Estate of Christopher Temple and Amber Smith v. County of Placer, Placer County Sheriff's Office, Wayne Woo, Cody Michael, Melissa Adams, and Claudell Vaughan

Summary

This document is a stipulated protective order in Estate of Christopher Temple and Amber Smith v. County of Placer and others, pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, case no. 2:23-cv-01713-JAM-CKD. It identifies specified Placer County Sheriff’s Office investigative and incident records concerning officer-involved shootings and mental-health crises as potentially confidential, establishes permitted uses and disclosures, and provides procedures for challenging confidentiality designations. The proposed order was stipulated to in July 2025 and granted by Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney on August 6, 2025.

Holdings

1. The court granted the parties' stipulated protective order governing the specifically identified discovery materials.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the court should approve the parties' stipulated protective order for the specifically identified discovery materials.
2. Whether the stipulated order adequately limits confidentiality protections and preserves the parties' obligations under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c) and applicable local rules.

Disposition

other