Kurdi
Kurdi v. California Department of Transportation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 MAISA KURDI, Case No. 1:22-cv-00729-JLT-EPG Plaintiff, v. ORDER DENYING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE,
PROPOSED STIPULATED PROTECTIVE
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF ORDER
TRANSPORTATION,
(ECF No. 34) Defendant.
16 This matter is before the Court on the parties’ proposed stipulated protective order. (ECF 17 No. 34). Upon review, the Court will deny, without prejudice, the request to enter the proposed 18 order. 19 Among other things, the proposed order fails to address Local Rule 141(c), which sets out 20 various requirements for a protective order. For example, the parties define confidential 21 information to mean “information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or 22 tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).” (ECF No. 34, p. 2). But such a definition improperly allows the parties to deem information confidential so long as they themselves believe that it qualifies for…