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Parties Involved:
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Defendant
Caridad (Cari) Upton
Plaintiff
Tanner Upton
Plaintiff

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DENTONS US LLP

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HARRISON STREET, SUITE 1210

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94612

415 882 5000

Daniel S. Glass (SBN 140819)

Attorney at Law

641 Fulton Avenue, Suite 200

Sacramento, CA 95825

Telephone: (916) 483-1971 

Facsimile: (916) 483-1371 

Email: dsglawyer@sbcglobal.net 

Attorney for Plaintiffs

CARIDAD (CARI) UPTON & TANNER UPTON

SONIA MARTIN (SBN 191148)

MENGMENG ZHANG (SBN 280411)

Dentons US LLP

1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1210

Oakland, California 94612

Telephone: (415) 882-5000 

Facsimile: (415) 882-0300 

Email: sonia.martin@dentons.com 

 mengmeng.zhang@dentons.com 

Attorneys for Defendant

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO DIVISION

CARIDAD (CARI) UPTON & TANNER 

UPTON,

Plaintiffs,

vs. 

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE 

COMPANY (NATIONWIDE); and, DOES 

1-20 inclusive, 

Defendants.

Case No. 2:24-cv-01610-JDP

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

PROTECTIVE ORDER

Judge: Hon. Jeremy D. Peterson

Notice of Removal Filed: June 6, 2024 

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PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Defendant contends and plaintiffs dispute that 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, including, but not limited to, confidential and proprietary information obtained or 

created by Defendant in the course of processing Plaintiff’s insurance application and claim.

Despite plaintiffs disagreement, plaintiffs desire to move this case forward at this time without the 

need for court intervention. 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.

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). 

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, 

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

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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 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. 

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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 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 

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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. 

6.2 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 14 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.

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

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under 

Civil Local Rule 251within 21 days of the initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the 

parties agreeing that the meet and confer process will not resolve their dispute, whichever is 

earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the 

movant has complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. 

Failure by the Designating Party to make such a motion including the required declaration within 

21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall automatically waive the confidentiality designation for 

each challenged designation. In addition, the Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a 

confidentiality designation at any time if there is good cause for doing so, including a challenge to 

the designation of a deposition transcript or any portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to 

this provision must be accompanied by a competent declaration affirming that the movant has 

complied with the meet and confer requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph. 

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).

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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 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 NonParty’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 NonParty’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, 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 

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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. 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 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 141 unless otherwise instructed by 

the court. 

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13. FINAL DISPOSITION

After the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each Receiving Party 

agrees to continue to be bound by this Stipulation and Protective Order and will not disclose any 

Protected 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. 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, consultant and expert work product and even the 

Protected Material as archival copies. All such Protected Material and documents remain subject to 

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

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Dated: Jan 13, 2025 LAW OFFICE OF DANIEL S. GLASS

By: /s/ Daniel S. Glass__________________ Daniel S. Glass

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

CARIDAD (CARI) UPTON & TANNER 

UPTON

Dated: December 17, 2024 DENTONS US LLP

By: /s/ Mengmeng Zhang 

Mengmeng Zhang 

Attorneys for Defendant NATIONWIDE 

MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: January 15, 2025 _____________________________________ 

Hon. Jeremy D. Peterson

United States Magistrate Judge

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CASE NO. 2:24-CV-01610-JDP STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

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DENTONS US LLP

1999

HARRISON STREET, SUITE 1210

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94612-4709

415 882 5000

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ 

[print or type full address], 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 Eastern District of California on [date] in the case of ___________ Caridad (Cari) Upton & 

Tanner Upton vs. Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. (Nationwide), et al., U.S. District Court for the 

Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:24-cv-01610-JDP. 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 

Eastern 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: _________________________________ 

Printed name: _______________________________ 

Signature: __________________________________ 

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