1 || Romina Keshishyan, Esq. Bar No.: 303522 romina@rklegalpc.com

RK LEGAL, PC

3 || 655 North Central Avenue, Suite 1700 4 Glendale, California 91203 Telephone: (323) 744-4124 5 || Facsimile: (323) 763-7770 6 || Attorney for Plaintiff 7 Jon Yonemitsu, Esq. Bar No. 199026 8 || jyonemitsu@littler.com 9 Noah J. Woods, Esq. Bar No. 264823 nwoods @littler.com 10 || Kara A. Cole, Esq. Bar No. 306515 i kcole@littler.com

LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C.

12 || 501 W. Broadway, Suite 900 3 San Diego, California 92101-3577 Telephone: (619) 232-0441 14 || Facsimile: (619) 232-4302 Attorneys for Defendant 16 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 18 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 19 ROBERTO GONZALEZ, an Case No. 2:20-cv-02735-SB-MRW 0 individual, 21 Plaintiff, STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

22 VS. 23

TROJAN BATTERY COMPANY,

24 || LLC, a limited liability company, Check if submitted without 5 and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive material modifications to MRW form 26 Defendants. 27 28

1 1. INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS 3 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, 4 proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public 5 disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may 6 be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to 7 enter the following Stipulated Protective Order. The parties acknowledge that this 8 Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to 9 discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 10 only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment 11 under the applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth 12 in Section 12.3, below, that this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to 13 file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the 14 procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied when a party 15 seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. 16 1.2 GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT 17 This action involves employment claims, including disability discrimination, 18 harassment, retaliation, and derivative claims, wrongful termination and wage and 19 hour allegations inherently involving the discovery and disclosure of private and 20 confidential personal, medical and employment information, including but not 21 limited to, plaintiff’s sensitive and confidential mental and physical health records 22 and medical history, current and/or former employee witness’s names, addresses, 23 telephone numbers, social security numbers, personal identifiable information, job 24 titles, personnel files, including confidential human resource files, and other private 25 and confidential information for which special protection from public disclosure and 26 from use for any purpose other than prosecution of this action is warranted. 27 Such confidential and private information is otherwise generally unavailable 1 or federal statutes, court rules, case decisions, or common law. Disclosure of the 2 foregoing confidential information to the public without proper protection will result 3 in serious violation of privacy of third parties and may lead to misuse of such 4 information. Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the 5 prompt resolution of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to 6 adequately protect information the parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure 7 that the parties are permitted reasonable necessary uses of such material in 8 preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their handling at the end of the 9 litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such information is 10 justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not be 11 designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated 12 without a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public 13 manner, and there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this 14 case. 15 2. DEFINITIONS 16 2.1 Action: Roberto Gonzalez v. Trojan Battery Company, LLC, Case No. 17 2:20-cv-02735-SB-MRW. 18 2.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the 19 designation of information or items under this Order. 20 2.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of 21 how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for 22 protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in 23 the Good Cause Statement. 24 2.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as 25 their support staff). 26 2.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or 27 items that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as 1 2.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless 2 of the medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, 3 among other things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or 4 generated in disclosures or responses to discovery in this matter. 5 2.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter 6 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as 7 an expert witness or as a consultant in this Action. 8 2.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. 9 House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside 10 counsel. 11 2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or 12 other legal entity not named as a Party to this action. 13 2.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a 14 party to this Action but are retained to represent or advise a party to this Action and 15 have appeared in this Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm 16 which has appeared on behalf of that party, and includes support staff. 17 2.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors, 18 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their 19 support staffs). 20 2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or 21 Discovery Material in this Action. 22 2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation 23 support services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or 24 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) 25 and their employees and subcontractors. 26 2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is 27 designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” 1 2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery 2 Material from a Producing Party. 3 3. SCOPE 4 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only 5 Protected Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or 6 extracted from Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or 7 compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or 8 presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 9 Any use of Protected Material at trial will be governed by the orders of the 10 trial judge. This Order does not govern the use of Protected Material at trial. 11 4. DURATION 12 Once a case proceeds to trial, all of the information admitted or used during a 13 public trial that was designated as confidential or maintained pursuant to this 14 protective order becomes public and will be presumptively available to all members 15 of the public, including the press, unless compelling reasons supported by specific 16 factual findings to proceed otherwise are made to the trial judge in advance of the 17 trial. See Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1180-81 (9th 18 Cir. 2006) (distinguishing “good cause” showing for sealing documents produced in 19 discovery from “compelling reasons” standard when merits-related documents are 20 part of court record). Accordingly, to the extent any material is subsequently used 21 for or admitted during a public trial of this matter, the terms of this protective order 22 do not extend beyond the commencement of such trial. 23 If the Action resolves prior to a public trial, the confidentiality obligations 24 imposed by this Order will remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees 25 otherwise in writing or a court order otherwise directs. Final disposition will be 26 deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and defenses in this Action, with 27 or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion and 1 including the time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time 2 pursuant to applicable law. 3 5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL 4 5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. 5 Each Party or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under 6 this Order must take care to limit any such designation to specific material that 7 qualifies under the appropriate standards. The Designating Party must designate for 8 protection only those parts of material, documents, items, or oral or written 9 communications that qualify so that other portions of the material, documents, 10 items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept 11 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order. 12 Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations 13 that are shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper 14 purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose 15 unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating 16 Party to sanctions. 17 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it 18 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must 19 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation. 20 5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in 21 this Order (see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise 22 stipulated or ordered, Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection 23 under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is disclosed or 24 produced. 25 Designation in conformity with this Order requires: 26 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, 27 but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that 1 “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains protected material. If only a 2 portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing 3 Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate 4 markings in the margins). 5 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for 6 inspection need not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has 7 indicated which documents it would like copied and produced. During the 8 inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available for 9 inspection will be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has 10 identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must 11 determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this 12 Order. Then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must 13 affix the “CONFIDENTIAL legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. 14 If only a portion or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the 15 Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making 16 appropriate markings in the margins). 