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Parties Involved:
Jill Cook
Defendant
Ronald J. Martinez
Defendant
Armond Sarkis
Plaintiff
Yolo County Public Agency Risk Management Insurance Authority
Defendant

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LAW OFFICES OF

MATHENY 

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Law Offices of

MATHENY SEARS LINKERT & JAIME LLP

MATTHEW C. JAIME (SBN 140340)

ROBERT W. SWEETIN (SBN 297130)

3638 American River Drive

Sacramento, California 95864

Telephone: (916) 978-3434

Facsimile: (916) 978-3430

Attorneys for Defendants, YOLO COUNTY 

PUBLIC AGENCY RISK MANAGEMENT 

INSURANCE AUTHORITY, and JILL COOK, 

individually

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARMOND SARKIS

Plaintiff,

v.

YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC AGENCY 

RISK MANAGEMENT INSURANCE 

AUTHORITY, JILL COOK, individually 

and in her official capacity, and 

RONALD J. MARTINEZ,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:21-CV-01097-TLN-JDP

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

PROTECTIVE ORDER - CONFIDENTIAL 

DESIGNATION 

Complaint filed: June 22, 2021

Trial date: Unassigned 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff Armond Sarkis, pro per, and 

Defendants Yolo County Public Agency Risk Management Insurance Authority and Jill Cook by 

and through their respective counsel of record, that in order to facilitate the exchange of information 

and documents which may be subject to confidentiality limitations on disclosure due to federal 

laws, state laws, and privacy rights, the parties stipulate as follows:

1. In this Stipulation and Protective Order, the words set forth below shall have the 

following meanings: 

a. “Proceeding” means United States District Court, Eastern District of 

California, Case No. 2:21-CV-01097-TLN-JDP;

b. “Court” means the Hon. Tory L. Nunley and the Hon. Jeremy D. Peterson, 

or any other judge to which this Proceeding may be assigned, including Court staff participating in 

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such proceedings. 

c. “Confidential” means any information which is in the possession of a 

Designating Party who believes in good faith that such information is entitled to confidential 

treatment under applicable law. 

d. “Confidential Materials” means any Documents, Testimony or Information 

as defined below designated as “Confidential” pursuant to the provisions of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

e. “Designating Party” means the Party that designates Materials as 

“Confidential.” 

f. “Disclose” or “Disclosed” or “Disclosure” means to reveal, divulge, give, or 

make available Materials, or any part thereof, or any information contained therein. 

g. “Documents” means (i) any “Writing,” “Original,” And “Duplicate” as those 

terms are defined by California Evidence Code Sections 250, 255, and 260, which have been 

produced in discovery in this Proceeding by any person, including, but not limited to, third parties 

via third party subpoena, and (ii) any copies, reproductions, or summaries of all or any part of the 

foregoing. 

h. “Information” means the content of Documents or Testimony. 

i. “Testimony” means all depositions, declarations or other testimony taken or 

used in this Proceeding. 

2. The Designating Party shall have the right to designate as “Confidential” any 

Documents, Testimony or Information that the Designating Party in good faith believes to contain 

non-public information that is entitled to confidential treatment under applicable law. 

3. The entry of this Stipulation and Protective Order does not alter, waive, modify, or 

abridge any right, privilege or protection otherwise available to any Party with respect to the 

discovery of matters, including but not limited to any Party’s right to assert the attorney-client 

privilege, the attorney work product doctrine, or other privileges, or any Party’s right to contest any 

such assertion. 

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4. Any Documents, Testimony or Information to be designated as “Confidential” must 

be clearly so designated before the Document, Testimony or Information is Disclosed or produced. 

a. For purposes of this Agreement, the parties agree that the following 

documents are “Confidential” as set forth in this Agreement and are so designated without any 

action by any party:

1. Employment Records related to Plaintiff Armond Sarkis; 

2. Any financial records related to Plaintiff Armond Sarkis, including, 

but not limited to payroll records, benefit information, and the like. 

b. Should any party believe that any other document or testimony should be 

designated Confidential as defined herein, then that party shall so designate as set forth in this order. 

