Rabin, CPA v. Google LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 STEVE RABIN, et al., Case No. 22-cv-04547-PCP

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE: DISCOVERY LETTER

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 73 GOOGLE LLC, Defendant.

12 The parties are unable to agree on the type of protective order that should be entered in this case and have asked the Court to resolve their dispute. For the reasons that follow, the Court will enter the Plaintiffs’ proposed protective order, which is based on the model for standard cases. The Northern District offers several model protective orders, and this Court’s Standing Order encourages parties requesting a protective order to base their proposals on these models. For “patent cases,” the Northern District provides a “Model Protective Order for Litigation Involving Patents, Highly Sensitive Confidential Information and/or Trade Secrets.” For “standard cases,” it provides a model “Stipulated Protective Order for Standard Litigation.” Except for patent cases (which this case is not), “the Local Rules do not require the parties to use…