

12. 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 ediscovery 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.

13. MISCELLANEOUS

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

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

13.2 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 

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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.

13.3 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. If a Receiving Party's request to file 

Protected Material under seal pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 is denied by the court, then 

the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise 

instructed by the court.

14. 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 

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remain subject to this Protective Order notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4 

(DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

DATED: January 23, 2014

CAPSTONE LAW APC

By: Tarek H. Zohdy

 Tarek H. Zohdy

Attorneys for Plaintiff Chris Aguilar

DATED: January 23, 2014

ISAACS CLOUSE CROSE & OXFORD LLP

By: Gregory R. Oxford

 Gregory R. Oxford

Attorneys for Defendant General Motors LLC

ORDER

Upon a review of the stipulation of the parties, the Court adopts the above 

stipulated protective order.

DATED: January 27, 2014 /s/ Gary S. Austin

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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