7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, et al., Case No. 2:23-cv-01495-JHC 10
Plaintiffs, STIPULATED MOTION AND 11 ORDER TO SEAL PORTIONS OF v. THE PARTIES’ LCR 37 JOINT 12 SUBMISSION AND CERTAIN AMAZON.COM, INC., a corporation, EXHIBITS 13
Defendant.
15 The parties, by and through their attorneys of record, respectfully request that the Court 16 enter the proposed order set forth below, permanently sealing portions of the parties’ LCR 37 Joint 17 Submission, ECF Nos. 419 (redacted submission), 421 (sealed submission), and accompanying 18 exhibits, ECF No. 422 (sealed exhibits). 19 In support of this request, the parties represent the following to the Court: 20 1. On February 20, 2025, this Court entered an Order Regarding Sealing Issues, 21 ECF No. 418, permitting the parties to utilize a sealing procedure set forth in the 22 Court’s October 28, 2024 Order, ECF No. 320, for their LCR 37 Joint Submission filed 23
24 1 on February 20, 2025, ECF No. 419. The October 28, 2024 Order provides a 2 mechanism by which the parties may provisionally submit documents under seal 3 followed by a later omnibus motion to seal. 4 2. On February 20, 2025, Amazon provisionally filed under seal portions of the LCR 37
5 Joint Submission, ECF No. 419 (redacted submission), and five company business 6 documents, ECF No. 422 (sealed Exhibits 3-7). 7 3. Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(A), undersigned counsel certify that they met and 8 conferred to reach the agreement described in this Stipulated Motion. The following 9 attorneys, among others, conferred by phone and email on February 27, 2025, March 3, 10 2025, and March 4, 2025: Michael Baker and Shira Steinberg for the FTC; and Kristen 11 DeWilde and Katherine Trefz for Amazon. 12 4. Amazon is filing a public version of the LCR 37 Joint Submission redacting only 13 identifying names and titles of Amazon employees. This information reflects sensitive, 14 identifying information in a non-dispositive motion. See Benshoof v. Ferguson, 2024
15 WL 5074945, at *1 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 10, 2024) (Chun, J.) (granting motion to seal 16 personal address which was unrelated to the merits of the case); Gnassi v. del Toro, 17 2022 WL 3867376, at *3 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 30, 2022) (Chun, J.) (granting motion to 18 seal third-party names to protect their privacy interests). 19 5. The five sealed exhibits accompanying the LCR 37 Joint Submission, ECF No. 422, 20 consist of Amazon business documents produced in this litigation and designated under 21 the February 13, 2024 Protective Order in this case, ECF No. 160, and contain 22 confidential business information and sensitive, identifying information unnecessary to 23 the Court’s determination of the parties’ LCR 37 Joint Submission.
24 1 6. The parties stipulate as follows, subject to Court approval, and jointly request that the 2 Court enter the following Order approving this Stipulation: 3 a. only the highlighted portions in the redacted LCR 37 Joint Submission 4 reflecting identifying names and titles will remain sealed; and
5 b. the five Amazon company business documents attached as exhibits to the 6 LCR 37 Joint Submission, ECF No. 422, will remain sealed. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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24 1 Stipulated to and respectfully submitted this 6th day of March, 2025. 2 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 3 By: s/ Molly A. Terwilliger 4 Patty A. Eakes, WSBA #18888 Molly A. Terwilliger, WSBA #28449 5 1301 Second Avenue, Suite 3000 Seattle, WA 98101 6 Phone: (206) 274-6400 Email: patty.eakes@morganlewis.com 7 molly.terwilliger@morganlewis.com
8 WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LLP
9 Heidi K. Hubbard (pro hac vice) John E. Schmidtlein (pro hac vice) 10 Kevin M. Hodges (pro hac vice) Jonathan B. Pitt (pro hac vice) 11 Carl R. Metz (pro hac vice) Carol J. Pruski (pro hac vice) 12 Katherine Trefz (pro hac vice) 680 Maine Avenue SW 13 Washington, DC 20024 Phone: (202) 434-5000 14 Email: hhubbard@wc.com khodges@wc.com 15 jpitt@wc.com cmetz@wc.com 16 cpruski@wc.com ktrefz@wc.com 17 COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 18 Thomas O. Barnett (pro hac vice) 19 Katherine Mitchell-Tombras (pro hac vice) One CityCenter 20 850 Tenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-4956 21 Phone: (202) 662-5407 Email: tbarnett@cov.com 22 kmitchelltombras@cov.com
