1 AMIR NASSIHI (SBN 235936) 2 anassihi@shb.com

NYKEEMAH MCCLENDON (SBN 322544)

3 nmcclendon@shb.com 4 JAMES JOHN FEENEY (SBN 359511) jfeeney@shb.com 5 555 Mission Street, Suite 2300 San Francisco, CA 94105 6 TEL: (415) 544-1900 | FAX: (415) 391-0281

7 Attorneys for Defendant, 8 NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. 9 [additional counsel listed on signature page] 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

12 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 13 PRISCILLA JACKSON, an individual, Case No. 25-cv-03746-SSC 14

15 Plaintiff, Assigned to the Honorable Stephanie S. Christensen 16 vs. [PROPOSED] STIPULATED 17 NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., a PROTECTIVE ORDER 18 Delaware Corporation,

19 Defendant.

20 21 1. GENERAL 22 1.1 Purposes and Limitations. Discovery in this action is likely to involve 23 production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special 24 protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting 25 this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and 26 petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties 27 acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or 28 responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and 1 use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential 2 treatment under the applicable legal principles. 3 1.2 Good Cause Statement. 4 This action is likely to involve trade secrets, customer and pricing lists and 5 other valuable research, development, commercial, financial, technical and/or 6 proprietary information for which special protection from public disclosure and from 7 use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. Such 8 confidential and proprietary materials and information consist of, among other things, 9 confidential business or financial information, information regarding confidential 10 business practices, or other confidential research, development, or commercial 11 information (including information implicating privacy rights of third parties), 12 information otherwise generally unavailable to the public, or which may be privileged 13 or otherwise protected from disclosure under state or federal statutes, court rules, case 14 decisions, or common law. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to 15 facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, 16 to adequately protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to 17 ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in 18 preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the 19 litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is 20 justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be 21 designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated 22 without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public 23 manner, and there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this 24 case. 25 2. DEFINITIONS 26 2.1 Action: this pending federal lawsuit, Case no. 25-cv-03746-SSC. 27 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation 28 of information or items under this Order. 1 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 2 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection 3 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good 4 Cause Statement. 5 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their 6 support staff). 7 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 8 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 9 “CONFIDENTIAL.” 10 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 11 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 12 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 13 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 14 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 15 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 16 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action. 17 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 18 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 19 counsel. 20 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 21 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 22 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party 23 to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and have 24 appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm that 25 has appeared on behalf of that party, including support staff. 26 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 27 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 28 support staffs). 1 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 2 Discovery Material in this Action. 3 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support 4 services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 5 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 6 and their employees and subcontractors. 7 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 8 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 9 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material 10 from a Producing Party. 11 3. SCOPE 12 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 13 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted 14 from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of 15 Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties 16 or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 17 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the 18 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial. 19 4. DURATION 20 Once a case proceeds to trial, all of the court-filed information to be introduced 21 that was previously designated as confidential or maintained pursuant to this 22 protective order becomes public and will be presumptively available to all members 23 of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by specific 24 factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance of the 25 trial. See Kamakana v. City and Cty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180-81 (9th Cir. 26 2006) (distinguishing “good cause” showing for sealing documents produced in 27 discovery from “compelling reasons” standard when merits-related documents are 28 part of court record). Accordingly, the terms of this protective order do not extend 1 beyond the commencement of the trial. 2 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 3 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 4 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this 5 Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies 6 under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for protection 7 only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written communications that 8 qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, items, or communications 9 for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably within the ambit of 10 this Order. 11 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 12 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 13 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose 14 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating Party 15 to sanctions. 16 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 17 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 18 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation. 19 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 20 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 21 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 22 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 23 produced. 24 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 25 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic 26 documents, but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial 27 proceedings), that the Producing Party affix, at a minimum, the legend 28 “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that 1 contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page 2 qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected 3 portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins). 4 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection 5 need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated 6 which documents it would like copied and produced. During the inspection and 7 before the designation, all of the material made available for inspection shall be 8 deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents 9 it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which documents, 10 or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing 11 the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL 12 legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion or portions 13 of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly 14 identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the 15 margins). 16 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identify 17 the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition. 18 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and 19 for any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on 20 the exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the legend 21 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants 22 protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected 23 portion(s). 24 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 25 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the 26 Designating Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. 27 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 28 efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 1 Order. 2 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 3 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 4 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s 5 Scheduling Order. 6 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute 7 resolution process. Any discovery motion must comply with local rules. 8 6.3 Burden. The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding 9 shall be on the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an 10 improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 11 other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 12 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties shall 13 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is entitled 14 under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the challenge. 15 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 16 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 17 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 18 Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 19 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 20 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a Receiving 21 Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL DISPOSITION). 22 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 23 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 24 authorized under this Order. 25 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 26 otherwise ordered by the Court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 27 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 28 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 1 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as 2 well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 3 necessary to disclose the information for this Action; 4 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of 5 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action; 6 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 7 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 8 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 9 (d) the Court and its personnel; 10 (e) court reporters and their staff; 11 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional 12 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have 13 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 14 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or 15 a custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 16 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in 17 the Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing 18 party requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they 19 will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the 20 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise 21 agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the Court. Pages of transcribed 22 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may be 23 separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as 24 permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 25 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 26 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 27 28 1 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED 2 PRODUCED IN OTHER LITIGATION 3 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 4 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 5 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 6 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall 7 include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 8 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to 9 issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena 10 or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of 11 this Stipulated Protective Order; and 12 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued 13 by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 14 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 15 the subpoena or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action 16 as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the subpoena 17 or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s permission. The 18 Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that court 19 of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions should be construed as 20 authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action to disobey a lawful 21 directive from another court. 22 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 23 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION 24 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non- 25 Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 26 produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 27 remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 28 construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 1 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce 2 a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an 3 agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential 4 information, then the Party shall: 5 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 6 that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement 7 with a Non-Party; 8 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 9 Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 10 specific description of the information requested; and 11 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non- 12 Party, if requested. 13 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this Court within 14 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may 15 produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. 16 If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce 17 any information in its possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality 18 agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the Court. Absent a court 19 order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking 20 protection in this Court of its Protected Material. 21 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 22 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 23 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this 24 Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 25 writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 26 to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 27 persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 28 1 and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 2 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 3 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 4 PROTECTED MATERIAL 5 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 6 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 7 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 8 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure 9 may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production without prior 10 privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the 11 parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a communication or 12 information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work product protection, the 13 parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated protective order submitted 14 to the Court. 15 12. MISCELLANEOUS 16 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 17 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 18 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 19 Protective Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 20 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 21 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 22 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 23 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 24 After the final disposition of this Action, within 60 days of a written request by 25 the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the 26 Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all Protected 27 Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other 28 format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected 1 Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written 2 certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the 3 Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where 4 appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed, and (2) affirms 5 that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, 6 summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. 7 Notwithstanding this provision, counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 8 pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 9 correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, 10 and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected 11 Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material 12 remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 4 (DURATION). 13 14. VIOLATION OF ORDER 14 Any violation of this Order may be punished by any and all appropriate 15 measures including, without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary 16 sanctions.

