Kewazinga Corp. v. Google LLC

Opinion

USONUITTEHDE RSTNA DTIESST RDIICSTT ROIFC TN ECWOU YROTR K -------------------------------------------------------------X : KEWAZINGA CORP., : Plaintiff, : 20 Civ. 1106 (LGS) : -against- : ORDER : GOOGLE LLC, : Defendant. : -------------------------------------------------------------X

LORNA G. SCHOFIELD, District Judge: WHEREAS, on July 15, 2020, Defendant filed a letter motion to seal certain portions of the memorandum of law in support of the motion for summary judgment, and supporting declarations and exhibits. See Dkt. No. 57. On July 21, 2020, Plaintiff filed a letter in support. See Dkt. No. 69. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendant’s motion to seal is GRANTED in substantial part. The motion is granted but for those redactions proposed based on Plaintiff’s confidentiality designation where Plaintiff did not request the information remain sealed in its letter filed in support of the motion to seal, including: • Redactions to Exhibit 2 other than the redactions of personal information; • Redactions to Exhibit 4 other than the redactions of personal information; • Redactions to Paragraph 48 of the Statement of Facts; • The redaction of “Mr. Weber used his personal email account for Kewazinga business— an account Kewazinga no longer has access to” on page 20 of the memorandum of law; and • Redactions to paragraphs 15-17 of the Filip declaration. Defendant shall re-file the aforementioned documents, with the appropriate modifications, by July 24, 2020. The unredacted version of the documents will remain sealed, and only the parties and individuals identified in the attached appendix will have access. Although “[t]he common law right of public access to judicial documents is firmly rooted in our nation’s history,” this right is not absolute, and courts “must balance competing considerations against” the presumption of access. Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, 119-20 (2d Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Nixon v. Warner Commce’ns., Inc., 435 U.S. 589, 599 (1978) (“[T]he decision as to access is one best left to the sound discretion of the trial court, a discretion to be exercised in light of the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case.”). Filing the above-referenced documents under seal or in redacted form is necessary to prevent the unauthorized dissemination of the parties’ confidential business information and legal strategies, and third-party confidential business information and personal information. It is further ORDERED that the parties shall consolidate any motions to seal portions of Plaintiff’ □ cross-motion for summary judgment and opposition to Defendant’s motion for summary judgment, Defendant’s reply in support of its motion for summary judgment and opposition to Plaintiff’ s cross-motion for summary judgment, and Plaintiffs reply in support of its cross-motion for summary judgment in the following manner: the parties shall file the motion papers under seal and publicly with any proposed redactions, pursuant to the briefing schedule at Dkt. No. 49. No motions to seal shall be filed at those times. Within one week of the filing of Plaintiff’s reply in support of its cross-motion for summary judgment, and in any event no later than September 2, 2020, the parties shall file a joint letter motion to seal the motion papers. Dated: July 22, 2020 New York, New York □

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

APPENDIX Pursuant to Your Honor’s Individual Rule I(D)(3), Google identifies below all parties and attorneys of record who should have access to the sealed documents: Ian G. DiBernardo John M. Desmarais Timothy K. Gilman jdesmarais@desmaraisllp.com Kenneth L. Stein Ameet A. Modi Saunak K. Desai amodi@desmaraisllp.com Gregory R. Springsted Steven M. Balcof STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN LLP sbalcof@desmaraisllp.com 180 Maiden Lane Elizabeth Weyl New York, NY 10038 eweyl@desmaraisllp.com Tel: (212) 806-5400 David A. Frey Fax: (212) 806-6006 dfrey@desmaraisllp.com Email:idibernardo@stroock.com DESMARAIS LLP Email:tgilman@stroock.com 230 Park Avenue Email:kstein@stroock.com New York, NY 10169 Email:sdesai@stroock.com Tel: (212) 351-3400 Email:gspringsted@stroock.com Fax: (212) 351-3401 Counsel for Plaintiff Kewazinga Corp. Emily Chen (pro hac vice) echen@desmaraisllp.com DESMARAIS LLP 101 California Street San Francisco, CA 94111 Tel: (415) 573-1900 Fax: (415) 573-1901 Counsel for Defendant Google LLC