Castellanos v. Frauenheim

• Court: District Court, N.D. California
• Decided: November 18, 2019
• Docket: 3:17-cv-01307
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ROLANDO CASTELLANOS, Case No. 17-cv-01307-JD

8 Petitioner ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 9 v. FILE UNDER SEAL

10 SCOTT FRAUENHEIM, Re: Dkt. Nos. 33, 38 Respondent. 11

12 Petitioner, a California prisoner, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant 13 to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Respondent has filed an answer and seeks to file several documents from 14 state court under seal. 15 The Court may order a document filed under seal “upon a request that establishes that the 16 document, or portions thereof are privileged, protectable as a trade secret or otherwise entitled to 17 protection under the law (hereinafter referred to as ‘sealable’). The request must be narrowly 18 tailored to seek sealing only of sealable material.” N. D. Cal. Local Rule 79-5. There is a strong presumption favoring the public’s right of access to court records which should be overridden only 19 for a compelling reason. Hagestad v. Tragesser, 49 F.3d 1430, 1433-34 (9th Cir. 1995). 20 “Counseling against such access would be the likelihood of an improper use, ‘including 21 publication of scandalous, libelous, pornographic, or trade secret materials; infringement of fair 22 trial rights of the defendants or third persons; and residual privacy rights.’” Valley Broadcasting 23 Co. v. United States District Court, 798 F.2d 1289, 1294 (9th Cir. 1986) (citation omitted). 24 Respondent seeks to file several exhibits from petitioner’s motion in state court regarding 25 juror misconduct. The exhibits contain personal identifying information of certain jurors and was 26 filed under seal in state court. In this instance there are compelling reasons to justify sealing the 27 exhibits to protect the identities of the jurors and respect their privacy rights. Accordingly, the 1 motion to file the documents under seal (Docket No. 33) is GRANTED. 2 Petitioner has already received several extensions to file a traverse. His most recent 3 request for an extension (Docket No. 38) is GRANTED. Petitioner may a file a traverse by 4 || December 2, 2019. No further extensions will be provided. 5 IT IS SO ORDERED. 6 Dated: November 18, 2019 7 8 JAMES ATO 9 United Sfates District Judge 10 11 12

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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ROLANDO CASTELLANOS, 7 Case No. 17-cv-01307-JD Plaintiff, 8 9 Vv. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

10 SCOTT FRAUENHEIM, Defendant. 11 12 I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 13 = District Court, Northern District of California.

© 15 That on November 18, 2019, ISERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by

16 placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 17 = depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery Z 18 receptacle located in the Clerk's office. 19 20 || Rolando Castellanos ID: AT2857 Folsom State Prison 21 P.O. Box 950 Folsom, CA 95763 22 23 9A Dated: November 18, 2019 25 Susan, Y. Soong 26 WK Gnited pats DB iget Cour 27 28

By:________________________ 1 LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 2 Honorable JAMES DONATO 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27