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Parties Involved:
Joseph Coppola
Defendant
DeVry University, Inc.
Defendant
Lorena Lopez
Plaintiff

Document Text:

Stipulation and Protective Order

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Parnell Fox (SBN 186519)

LAW OFFICES OF PARNELL FOX

4908 Lakewood Court

Visalia, California 93291

Telephone: (310) 890-0435

Facsimile: (310) 776-6918

Email: parnellkirby@yahoo.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

LORENA LOPEZ

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP

Mark P. Grajski (SBN 178050)

Email: mgrajski@seyfarth.com

Anthony J. Musante (SBN 252097)

Email: amusante@seyfarth.com

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2350

Sacramento, California 95814-4428

Telephone: (916) 448-0159

Facsimile: (916) 558-4839

Attorneys for Defendants

DEVRY UNIVERSITY, INC. and JOSEPH COPPOLA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LORENA LOPEZ,

Plaintiff,

vs.

DEVRY UNIVERSITY, INC.; an Illinois 

corporation; JOSEPH COPPOLA; an 

individual; and DOES 1-100, inclusive,

Defendants.

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Case No.: 1:13-CV-00844-AWI-MJS

STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE 

ORDER

WHEREAS, in the course of discovery in the above-entitled litigation, the Parties 

will propound discovery and seek information which may be of a confidential nature;

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WHEREAS, the Parties to this litigation agree that “Confidential Information” 

defined and timely designated as described below in this stipulation should be protected 

from unwarranted use or disclosure; 

IT IS THEREFORE HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED BY THE 

PARTIES TO THIS LITIGATION THROUGH THEIR UNDERSIGNED ATTORNEYS 

OF RECORD THAT:

1. For purposes of this Stipulated Protective Order, the term “Confidential 

Information” includes information that is private, highly sensitive, or proprietary. The 

Parties agree and stipulate that Confidential Information might include, but is not limited 

to, the following types of information: (1) documents or information concerning past or 

current employees of Defendant DeVry University, Inc. (“Entity Defendant”); (2) 

financial records and information concerning or related to an individual and/or Entity 

Defendant; (3) documents or information related to the Entity Defendant’s business 

operations that are not available to the general public and; (4) documents or information 

related to the Entity Defendant’s policies and procedures that are not available to the 

general public.

2. To the extent either Party produces any documents or prepares any written 

discovery response(s) that she/it in good faith believes contain “Confidential 

Information,” the producing Party shall designate the documents or written discovery 

responses as “CONFIDENTIAL.” In the case of documents, the Party contending that 

some of the information on a given document is Confidential Information has the burden 

of designating the document(s) by stamping each such document “CONFIDENTIAL” 

prior to its production. In the case of written discovery responses, if a Party contends that 

a particular response contains Confidential Information it shall produce said response on 

a separate pleading to be served concurrently with the non-confidential responses. The 

title of the separate responsive discovery document should indicate that said responses 

are “CONFIDENTIAL.”

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3. Any designation of deposition testimony (or exhibits referred to therein) as 

Confidential Information shall be made at the time such testimony is given. When 

transcripts of any such deposition testimony are prepared, the reporter shall 

conspicuously mark each page on which testimony that concerned Confidential 

Information appears with an appropriate legend signifying its confidential status, and 

shall place the following legend on the cover of the transcript containing the following: 

“This transcript contains Confidential Information subject to a Stipulated Protective 

Order.”

4. This Stipulated Protective Order shall control the use and disclosure of all 

Confidential Information contained in documents, communications, and other 

information produced in connection with the discovery propounded by either Party in this 

litigation. In the event Confidential documents, communications, or other information 

has been produced by either party prior to the execution of this Stipulated Protective 

Order, the producing party may retroactively designate such information as Confidential 

Information. If the non-designating party disputes the Confidential designation, then the 

non-designating party shall, consistent with the terms in paragraph 8 below, give notice 

in a reasonable time to the opposing attorneys of record of such objection and the Parties 

shall make a reasonable, good faith effort to resolve the issue. If the Parties are unable to 

resolve the issue, the objecting party may move the Court for appropriate relief. Pending 

the Court’s ruling on any such motion, the information shall continue to be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under this Stipulated Protective Order. This Stipulated Protective 

Order shall not restrict any Party’s ability to use or disclose public information obtained 

from any non-party and/or compiled from independent sources. The parties reserve the 

right to seek some additional form of protection from the Court for certain documents 

which may include an “attorney’s eyes” only designation or an in camera review by the 

Court.

