Sanchez, Jr v. Walmart Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ARMANDO SANCHEZ, JR., Case No. 1:22-cv-00835-ADA-EPG Plaintiff, v. ORDER APPROVING STIPULATED

PROTECTIVE ORDER, IN PART

WALMART, INC., (ECF No. 16) Defendant.

15 This matter is before the Court on the parties’ proposed stipulated protective order.1 (ECF No. 16). Upon review, the Court finds it acceptable in most respects. However, the Court notes that the parties define the term “confidential information” to mean “information contained or disclosed in any materials, including documents, portions of documents, answers to 19 interrogatories, responses to requests for admissions, trial testimony, deposition testimony, and 20 transcripts of trial testimony and depositions, including data, summaries, and compilations 21 derived therefrom that is deemed to be confidential information by any party to which it belongs.” 22 (Id. at 2) (emphasis added). Such a definition improperly allows the parties to deem information 23 confidential so long as they themselves…