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Parties Involved:
Dollar General Corporation
Defendant
Ken Yuh
Plaintiff

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STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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DAVID F. FAUSTMAN (SBN 81862)

dfaustman@foxrothschild.com

JESSE KOPPIN (SBN 270178)

jkoppin@foxrothschild.com

FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP

1800 Century Park East, Suite 300

Los Angeles, CA 90067-1506

Telephone: 310.598.4150

Facsimile: 310.556.9828

Attorneys for Defendant

Dollar General Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KEN YUH

Plaintiff,

v.

DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION, a

Tennessee Corporation, and DOES 1

individual, and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive

Defendants.

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STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE

ORDER AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

Complaint Filed: May 6, 2015

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between Defendant Dollar General

Corporation, (“Defendant”) and Plaintiff Ken Yuh (“Plaintiff”) (collectively, the “Parties”), through

their respective attorneys of record undersigned below, that in order to facilitate the prompt and

thorough exchange of documents between the parties, and with regard to documents produced and/or

exchanged by Defendants or Plaintiff in the course of this action which contain private, confidential,

proprietary, commercial, and/or trade-secret information of Defendants or Plaintiff, the following

procedures shall govern:

1. DEFINITIONS

A. Challenging Party: a Party that challenges the designation of information or items

under this Agreement.

B. “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that contain: (i) trade secret information as

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defined by Cal. Civ. Code §3426.11; (ii) confidential proprietary, financial, or medical information

pertaining to a Party; (iii) internal company operations documents not readily available to the public;

(iv) information which, if disclosed, could constitute a violation of any third party’s right of privacy

or otherwise violates an obligation of confidentiality owed to a third party, such as personnel records

and medical records, and other records containing employee social security numbers, dates of birth,

home addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses; and/or (v) information or material that

may not be disclosed pursuant to any federal or state law or regulation, including but not limited to

the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

C. Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support

staff).

D. Designating Party: a Party that designates information or items that it produces in

disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

E. 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, testimony,

transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to

discovery in this action.

F. Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to the

action who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultant

in this action.

G. House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party to this action.

H. 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.

1 Cal. Civ. Code §3426.1(d) provides that “Trade secret means information, including a formula,

pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that: (1) Derives

independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the

public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (2)

Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.”

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I. 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).

J. Producing Party: a Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in this

action.

K. 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.

L. Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

“CONFIDENTIAL.”

M. Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a

Producing Party.

2. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this action, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this

Stipulation 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 (A) dismissal of all

claims and defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (B) 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.

3. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party that

designates information or items for protection under this Stipulation 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 Agreement. If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it

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designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify

the other Party that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

B. Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Stipulation,

Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Stipulation must be clearly

so designated before the material is disclosed or produced. Designation in conformity with this

Agreement requires:

1. 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).

2. For testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, the

Designating Party may identify on the record, before the close of the deposition, hearing, or other

proceeding, all protected testimony. Alternatively, the Designating Party may identify protected

testimony by written notice, sent by counsel to all parties within ten (10) days after the receipt of the

transcript of the deposition or other pretrial testimony provided that only those portions of the

transcripts designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” shall be deemed Protected Material. All depositions

will be treated as Protected Material until the expiration of the ten (10) day period. The parties may

modify this procedure for any particular deposition, through agreement on the record at such

deposition or in writing, without further order of the Court.

3. 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).

C. 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 Stipulation for such material. Upon timely correction of a

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designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in

accordance with the provisions of this Stipulation.

4. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

A. Basic Principles & Disposition of Protected Material. A Receiving Party may use

Protected Material that is disclosed or produced by another Party in connection with this action only

for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this action. It may not be used for any purpose in

any other litigation other than the current action. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Stipulation. Within 60 days after

the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 3 above, each Receiving Party must

destroy all 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.

B. 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:

1. 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 action;

2. the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the

Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this action;

3. Experts (as defined in this Stipulation) of the Receiving Party to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and

Agreement to Be Bound” (attached hereto as Exhibit A);

4. the Court and its personnel;

5. court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock

jurors, and Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this action;

6. during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary, unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the Court; and

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7. the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information.

5. 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 Stipulation, the Receiving

Party must immediately: (A) notify the Designating Party in writing 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 Stipulation,

and (D) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

6. 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 Receiving Parties must (A)

promptly destroy the specified material and any copies they have; (B) not use or disclose the

material or any information contained therein; (C) take reasonable steps to retrieve the material if the

Receiving Party disclosed it before being notified by the Producing Party; and (D) promptly present

the material to the Court under seal for a determination of the claim. The Producing Party must

preserve the information until the claim is resolved. 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. Insofar as the Parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of

material, communications, or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product

protection, the Parties may incorporate their agreement in a separate stipulated protective order

submitted to the Court.

7. MISCELLANEOUS

A. Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Stipulation abridges the right of any person to

seek its modification by the Court in the future.

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EXHIBIT A

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 in United States District Court in the case of Ken Yuh v.

Dollar General Corporation, et al., Case No. 1:15-CV-00998-JLT. I agree to comply with and 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 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

__________________ 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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