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1 TtliAcaRtAa@ J.L LYIlCegAaTl.Ane(tSBN No. 266111)

2 ALEX HADJIAN (SBN 327534)

ahadjian@LYlegal.net

3 ALANA OSTROWIECKI (SBN 342304)

aostrowiecki@LYlegal.net

4 LICATA & YEREMENKO

A Professional Law Corporation

5 16000 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 800

Encino, CA 91436

6 Telephone: (818) 783-5757

Fax: (818) 783-7710

7

Attorneys for Plaintiff

8 MARK SORIA

9

Kristel B. Haddad (SBN 273250)

10 Kristel.Haddad@jacksonlewis.com

Lilia V. Kavarian (SBN 332935)

11 Lilia.Kavarian@jacksonlewis.com

JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

12 725 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2800

Los Angeles, California 90017-5408

13 Telephone: (213) 689-0404

Facsimile: (213) 689-0430

14

Attorneys for Defendants

15 MESSER LLC;

MESSER NORTH AMERICA, INC.; and

16 MESSER NORTH AMERICA

17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

18 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

19

MARK SORIA, CASE NO.: 2:25-cv-03430-MCS-BFM

20

Plaintiff,

21 [Case Removed from Los Angeles County

vs. Superior Court Case No. 25STCV06537]

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MESSER NORTH AMERICA, INC.; STIPULATION AND PROTECTIVE

23 MESSER, LLC; ORDER

MESSER NORTH AMERICA; and

24 DOES 1 through 100, Inclusive

25 Defendants. Complaint Filed: March 7, 2025

Trial: June 9, 2026

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l l. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

2 Discovery in this action is likely to involve production of confidential, proprietary

3 || or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for

4 || any purpose other than pursuing this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, the parties

5 || hereby stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Stipulated Protective Order.

6 ||The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all

7 disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public

8 disclosure and use extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled to

9 || confidential treatment under the applicable legal principles.

10 2. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT

11 Good cause exists for the entry of a Protective Order in this matter. Plaintiff asserts

12 claims for age discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination, alleging that

13 || he was terminated on December 4, 2023, based on pretextual reasons and replaced with, or

14 || treated less favorably than, substantially younger employees. Plaintiff further alleges that other

15 ||}employee drivers engaged in similar conduct but were not terminated and instead received

16 || lesser forms of discipline. By asserting these claims, Plaintiff has placed at issue the conduct,

17 disciplinary history, performance evaluations, ages, seniority, personnel records, and

18 |}employment actions relating to third-party comparator employees who are not parties to this

19 || litigation.

20 The discovery necessary to evaluate and defend against Plaintiff's allegations will

21 || require disclosure of confidential, private, and personnel-related information concerning these

22 ||non-party employees. This information includes, but is not limited to, personnel files, dates of

23 ||birth, employment histories, disciplinary records, performance reviews, internal

24 || investigations, and other sensitive employment-related data. These third-party employees have

25 || not placed their private employment information at issue, and disclosure without appropriate

26 ||safeguards would compromise their privacy and potentially expose them to unwarranted

27 intrusion.

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1 Additionally, the allegations underlying Plaintiff’s claims—namely that Defendants

2 replaced him with younger workers, treated younger employees more favorably, and

3 disciplined other drivers differently—require Defendants to produce comparator evidence that

4 is inherently sensitive. This information is essential to Defendants’ ability to respond to

5 Plaintiff’s claims, demonstrate legitimate nondiscriminatory reasons for the actions taken, and

6 rebut allegations of preferential treatment toward younger workers. However, public

7 disclosure of such records could cause harm to third parties by revealing private employment

8 information, confidential disciplinary outcomes, or sensitive workplace issues unrelated to this

9 lawsuit.

10 Accordingly, to expedite the flow of information, to facilitate the prompt resolution

11 of disputes over confidentiality of discovery materials, to adequately protect information the

12 parties are entitled to keep confidential, to ensure that the parties are permitted reasonable

13 necessary uses of such material in preparation for and in the conduct of trial, to address their

14 handling at the end of the litigation, and serve the ends of justice, a protective order for such

15 information is justified in this matter. It is the intent of the parties that information will not

16 be designated as confidential for tactical reasons and that nothing be so designated without

17 a good faith belief that it has been maintained in a confidential, non-public manner, and

18 there is good cause why it should not be part of the public record of this case.

