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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 LAMAR HORN, Case No. 1:23-cv-01017-JLT-EPG Plaintiff, v. ORDER APPROVING, IN PART, PROPOSED

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

DOLLAR TREE STORES, INC., (ECF No. 17) Defendant.

15 16 This matter is before the Court on the parties’ proposed stipulated protective order. (ECF 17 No. 17). Upon review, the Court finds it acceptable in most respects. However, the Court notes 18 that the parties define the term “confidential information or items” to mean “information 19 (regardless of how generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection 20 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good Cause 21 Statement.” (Id. at 4) (alterations to capitalization and punctuation). Such a definition improperly 22 allows the parties to deem information confidential so long as they themselves believe that it 23 qualifies for protection under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and without ever disclosing 24 the types of…