23 Attorneys for Defendant Amazon.com, Inc.
24 1 s/ Edward H. Takashima 2 SUSAN A. MUSSER (DC Bar # 1531486) EDWARD H. TAKASHIMA (DC Bar # 1001641) 3 MICHAEL BAKER (DC Bar # 1044327) Federal Trade Commission 4 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 5 Tel.: (202) 326-2122 (Musser) (202) 326-2464 (Takashima) 6 Email: smusser@ftc.gov etakashima@ftc.gov 7 mbaker1@ftc.gov
8 Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 s/ Michael Jo s/ Timothy D. Smith Michael Jo (admitted pro hac vice) Timothy D. Smith, WSBA No. 44583 2 Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Bureau Attorney-in-Charge New York State Office of the Attorney Antitrust, False Claims, & Privacy Section 3 General Oregon Department of Justice 28 Liberty Street 100 SW Market St 4 New York, NY 10005 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: (212) 416-6537 Telephone: (503) 934-4400 5 Email: Michael.Jo@ag.ny.gov Email: tim.smith@doj.state.or.us Counsel for Plaintiff State of New York Counsel for Plaintiff State of Oregon 6 s/ Victoria Field s/ Jennifer A. Thomson 7 Victoria Field (admitted pro hac vice) Jennifer A. Thomson (admitted pro hac vice) Assistant Attorney General Senior Deputy Attorney General 8 Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Connecticut Strawberry Square, 14th Floor 9 165 Capitol Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17120 Hartford, CT 06016 Telephone: (717) 787-4530 10 Telephone: (860) 808-5030 Email: jthomson@attorneygeneral.gov Email: Victoria.Field@ct.gov Counsel for Plaintiff Commonwealth of 11 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Connecticut Pennsylvania
12 s/ Alexandra C. Sosnowski s/ Michael A. Undorf Alexandra C. Sosnowski (admitted pro hac Michael A. Undorf (admitted pro hac vice) 13 vice) Deputy Attorney General Assistant Attorney General Delaware Department of Justice 14 Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau 820 N. French St., 5th Floor New Hampshire Department of Justice Wilmington, DE 19801 15 Office of the Attorney General Telephone: (302) 683-8816 One Granite Place South Email: michael.undorf@delaware.gov 16 Concord, NH 03301 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Delaware Telephone: (603) 271-2678 17 Email: Alexandra.c.sosnowski@doj.nh.gov s/ Christina M. Moylan Counsel for Plaintiff State of New Hampshire Christina M. Moylan (admitted pro hac vice) 18 Assistant Attorney General s/ Robert J. Carlson Chief, Consumer Protection Division 19 Robert J. Carlson (admitted pro hac vice) Office of the Maine Attorney General Assistant Attorney General 6 State House Station 20 Consumer Protection Unit Augusta, ME 04333-0006 Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General Telephone: (207) 626-8800 21 15 West 6th Street, Suite 1000 Email: christina.moylan@maine.gov Tulsa, OK 74119 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Maine 22 Telephone: (918) 581-2885 Email: robert.carlson@oag.ok.gov 23 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Oklahoma
24 1 s/ Schonette Walker s/ Lucas J. Tucker Schonette Walker (admitted pro hac vice) Lucas J. Tucker (admitted pro hac vice) 2 Assistant Attorney General Senior Deputy Attorney General Chief, Antitrust Division Office of the Nevada Attorney General 3 Office of the Maryland Attorney General 100 N. Carson St. 200 St. Paul Place Carson City, NV 89701 4 Baltimore, MD 21202 Telephone: (775) 684-1100 Telephone: (410) 576-6473 Email: LTucker@ag.nv.gov 5 Email: swalker@oag.state.md.us Counsel for Plaintiff State of Nevada Counsel for Plaintiff State of Maryland 6 s/ Andrew Esoldi s/ Katherine W. Krems Andrew Esoldi (admitted pro hac vice) 7 Katherine W.