1. The ”Confidential” designation should not obscure or interfere with 

the legibility of the designated Information. 

a. For Documents (apart from transcripts of depositions or other 

pretrial or trial proceedings), the Designating Party must affix the legend “Confidential” on each 

page of any Document containing such designated Confidential Material. 

b. For Testimony given in depositions the Designating Party 

may either: 

i. identify on the record, before the close of the 

deposition, all “Confidential” Testimony, by specifying all portions of the Testimony that qualify 

as “Confidential;” or 

ii. designate the entirety of the Testimony at the 

deposition as “Confidential” (before the deposition is concluded) with the right to identify more 

specific portions of the Testimony as to which protection is sought within 30 days following receipt 

of the deposition transcript. In circumstances where portions of the deposition Testimony are 

designated for protection, the transcript pages containing “Confidential” Information may be 

separately bound by the court reporter, who must affix to the top of each page the legend 

“Confidential,” as instructed by the Designating Party. 

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c. For Information produced in some form other than 

Documents, and for any other tangible items, including, without limitation, compact discs or DVDs, 

the Designating Party must 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 portions of the 

Information or item warrant protection, the Designating Party, to the extent practicable, shall 

identify the “Confidential” portions.

5. The inadvertent production by any of the undersigned Parties or non-Parties to the 

Proceedings of any Document, Testimony or Information during discovery in this Proceeding 

without a “Confidential” designation, shall be without prejudice to any claim that such item is 

“Confidential” and such Party shall not be held to have waived any rights by such inadvertent 

production. In the event that any Document, Testimony or Information that is subject to a 

“Confidential” designation is inadvertently produced without such designation, the Party that 

inadvertently produced the document shall give written notice of such inadvertent production 

within twenty (20) days of discovery of the inadvertent production, together with a further copy of 

the subject Document, Testimony or Information designated as “Confidential” (the “Inadvertent 

Production Notice”). Upon receipt of such Inadvertent Production Notice, the Party that received 

the inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information shall promptly destroy the 

inadvertently produced Document, Testimony or Information and all copies thereof, or, at the 

expense of the producing Party, return such together with all copies of such Document, Testimony 

or Information to counsel for the producing Party and shall retain only the “Confidential” 

designated Materials. Should the receiving Party choose to destroy such inadvertently produced 

Document, Testimony or Information, the receiving Party shall notify the producing Party in 

writing of such destruction within ten (10) days of receipt of written notice of the inadvertent 

production. This provision is not intended to apply to any inadvertent production of any Information 

protected by attorney-client or work product privileges. In the event that this provision conflicts 

with any applicable law regarding waiver of confidentiality through the inadvertent production of 

Documents, Testimony or Information, such law shall govern. 

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6. In the event that a Party receiving Documents, Testimony or Information in 

discovery designated as “Confidential” objects to such designation with respect to any or all of such 

items, said party shall advise the Designating Party, in writing, of such objections, the specific 

Documents, Testimony or Information to which each objection pertains, and the specific reasons 

and support for such objections (the “Designation Objections”). The Designating Party shall have 

thirty (30) days from receipt of the written Designation Objections to either:

a. agree in writing to de-designate Documents, Testimony or Information 

pursuant to any or all of the Designation Objections; and/or 

b. file a motion with the Court seeking to uphold any or all designations on 

Documents, Testimony or Information addressed by the Designation Objections (the “Designation 

Motion”). Pending a resolution of the Designation Motion by the Court, any and all existing 

designations on the Documents, Testimony or Information at issue in such Motion shall remain in 

place. The Designating Party shall have the burden on any Designation Motion of establishing the 

applicability of its “Confidential” designation. In the event that the Designation Objections are 

neither timely agreed to nor timely addressed in the Designation Motion, then such Documents, 

Testimony or Information shall be de-designated in accordance with the Designation Objection 

applicable to such material. 