17 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identify the 18 Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition all 19 protected testimony. 20 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for 21 any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the 22 exterior of the container or containers in which the information is stored the legend 23 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants 24 protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, will identify the protected 25 portion(s). 26 5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent 27 failure to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive 1 Upon timely correction of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable 2 efforts to assure that the material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this 3 Order. 4 6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS 5 6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a 6 designation of confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s 7 Scheduling Order. 8 6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party will initiate the dispute 9 resolution process (and, if necessary, file a discovery motion) under Local Rule 37.1 10 et seq. 11 6.3 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding will be on 12 the Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper 13 purpose (e.g., to harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other 14 parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating 15 Party has waived or withdrawn the confidentiality designation, all parties will 16 continue to afford the material in question the level of protection to which it is 17 entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the Court rules on the 18 challenge. 19 7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 20 7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is 21 disclosed or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this 22 Action only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this Action. Such 23 Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the 24 conditions described in this Order. When the Action has been terminated, a 25 Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 26 DISPOSITION). 27 1 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a 2 location and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons 3 authorized under this Order. 4 7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless 5 otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a 6 Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated 7 “CONFIDENTIAL” only to: 8 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as 9 well as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably 10 necessary to disclose the information for this Action; 11 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of 12 the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action; 13 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom 14 disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the 15 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 16 (d) the Court and its personnel; 17 (e) court reporters and their staff; 18 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional 19 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have 20 signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A); 21 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a 22 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information; 23 (h) during their depositions, witnesses ,and attorneys for witnesses, in the 24 Action to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party 25 requests that the witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they 26 will not be permitted to keep any confidential information unless they sign the 27 “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise 1 deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material may 2 be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except 3 as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and 4 (i) any mediator or settlement officer, and their supporting personnel, 5 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions. 6 8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED 7 IN OTHER LITIGATION 8 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation 9 that compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as 10 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must: 11 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification 12 will include a copy of the subpoena or court order; 13 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order 14 to issue in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the 15 subpoena or order is subject to this Protective Order. Such notification will include 16 a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 17 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be 18 pursued by the Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. 19 If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with 20 the subpoena or court order will not produce any information designated in this 21 action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by the court from which the 22 subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 23 permission. The Designating Party will bear the burden and expense of seeking 24 protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions 25 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action 26 to disobey a lawful directive from another court. 27 9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE 1 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a 2 Non-Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information 3 produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the 4 remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 5 construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 6 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to 7 produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is 8 subject to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s 9 confidential information, then the Party will: 10 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party 11 that some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality 12 agreement with a Non-Party; 13 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated 14 Protective Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably 15 specific description of the information requested; and 16 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the 17 Non-Party, if requested. 18 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 19 14 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party 20 may produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery 21 request. If the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party will 22 not produce any information in its possession or control that is subject to the 23 confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by the court. 24 Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party will bear the burden and expense 25 of seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material. 26 10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL 27 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed 1 Stipulated Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in 2 writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts 3 to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or 4 persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, 5 and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and 6 Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A. 7 11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE 8 PROTECTED MATERIAL 9 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain 10 inadvertently produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, 11 the obligations of the Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil 12 Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This provision is not intended to modify whatever 13 procedure may be established in an e-discovery order that provides for production 14 without prior privilege review. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and 15 (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the effect of disclosure of a 16 communication or information covered by the attorney-client privilege or work 17 product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the stipulated 18 protective order submitted to the court. 19 12. MISCELLANEOUS 20 12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any 21 person to seek its modification by the Court in the future. 22 12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this 23 Protective Order no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to 24 disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this 25 Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any 26 ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order. 27 12.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any 1 only be filed under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the 2 specific Protected Material at issue. If a Party's request to file Protected Material 3 under seal is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information 4 in the public record unless otherwise instructed by the court. 5 13. FINAL DISPOSITION 6 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 7 days of a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return 8 all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in 9 this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 10 summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 11 Material. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving 12 Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same 13 person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies 14 (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or 15 destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 16 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any 17 of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to 18 retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing 19 transcripts, legal memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert 20 reports, attorney work product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such 21 materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies that contain or 22 constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 23 Section 4 (DURATION). 24 25 26 27 1 14. Any willful violation of this Order may be punished by civil or criminal 2 || contempt proceedings, financial or evidentiary sanctions, reference to disciplinary 3 || authorities, or other appropriate action at the discretion of the Court. 4 || ITIS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD. 5 6 || DATED: September _28__, 2020 /s/ Romina Keshishyan Romina Keshishyan 7 RK LEGAL, PC 3 Attorneys for Plaintiff