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7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, et al., Case No. 2:23-cv-01495-JHC 10
Plaintiffs, STIPULATED MOTION AND 11 ORDER TO SEAL PORTIONS OF v. THE PARTIES’ LCR 37 JOINT 12 SUBMISSION AND CERTAIN AMAZON.COM, INC., a corporation, EXHIBITS 13
Defendant.
15 The parties, by and through their attorneys of record, respectfully request that the Court 16 enter the proposed order set forth below, permanently sealing portions of the parties’ LCR 37 Joint 17 Submission, ECF Nos. 419 (redacted submission), 421 (sealed submission), and accompanying 18 exhibits, ECF No. 422 (sealed exhibits). 19 In support of this request, the parties represent the following to the Court: 20 1. On February 20, 2025, this Court entered an Order Regarding Sealing Issues, 21 ECF No. 418, permitting the parties to utilize a sealing procedure set forth in the 22 Court’s October 28, 2024 Order, ECF No. 320, for their LCR 37 Joint Submission filed 23
24 1 on February 20, 2025, ECF No. 419. The October 28, 2024 Order provides a 2 mechanism by which the parties may provisionally submit documents under seal 3 followed by a later omnibus motion to seal. 4 2. On February 20, 2025, Amazon provisionally filed under seal portions of the LCR 37
5 Joint Submission, ECF No. 419 (redacted submission), and five company business 6 documents, ECF No. 422 (sealed Exhibits 3-7). 7 3. Pursuant to Local Civil Rule 5(g)(3)(A), undersigned counsel certify that they met and 8 conferred to reach the agreement described in this Stipulated Motion. The following 9 attorneys, among others, conferred by phone and email on February 27, 2025, March 3, 10 2025, and March 4, 2025: Michael Baker and Shira Steinberg for the FTC; and Kristen 11 DeWilde and Katherine Trefz for Amazon. 12 4. Amazon is filing a public version of the LCR 37 Joint Submission redacting only 13 identifying names and titles of Amazon employees. This information reflects sensitive, 14 identifying information in a non-dispositive motion. See Benshoof v. Ferguson, 2024
15 WL 5074945, at *1 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 10, 2024) (Chun, J.) (granting motion to seal 16 personal address which was unrelated to the merits of the case); Gnassi v. del Toro, 17 2022 WL 3867376, at *3 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 30, 2022) (Chun, J.) (granting motion to 18 seal third-party names to protect their privacy interests). 19 5. The five sealed exhibits accompanying the LCR 37 Joint Submission, ECF No. 422, 20 consist of Amazon business documents produced in this litigation and designated under 21 the February 13, 2024 Protective Order in this case, ECF No. 160, and contain 22 confidential business information and sensitive, identifying information unnecessary to 23 the Court’s determination of the parties’ LCR 37 Joint Submission.
24 1 6. The parties stipulate as follows, subject to Court approval, and jointly request that the 2 Court enter the following Order approving this Stipulation: 3 a. only the highlighted portions in the redacted LCR 37 Joint Submission 4 reflecting identifying names and titles will remain sealed; and
5 b. the five Amazon company business documents attached as exhibits to the 6 LCR 37 Joint Submission, ECF No. 422, will remain sealed. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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24 1 Stipulated to and respectfully submitted this 6th day of March, 2025. 2 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP 3 By: s/ Molly A. Terwilliger 4 Patty A. Eakes, WSBA #18888 Molly A. Terwilliger, WSBA #28449 5 1301 Second Avenue, Suite 3000 Seattle, WA 98101 6 Phone: (206) 274-6400 Email: patty.eakes@morganlewis.com 7 molly.terwilliger@morganlewis.com
8 WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LLP
9 Heidi K. Hubbard (pro hac vice) John E. Schmidtlein (pro hac vice) 10 Kevin M. Hodges (pro hac vice) Jonathan B. Pitt (pro hac vice) 11 Carl R. Metz (pro hac vice) Carol J. Pruski (pro hac vice) 12 Katherine Trefz (pro hac vice) 680 Maine Avenue SW 13 Washington, DC 20024 Phone: (202) 434-5000 14 Email: hhubbard@wc.com khodges@wc.com 15 jpitt@wc.com cmetz@wc.com 16 cpruski@wc.com ktrefz@wc.com 17 COVINGTON & BURLING LLP 18 Thomas O. Barnett (pro hac vice) 19 Katherine Mitchell-Tombras (pro hac vice) One CityCenter 20 850 Tenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001-4956 21 Phone: (202) 662-5407 Email: tbarnett@cov.com 22 kmitchelltombras@cov.com