7. Access to and/or Disclosure of Confidential Materials designated as “Confidential” 

shall be permitted only to the following persons: 

a. the Court; 

b. (1) Attorneys of record in the Proceedings and their affiliated attorneys, 

paralegals, clerical and secretarial staff employed by such attorneys who are actively involved in 

the Proceedings and are not employees of any Party. 

(2) In-house counsel to the undersigned Parties and the paralegal, 

clerical and secretarial staff employed by such counsel. Provided, however, that each non-lawyer 

given access to Confidential Materials shall be advised that such Materials are being Disclosed 

pursuant to, and are subject to, the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order and that they may 

not be Disclosed other than pursuant to its terms; 

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c. those officers, directors, partners, members, employees and agents of all 

non-designating Parties that counsel for such Parties deems necessary to aid counsel in the 

prosecution and defense of this Proceeding; provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of 

Confidential Materials to any such officer, director, partner, member, employee or agent, counsel 

for the Party making the Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and Protective Order to 

such person, shall explain that such person is bound to follow the terms of such Order, and shall 

secure the signature of such person on a statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A; 

d. court reporters in this Proceeding (whether at depositions, hearings, or any 

other proceeding); 

e. any deposition, trial or hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously has 

had access to the Confidential Materials, or who is currently or was previously an officer, director, 

partner, member, employee or agent of an entity that has had access to the Confidential Materials; 

f. any deposition or non-trial hearing witness in the Proceeding who previously 

did not have access to the Confidential Materials; provided, however, that each such witness given 

access to Confidential Materials shall be advised that such Materials are being Disclosed pursuant 

to, and are subject to, the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order and that they may not be 

Disclosed other than pursuant to its terms; 

g. mock jury participants, provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of 

Confidential Materials to any such mock jury participant, counsel for the Party making the 

Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this Stipulation and Protective Order to such person, shall explain 

that such person is bound to follow the terms of such Order, and shall secure the signature of such 

person on a statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. 

h. outside experts or expert consultants consulted by the undersigned Parties or 

their counsel in connection with the Proceeding, whether or not retained to testify at any oral 

hearing; provided, however, that prior to the Disclosure of Confidential Materials to any such expert 

or expert consultant, counsel for the Party making the Disclosure shall deliver a copy of this 

Stipulation and Protective Order to such person, shall explain its terms to such person, and shall 

secure the signature of such person on a statement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. It shall 

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be the obligation of counsel, upon learning of any breach or threatened breach of this Stipulation 

and Protective Order by any such expert or expert consultant, to promptly notify counsel for the 

Designating Party of such breach or threatened breach; and i. any other person that the Designating 

Party agrees to in writing. 

8. Confidential Materials shall be used by the persons receiving them only for the 

purposes of preparing for, conducting, participating in the conduct of, and/or prosecuting and/or 

defending the Proceeding, and not for any business or other purpose whatsoever.

9. Any Party to the Proceeding (or other person subject to the terms of this Stipulation 

and Protective Order) may ask the Court, after appropriate notice to the other Parties to the 

Proceeding, to modify or grant relief from any provision of this Stipulation and Protective Order. 

10. Entering into, agreeing to, and/or complying with the terms of this Stipulation and 

Protective Order shall not: 

a. operate as an admission by any person that any particular Document, 

Testimony or Information marked “Confidential” contains or reflects trade secrets, proprietary, 

confidential or competitively sensitive business, commercial, financial or personal information; or 

b. prejudice in any way the right of any Party (or any other person subject to 

the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order): 

1. to seek a determination by the Court of whether any particular 

Confidential Material should be subject to protection as “Confidential” under the terms of this 

Stipulation and Protective Order; or 

2. to seek relief from the Court on appropriate notice to all other Parties 

to the Proceeding from any provision(s) of this Stipulation and Protective Order, either generally 

or as to any particular Document, Material or Information. 

11. Any Party to the Proceeding who has not executed this Stipulation and Protective 

Order as of the time it is presented to the Court for signature may thereafter become a Party to this 

Stipulation and Protective Order by signing (or through counsel) and dating a copy thereof and 

filing the same with the Court, and serving copies of such signed and dated copy upon the other 

Parties to this Stipulation and Protective Order. 

