Leonardo Antolin v. Walmart Inc.

CourtDistrict Court, C.D. California
DecidedDecember 2, 2022
Docket2:22-cv-06452
StatusUnknown

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Leonardo Antolin v. Walmart Inc., (C.D. Cal. 2022).

Opinion

Case 2:22-cv-06452-SVW-MAR Document 15 Filed 12/02/22 Page 1 of 15 Page ID #:113

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 LEONARDO ANTOLIN, CASE NO.: 2:22-cv-06452 SVW (MARx) 11 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE 12 v. ORDER 13 WALMART INC., a business entity form unknown; WAL-MART 14 STORES INC.; and DOES 1-100, inclusive, 15 Defendants.. 16 17 18 1. INTRODUCTION 19 1.1 PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 20 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, 21 or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from 22 use for any purpose, other than prosecuting this litigation, may be warranted. 23 Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the 24 following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does 25 not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that 26 the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limited 27 information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable 28 legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, 1 2354-9542 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO.2:22-CV-06452 SVW (MARX) Case 2:22-cv-06452-SVW-MAR Document 15 Filed 12/02/22 Page 2 of 15 Page ID #:114

1 below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential 2 information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be 3 followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission from 4 the court to file material under seal. 5 1.2 GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 6 WALMART has expressed a willingness to provide the proprietary information, 7 confidential business records and/or trade secrets (“confidential documents and 8 information”) in complying with Plaintiff’s discovery requests, provided that the 9 Court enter the requested protective order. There is good cause to protect said 10 information from public disclosure. It is the intent of the parties that information 11 will not be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so 12 designated without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential 13 and non-public manner. 14 15 2. DEFINITIONS 16 2.1 Action: This pending federal lawsuit. 17 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the 18 designation of information or items under this Order. 19 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 20 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 21 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 22 the Good Cause Statement. 23 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 24 their support staff). 25 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 26 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 27 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 28 /// 2 2354-9542 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 2:22-CV-06452 SVW (MARX) Case 2:22-cv-06452-SVW-MAR Document 15 Filed 12/02/22 Page 3 of 15 Page ID #:115

1 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 2 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 3 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced 4 or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 5 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 6 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 7 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action. 8 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 9 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 10 counsel. 11 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 12 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 13 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a 14 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and 15 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm 16 which has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff. 17 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 18 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 19 support staffs). 20 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 21 Discovery Material in this Action. 22 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 23 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 24 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 25 and their employees and subcontractors. 26 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 27 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 28 /// 3 2354-9542 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 2:22-CV-06452 SVW (MARX) Case 2:22-cv-06452-SVW-MAR Document 15 Filed 12/02/22 Page 4 of 15 Page ID #:116

1 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 2 Material from a Producing Party. 3 4 3. SCOPE 5 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 6 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 7 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 8 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 9 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 10 Any use of Protected Material at trial will be governed by the orders of the 11 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial. 12 13 4. DURATION 14 Confidential documents, things and information may be used at trial or at 15 depositions, in accordance with the following safeguards. If confidential 16 documents, things and information are used in depositions, all portions of the 17 transcript of such depositions and exhibits thereto which refer to or relate to such 18 confidential documents, things or information shall themselves be considered as 19 confidential documents. The party introducing such confidential documents, thing 20 and information shall ensure that the court reporter binds the confidential portions 21 of the transcript and exhibits separately and labels them “confidential.” In addition, 22 each deponent is ordered that he may not divulge any confidential documents, 23 things or information except to qualified persons. 24 At the conclusion of this action, all confidential documents, things and 25 information, and all copies thereof, shall be returned to the counsel for WALMART 26 within thirty (30) days. 27 /// 28 /// 4 2354-9542 STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER CASE NO. 2:22-CV-06452 SVW (MARX) Case 2:22-cv-06452-SVW-MAR Document 15 Filed 12/02/22 Page 5 of 15 Page ID #:117

1 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 2 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 3 WALMART shall mark as “confidential” or “produced pursuant to protective 4 order” or in some similar fashion any document for which it claims protection 5 under this order. The documents, things and information contained in them or 6 gleaned from them shall only be used, shown and disclosed as provided in this 7 order. The term “confidential documents and information” as used in this order 8 shall be construed to include the documents and materials so marked, and their 9 content, substance and the information contained in or gleaned from them.

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