23 Attorneys for Defendant Amazon.com, Inc.
24 1 s/ Edward H. Takashima 2 SUSAN A. MUSSER (DC Bar # 1531486) EDWARD H. TAKASHIMA (DC Bar # 1001641) 3 MICHAEL BAKER (DC Bar # 1044327) Federal Trade Commission 4 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 5 Tel.: (202) 326-2122 (Musser) (202) 326-2464 (Takashima) 6 Email: smusser@ftc.gov etakashima@ftc.gov 7 mbaker1@ftc.gov
8 Attorneys for Plaintiff Federal Trade Commission
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 s/ Michael Jo s/ Timothy D. Smith Michael Jo (admitted pro hac vice) Timothy D. Smith, WSBA No. 44583 2 Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Bureau Attorney-in-Charge New York State Office of the Attorney Antitrust, False Claims, & Privacy Section 3 General Oregon Department of Justice 28 Liberty Street 100 SW Market St 4 New York, NY 10005 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: (212) 416-6537 Telephone: (503) 934-4400 5 Email: Michael.Jo@ag.ny.gov Email: tim.smith@doj.state.or.us Counsel for Plaintiff State of New York Counsel for Plaintiff State of Oregon 6 s/ Victoria Field s/ Jennifer A. Thomson 7 Victoria Field (admitted pro hac vice) Jennifer A. Thomson (admitted pro hac vice) Assistant Attorney General Senior Deputy Attorney General 8 Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Connecticut Strawberry Square, 14th Floor 9 165 Capitol Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17120 Hartford, CT 06016 Telephone: (717) 787-4530 10 Telephone: (860) 808-5030 Email: jthomson@attorneygeneral.gov Email: Victoria.Field@ct.gov Counsel for Plaintiff Commonwealth of 11 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Connecticut Pennsylvania
12 s/ Alexandra C. Sosnowski s/ Michael A. Undorf Alexandra C. Sosnowski (admitted pro hac Michael A. Undorf (admitted pro hac vice) 13 vice) Deputy Attorney General Assistant Attorney General Delaware Department of Justice 14 Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau 820 N. French St., 5th Floor New Hampshire Department of Justice Wilmington, DE 19801 15 Office of the Attorney General Telephone: (302) 683-8816 One Granite Place South Email: michael.undorf@delaware.gov 16 Concord, NH 03301 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Delaware Telephone: (603) 271-2678 17 Email: Alexandra.c.sosnowski@doj.nh.gov s/ Christina M. Moylan Counsel for Plaintiff State of New Hampshire Christina M. Moylan (admitted pro hac vice) 18 Assistant Attorney General s/ Robert J. Carlson Chief, Consumer Protection Division 19 Robert J. Carlson (admitted pro hac vice) Office of the Maine Attorney General Assistant Attorney General 6 State House Station 20 Consumer Protection Unit Augusta, ME 04333-0006 Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General Telephone: (207) 626-8800 21 15 West 6th Street, Suite 1000 Email: christina.moylan@maine.gov Tulsa, OK 74119 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Maine 22 Telephone: (918) 581-2885 Email: robert.carlson@oag.ok.gov 23 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Oklahoma