19 3. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF UNDER SEAL FILING PROCEDURE

20 The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 14.3, below, that this Stipulated

21 Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; Local Civil

22 Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be applied

23 when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal. There is a strong

24 presumption that the public has a right of access to judicial proceedings and records in civil

25 cases. In connection with non-dispositive motions, good cause must be shown to support a

26 filing under seal. See Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th

27 Cir. 2006), Phillips v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1210-11 (9th Cir. 2002), Makar-

28 Welbon v. Sony Electrics, Inc., 187 F.R.D. 576, 577 (E.D. Wis. 1999) (even stipulated

1 protective orders require good cause showing), and a specific showing of good cause or

2 compelling reasons with proper evidentiary support and legal justification, must be made with

3 respect to Protected Material that a party seeks to file under seal. The parties’ mere designation

4 of Disclosure or Discovery Material as CONFIDENTIAL does not— without the submission

5 of competent evidence by declaration, establishing that the material sought to be filed under

6 seal qualifies as confidential, privileged, or otherwise protectable—constitute good cause.

7 Further, if a party requests sealing related to a dispositive motion or trial, then compelling

8 reasons, not only good cause, for the sealing must be shown, and the relief sought shall be

9 narrowly tailored to serve the specific interest to be protected. See Pintos v. Pacific Creditors

10 Ass’n., 605 F.3d 665, 677-79 (9th Cir. 2010). For each item or type of information, document,

11 or thing sought to be filed or introduced under seal, the party seeking protection must articulate

12 compelling reasons, supported by specific facts and legal justification, for the requested

13 sealing order. Again, competent evidence supporting the application to file documents

14 under seal must be provided by declaration.

15 4. DEFINITIONS

16 4.1 Action: this pending federal lawsuit, Mark Soria vs. Messer North America, Inc.,

17 et al. United States District Court, Central District of California, Case No. 2:25-cv-

18 03430-MCS-BFM.

19 4.2 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation

20 of information or items under this Order.

21 4.3 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it

22 is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under

23 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), and as specified above in the Good Cause

24 Statement.

25 4.4 Counsel: Outside Counsel of Record and House Counsel (as well as their

26 support staff).

27 4.5 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items

28 that it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

1 4.6 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the

2 medium or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other

3 things, testimony, transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in

4 disclosures or responses to discovery.

5 4.7 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter

6 pertinent to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an

7 expert witness or as a consultant in this Action.

8 4.8 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a party to this Action. House

9 Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other outside counsel.

10 4.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or other

11 legal entity not named as a Party to this action.

12 4.10 Outside Counsel of Record: attorneys who are not employees of a party to

13 this Action but are retained to represent a party to this Action and have appeared in this

14 Action on behalf of that party or are affiliated with a law firm that has appeared on behalf

15 of that party, and includes support staff.

16 4.11 Party: any party to this Action, including all of its officers, directors,

17 employees, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel of Record (and their support

18 staffs).

19 4.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery

20 Material in this Action.

21 4.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support

22 services (e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or

23 demonstrations, and organizing, storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and

24 their employees and subcontractors.

25 4.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated

26 as “CONFIDENTIAL.”

27 4.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from

28 a Producing Party.

1 5. SCOPE

2 The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected

3 Material (as defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from

4 Protected Material; (2) all copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected

5 Material; and (3) any testimony, conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel

6 that might reveal Protected Material.

7 Any use of Protected Material at trial shall be governed by the orders of the trial

8 judge and other applicable authorities. This Order does not govern the use of Protected

9 Material at trial.

10 6. DURATION

11 Once a case proceeds to trial, information that was designated as CONFIDENTIAL or

12 maintained pursuant to this protective order used or introduced as an exhibit at trial becomes

13 public and will be presumptively available to all members of the public, including the press,

14 unless compelling reasons supported by specific factual findings to proceed otherwise are

15 made to the trial judge in advance of the trial. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180-81

16 (distinguishing “good cause” showing for sealing documents produced in discovery from

17 “compelling reasons” standard when merits-related documents are part of court record).

