Shanan Guinn v. The Walt Disney Company

Summary

This document is a Stipulated Protective Order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Shanan Guinn v. The Walt Disney Company. It governs the designation, use, disclosure, challenge, filing, and disposition of confidential discovery materials, and includes an acknowledgment form for persons receiving protected material.

Holdings

1. Good cause existed to enter the parties' stipulated protective order because discovery was likely to implicate confidential, proprietary, private, competitively sensitive, personnel, financial, privacy, and trade-secret information.
2. Protected material may be used only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle the action; disclosure is limited to authorized persons and conditions; challenges, sealing requests, inadvertent disclosures, and final disposition must follow the procedures specified in the order.

Questions Presented

1. Whether good cause existed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) to enter a stipulated protective order governing confidential discovery material.
2. What procedures and limitations should govern designation, use, disclosure, challenge, filing, and final disposition of protected material.

Disposition

other