24 1 s/ Schonette Walker s/ Lucas J. Tucker Schonette Walker (admitted pro hac vice) Lucas J. Tucker (admitted pro hac vice) 2 Assistant Attorney General Senior Deputy Attorney General Chief, Antitrust Division Office of the Nevada Attorney General 3 Office of the Maryland Attorney General 100 N. Carson St. 200 St. Paul Place Carson City, NV 89701 4 Baltimore, MD 21202 Telephone: (775) 684-1100 Telephone: (410) 576-6473 Email: LTucker@ag.nv.gov 5 Email: swalker@oag.state.md.us Counsel for Plaintiff State of Nevada Counsel for Plaintiff State of Maryland 6 s/ Andrew Esoldi s/ Katherine W. Krems Andrew Esoldi (admitted pro hac vice) 7 Katherine W. Krems (admitted pro hac vice) Deputy Attorney General Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust New Jersey Office of the Attorney General 8 Division 124 Halsey Street, 5th Floor Office of the Massachusetts Attorney Newark, NJ 07101 9 General Telephone: (973) 648-7819 One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor Email: andrew.esoldi@law.njoag.gov 10 Boston, MA 02108 Counsel for Plaintiff State of New Jersey Telephone: (617) 963-2189 11 Email: katherine.krems@mass.gov s/ Jeffrey Herrera Counsel for Plaintiff Commonwealth of Jeffrey Herrera (admitted pro hac vice) 12 Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General New Mexico Office of the Attorney General 13 s/ Scott A. Mertens 408 Galisteo St. Scott A. Mertens (admitted pro hac vice) Santa Fe, NM 87501 14 Assistant Attorney General Telephone: (505) 490-4878 Michigan Department of Attorney General Email: jherrera@nmag.gov 15 525 West Ottawa Street Counsel for Plaintiff State of New Mexico Lansing, MI 48933 16 Telephone: (517) 335-7622 s/ Zulma Carrasquillo Almena Email: MertensS@michigan.gov Zulma Carrasquillo Almena (admitted pro 17 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Michigan hac vice) Puerto Rico Department of Justice 18 s/ Zach Biesanz P.O. Box 9020192 Zach Biesanz (admitted pro hac vice) San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-0192 19 Senior Enforcement Counsel Telephone: (787) 721-2900, Ext. 1211 Office of the Minnesota Attorney General Email: zcarrasquillo@justicia.pr.gov 20 445 Minnesota Street, Suite 1400 Counsel for Plaintiff Commonwealth of Saint Paul, MN 55101 Puerto Rico 21 Telephone: (651) 757-1257 Email: zach.biesanz@ag.state.mn.us 22 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Minnesota
24 s/ Stephen N. Provazza 2 Stephen N. Provazza (admitted pro hac vice) Special Assistant Attorney General 3 Chief, Consumer and Economic Justice Unit Department of the Attorney General 4 150 South Main Street Providence, RI 02903 5 Telephone: (401) 274-4400 Email: sprovazza@riag.ri.gov 6 Counsel for Plaintiff State of Rhode Island
7 s/ Sarah L.J. Aceves Sarah L.J. Aceves (admitted pro hac vice) 8 Assistant Attorney General Public Protection Division 9 Vermont Attorney General’s Office 109 State Street 10 Montpelier, VT 05609 Telephone: (802) 828-3170 11 Email: Sarah.Aceves@vermont.gov Counsel for Plaintiff State of Vermont 12 s/ Caitlin M. Madden 13 Caitlin M. Madden (admitted pro hac vice) Assistant Attorney General 14 Wisconsin Department of Justice Post Office Box 7857 15 Madison, WI 53707-7857 Telephone: (608) 267-1311 16 Email: maddencm@doj.state.wi.us Counsel for Plaintiff State of Wisconsin 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ORDER 2 3 IT IS SO ORDERED.
4 DATED this 6th day of March, 2025. Cfok 4. Chua JOHN H. CHUN 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 7 8 9 10 1] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
STIPULATED MOTION AND ORDER TO SEAL PORTIONS OF THE PARTIES’ LCR 37 JOINT