Cherry
Cherry v. Tyler
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
9 ADORTHUS CHERRY, Case No. 1:18-cv-01268-LJO-EPG 10 Plaintiff, ORDER REJECTING STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER v. (ECF No. 28) JAMES “DERRICK” TYLER, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 15 16 On August 13, 2019, the parties filed a stipulated protective order. (ECF No. 28.) The Court rejects the stipulated protected order without prejudice. “The court may, for good cause, issue an order to protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c). However, “[i]n the federal judicial system trial and pretrial proceedings are ordinarily to be conducted in public.” Olympic Ref. Co. v. Carter, 332 F.2d 260, 264 (9th Cir. 1964) (“The purpose of the federal discovery rules, as pointed out in Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495, 501, 67 S.Ct. 385, 91 L.Ed. 451, is to force a full disclosure.”) “As a general rule, the public is permitted ‘access to litigation documents and…