Ni v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A.

Opinion

LEE LITIGATION GROUP, PLLC 148 WEST 24T™ STREET, EIGHTH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10011 TEL: 212-465-1180 FAX: 212-465-1181 INFO@LEELITIGATION.COM WRITER’S DIRECT: 212-465-1188 cklee@leelitigation.com June 2, 2023 VIA ECF The Honorable Katharine H. Parker, U.S.M_J. ait United States District Court Southern District of New York vane Sony 40 Foley Square, Room 2203 DOCUMENT New York, NY 10007 ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: Re: Ni v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. rn. No. 1:23-cv-00309 DATE FILED: 6/6/2023 _ Dear Judge Parker: We are counsel for the Plaintiffs in the above referenced matter. We write, jointly with Defendant, pursuant to Your Honor’s Individual Rule §3(d) to request that the Court permit Plaintiff to redact and refile Exhibit A (Dkt. 28-1) to Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint. Defendant has contacted Plaintiffs counsel stating that a portion of Plaintiff's Exhibit A, filed to the Docket at 28-1 contains sensitive non-public information regarding HSBC’s business practices. Specifically, Defendant seeks the removal and re-filing of Exhibit A, so as to redact all branch balance information from the document. The parties have attached to this letter their proposed Exhibit A with the parties agreed upon redactions. While a “judicial document” or “judicial record” is a filed item that is “relevant to the performance of the judicial function and useful in the judicial process,” the parties believe that at a balancing the value of public disclosure and “countervailing factors” such as “the privacy interests of those resisting disclosure” weigh in favor of permitting the redaction in this matter. Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110, 119 (2d Cir.2006) (internal quotation marks omitted). Moreover, the nature of the document, as an ancillary document to a Complaint, and not as a substantive document supporting a motion for summary judgment, also weighs in favor of the privacy interest of Defendant HSBC. To help address the balance of factors, the parties have proposed a minimal amount of redaction as may be seen from the proposed Exhibit A attached hereto. SO ORDERED: We thank Your Honor for co Ml + har HON. KATHARINE H. PARKER 6/6/2023 Respectfully submitted, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Having reviewed the parties’ submissions, the Court is satisfied /s/ C.K. Lee that the proposed redactions and sealing are proper under C.K. Lee Lugosch v. Pyramid Co. of Onondaga, 435 F.3d 110 (2d Cir. 2006). Because of the ancillary nature of the redacted material to the Complaint, the presumption of access to the information at issue is relatively low compared to the interested narties' orivacv interests

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