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In three cases decided on the same day, three different U.S. Magistrate Judges in the Central District of California granted three of the same Stipulated Protective Orders, without saying why.
Each of the three Stipulated Protective Orders said the same thing, except in one case the parties added the additional words I have [bracketed] in the quotation below:
[Disclosure and discovery activity] Discovery in this action [are] is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to entire the following Stipulated Protective Order.
We may never know why any of these three actions actually required "special protection from public disclosure" and "from use" beyond use in the lawsuit. Not a single one of the three proposed Stipulated Protective Orders said what the case was about.
Neither did the Magistrate Judges say what any of the cases was about in any of these three orders.
Each of the three Magistrate Judges said that they entered the Stipulated Protective Orders because the parties in the case showed "good cause," but we will never know what the good cause shown may have been because none of the three said in any of the three cases what was shown or by whom or when, at least before they entered their orders.
These are the three cases:
Diarian v. First Transit, Inc., No. 2:20-cv-02957-FMO (AFMx), 2021 WL 1163962 (C.D. Cal. March 26, 2021) (Alexander F. MacKinnon, USMJ);
Orellana v. Target Corp., No. 2:20-cv-06665 SVW(KSx), 2021 WL 1163234 (C.D. Cal. March 26, 2021) (Karen L. Stevenson, USMJ), and
Ramos v. FCA US LLC, No: 2:20-cv-10440-DMG-AGR, 2021 WL 1163575 (C.D. Cal. filed March 26, 2021) (Alicia G. Rosenberg, USMJ).
We are not done. To be continued ....
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