Lopez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GABRIEL LOPEZ, an individual, No. 2:20-cv-0538 TLN DB Plaintiff, v. ORDER WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC., a Delaware corporation, 15 Defendant. 17 On April 28, 2020, the parties submitted a proposed stipulated protective order regarding the use of confidential information for the court’s consideration. (ECF No. 6.) The parties’ proposed stipulated protective order states that “all Confidential Information filed with the Court” shall be filed in compliance “with the procedures set forth in California Rule of Court 2.551” and “shall be redacted[.]” (Id. at 6.) The parties are advised that all documents filed with the court are presumptively public. See San Jose Mercury News, Inc. v. U.S. Dist. Court, 187 F.3d 1096, 1103 (9th Cir. 1999) (“It is well-established that the fruits of pretrial discovery are, in the absence of a court order to the contrary, presumptively public.”). Therefore, documents that are the subject of a protective…