18 Accordingly, the terms of this protective order do not extend beyond the commencement of

19 the trial.

20 7. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

21 7.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party

22 or Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care

23 to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards.

24 The Designating Party must designate for protection only those parts of material, documents,

25 items or oral or written communications that qualify so that other portions of the material,

26 documents, items or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept

27 unjustifiably within the ambit of this Order.

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1 Mass, indiscriminate or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are

2 shown to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to

3 unnecessarily encumber the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses

4 and burdens on other parties) may expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

5 If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it

6 designated for protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must

7 promptly notify all other Parties that it is withdrawing the inapplicable designation.

8 7.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this

9 Order, or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, Disclosure of Discovery Material that qualifies

10 for protection under this Order must be clearly so designated before the material is

11 disclosed or produced.

12 Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

13 (a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents,

14 but excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the

15 Producing Party affix at a minimum, the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” (hereinafter

16 “CONFIDENTIAL legend”), to each page that contains protected material. If only a portion

17 of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly

18 identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

19 A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents available for inspection need not

20 designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which documents

21 it would like copied and produced.

22 During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made available for

23 inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has identified the

24 documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which

25 documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before

26 producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL

27 legend” to each page that contains Protected Material. If only a portion of the material on a

28 page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected

1 portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins).

2 (b) for testimony given in depositions that the Designating Party identifies

3 the Disclosure or Discovery Material on the record, before the close of the deposition all

4 protected testimony.

5 (c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for

6 any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior

7 of the container or containers in which the information is stored the legend

8 “CONFIDENTIAL.” If only a portion or portions of the information warrants protection,

9 the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected portion(s).

10 7.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure

11 to designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating

12 Party’s right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction

13 of a designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the

14 material is treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

15 8. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

16 8.1. Timing of Challenges. Any Party or Non-Party may challenge a designation of

17 confidentiality at any time that is consistent with the Court’s Scheduling Order.

18 8.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution

19 process under Local Rule 37-1 et seq.

20 8.3 Joint Stipulation. Any challenge submitted to the Court shall be via a joint

21 stipulation pursuant to Local Rule 37-2.

22 8.4 The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the

23 Designating Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to

24 harass or impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the

25 Challenging Party to sanctions. Unless the Designating Party has waived or withdrawn the

26 confidentiality designation, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the

27 level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the

28 Court rules on the challenge.

1 9. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

2 9.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed

3 or produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this Action only for

4 prosecuting, defending or attempting to settle this Action. Such Protected Material may be

5 disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order.

6 When the Action has been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions

7 of section 15 below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

8 Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location

9 and in a secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under

10 this Order.

11 9.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise

12 ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party

13 may disclose any information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

14 (a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of Record in this Action, as well

15 as employees of said Outside Counsel of Record to whom it is reasonably necessary to

16 disclose the information for this Action;

17 (b) the officers, directors, and employees (including House Counsel) of the

18 Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action;

19 (c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure

20 is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and

21 Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A) [TO BE NEGOTIATED AND PREPARED BY

22 PARTIES AND ATTACHED TO STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER];

23 (d) the court and its personnel;

24 (e) court reporters and their staff;

25 (f) professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and Professional

26 Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this Action and who have signed

27 the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

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1 (g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a

2 custodian or other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information;

3 (h) during their depositions, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses, in the Action

4 to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary provided: (1) the deposing party requests that the

5 witness sign the form attached as Exhibit A hereto; and (2) they will not be permitted to keep

6 any confidential information unless they sign the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be

7 Bound” (Exhibit A), unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court.

8 Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected

9 Material may be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone

10 except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order; and

11 (i) any mediators or settlement officers and their supporting personnel,

12 mutually agreed upon by any of the parties engaged in settlement discussions.