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12. Any Information that may be produced by a non-Party witness in discovery in the 

Proceeding pursuant to subpoena or otherwise may be designated by such non-Party as 

“Confidential” under the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order, and any such designation 

by a non-Party shall have the same force and effect, and create the same duties and obligations, as 

if made by one of the undersigned Parties hereto. Any such designation shall also function as a 

consent by such producing Party to the authority of the Court in the Proceeding to resolve and 

conclusively determine any motion or other application made by any person or Party with respect 

to such designation, or any other matter otherwise arising under this Stipulation and Protective 

Order. 

13. If any person subject to this Stipulation and Protective Order who has custody of 

any Confidential Materials receives a subpoena or other process (“Subpoena”) from any 

government or other person or entity demanding production of Confidential Materials, the recipient 

of the Subpoena shall promptly give notice of the same by electronic mail transmission, followed 

by either express mail or overnight delivery to counsel of record for the Designating Party, and 

shall furnish such counsel with a copy of the Subpoena. Upon receipt of this notice, the Designating 

Party may, in its sole discretion and at its own cost, move to quash or limit the Subpoena, otherwise 

oppose production of the Confidential Materials, and/or seek to obtain confidential treatment of 

such Confidential Materials from the subpoenaing person or entity to the fullest extent available 

under law. The recipient of the Subpoena may not produce any Documents, Testimony or 

Information pursuant to the Subpoena prior to the date specified for production on the Subpoena. 

14. Nothing in this Stipulation and Protective Order shall be construed to preclude either 

Party from asserting in good faith that certain Confidential Materials require additional protection. 

The Parties shall meet and confer to agree upon the terms of such additional protection. 

15. If, after execution of this Stipulation and Protective Order, any Confidential 

Materials submitted by a Designating Party under the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order 

is Disclosed by a non-Designating Party to any person other than in the manner authorized by this 

Stipulation and Protective Order, the non-Designating Party responsible for the Disclosure shall 

bring all pertinent facts relating to the Disclosure of such Confidential Materials to the immediate 

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attention of the Designating Party. 

16. This Stipulation and Protective Order is entered into without prejudice to the right 

of any Party to knowingly waive the applicability of this Stipulation and Protective Order to any 

Confidential Materials designated by that Party. If the Designating Party uses Confidential 

Materials in a non-Confidential manner, then the Designating Party shall advise that the designation 

no longer applies. 

17. Where any Confidential Materials, or Information derived from Confidential 

Materials, is included in any motion or other proceeding the following shall apply: If Confidential 

Materials or Information derived from Confidential Materials are submitted to or otherwise 

disclosed to the Court in connection with discovery motions and proceedings, the same shall be 

separately filed under seal with the clerk of the Court in an envelope marked: “CONFIDENTIAL 

– FILED UNDER SEAL PURSUANT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER AND WITHOUT ANY 

FURTHER SEALING ORDER REQUIRED.” In the event that a party wishes to use any 

Confidential Material, or any document containing or making reference to the contents of such 

material, in any pleading or document filed with the Court, that party must seek permission to file 

such the Confidential Material under seal pursuant to Local Rule 141. Designating material as 

confidential, without more, is insufficient to obtain a sealing order.

18. The Parties shall meet and confer regarding the procedures for use of Confidential 

Materials at trial and shall move the Court for entry of an appropriate order. 

19. Nothing in this Stipulation and Protective Order shall affect the admissibility into 

evidence of Confidential Materials, or abridge the rights of any person to seek judicial review or to 

pursue other appropriate judicial action with respect to any ruling made by the Court concerning 

the issue of the status of Protected Material.

20. This Stipulation and Protective Order shall continue to be binding after the 

conclusion of this Proceeding and all subsequent proceedings arising from this Proceeding, except 

that a Party may seek the written permission of the Designating Party or may move the Court for 

relief from the provisions of this Stipulation and Protective Order. To the extent permitted by law, 

the Court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce, modify, or reconsider this Stipulation and Protective 

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Order, even after the Proceeding is terminated. 

