Estate of Vincent Frank Boscaino, Jr. v. Adventist Health Hanford

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ESTATE OF VINCENT FRANK Case No. 1:24-cv-00689-JLT-EPG BOSCAINO, JR., et al., 11 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING, IN PART, MOTION v. FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER 13 ADVENTIST HEALTH HANFORD, et (ECF No. 47) al.,

Defendants. 16 17 This matter is before the Court on the parties’ joint motion for the Court to approve their 18 proposed protective order. (ECF No. 47). Upon review, the Court will grant the motion in part. 19 The Court finds the proposed protective order acceptable in most respects. However, the 20 Court notes that the parties define the term ‘“confidential’ information or items” to mean 21 “information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that 22 qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).” (ECF No. 47, p. 2) (capitalization omitted). Such an expansive definition improperly allows the parties to deem information confidential so long as they themselves believe that it qualifies for…