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IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

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19 Dated: July 31, 2025 QUILL & ARROW, LLP 20

21 By /s/Andrew Jung 22

KEVIN Y. JACOBSON

23 ANDREW C. JUNG

DANJA STOCCA

24 ALEXANDER BRAUNS

25 Attorneys for Plaintiff 26 PRISCILLA JACKSON 27 28 1 || Dated: August 1, 2025 _ SHOOK, HARDY & BACON L.L.P. 2 3 By /s/ Nykeemah McClendon 4 AMIR NASSIHI

NYKEEMAH MCCLENDON

5 JAMES FEENEY 6 Attorneys for Defendant 7 NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. 8 9 || FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED. 10 LZ 11 || DATED: August 4, 2025 2 □□ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 4 I, _____________________________ [full name], of _________________ 5 [full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 6 understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States 7 District Court for the Central District of California on ____________ [date] in the 8 case of Priscilla Jackson v. Nissan North America, Inc., Case No. 25-cv-03746- 9 SSC. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated 10 Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could 11 expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise 12 that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that is subject to this 13 Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict compliance with 14 the provisions of this Order. 15 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 16 for the Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 17 Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 18 termination of this action. I hereby appoint __________________________ [full 19 name] of _______________________________________ [full address and 20 telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with 21 this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 22 Order. 23 24 Date: ______________________________________ 25 City and State where signed: _________________________________ 26 Printed name: _______________________________ 27 Signature: __________________________________ 28