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5. Confidential Information shall not be used by or disclosed to any other 

person except as set forth below, unless agreed to in writing by counsel for the Party who 

in good faith designated said information Confidential Information:

a. The named Parties, including dismissed Defendant Joseph Coppola;

b. The above-entitled Court, court reporter(s) and third party witnesses 

in connection with giving or taking testimony in this litigation by deposition or at trial; 

provided that such third party witnesses agree in writing to follow the terms and 

conditions of this Stipulated Protective Order prior to receipt of any documents subject to 

this Stipulated Protective Order. After third party witnesses have agreed in writing to 

follow the terms and conditions of this Stipulated Protective Order, they may only be 

shown copies of documents marked “CONFIDENTIAL” in preparation for giving 

testimony and during their testimony while in the presence of either Party’s attorney of 

record. Third Party witnesses may not retain any materials containing Confidential 

Information and counsel for the Parties shall use best efforts to ensure third party witness 

compliance. 

c. Legal counsel, attorneys of record, their associated attorneys, and 

their support staff, including financial, paralegal, and clerical personnel who are 

employed or retained by attorneys of record and who will be involved in the preparation 

for, and the trial of, this litigation; and

d. Experts or consultants, not including Parties, who are requested by 

counsel to furnish technical or other expert services or to give testimony or otherwise to 

prepare for the trial of this litigation. Experts or consultants retained by the Parties are 

required to agree in writing to follow the terms and conditions of this Stipulated 

Protective Order prior to receipt of any documents subject to this Stipulated Protective 

Order.

6. Material (e.g., documents, testimony, discovery responses) designated as 

Confidential Information pursuant to this Stipulated Protective Order, the information 

contained therein, and any summaries, copies, or abstracts, or other documents derived in 

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whole or in part from such Confidential Information shall be used only for the purposes 

of this litigation and not for any business or other purpose. 

7. In the event any Confidential Information is used in any court or 

proceeding in this litigation, it shall not lose its confidential status through such use, and 

the Party using such Confidential Information shall protect its confidentiality during such

use. 

8. If a Party or their attorneys of record object to another Party’s designation 

of information as “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party shall give notice in a reasonable time to 

the opposing attorneys of record of such objection and the Parties shall make a 

reasonable, good faith effort to resolve the issue. If the Parties are unable to resolve the 

issue, the objecting party may move the Court for appropriate relief. Pending the Court’s 

ruling on any such motion, the information shall continue to be treated as 

“CONFIDENTIAL” under this Stipulated Protective Order. 

9. The Parties agree that in the spirit of promoting discovery, if either Party 

produces a document that may or does fall into a potentially protected non-discoverable 

category (such as attorney-client, attorney work product, and/or proprietary and trade 

secrets), the Party receiving such document agrees that the production of said document 

does not waive the protection of the document if the producing Party notifies the 

receiving Party of the confidential nature of the document. If the document is properly 

designated as privileged under the attorney-client privilege or attorney-work product 

doctrine, said privileged document will be withheld from any and all persons, including 

those listed in paragraph 5, returned immediately to the producing Party, and precluded 

from use as evidence in this matter. 

10. This Stipulated Protective Order shall not impact a Party’s right to object to 

any discovery request on any grounds.

11. This Stipulated Protective Order shall be without prejudice to the rights of 

the Parties to apply for additional or different protection if they deem it necessary.

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12. Upon final termination of this litigation, any originals or reproductions of 

any documents marked “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be returned to the Party (at its expense) 

who made the designation. The terms of this Stipulated Protective Order shall continue 

to bind the Parties after this litigation is concluded. 

13. This Stipulated Protective Order shall remain in effect until another order 

modifies, supersedes or terminates it.

14. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be 

deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same 

instrument. The Parties agree that signatures transmitted or received via facsimile shall 

be fully acceptable to them.

IT IS SO STIPULATED.

Dated:March 6, 2014 Respectfully submitted,

LAW OFFICES OF PARNELL FOX

By:_/s/ Parnell Fox____________________________

Parnell Fox

Attorney for Plaintiff LORENA LOPEZ

Dated:March 7, 2014 Respectfully submitted,

SEYFARTH SHAW LLP

By:___/s/Anthony Musante______________________

Mark P. Grajski

Anthony J. Musante

Attorneys for Defendant DEVRY UNIVERSITY, 

INC.

ORDER

Good cause appearing, the above Stipultation is accepted and adopted as the 

Order of this Court. Nothing herein, however, abrogates or excuses compliance with 

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Court rules regarding prerequisites for filing documents under seal.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 10, 2014 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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