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Parties Involved:
County of Kern
Defendant
Jane Doe
Plaintiff
Cesar Navejar
Defendant

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PROTECTIVE ORDER

CHAIN | COHN | STILES

1731 CHESTER AVENUE

BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301

(661) 323-4000

CHAIN | COHN | STILES

David K. Cohn, Esq. (SBN 68768) | dcohn@chainlaw.com

Neil K. Gehlawat, Esq. (SBN 289388) | ngehlawat@chainlaw.com

1731 Chester Avenue

Bakersfield, CA 93301

Telephone: (661) 323-4000

Facsimile: (661) 324-1352

THE LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS C. SEABAUGH 

Thomas C. Seabaugh, Esq., SBN 272458 | tseabaugh@seabaughfirm.com

128 North Fair Oaks Avenue

Pasadena, California 91103

Telephone: (818) 928-5290

Attorneys for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JANE DOE, an individual,

Plaintiff,

v.

COUNTY OF KERN, a municipality; 

CESAR NAVEJAR, an individual; and 

DOES 1-10,

Defendants.

CASE NO. 1:15-CV-01637-DAD-JLT

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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COME NOW the Parties in this matter and jointly present this Protective Order for the 

Court’s approval.

PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSE 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. 

Accordingly, the Parties in Jane Doe v. County of Kern and Cesar Navejar, USDC Eastern District 

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of California Case No. 1:15-CV-01637-DAD-JLT petitioned the Court to enter the following 

Protective Order. Good Cause appearing, the Court ORDERS as follows:

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 

principals. As set forth in Section 12.3, below, this Protective Order does not entitle the parties to 

file confidential information 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 Procedure26(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, store, 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.

2.6 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 names as a Party to this action.

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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 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 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 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 protections 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 unjustifiable within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are 

sworn 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.

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated 

for protections do not qualify for protection, the 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 

protections under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 

produced. Designation in conformity with 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” 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 NonParty 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 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).

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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 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, the challenge must be brought within a reasonable time or it is waived.

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 state 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.

6.3 Judicial Intervention

If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge after meeting and conferring, the Challenging 

Party SHALL initiate an informal, telephonic conference with the assigned Magistrate Judge. At 

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that conference, the Court will attempt to resolve the matter without need for formal motion 

practice. If, in the Court’s view, the matter can only be resolved through formal motion practice, 

the Court will authorize the Challenging party to file a motion which SHALL comply with Local 

Rule 251(c).

As with motions to compel, the Challenging Party SHALL bear the initial burden of 

demonstrating that the Designating Party has improperly marked the material as confidential. If 

this showing is made, the burden will shift and as with motions for protective orders under Federal 

Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c), the burden of establishing the need for the confidentiality – as with 

any evidentiary privilege – must be borne by the Designating Party who is asserting it. 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. 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 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).

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 “CONFIDENTAL” 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 

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disclose the information for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgement 

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 “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be Bound” 

(Exhibit A);

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgement and Agreement to Be 

Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the 

court. Pages 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 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. 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 Designation Party. Such notification shall 

include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

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(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 

Protective Order; and

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by 

the Designating Party who’s 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 NonParty 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.

(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 Non-Party 

that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 

agreement with a Non-Party;

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(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the 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 NonParty.

(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. 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 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 “Acknowledgement and Agreement 

to Be Bound” that is attached hereto to 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 

Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This 

provision is not intended to modify whatever produce may be established in an e-discovery order 

that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 

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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 Obligations

The entry of this Protective Order does not imply and Party’s waiver of any right it 

otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground 

not addressed in this 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 the applicable local rules. Protected Material may only be filed under seal pursuant to a court 

order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. 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 is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the 

information in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. 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 

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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 copes that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective 

Order as set forth in Section4 (DURATION).

DATED: July __, 2016 CHAIN | COHN | STILES

/s/ Neil K. Gehlawat

BY: ______________________________

 Neil K. Gehlawat

 Attorney for Plaintiff

DATED: July __, 2016 LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS C. 

SEABAUGH

/s/ Thomas C. Seabaugh

BY: ______________________________

 Thomas C. Seabaugh

 Attorney for Plaintiff

DATED: July __, 2016 COUNTY COUNSEL, COUNTY OF KERN

/s/ Marshall S. Fontes

BY: ______________________________

 Marshall S. Fontes

 Attorney for Defendant, County of Kern

DATED: July __, 2016 WEAKLEY & ARENDT. LLP

/s/ James D. Weakley

BY: ______________________________

 James D. Weakley

 Attorney for Defendant, Cesar Navejar

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 18, 2016 /s/ Jennifer L. Thurston 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 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 Protective Order that was issued by the Unites States 

District Court for the Eastern District of California on _________________, 2016 in the case of

Jane Doe v. County of Kern and Cesar Navejar, USDC Eastern District of California Case No. 

1:15-CV-01637-DAD-JLT.

I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 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 matter 

any information or item that is subject to this 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 Protective Order, even 

if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint _________________________________ [print/type full name] of 

_______________________________________ [print/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 Protective Order.

Date:__________________

City and State were sworn and signed: ________________________________

Printed name: ________________________

Signature: ____________________________

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