Primex Farms, LLC v. Schuco USA LLLP

Opinion

8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

11 PRIMEX FARMS, LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-00880-KES-CDB

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING JOINT REQUEST TO SEAL DOCUMENTS 13 v. (Doc. 18) 14 SCHÜCO USA LLLP, 5-Day Deadline 15 Defendant.

16 17 Pending before the Court is the parties’ joint notice and request to seal Plaintiff’s Exhibit 18 C to the Informal Discovery Dispute Joint Letter (Doc. 19-3), filed and emailed to the 19 undersigned’s chambers on December 20, 2024, described as an email communication between 20 Defendant and Cenergy Power regarding Cenergy Power’s testing of Defendant’s solar panels. 21 (Doc. 18). The parties represent that Defendant has designated this one-page communication 22 as “CONFIDENTIAL” under the terms of the parties’ stipulated protective order (Doc. 16) on 23 the basis that it reflects confidential non-public business information. (Id. at 2). 24 The Court has considered the factors set forth in Oregonian Publ’g Co. v. U.S. Dist. 25 Court for Dist. of Or., 920 F.2d 1462 (9th Cir. 1990). The Court finds that, for the reasons 26 stated in the parties’ joint notice and request, sealing the documents serves a compelling 27 interest. The Court further finds that, in the absence of closure, the compelling interests 1 | implicates the basis for requested sealing (non-public business information) and cannot 2 | reasonably be redacted only in part, the Court further finds that there are no additional alternatives to sealing the documents that would adequately protect the compelling interests 4 | identified by the parties. 5 Accordingly, pursuant to Local Rule 141, the parties’ stipulated protective order entered in this case (Doc. 16), and based upon the representations contained in the parties’ joint notice and request, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's Exhibit C to the Informal Discovery 8 | Dispute Joint Letter (Doc. 19-3) provided to the Court in connection with the parties’ joint 9 | notice and request to seal on December 20, 2024, shall be SEALED until further order of this 10 | Court. 11 It is FURTHER ORDERED within five (5) days of the date of this Order, Plaintiff shall 12 | submit a copy of this Order, the request for sealing and the documents to be sealed (Plaintiff's 13 | Exhibit C to the Informal Discovery Dispute Joint Letter) by email to the Operations Section of 14 | the Clerk of the Court: ApprovedSealed @caed.uscourts. gov 1S IT IS SO ORDERED. 16 Dated: _ January 23, 2025 | hr 17 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28