United Auto Credit Corporation v. Jessica Stewart; Julian Hicks; Veros Credit LLC; and Does 1-25

Summary

This document is a stipulated protective order entered in United Auto Credit Corporation v. Jessica Stewart et al., a federal civil action in the Central District of California. It governs the designation, disclosure, use, challenge, filing, and disposition of confidential and highly confidential discovery materials.

Holdings

1. Good cause supported entry of the parties' stipulated protective order to protect qualifying confidential and proprietary discovery material.
2. Material designated under the order may be used only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle the action and may be disclosed only to authorized recipients under the specified conditions.
3. The protective order does not itself authorize filing protected material under seal; a party seeking sealing must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5 and obtain a court order authorizing sealing of the specific material.
4. A party or nonparty may challenge a confidentiality designation, but the designating party bears the burden of persuasion and the material remains protected under the designation until the court rules on the challenge.
5. Inadvertent production of privileged or work-product-protected material does not waive the privilege or protection in this action or any other federal or state proceeding, subject to the procedures governing asserted privilege.

Questions Presented

1. Whether good cause supported entry of a stipulated protective order governing confidential and highly confidential discovery material.
2. What restrictions and procedures should govern designation, disclosure, use, challenge, inadvertent production, sealing, and disposition of protected material.

Disposition

other