13 10. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED

14 IN OTHER LITIGATION

15 If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that

16 compels disclosure of any information or items designated in this Action as

17 “CONFIDENTIAL,” that Party must:

18 (a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification

19 shall include a copy of the subpoena or court order;

20 (b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue

21 in the other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject

22 to this Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective

23 Order; and

24 (c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the

25 Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected. If the Designating Party timely

26 seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena or court order shall not produce

27 any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” before a determination by

28 the court from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the

1 Designating Party’s permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of

2 seeking protection in that court of its confidential material and nothing in these provisions

3 should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this Action to

4 disobey a lawful directive from another court.

5 11. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE

6 PRODUCED IN THIS LITIGATION

7 (a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-

8 Party in this Action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL.” Such information produced by

9 Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is protected by the remedies and relief provided

10 by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be construed as prohibiting a Non-Party

11 from seeking additional protections.

12 (b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to

13 produce a Non-Party’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject

14 to an agreement with the Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential

15 information, then the Party shall:

16 (1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that

17 some or all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a

18 Non-Party;

19 (2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective

20 Order in this Action, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific

21 description of the information requested; and

22 (3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party,

23 if requested.

24 (c) If the Non-Party fails to seek a protective order from this court within 14

25 days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may

26 produce the Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If

27 the Non-Party timely seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any

28 information in its possession or control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with

1 the Non-Party before a determination by the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the

2 Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in this court of its

3 Protected Material.

4 12. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

5 If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed

6 Protected Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated

7 Protective Order, the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating

8 Party of the unauthorized disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized

9 copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized

10 disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request such person or persons

11 to execute the “Acknowledgment an Agreement to Be Bound” attached hereto as Exhibit A.

12 13. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE

13 PROTECTED MATERIAL

14 When a Producing Party gives notice to Receiving Parties that certain inadvertently

15 produced material is subject to a claim of privilege or other protection, the obligations of the

16 Receiving Parties are those set forth in Federal Rule of Civil\ Procedure 26(b)(5)(B). This

17 provision is not intended to modify whatever procedure may be established in an e-

18 discovery order that provides for production without prior privilege review. Pursuant to

19 Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e), insofar as the parties reach an agreement on the

20 effect of disclosure of a communication or information covered by the attorney-client

21 privilege or work product protection, the parties may incorporate their agreement in the

22 stipulated protective order submitted to the court.

23 14. MISCELLANEOUS

24 14.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person

25 to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

26 14.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective

27 Order, no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or

28 producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated

1 Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in

2 evidence of any of the material covered by this Protective Order.

3 14.3 Filing Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected

4 Material must comply with Local Civil Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed

5 under seal pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected

6 Material. If a Party’s request to file Protected Material under seal is denied by the court,

7 then the Receiving Party may file the information in the public record unless otherwise

8 instructed by the court.

9 15. FINAL DISPOSITION

10 After the final disposition of this Action, as defined in paragraph 4, within 60 days of

11 a written request by the Designating Party, each Receiving Party must return all Protected

12 Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. As used in this subdivision, “all

13 Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries, and any other

14 format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether the Protected Material

15 is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the

16 Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) by the 60-day

17 deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was

18 returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies,

19 abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the

20 Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival

21 copy of all pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal

22 memoranda, correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work

23 product, and consultant and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected

24 Material. Any such archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject

25 to this Protective Order as set forth in Section 6 (DURATION).

26 16. VIOLATION

27 Any violation of this Order may be punished by appropriate measures including,

28 without limitation, contempt proceedings and/or monetary sanctions.

1 IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

2 || Dated: 01/05/26 LICATA & YEREMENKO, APLC

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By: /s/Alana Ostrowiecki

4 Tara J. Licata, Esq.

Alex Hadjian, Esq.

5 Alana Ostrowiecki, Esq.

6 Attorneys for Plaintiff MARK SORIA

7 \| Dated: 01/05/26 JACKSON LEWIS P.C.

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By: /s/Lilia v. Kavarian

9 Kristel B. Haddad, Esq.

10 Lilia V. Kavarian, Esq.

Attorneys for Defendants

11 MESSER LLC;

MESSER NORTH AMERICA, INC.; and

12 MESSER NORTH AMERICA

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13 | FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, IT IS SO ORDERED.

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17 Dated: JANUARY 6, 2026

18 HON. BRIANNA FULLER MIRCHEFF

19 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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