Guardant Health, Inc. v. Natera, Inc.

Opinion

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 GUARDANT HEALTH, INC., Case No. 21-cv-04062-EMC

8 Plaintiffs, ORDER ADDRESSING 9 v. ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS TO FILE UNDER SEAL 10 NATERA, INC., Docket Nos. 369, 441, 451, 454, 463, 464, 11 Defendants. 466, 506, and 517

12 13 The parties had requested to file under seal portions of Docket Nos. 369, 441, 451, 454, 14 463, 464, 466, 506, and 517. The Court ordered the parties to re-file their administrative motions 15 to file under seal, narrowing and clarifying their requests pursuant to L.R. 79-5 and Kamakana v. 16 City & Cnty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178-79 (9th Cir. 2006). See Docket No. 537. The 17 parties withdrew their requests to file under seal for Docket Nos. 369, 441, 451, 454, and 463. See 18 Docket No. 542 at 1; Docket No. 543 at 2. 19 The Court grants several of the parties’ requests to file documents under seal. The Court 20 does so without prejudice as to how these documents will be handled if this case proceeds to trial. 21 The Court is skeptical whether these documents may be maintained under seal at trial. 22 The Court orders as set forth below: 23 Document Identification of Portions to be Granted/Denied Sealed 24 Docket No. 463, Natera’s 4:20-21 Grant resolution of exhibit list 8:7 25 objections Docket No. 466, Guardant’s 3:6-8 Deny 26 resolution of exhibit list 27 objections Docket No. 506, Joint 102:23-24 Grant 1 Docket No. 517, Motions in 3:10, 13, 19, 22-23, 25 Deny Limine Order 4:15, 16-17, 18-20, 22 2 5:3, 4, 5-6, 7,9 6:11, 12, 15-16, 16-17, 18 3 7:4, 6, 8, 18, 22 8:5, 8, 9, 11, 21-22, 23-24 4 9:2-4, 7, 9-10, 11 5 14:6-7, 8-9, 9-11 15:16-17, 19-20 6 Docket No. 517, Motions in 10:8-11, 12-13, 14-16, 16-19, | Grant 7 Limine Order 20-21, 22-26 11:9-13, 14-15, 16-18, 20, 21- 8 22, 23-24, 26-27, 27-28 9 12:1, 1-3, 3-4, 7, 8-11, 25-28 13:4-6 10 16:14-28 17:1-2, 9 11 49; 22, 23-24, 26 50:1-2 12 The parties shall file publicly redacted versions of these documents, consistent with the Court’s rulings above, within one week.

// 15 This Order disposes of Docket Nos. 369, 441, 451, 454, 463, 464, 466, 506, 517, 542, and 6 543. 17 IT IS SO ORDERED. Z 18 19 Dated: June 25, 2024 20 21 22 EDWARD M. CHEN 3 United States District Judge 24 25 26 27 28