21. Upon written request made within thirty (30) days after the settlement or other 

termination of the Proceeding, the undersigned Parties shall have thirty (30) days to either 

a. promptly return to each Designating Party all Confidential Materials and all 

copies thereof (except that counsel for each Party may maintain in its files, in continuing 

compliance with the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order, all work product, and one copy 

of each pleading filed with the Court [and one copy of each deposition together with the exhibits 

marked at the deposition)]*, 

b. agree with the Designating Party upon appropriate methods and certification 

of destruction or other disposition of such Confidential Materials, or 

c. as to any Documents, Testimony or other Information not addressed by subparagraphs (a) and (b), file a motion seeking a Court order regarding proper preservation of such 

Materials. To the extent permitted by law the Court shall retain continuing jurisdiction to review 

and rule upon the motion referred to in sub-paragraph (c) herein. 

22. After this Stipulation and Protective Order has been signed all Parties (or their 

counsel), it shall be presented to the Court for entry. The parties, and if applicable their counsel, 

agree to be bound by the terms set forth herein with regard to any Confidential Materials that have 

been produced before the Court signs this Stipulation and Protective Order. 

23. The Parties and all signatories to the Certification attached hereto as Exhibit A agree 

to be bound by this Stipulation and Protective Order pending its approval and entry by the Court. 

In the event that the Court modifies this Stipulation and Protective Order, or in the event that the 

Court enters a different Protective Order, the Parties agree to be bound by this Stipulation and 

Protective Order until such time as the Court may enter such a different Order. It is the Parties’ 

intent to be bound by the terms of this Stipulation and Protective Order pending its entry so as to 

allow for immediate production of Confidential Materials under the terms herein. This Stipulation 

and Protective Order may be executed in counterparts. 

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IT IS SO STIPULATED

Dated: March 27, 2023 

 ____________________________________

 ARMOND SARKIS, Plaintiff in Pro Per

Dated: March 23, 2023 MATHENY SEARS LINKERT & JAIME LLP

By: /s/ Matthew C. Jaime

MATTHEW C. JAIME

ROBERT W. SWEETIN

Attorneys for Defendant YOLO COUNTY 

PUBLIC AGENCY RISK 

MANAGEMENT INSURANCE 

AUTHORITY and JILL COOK

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ORDER

ORDER GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, the Court hereby approves this Stipulation and 

Protective Order. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 13, 2023 

JEREMY D. PETERSON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

CERTIFICATION RE CONFIDENTIAL DISCOVERY MATERIALS

I hereby acknowledge that I, ___________________________________[NAME], 

______________________________________________ [POSITION AND EMPLOYER], am 

about to receive Confidential Materials supplied in connection with the Proceeding, United States 

District Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:21-CV-01097-TLN-JDP. I certify that I 

understand that the Confidential Materials are provided to me subject to the terms and restrictions 

of the Stipulation and Protective Order filed in this Proceeding. I have been given a copy of the 

Stipulation and Protective Order; I have read it, and I agree to be bound by its terms. 

I understand that Confidential Materials, as defined in the Stipulation and Protective Order, 

including any notes or other records that may be made regarding any such materials, shall not be 

Disclosed to anyone except as expressly permitted by the Stipulation and Protective Order. I will 

not copy or use, except solely for the purposes of this Proceeding, any Confidential Materials 

obtained pursuant to this Protective Order, except as provided therein or otherwise ordered by the 

Court in the Proceeding. 

I further understand that I am to retain all copies of all Confidential Materials provided to 

me in the Proceeding in a secure manner, and that all copies of such Materials are to remain in my 

personal custody until termination of my participation in this Proceeding, whereupon the copies of 

such Materials will be returned to counsel who provided me with such Materials. 

I declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California, that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed this _____ day of ______, 20__, at __________________.

DATED:_________________________ BY: ______________________________ 

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