9 10 || DATED: September _, 2020 /s/ Kara A. Cole Jon C. Yonemitsu 11 Noah J. Woods Kara A. Cole 12 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 3 Attorneys for Defendant

14 || FILER ATTESTATION 15 Pursuant to Local Rule 5-4.3.4(a)(2) I hereby attest all other signatories listed, 16 || and on whose behalf the filing is submitted, concur in the filing’s content and have 17 || authorized the filing 18 19 Dated: September 29, 2020 /s/ Kara A. Cole Noah J. Woods 20 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 1 Attorneys for Defendant Trojan Battery Company, LLC 22 93 || FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED. 24 : well 26 || DATED:_9/29/2020

HON. MICHAEL R. WILNER

27 United States Magistrate Judge 28

1 EXHIBIT A 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND 3 I, ____________________ [full name], of ____________________________ 4 [full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and 5 understand the Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States 6 District Court for the Central District of California on ___________[date] in the 7 case of Roberto Gonzalez v. Trojan Battery Company, LLC, Case No. 2:20-cv- 8 02735-SB-MRW. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this 9 Stipulated Protective Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so 10 comply could expose me to sanctions and punishment in the nature of contempt. I 11 solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any information or item that 12 is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict 13 compliance with the provisions of this Order. 14 I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court 15 for the Central District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this 16 Stipulated Protective Order, even if such enforcement proceedings occur after 17 termination of this action. I hereby appoint __________________________ [full 18 name] of _______________________________________ [full address and 19 telephone number] as my California agent for service of process in connection with 20 this action or any proceedings related to enforcement of this Stipulated Protective 21 Order. 22 Date: ______________________________________ 23 City and State where signed: _________________________________ 24 Printed name: _______________________________ 25 26 Signature: __________________________________ 27