Criswell v. Boudreaux

District Court, E.D. California·Decided October 14, 2020·No. 1:20-cv-01048·Unknown

Opinion

JACOB S. KREILKAMP (State Bar No. 248210) jacob.kreilkamp@mto.com WILLIAM D. TEMKO (State Bar No. 98858) william.temko@mto.com SARA A. McDERMOTT (State Bar No. 307564) sara.mcdermott@mto.com OMAR H. NOURELDIN (State Bar No. 301549) omar.noureldin@mto.com ARIEL TESHUVA (State Bar No. 324238) ariel.teshuva@mto.com ESTALYN S. MARQUIS (State Bar No. 329780) estalyn.marquis@mto.com 350 South Grand Avenue Fiftieth Floor Los Angeles, California 90071-3426 Telephone: (213) 683-9100 Facsimile: (213) 687-3702 KATHLEEN GUNERATNE (State Bar No. 250751) KGuneratne@alcunc.org AMY GILBERT (State Bar No. 316121) AGilbert@aclunc.org ACLU FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 39 Drumm Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 621-2493

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO DIVISION Charles Criswell, Levi Johnson, Samuel Case No. 1:20-cv-01048-DAD-SAB Camposeco, Adam Ibarra, and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, ORDER RE STIPULATION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER Plaintiffs, DISCOVERY MATTER vs. Filed concurrently with [Proposed] Order Michael Boudreaux, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Tulare County, Judge: Hon. Stanley A. Boone Crtrm.: 9 Defendant. (ECF No. 34)

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS Discovery in this action is 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 hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order (“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; 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. 1.2. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT Good cause exists for this stipulated protective order. This action makes allegations concerning measures that Defendant has taken at the detention facilities managed by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office, including Bob Wiley Detention Facility (“BWDF”), Adult Pre-Trial Facility (“APTF”), and South County Detention Facility (“South County”) (collectively, “the Jails”) in response to COVID-19. On September 2, 2020, the Court provisionally certified a class defined as “all people who are now, or in the future will be, incarcerated in Tulare County Jails” (the “Class”). (Doc. No. 26 at 21.) The Parties anticipate that the litigation with require the disclosure and exchange of the health care records and health information of the Class, and potentially of third parties who are employees in the Jails. For example, the Court has entered an order permitting Plaintiffs to serve early discovery, and that discovery is likely to include a request for certain medical records. The exchange of such materials warrants special protection from public disclosures and from use for any purpose outside of this action. Such confidential materials consist of information that is from disclosure under state and federal statutes. Accordingly, to protect such information, and to ensure that the Parties are permitted reasonable uses of such material in preparation for trial and to address their handling at the end of litigation, a protective order for such information is justified in this matter. This protective order applies only to the health care records and health information of the Class, and does not apply to other documents exchanged by the Parties. The Parties further anticipate that the litigation is likely to involve trade secrets, customer and pricing lists and other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, technical and/or proprietary information from Defendant’s health services administrator for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, confidential business or financial information, information regarding confidential business practices, or other confidential research, development, or commercial information (including information implicating privacy rights of third parties), information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case. 2. DEFINITIONS 2.1. Action: The above-captioned federal lawsuit, Criswell, et al. v. Boudreaux, CV 1:20-cv-01048-DAD-SAB. information or items under this Order. 2.3. “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), and as specified above in the Good Cause Statement. 2.4. Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their support staff). 2.5. Designating Party: A Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 2.6. 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 matter. 2.7. 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. 2.8. 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. 2.9. Non-Party: Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 2.10. 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, and includes support staff. 2.11. 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). 2.12. Producing Party: A Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Material in this Action. (e.g., photocopying, videotaping,

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