Logan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 MARK LOGAN, Case No. 1:23-cv-01264-JLT-EPG 11 Plaintiff, 12 v. ORDER GRANTING, IN PART, JOINT

STIPULATION FOR A PROTECTIVE

13 MAX MOBILITY, LLC, et al., ORDER 14 Defendants. (ECF No. 20) 15 16 17 This matter is before the Court on the parties’ joint stipulation for the Court to approve 18 their proposed protective order. (ECF No. 20). Upon review, the Court will grant the stipulation 19 in part. 20 The Court finds the proposed protective order acceptable in most respects. However, the 21 Court notes that the parties define the term ‘“confidential’ information or items” to mean 22 “information (regardless of the medium or how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible 23 things that qualify for protection under standards developed under Federal Rule of Civil 24 Procedure 26(c).” (ECF No. 20, p. 2-3). 25 Such an expansive definition improperly allows the parties to deem information 26 confidential so long as they themselves believe that it qualifies…