Bristow v. Sanchez

• Court: District Court, D. Nevada
• Decided: February 1, 2023
• Docket: 2:22-cv-01092
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 LYSSA S. ANDERSON Nevada Bar No. 5781 2 KRISTOPHER J. KALKOWSKI Nevada Bar No. 14892 3 KAEMPFER CROWELL 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 650 4 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 Telephone: (702) 792-7000 5 Fax: (702) 796-7181 landerson@kcnvlaw.com 6 kkalkowski@kcnvlaw.com 7 Attorneys for Defendant Connor Reich (P#9357) 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 10 11 JAMES BRISTOW and LATEEFA STARKS, Case No.: 2:22-cv-01092-APG-EJY 12 Plaintiffs, 13 vs. DEFENDANT CONNOR REICH’S MOTION TO SEAL EXHIBITS TO 14 YUDEL OMAR SANCHEZ, LVMPD Officer PLAINTIFF’S RESPONSE D.SUTTON P#15313; LVMPD DETECTIVE [ECF No. 55] 15 C.REICH P#9357; CLARK COUNTY, KRISTINA WILDEVELD, Esq., KENNETH 16 FRIZZELL, III, Esq., JULIA BARKER, Esq., KATHERINE SITSIS, Esq.; Hon. Justice of 17 the peace DIANA L. SULLIVAN and GREGORY DENUE, judge pro tem; DOES I 18 through X, inclusive and ROE Business Entities I and X, inclusive, 19 Defendants. 20 21 22 Defendant Connor Reich, by and through his counsel, Kaempfer Crowell, moves for an 23 Order sealing Exhibits 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 and 22 attached to Plaintiffs’ Response, (ECF No. 55), 24 because the Exhibits contain personal identifying information that is not appropriate for public 1 disclosure. This Motion is made pursuant Local Rule IC 6-1 and Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(d). 2 DATED this 1st day of February, 2023. 3 KAEMPFER CROWELL 4 By: /s/ Lyssa S. Anderson 5 LYSSA S. ANDERSON (Nevada Bar No. 5781) KRISTOPHER J. KALKOWSKI (14892) 6 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 650 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 7 Attorneys for Defendant 8 Connor Reich (P#9357) 9 10 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 11 I. INTRODUCTION 12 On January 31, 2023, Plaintiffs filed a “Response” to the Answer of Defendant Yudel 13 Sanchez (“Sanchez”).1 (Pls.’ Resp., ECF No. 55). Plaintiffs’ Response contains several Exhibits 14 that list personal information of Sanchez, including his social security number, date of birth, and 15 residential addresses. Sanchez’s personal information was not redacted by Plaintiff, which 16 means Sanchez’s personal information is currently disclosed in a publicly accessible record. For 17 that reason, the Court should seal these Exhibits in accordance with Local Rule IC 6-1. 18 II. ARGUMENT 19 Local Rule IC 6-1(a) provides that parties should refrain from filing documents with 20 personal-data identifiers, such as “(1) Social Security Numbers. If an individual’s Social Security 21 number must be included, only the last four digits of that number should be used . . . (3) Dates of 22 Birth. If an individual’s date of birth must be included, only the year should be used . . . (5) 23 24 1 The Response appears to be challenging a Counter-Claim made by Sanchez in his Answer filed on December 20, 2022, (ECF No. 42). 1 Home Addresses. If a home address must be included, only the city and state should be listed.” 2 This Local Rule requires that the parties and attorneys bear the burden to follow these 3 requirements before making any filings with the Court. D. Nev. Local R. IC 6-1(c). 4 Here, Plaintiff’s Response, (ECF No. 55), contains several Exhibits, such as a Voluntary

5 Statement provided to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, medical records for 6 Defendant Yudel Sanchez, and a document that appears to list residential addresses. 7 Unfortunately, Plaintiffs did not redact personal identifying information contained in these 8 Exhibits as required by Local Rule IC 6-1. The information that should have been redacted is as 9 follows: 10 • Exhibit 12 contains Sanchez’s full social security number, date of birth, and home 11 address, (ECF No. 55 at pg. 28) (showing a Voluntary Statement). 12 • Exhibits 14, 15, and 17 contain Sanchez’s full date of birth, (ECF No. 55 at pgs. 13 30, 31 and 33) (showing medical records from Sanchez). 14 • Exhibits 21 and 22 contain addresses or former addresses of Sanchez, (ECF No.

15 55 at pgs. 37–40). 16 Accordingly, LVMPD Defendants request that the Court seal these pages or, 17 alternatively, strike them from the docket. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(d) (authorizing courts to “order 18 that a filing be made under seal without redaction.”); Le v. Equifax Info. Servs., LLC, No. 19 216CV02393RFBGWF, 2017 WL 4350976, at *2 (D. Nev. Sept. 29, 2017) (granting a request to 20 seal Exhibits “that contain Plaintiff’s personal identifying information, such as his date of birth, 21 social security number, and financial account numbers.”). 22 III. CONCLUSION 23 For the foregoing reasons, LVMPD Defendants request that the Court seal the above-

24 discussed Exhibits to Plaintiffs’ Response, (ECF No. 55), containing Sanchez’s personal 1 information as well as warn Plaintiff of his obligation to comply with the Local Rules governing 2 disclosure of personal information. 3 DATED this 1st day of February, 2023. 4 KAEMPFER CROWELL

5 /s/ Lyssa S. Anderson 6 LYSSA S. ANDERSON (Nevada Bar No. 5781) KRISTOPHER J. KALKOWSKI (14892) 7 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, Suite 650 Las Vegas, Nevada 89135 8 Attorneys for Defendant 9 Connor Reich (P#9357) 10 11 Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Exhibits 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 12 and 22 to ECF No. 55. shall be sealed. 13 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of Court shall remove these exhibits from the publicly filed ECF No. 55 and refile them under seal. 14 Dated this 1st day of February, 2023. 15 16 _________________________________ ELAYNA J. YOUCHAH 17 U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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