Olakunle Ola v. Galaxe Solutions Inc

CourtDistrict Court, C.D. California
DecidedFebruary 12, 2025
Docket8:24-cv-00345
StatusUnknown

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ) Case No. 8:24-cv-00345-JWH-DFM ) 12 || OLAKUNLE OLA ) SHRULEAFED PROTECTIVE ORDER ) 13 ) Plaintiff, ) Date Action Filed: February 20, 2024 14 ) Trial Date: None set vs. ) 15 ) GALAXE SOLUTIONS INC a Delaware ) 16 || corporation, BRETT KERBEL an individual, ) 7 and ORLINDA D’SOUZA an individual, ) ) Defendants. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

1 1, PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 2 Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential 3 || proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from us 4 || for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the partie 5 || hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The partie 6 || acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses t 7 || discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends only to the limite 8 || information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the applicable legal principle: 9 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protectiv 10 Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets fort 11 || the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party seek 12 || permission from the court to file material under seal. 13 |} 2. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 14 This single plaintiff discrimination case involves Defendant’s proprietary and confidentiz 15 || business information for which special protection from public disclosure and use for any purpose oth« 16 || than the prosecution of or defense of this action is warranted. Such proprietary and □□□□□□□□□□□ 17 || business information consists of, among other things, information about work Defendar 18 || GalaxE.Solutions, LLC (“GalaxE”) has done for certain clients, some of which is protected by nor 19 || disclosure agreements; GalaxE’s annual reports; information about employee layoffs, including tt 20 || layoff of which Plaintiff was a part; and information about GalaxE’s confidential business practice 21 including its policies and procedures regarding workplace investigations, which are □□□□□□□□ 22 || unavailable to the public. 23 This case also involves private information regarding GalaxE’s employees who are not name 24 || in this lawsuit, including the results of GalaxE’s investigations into Plaintiffs allegations « 25 || harassment and discrimination against specific employees and the finding of those investigation 26 || Plaintiff has sought wide-ranging discovery regarding all complaints made by GalaxE employes 27 || regarding specific individuals and all workplace investigations conducted by certain individuals; whi 28 || GalaxE believes that these requests seek information irrelevant to this case and has □□□□□□□□

1 Plaintiffs requests, on those (and other) grounds, if the Court eventually orders the production of suc! 2 || sensitive personal information regarding third parties, it will need to be protected to avoid violatin; 3 the Constitutional, federal, and common law rights to privacy of those third parties. Furthermore 4 || Plaintiffhas alleged that Defendants’ actions have caused him physical and mental harm, and, as such 5 Defendants have asked Plaintiff to produce his medical records. Plaintiff has objected to th 6 || unwarranted invasion of his privacy due to the overbroad nature of the requests. If produce 7 || eventually based on the court’s order, these medical records should be designated CONFIDENTIAI 8 || to protect Plaintiff's privacy. 9 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, facilitate the prompt resolution of dispute 10 || over the confidentiality of discovery materials, adequately protect information the parties are entitle 11 || to keep confidential, ensure that the parties are permitted to reasonably use such material as necessar 12 || in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, address the handling of such material at the close c 13 || litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is justified in thi 14 matter. See, e.g., EEOC v. Cal. Psychiatric Transitions, 258 F.R.D. 391, 395 (E.D. Cal. June 18 15 |} 2009) (noting that privacy concerns and the need to protect financial information can be addresse 16 || with a protective order). It is the intent of the parties that information will not be designated 2 17 || CONFIDENTIAL for tactical reasons, and that nothing shall be so designated without a good fait 18 || belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner and that there is good cause ¢ 19 || to why it should not be part of the public record in this case. 20 || 3. DEFINITIONS 21 3.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of informatio 22 || or items under this Order. 23 3.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it i 24 || generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule « 25 Civil Procedure 26(c). 26 3.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well < 27 || their support staff). 28 3.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items that

1 produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 2 3.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the mediun 3 || or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony 4 || transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses t 5 discovery in this matter. 6 3.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to th 7 || litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a consultar 8 || in this action. 9 3.7. House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this action. If the party is 10 || company, this shall include attorneys who are employees of any parent, subsidiary, and/or affiliate c 11 that company. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outsid 12 || counsel. 13 3.8 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other leg 14 || entity not named as a Party to this action. 15 3.9 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to this actio 16 || butare retained to represent or advise a party to this action and have appeared in this action on beha 17 || of that party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that party. 18 3.10 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employee 19 || consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support staffs). 20 3.11 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery Materi: 21 in this action. 22 3.12 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services (e.g 23 || photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, storin 24 || or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 25 3.13 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated < 26 || “CONFIDENTIAL.” 27 3.14 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from 28 || Producing Party.

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