Aimee Allison v. Terri J. Vaughn, Tyler Vision LLC, Netflix, Inc., Nina Holiday Entertainment, Inc. and Does 1-25

Summary

This document is a Stipulated Protective Order in Aimee Allison v. Terri J. Vaughn, Tyler Vision LLC, Netflix, Inc., Nina Holiday Entertainment, Inc., and Does 1-25, pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. It establishes procedures for designating, accessing, challenging, filing, and handling confidential and highly confidential discovery materials through final disposition of the action.

Holdings

1. The court approved and entered the stipulated protective order because discovery was likely to involve confidential, proprietary, private, and commercially sensitive information warranting protection from public disclosure and use outside the litigation.
2. Designation of material as confidential under the protective order does not authorize filing that material under seal; a party must comply with Central District of California Local Rule 79-5 and obtain a court order authorizing sealing of the specific material.
3. A party or non-party may challenge a confidentiality designation, but the designating party bears the burden of persuasion, and the challenged material remains protected at the designated level until the court rules on the challenge.
4. Within 60 days after a written request following final disposition, each receiving party must return or destroy protected material and certify that it has done so, subject to the order's archival-copy exception for counsel.

Questions Presented

1. Whether good cause supported entry of a stipulated protective order governing confidential discovery materials.
2. What procedures and standards govern designation, disclosure, challenge, use, sealing, and return or destruction of protected discovery material.
3. Whether material designated as confidential becomes subject to automatic sealing or remains governed by the applicable sealing standards and local rules.

Disposition

other